A teleprompter for Teams on Mac, for the calls that count

People search for a teleprompter for Teams on Mac when the call matters: a client pitch, a performance review, a quarterly update to the whole department. You have an agenda and a few lines you must get right, and you can't afford to look like you're reading them off the bottom of the screen.

Why reading notes in Teams shows on camera

Teams meetings tend to run on an agenda, and on a Mac the agenda usually lives somewhere below the camera: the meeting chat, an Outlook invite, a OneNote page, or your speaker notes. On a 14-inch MacBook Pro the middle of the screen is about 10 cm below the camera, roughly 10° at a 55 cm viewing distance. A 2025 study in the Journal of Vision found perceived eye contact peaks at about 2° below the lens, about 1.9 cm at that distance. Every glance at the agenda lands five times further away than that.

In a casual stand-up nobody minds. In a client call or a review, looking down at the moment you state a number or make the ask is exactly when you lose the room.

What PowerPoint Live does and doesn't fix

If you present slides, Teams has PowerPoint Live: you pick a file from the PowerPoint Live section when you share, and the presenter view shows your slides with speaker notes beside them, plus people's videos, raised hands and reactions. Attendees can move through the slides on their own unless you turn that off. It is a good way to present. But those notes still sit in the Teams window, well below the lens. Keep slide detail there, and put the lines that need eye contact under the camera.

Keep the agenda under the camera with Cuey

Cuey is a teleprompter for Mac that opens a small prompt window directly under the camera (the default placement), above every other app. It works the same over the Teams desktop app or Teams for web, because it's its own window rather than a Teams add-in. More on the setup on Cuey for Microsoft Teams.

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For agenda-driven meetings, use Notes mode. Write one agenda point per line, including the exact phrasing you want for the opener and the ask, then step forward and back with the ‹ › arrows as the discussion moves. Nothing scrolls on a timer, so a long question on item two doesn't leave you behind.

When a colleague takes an agenda item, press ⌥⌘T (or the Cuey menu bar icon) to hide Cuey and give them your full attention on screen. Press it again when it's your turn. Cuey isn't part of your camera feed, so attendees see you, not the prompt.

Set it up before the meeting

1. 1

   Paste the agenda

   Copy your agenda with one point per line and press ⇧⌘V to quick-paste it into Cuey. Pick Notes mode.
2. 2

   Check sharing before you join

   Teams on Mac asks for screen recording permission the first time you share, so grant it in System Settings > Privacy & Security ahead of the call. Plan to share a window or use PowerPoint Live.
3. 3

   Start, step, hide

   Press ⇧⌘P to start the prompt, move through points with ‹ ›, and use ⌥⌘T (or the Cuey menu bar icon) to hide and show Cuey between agenda items.

Share a window, not your screen

Microsoft's guide to presenting in Teams meetings covers sharing your entire screen or a single window. On a Mac, Teams hands the choice to the macOS picker. Share just the window with your content and only that window goes out, so a teleprompter elsewhere on the screen isn't in the share. Share the entire screen and every window on it can be visible, Cuey included. If you need a full-screen share, put the content on a second display and share only that display. If you join from a browser, Microsoft notes that screen sharing in Teams for web works in Chrome or the latest Edge. For the wider picture, see how to present on a video call.

Honest limits

• Cuey needs macOS 14 Sonoma or later and doesn't integrate with Teams itself.
• It doesn't hide itself from screen shares. Window sharing or PowerPoint Live is what keeps it private.
• Short lines work best. The eye-contact strip is small, so write cues, not paragraphs.