A Native Teleprompter App for Mac, From Desk to Studio

Connect a teleprompter hood monitor, a TV or a second display and assign the prompter to it: the script opens full screen on that display and scrolls with the main window, line for line. Every window lays the text out at the same width and scales it to its own screen, so the words under the reading line are the same on every display, whatever its size or resolution. The operator watches the Mac while the talent reads the hood.

Each display keeps its own settings: flip horizontally, flip vertically or both for beam-splitter glass, choose left, centre or right alignment, and show or hide the cue arrow. Displays are remembered by name, so when you plug the hood monitor back in, its prompter comes back. Need more? Add floating prompter windows, drag them to any screen, resize them, make them full screen, keep them on top, or make them transparent to see what is behind. Multi-display prompting is part of Plus.

Switch the prompter to Video and your Mac becomes the camera: the script sits at the top of the window, right under the webcam, so your eyes stay near the lens while you read. Press record and the take and the scroll start together after the countdown; press stop and the take is filed next to its script. Use the built-in camera, a USB webcam or your iPhone through Continuity Camera, and pick the microphone you want from the dock. Audio-only takes (Plus) work the same way for voice-overs and podcasts.

Every script keeps its own library of takes. Play them back and save the finished file to any folder, add it to Photos or share it. With Plus, burn AI captions into the video in the style you choose and export without the watermark that free exports carry. Captions are generated from your own voice, so they follow what you actually said on the take.

For desk recording, the floating overlay sits as a movable layer over your webcam preview, screen recorder or video call, so your lines stay next to the lens without switching apps. Notch mode (Plus) tucks the script right under the MacBook camera, and Ghost Mode drops the background so only the text floats over your screen.

Scroll vertically or as a horizontal ticker, pause and resume from the overlay itself or from the menu bar, and bring the main window back whenever you need it. It is built for talking-head videos, product demos, webinars and presentations.

The same dock as on iPhone lets you switch between three ways to move the script. Auto (Plus) follows your voice with Apple's speech recognition, on-device when available: pause to ad-lib and the text waits, pick the pace back up and it keeps up. Fixed runs at a steady speed you set on the ruler. Timed finishes the whole script in the duration you choose, from 15 seconds to 10 minutes, and adjusts the speed to the length of the text.

You can also move the reading line higher or lower on the screen, so the line you are reading sits where your eyes naturally rest, whether you are at a desk or behind a hood.

Open Remote Control on your iPhone, iPad or another Mac and it finds the prompter on the same network, no internet needed. Every remote plays, pauses, scrubs, changes speed and mirrors your text settings. From an iPhone or iPad you can also switch between Auto, Fixed and Timed, pick another script from the library and start a recording, and an Apple Watch paired with that iPhone works as a remote too. Remote control is part of Plus.

Presentation clickers, foot pedals, page turners and Bluetooth keyboards work on the Mac as well with Plus: they pair as a keyboard, and their keys play and pause, jump a paragraph, restart, or change the speed. The space bar plays and pauses on every plan.

This site includes a free online teleprompter and script editor. Write or paste a script in your browser and share one link: the person who opens it can read the script on the page or open it straight inside the app on their Mac or iPhone.

That is the handoff a lot of teams need: a marketer writes the script, sends one link, and the creator reads it on camera, no copy-paste and no email threads. Sharing can be public or private by email invite, and an AI script review can tighten the wording for spoken delivery before you record.

At a desk, keep the overlay or the prompter window as close to your camera as you can, so your eyeline reads as natural. Increase the font size until you can read comfortably from your seat, then set the speed a notch slower than you think you need.

Behind a beam-splitter hood, assign the prompter to the hood monitor and flip it for the glass, keep the unflipped view on the Mac for the operator, and use Timed scroll when a segment has to land on an exact duration. A clicker or your iPhone keeps your hands free during the take.