Free online teleprompter

Getting a script moving

When the page loads, a short sample script is already in the box and Play already has focus. Press Space and it starts. That is the whole path from opening the page to reading off it, without clicking anything.

To read your own script instead, paste it. Cmd+V, or Ctrl+V on Windows, puts whatever is on your clipboard into the box over the top of what is there, and you do not have to click into the box first. Space starts it from there too, so pasting costs you nothing either.

With a mouse it is one click on Play. Nothing moves before that. The page never begins scrolling by itself, which is deliberate: a script sliding away while you are still reading this paragraph would be irritating, and it would ignore anyone who has asked their system to reduce motion.

Space plays and pauses, M flips the mirror, F goes fullscreen. Those keys go inert once the caret is in the script box, on purpose: typing the word "mirror" into a script must not flip the picture mid-take. That is also why the box does not take focus on arrival, and it is the one thing this arrangement costs you. To edit the script by typing, click into the box first, or reach it with Tab.

The controls along the bottom

Everything sits in a dock along the bottom edge of the stage, so changing something does not mean looking away from the line you are reading.

• Play, pause, and recue. Recue sends the script back to the top, which is the button you want after a fluffed take.
• Speed, in words per minute.
• Text size, because the right size depends on how far away you are sitting rather than on a default someone picked.
• Mirror, for reading off a beam splitter. Setup details are on the mirror mode page.
• Fullscreen, which keeps the controls reachable and puts you back at the same position with the same settings when you leave it.
• A three second countdown, which you can switch off when you are in a hurry and tired of waiting for it every take.
• Motion, which follows your system's reduced-motion preference by default. You can override it to smooth scrolling or to line-by-line stepping.
• Text and background colour. A screen that reads well in a dark room is not the one that reads well under a key light.
• Several scripts, kept side by side and switched between, so three versions of the same piece do not have to overwrite each other.

Where your script is kept

Your browser stores your script, on the machine you typed it on. We do not upload it, sync it between your devices, or attach it to an account, because there is no account to attach it to. Your speed, text size, colours and countdown setting are remembered the same way.

That cuts both ways, and both directions are worth stating plainly. An unreleased announcement, a legal statement, a script nobody has cleared yet: those can go in the box without leaving your machine. But a script written on your laptop will not be waiting on your phone, and clearing your browsing data clears your scripts with it. If a script matters, keep the original somewhere you control.

Speed is measured in words, not pixels

Speed here is words per minute rather than pixels per second, which matters more than it sounds like it should.

Pixels per second is a property of a screen. Change the text size or the window width and the same setting reads at a different pace, so the number you tuned last week means something else today. Words per minute is a property of you. Set it to the rate you actually talk at and it stays that rate on a laptop, on a tablet propped beside the lens, and in fullscreen.

It also keeps the duration estimate honest. The stage shows how long your script will take, worked out from the same speed the scroll is using, so there is one number rather than two that nearly agree. If the estimate is all you came for, the script timer runs the same arithmetic on a page of its own.

Voice follow, and where the audio goes

Voice follow listens while you read and moves the script to match. Slow down and it slows. Stop and it stops. It stays off until you turn it on.

Where your audio goes depends on your browser, and the switch says which path you are on before you enable anything. Browsers that can run speech recognition on the device do it there, and the audio does not leave your computer. Browsers that cannot, which today means Safari and iOS, hand the audio to the browser vendor for transcription, under that vendor's terms.

Either way we do not receive, store, or forward your audio. We are not in that path at all. The voice follow page has the detail, including which browsers currently sit on which side.

Reading so it does not sound read

A prompter fixes where your eyes point. It cannot fix a script written for the page rather than the mouth.

• Write it out loud. Use sentences you would say, not sentences you would publish. Read a draft aloud once and cut whatever you trip on.
• Set the speed to your voice rather than to a number you admire. Most people talk somewhere between 120 and 160 words per minute on camera. Start in the middle, read a paragraph, adjust, and leave it there.
• Put the script near the lens. A prompter two feet to the side of the camera relocates the wandering eyes rather than curing them.
• Break lines where you breathe. Short paragraphs give you somewhere to land, and they stop a long sentence from arriving all at once.
• Do one take with the countdown on. Three seconds is often the difference between starting mid-thought and starting.
• Read it once at the speed you set before you record. Half the problems people blame on the prompter are sentences that were never going to survive being said aloud.

The blog goes further into scripting and delivery.

Setting up on your device

The reading line sits in the same place everywhere. The hardware around it does not, and each arrangement has its own awkward part: a phone in landscape beside the lens, a tablet on a stand, a laptop with the script behind glass.

• iPhone and iPad, for landscape, stands, and where the system bars end up.
• Mac and Windows, for fullscreen behaviour and second-screen setups.
• YouTube and Zoom, for recordings and calls, where the camera and the script compete for the same patch of screen.

How this compares with other free teleprompters

Free browser teleprompters are not scarce, and several of them do things this one does not. As of 27 August 2026, VoicePrompter and SolPrompter both follow your voice without a signup. cueprompter.io records video in the browser, which this tool does not do at all. CuePrompter opens its homepage by calling itself the number one free online teleprompter.

What this tool is built around is the first thirty seconds: a stage you can read from the moment it loads, a script that stays in your browser, and a duration estimate that uses the speed you are actually reading at. The dated, sourced feature comparison lives on the comparison pages rather than here. A table of ticks on a product's own homepage is worth roughly what you would expect.

What this does not do

• No recording. It scrolls your script; your camera or your call records the video. Some of the tools above record in the browser and this one does not.
• No phone remote. Speed and play are changed on the device showing the script.
• No cloud sync and no accounts. That is the same decision as keeping your script local, seen from the other side.
• No file import. Paste your text in. There is no PDF or Word import.

Questions

Do I need to sign up? No. There is no account, no email, and no sign-in.

Is it free? Yes, and there is nothing to upgrade to.

Does my script get uploaded? No. Your browser keeps it on your own machine.

Will my script still be here tomorrow? On the same device in the same browser, yes. Clearing your browsing data removes it.

Does it work on a phone? Yes, including landscape. The iPhone and iPad pages cover stands and system bars.

Can I use it with a beam splitter? Yes. That is what mirror mode is for. See mirror mode.

How fast should I set it? Somewhere near your speaking rate. Between 120 and 160 words per minute suits most people. Adjust it while reading a paragraph rather than guessing.

Does voice follow send my voice anywhere? It depends on your browser, and the switch tells you which path you are on before you turn it on. See voice follow.