Paste a script and scroll it at your speaking pace, with mirror mode, a reading line and a countdown.
An online teleprompter scrolls your script up the screen at a steady pace so you can read it while looking at the camera or the audience. Paste your text, choose a speed in words per minute, and press Start prompter. The page switches to a full-window black view with large white text and a reading line near the top third of the screen, where your eyes should rest. The scroll speed is worked out from the real height of your script, so a 300 word script at 150 words per minute takes two minutes to scroll from start to end. Before you start, the page shows that estimated time from the word count. The default of 150 words per minute is a common planning figure for spoken presentations. It is not measured from you, so do one practice run and adjust the speed until the line you are reading stays on the marker.
Press Space or tap the text to pause and resume. The Up and Down arrow keys change the speed by 10 words per minute, within 40 to 400, and the Faster and Slower buttons do the same on a phone. Left arrow or the Jump back button moves the script back by a quarter of the screen height, which is handy when you lose your place or fluff a line. A countdown of 3, 5 or 10 seconds runs before the scrolling begins, so you can settle and hit record; set it to None to start at once. Escape or the Exit button returns you to the script. A thin bar shows how far through the script you are, and the time left at the current speed is shown beside it. When the script reaches its end the scrolling stops by itself.
Mirror left to right reverses the text so it reads correctly when it is reflected in the glass of a prompter rig in front of a camera lens. Flip upside down turns it over for rigs that are mounted the other way. Without a rig, leave both off. Font size runs from 24 to 160 pixels, line height from 1 to 3, and the side margins from 0 to 40 percent of the width on each side, so you can make narrow columns that keep your eyes close to the lens. Bigger text and narrower columns are easier to read from a distance of a metre or two. The reading line can be hidden if you prefer a clean view. Full screen hides the browser bars where your browser allows it, and the prompter view has a dark background, so it does not light up a dim room.
Your script is held in this browser tab and never sent to a server. It is saved on your device only if you tick Keep my script on this device, which is off by default; untick it and the saved copy is removed. The settings for speed, size and mirror mode are remembered in the same browser. Scripts can be up to 100,000 characters. This tool does not listen to your voice or follow your speech, it does not record video, and it does not connect to another phone as a remote. Scrolling is a steady pace you control, so if you speed up or slow down mid-sentence, adjust it with the arrow keys.
Start at 150 words per minute, a common planning figure for spoken presentations, then adjust. Slow, careful delivery is often around 120, and brisk reading around 180. A 300 word script takes 2 minutes at 150.
Tick Mirror left to right in Size, mirror, countdown and saving. The text is reversed, so it reads correctly in the angled glass of a prompter rig. If you are reading straight off the screen, leave it off.
Yes. Press the Up arrow to go 10 words per minute faster and the Down arrow for 10 slower, or tap Faster and Slower. The speed stays between 40 and 400 words per minute.
Not unless you ask. Keep my script on this device is off by default, so nothing is stored. When on, up to 100,000 characters are saved in this browser only and removed when you untick it.
Press Space or tap the text to pause and resume. Press the Left arrow or Jump back to move back by a quarter of the screen, so you can pick up the sentence you lost.
It gives you 3, 5 or 10 seconds to get ready, for example to press record on your phone, before the script starts moving. Choose None if you want the scrolling to begin as soon as you press Start.