Download CueStream
Two builds of the same Windows app: one that keeps a low profile, and one that is easiest to install. macOS is on the way.
Windows · .exe
Most discreetDirect installer
Shows up in Task Manager as AudioRelay, not CueStream.
Version 1.0.39
Download the .exeWindows · Store
EasiestMicrosoft Store
Signed by Microsoft. Installs without a warning, updates through the Store.
Version 1.0.38
Get it from Microsoft StoremacOS · .dmg
macOS
In development.
Coming soonDirect installer or Microsoft Store?
Same app. What changes is the name Windows gives it while it runs.
Both builds install as CueStream. The Start menu shortcut and your list of installed apps carry the real name and the real icon, so you find it and launch it like any other app. What differs is the name of the running process. The direct installer runs as AudioRelay, and its window carries that name too, so nothing in Task Manager reads as CueStream. The Store build runs under its own name.
The Store build is signed by Microsoft, so it installs with no SmartScreen warning and updates through the Store. The direct installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen warns you the first time you run it, and it updates itself in place after that. Everything else about the app is the same; pick the process name you would rather see in the list.
Why the process shows at all
A quiet, generic process name is as far as any honestly built app can go, and it's a deliberate choice rather than a corner we couldn't turn. Windows gives a program no supported way to take itself out of Task Manager. The only way to make a process genuinely vanish from that list is the set of tricks malware uses: a kernel driver that unlinks the process, or code injected into another program so it runs inside it. Windows Defender and every other antivirus exist to catch exactly those, so an app that did it would be flagged and quarantined on a large share of machines.
That's the part worth knowing when another tool advertises itself as invisible in Task Manager. Either it isn't, and the claim is marketing, or it really does hide that way and is one Defender update from being pulled off your machine in the middle of an interview. A name that reads like a normal background process is the strongest thing that stays safe to run, which is why it's the direct build's edge, not its weakness.
The one thing no name change does is hide from software that goes looking. Endpoint monitoring and proctoring agents list every running process and can match one by its file or its signature whatever it's called, so on a machine your employer manages, assume either build can be seen.
What you need
- A 64-bit (x64) PC with Windows 11, or Windows 10 version 2004 or later. That version is where the Windows flag that keeps the answer panel out of a screen share arrived.
- A CueStream account. It comes with one free hour of live interview on signup, no card.
About the SmartScreen warning
The first time you run the direct installer, Windows shows a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen, because the installer isn't code-signed yet. It's flagging an unfamiliar publisher, not a scan result. Click More info, then click Run anyway.
Windows Defender may also occasionally flag the download as a generic threat (like Bearfoos.A!ml). This is a known false positive caused by Microsoft's machine-learning filters aggressively flagging brand-new, unsigned installers. You can safely allow it on your device, or use the Microsoft Store version which is immune to this.
Allow the microphone on the Store build
The Store build asks Windows for microphone access the first time you start a session. Say yes: that one permission covers the call audio as well as your voice. If you said no, turn CueStream on under Settings → Privacy & security → Microphone and start the session again. The direct installer doesn't ask. It follows the "Let desktop apps access your microphone" switch on the same page.
macOS: unsigned at first
A native macOS build is planned. Like the direct Windows installer, the first release will be unsigned and unnotarized, since notarizing with Apple is its own separate setup. It'll behave like most software downloaded outside the App Store: Gatekeeper blocks it until you tell macOS you trust it.
How to open it once it's out
- Move CueStream.app into Applications, then open it once.
- macOS will say it can't verify the app and won't open it. Close that message, and don't move the app to the Trash.
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down to Security, and click Open Anyway next to the CueStream message. Confirm when macOS asks, with your password if it wants it. You only need to do this once.
- If it says instead that the app "is damaged and can't be opened," that's Gatekeeper's quarantine flag, not a broken download. Open Terminal, run
xattr -cr /Applications/CueStream.app, then open it again.
On macOS 14 Sonoma or earlier there's a shortcut: Control-click the app, choose Open, then click Open again in the warning. Apple took that shortcut away in macOS 15 Sequoia.