Cue
Cue is Manus's standalone app for personal AI agents. Each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, then handles real-world errands such as bookings, calls, payments and research. Agents share group chats, connect to Gmail, Slack, Notion and Trip.com, run scheduled routines, and ask for your approval before spending any money.
What is Cue?
Cue is a standalone product from Manus, launched on 28 September 2026 alongside Manus 2.0, built for personal agents rather than one-off chat sessions. The pitch is identity: instead of a single assistant that borrows your accounts, Cue lets you create several agents that each carry their own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, with permissions you define. An agent can therefore send and receive email as itself, make and take calls on its own number, pay with its own card inside a budget you set, and keep working in its own workspace after you close the laptop.
The site frames the product around real errands rather than deliverables. Examples shown on cue.im include booking and paying for airport parking with EV charging, emailing hotels to confirm connecting rooms, answering a clinic's callback about an MRI and adding the date to your calendar, hiring a Taskrabbit to assemble an IKEA wardrobe, comparing an out-of-warranty appliance repair against a local shop, and watching Recreation.gov for a released campsite and booking it the moment it appears. A second cluster covers life admin: finding a pediatrician taking new patients, booking a flu shot, chasing an earlier DMV slot, or monitoring ticket and registration openings.
Several agents can share a group chat with one goal and hand work to each other, which is how Cue differs from a single assistant thread. Each agent keeps its own conversation and memory, so a travel agent can hold your preferences while a household agent tracks appointments. Cue also supports QR code scanning at supported cafes and restaurants to spin up an agent for that venue, and connectors such as Gmail, Slack, Notion, Trip.com, Oura and MyFitnessPal that let agents work inside the services where the task actually lives. Routines turn repeated work into scheduled or event-triggered flows.
Approval boundaries are central to the design: you decide which actions run freely and which come back to you, particularly around payments. Cue runs on the web, as macOS and Windows desktop apps, on iOS and Android, and through Apple Messages, and it is currently gated behind an invitation code with access free during early access.
Cue Core Features
Agent identity stack
every agent can hold its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer workspace, with permissions you set per agent.
Real outbound communication
agents send and receive email from their own address and make or take calls on their own number, including forwarded calls you route to them.
Controlled spending
agents pay with their own card inside a budget you define, and purchases return to you for approval before they clear.
Group chats for agent teams
several agents share one conversation and a goal, handing work to each other while each keeps its own memory and history.
Connectors to everyday services
Gmail, Slack, Notion, Trip.com, Oura and MyFitnessPal, with per-agent permissions you can change at any time.
Routines and watchers
scheduled or event-triggered automations that check a page daily, watch for a price drop, or act the moment registration opens.
QR scan to create
scanning a service QR code at a supported cafe or restaurant spawns a dedicated agent for that venue, with you confirming payment.
Memory and Dream
persistent preferences for food, travel and learning carry across sessions, so agents resume without a fresh briefing.
Who is Cue for?
Cue is aimed at people whose backlog is made of small, annoying, real-world tasks rather than documents. If your week includes chasing a clinic receptionist, emailing a hotel about a crib, comparing repair quotes, renewing a passport photo, or finding a campsite that opens for ninety seconds, Cue is built for exactly that category of work. It suits busy parents, frequent travellers, people caring for elderly relatives, and solo operators who have no assistant but plenty of admin. It is also a reasonable fit for anyone who has tried a chat assistant and hit the wall where it can research but cannot act. Because each agent has a phone number, an inbox and a payment method, the handoff stops being a to-do list you still have to execute. People who like the idea of an agent making calls and sending emails on their behalf, but who want a spend limit and an approval step, are the core audience. Cue is a weaker fit for teams. Manus's Team plan does not mention Cue, collaboration is limited to your own agents in group chats, and there are no shared workspaces, admin controls or audit exports aimed at organisations. Developers looking for an API or self-hosted agent runtime should look elsewhere; Cue is a consumer app. Heavy enterprise procurement, regulated data handling and anyone unwilling to grant an agent access to email or a card should also pause. Finally, Cue is invite-only during early access, so the practical audience today is people willing to queue for a code, accept an early-access product with shifting limits, and tolerate rough edges in exchange for being early to a genuinely different way of delegating errands.
Cue Use Cases
Book and pay for travel extras such as airport parking with EV charging, campsites or attraction tickets within a set budget
Email hotels, restaurants and clinics to confirm accessible rooms, high chairs, connecting rooms or fasting instructions before an appointment
Answer and triage calls you forward while flying or in a different time zone, then report back sorted by urgency
Hire and schedule local help such as Taskrabbit assembly, recurring cleaning or a repair quote comparison
Watch booking pages daily and grab an earlier DMV slot, a released permit, a vaccination opening or a sold-out ticket drop
Chase health admin end to end, from finding an in-network dermatologist to booking a skin check and adding it to your calendar
Plan multi-city family trips with flights, hotels and transfers, then keep watching airfare and flag a price drop
Scan a restaurant QR code to have an agent read the menu, pick dishes for your preferences and place the order for your confirmation
Cue Pros and Cons
Pros
- Genuine identity per agent, not a shared browser session: separate inbox, number, wallet and machine is a real architectural difference from single-thread assistants.
- The example library is unusually concrete, covering parking, campsites, clinic callbacks and appliance repairs, which makes the value obvious before you sign up.
- Approval and budget controls are built into the payment path rather than bolted on, so delegating spend does not mean handing over a card.
- Broad platform coverage at launch, with web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and an Apple Messages entry point, plus group chats for multi-agent work.
Cons
- Access is invite-only and Cue is free only during early access, with no published price for Plus, Pro or Max tiers and no clarity on what happens when the beta ends.
- A dedicated computer is described as depending on availability, so not every agent is guaranteed its own machine despite the marketing line.
- It is a consumer app with no public API, no team administration and thin support levers, and reviewers report friction such as account deletion requiring the desktop app.
FAQ About Cue
Cue Pricing
Cue is free while in early access, and Manus has published no price for after the beta ends. The App Store listing shows in-app purchases that hint at the eventual shape: phone numbers for the US, Singapore and Canada at $9.99, a cloud computer at $39, Cue Pro at $100 and Cue Max at $200, plus a $2,000 Cue Max entry. Manus states only that Plus membership is included at no charge during early access and that a phone-number subscription is bought separately from a Manus membership, with phone usage counting toward a Cue weekly allowance rather than Manus credits. Treat all paid tiers as unconfirmed.
Check official pricingEarly access
Full app access with an invitation code, including Plus membership at no charge while Cue remains in early access. No published end date or post-beta price.
Cue Plus
Included free for early-access users according to the App Store listing. Reviewers report an in-app $20 monthly label marked free for a limited time, which Manus has not confirmed.
Cue Pro
Listed as an in-app purchase on the App Store with no published feature breakdown. Not referenced on cue.im, so treat the scope as unconfirmed.
Cue Max
Highest listed tier, with a $2,000 option also shown in the App Store purchase list. Manus has not documented limits, allowances or what the larger amount covers.
Phone number add-on
A dedicated number for an agent in the US, Singapore or Canada, bought separately from a Manus membership. Phone usage draws on the Cue weekly allowance instead of Manus credits.
Cloud computer
A dedicated machine for an agent's workspace, listed as an in-app purchase. Cue's own messaging says a dedicated computer depends on availability rather than being guaranteed.
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