cuePics' precursor Picture Power is a dual-platform CD-ROM developed for the UK educational market. cuePics has been developed from Picture Power, with additional advanced features. Picture Power has sold several thousand copies and is still being used since its’ release in 1998. Rewards for innovation include: being short-listed for both the Royal Television Society Multimedia Awards and the British Interactive Multimedia Awards education category in 1998; in its’ second version, it won the BETT Award for Educational Software in 1999; and in its’ third version it was shortlisted for the Best Secondary ICT Awards 2007. It has had excellent reviews in the British newspapers The Times, The Guardian and other major publications.

Upon it's launch, Windows version 1.0.2 of cuePics was awarded 4 cows (out of a maximum of 5) on the well-respected download site Tucows. The Macintosh version 1.1.0 was awarded 5 stars (out of 5) from the download site Sofotex.