The Owlery Works

Meeting Cue · by The Owlery Works

Presenters get a teleprompter.
Why shouldn't you?

Meeting Cue listens to your meeting, reads the documents you brought to it, and suggests something you can actually say — the question to ask now, the point to make in a minute, the human thing to say to the room. Everything runs on your device.

On‑device No account Nothing saved iPhone & iPad

Finishing final touches. It is not on the App Store yet. The download link will appear on this page the day the listing goes live.

Meeting Cue on an iPhone: cards headed Plain English, Immediate, Strategic and Rapport, above a live transcript labelled with each speaker's name.

What it is for

The screen the rest of us never get.

Nobody thinks less of a newsreader for reading their lines, or of a keynote speaker for having notes on a screen. Yet the rest of us are expected to walk into a meeting holding a forty‑page specification in our heads, follow a fast conversation, remember what clause 3.3 actually said, and come out with the right question before the moment passes.

Meeting Cue is that screen, for the meetings the rest of us are in.

It listens through your device's microphone, writes the conversation down as it happens, and labels who said what. It searches the documents you gave it — the runbook, the contract, the spec — for the passage that bears on whatever was just said. Then it puts four short things in front of you: what is going on in plain English, the question worth asking in the next ten seconds, the point worth making once you have a minute, and the human line that keeps the room on your side. Any jargon in play is quietly defined beside them.

You tell it who you are — a business analyst, a delivery lead, a contract lawyer — and it writes in that voice, not a generic assistant's.

On an iPhone

Five screens, start to finish.

The meeting shown here is invented — the dialogue, the two participants and the Contoso documents were written for the screenshots. No recording of anyone real appears on this page.

The main screen: four suggestion cards stacked above a live transcript.
Four suggestions and the live transcript, side by side while the meeting runs.
The Meeting and Documents sheet, showing your role and a short brief for the meeting.
Tell it your role, what the meeting is and who is in the room.
The imported document list, each entry showing how many passages were indexed.
Bring your own documents. They are indexed on the device and held only for the session.
Settings for the speech recognition engine.
Choose how the speech is recognised — live text, best accuracy, or both.
Settings for the AI engine that writes the suggestions.
The model that writes the suggestions runs on the device. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Scroll sideways, or use the arrow keys, for all five.

On an iPad

The same app, given room to breathe.

On a 13‑inch iPad the suggestions and the transcript sit beside each other instead of stacking, and the documents sheet opens over the top of a meeting that is still running. It is one app and one purchase, not a companion.

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Meeting Cue on an iPad: suggestions on the left, live transcript on the right, with the documents sheet open over them.

In detail

What it actually does.

  • Live transcript, with speakers

    Text appears while people are still talking, and each line is labelled with who said it.

  • Your documents, searched as you talk

    Import PDFs, text and Markdown. The app finds the passage that bears on what was just said — no keyword hunting.

  • Four things you can say

    Plain English on what is happening; the immediate question; the strategic point; the rapport line. Plus a plain‑language gloss of the jargon in the room.

  • Written in your voice

    Tell it your role and how you like to sound, and the suggestions come out as something you would actually say.

  • Entirely on your device

    No account, no cloud, no upload. Nothing is written to disk, and ending a session erases it.

  • iPhone and iPad

    In light and dark, one app, one purchase.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your device.

That sentence is meant literally. The speech recognition, the document search and the model that writes the suggestions all run locally, on the phone or iPad in front of you. There is no account, no server and no upload.

Audio, transcripts and suggestions are held in memory and never written to disk; ending the session erases them. That is not a setting to switch on — it is how the app is built, and it is why it is usable in a room where a cloud notetaker would not be welcome.

One thing that is your responsibility and not ours: tell the room you are using it. Laws about recording or transcribing a conversation differ by country and by state, and consent is yours to get.

Meeting Cue requirements and subscription
DevicesiPhone and iPad, iOS 26 or later, on a device that supports Apple Intelligence — with Apple Intelligence switched on. That is what the suggestions are written by.
LanguagesEnglish only, for now. The app listens for English and writes in English.
NetworkNot required, and not used for anything the app does with your meeting.
AccountNone.
Stored on diskNothing from a session. Your settings and your role description, only.
Free trialYour first week, with no payment details needed.
After thatMeeting Cue Pro, a subscription through the App Store.

The price for your country is shown in the App Store and in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions.

Something not working?

Support requests can be raised without giving us your email address. You get a case number instead, and you look up the answer yourself.