Free teleprompter
Load your scripts, set your pace, and read straight down the lens. Queue up to twenty and film them back to back. Runs in your browser on a phone, tablet or laptop.
No account. No watermark. No time limit. Nothing to install.
Built for talking to a camera
Most free prompters give you a speed slider from one to ten and leave you guessing. This one works in the units you actually think in.
Speed in words per minute
Set 140 wpm and you get 140 wpm, whatever the text size. It measures your script and tells you how long the read will take before you start.
Vertical or horizontal
Scroll top to bottom like a standard prompter, or run the text sideways as a single line when the screen is turned on its side.
Mirror, flip and rotate
Three controls that combine to cover every mount. Mirror for beam-splitter glass, flip for a vertical reflection, rotate for a screen lying on its side. A preview shows which way the text will travel.
Made for shooting alone
Counts you in from three, blocks the screen from sleeping, and tapping anywhere pauses. Both buttons on a Bluetooth clicker start and stop it, so you don’t have to look down.
Twenty scripts in one sitting
Drag in up to twenty .txt or .pdf files at once. Each one runs, pauses to tell you which is next, counts you back in and rolls. Film a month of reels without standing up.
Your scripts stay on your device
Files are read in the browser and never uploaded anywhere. Nothing is sent to us, and your scripts and settings are still there next time you open it.
How to use it
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Load your scripts
Drop your files onto the page — up to twenty .txt or .pdf files at once — or paste straight into the box. Filenames become the script names, and you can rename any of them. PDFs are read in your browser, so nothing gets uploaded anywhere. A scanned PDF has no text in it to read, so if you only have a scan you’ll need to paste the words in.
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Put them in the right order
Every script gets a row showing its word count and read time. Use the arrows to move them around, the cross to drop one, or click a row to edit it. The line underneath adds up the whole run, so you know before you start whether this is a ten minute session or an hour.
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Set your pace and your breaks
Start at 140 words per minute, which is roughly conversational. Most people read faster than they speak, so the number that looks slow on the page usually sounds right on camera. Then pick what happens between scripts: a three, five, ten or twenty second pause, or have it wait until you tap. Longer gaps are for when you need to change a shirt or reset a prop.
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Match your setup
Choose vertical or horizontal scrolling, then use mirror, flip and rotate until the preview reads correctly for your rig. If you’re using prompter glass in front of the lens, you want mirror on. If your phone is just propped beside the camera, leave all three alone.
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Line up the markers with your lens
The two blue arrows mark the reading line. Position your screen so that line sits as close to the lens as possible. This is what stops you looking like you’re reading, and it matters more than anything else on this page.
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Start the run
It goes full screen and counts you in from three. Adjust speed and text size live while it’s rolling, nudge back a line if you fumble one, and tap the screen to pause. When a script ends it pauses, names the next one, counts you back in and keeps going — so you can film the whole batch without getting up. Everything is still loaded next time you open it.
While it’s running
Why we give this away
Social media has stopped being a side channel. For a lot of the businesses we work with, a short video is the first place a customer ever meets them, and it decides whether that customer bothers to click through to anything else.
That’s raised the bar for everyone. You don’t need a studio to clear it, but you do need to be able to say what you do without stumbling over it. A prompter is the cheapest fix for that, and there was no good reason for it to sit behind a signup form and a monthly fee.
So we built one and left the door open. No email address, no trial, no upgrade prompt. If it means you post more often and sound more like yourself when you do, that’s a win we’re happy to fund.
We’re a web design studio. When the rest of your online presence needs to work as hard as your videos do, come and talk to us.
The setup we recommend
This is the kit we actually shoot on. You don’t need all of it to start, and the tool works fine with a phone propped against a coffee cup, but this is what we’d buy in this order.
Canon EOS R8 with RF 24–50mm lens
Full frame, 4K, and light enough to live on a tripod permanently. The kit lens is wide enough for a seated piece to camera in a normal room.
View on AmazonNEEWER X11 teleprompter
Beam-splitter glass sits in front of the lens with its own 8 inch monitor built in, so your phone stays free. Turn mirror on in the tool for this one.
View on AmazonVictiv tall aluminium tripod
Gets the lens up to your actual eye height, standing or seated. Filming from below eye line is the most common and most avoidable mistake in business video.
View on AmazonSoftbox lighting kit, two lights
One light slightly to one side as your key, the second opposite it to soften the shadow. Softboxes beat a ring light for anything where a face fills the frame.
View on AmazonK&F Concept LP-E17 batteries and charger
Three spares and a charger that shows you the actual level. A camera battery dies mid-take exactly once before you buy these.
View on AmazonKimaru ACK-E18 power adapter
Runs the camera off the wall instead of a battery. Worth it the first time you film a long session and stop thinking about power at all.
View on AmazonUURig camera cooling fan
Mirrorless bodies get hot and cut out during long 4K takes. This clips on and buys you considerably more runtime before that happens.
View on AmazonOr just use your phone
Prop the phone at eye height, put a window in front of you rather than behind, and open the prompter on a laptop beside the lens. That combination is already better than most of what gets posted.
Open the teleprompterThese are the products we use ourselves. Links go to Amazon and we may earn a small commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. It doesn’t affect what we recommend.