Productivity
Stage Cards: Speech Cue Cards
Speech cue cards & pace cues
iOS for iPhone and iPad
- $3.99 one-time purchase
- No account
- No ads or app telemetry
Screenshots
8 images · iPhone 6.7"
iPad
8 images · iPad Pro 12.9"
A best man's toast, a set of vows, a eulogy, a stand-up set, a conference talk — the moments where you most need to look up and land the words are the ones where a scrolling teleprompter fails you. Stage Cards takes the opposite approach: discrete cue cards you flip one at a time, in big auto-sizing type, with private notes you reveal only by holding the screen. Tap zones and swipes are built for one hand, and the presenter is pure black with a progress bar, counter, and optional timer.
Before you step up, Prep Desk reads the deck and scores it — estimated read time from your word count, a pace check against a target duration, flags for cards too dense to glance at, and a run-of-show breakdown by section. A bundled offline field guide covers pacing, one-idea cards, pause maps, and recovery when you lose your place.
You can start from editable templates for toasts, officiant scripts, vows, sermons, eulogies, roasts, sales and investor pitches, and more, then export any deck as plain text or a printable PDF backup.
Stage Cards needs no account, no camera, microphone, or network, and includes no analytics or advertising. Decks, rehearsal runs, and prep analysis stay on your device, and the whole thing works offline.
About Stage Cards: Speech Cue Cards
NEW IN 4.0
Turn cards with a clicker, stay on time without looking at a clock, and learn your talk by heart.
• Clicker, pedal & keyboard control: Bluetooth presentation remotes, page-turner pedals and keyboards turn cards in Present, Rehearse and Memorize. Press B or "." to black out the screen.
• Pace Guard: set a target and a green, amber and red light plus an "ahead / behind" readout keep you on schedule, planned from your own rehearsed pace.
• Silent time cues: a haptic tap as you enter the last minute and a stronger one at time, even with the ringer on silent.
• Memorize Mode: practice with the script fading card by card: a third of the words hidden, then two thirds, then first letters, then only the first word. Hold to peek. The end-of-pass summary tells you when to move up a level.
• Rehearsal History: each finished rehearsal keeps its time and pace (never audio) and charts your progress against the target.
• Import from Files: plain text, Markdown, RTF, PDF and Word (.docx) scripts become cue cards. Headings become sections, and you can edit the split before creating the deck.
• Deck files & backup: share a .stagecards deck with a co-presenter over AirDrop or Mail, or back up every deck in one file.
• Print Index Cards: a paper backup on 3×5 or 4×6 card stock, or four per sheet with cut marks, each card numbered with its section.
• Stage Look: typeface, left or centered text, line spacing, a peek at the next card, the time of day, and Brightness Boost for stage lights.
• Siri & Shortcuts: "Present Best Man Toast in Stage Cards."
• Stage Check: battery, brightness and a last-minute checklist before you walk on.
WHAT STAGE CARDS IS
Stage Cards turns your iPhone or iPad into a stack of big, swipeable cue cards for live speaking: toasts, vows, sermons, eulogies, stand-up sets, sales pitches, class presentations and conference talks. It is not a scrolling teleprompter. You flip one card at a time, the text auto-sizes to fill the screen, and private notes appear only while you hold the screen.
BUILT FOR THE STAGE
• Auto-sizing cards on a pure-black stage in high-contrast colors
• One-handed tap zones, swipes, or a clicker
• Hold-to-reveal private notes
• Progress, card counter, elapsed timer and countdown to your goal
• Optional auto-advance and mirror mode for teleprompter glass
• Section cards for acts, turns and Q&A
PREPARE AND REHEARSE
• Templates for toasts, vows, officiant scripts, sermons, pitches, talks, roasts, reunions and eulogies
• Rehearsal mode with per-card pacing, words per minute and progress over time
• Prep Desk readiness score with long-card flags and a run of show
• Beat Split cuts dense cards into glanceable beats
• Time Cuts builds a shorter version of a talk as a separate deck
• Share as text, Markdown, PDF or a deck file
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, ads, analytics or tracking. No microphone or camera. Decks stay on your device and the app works offline. Your 3.x decks open unchanged.
Stage Cards is a writing, rehearsal and presentation utility. It does not provide medical, legal, financial or professional advice.
A Shadowfetch app. Published on the App Store by Robert Corbin.