Free Online Teleprompter
Paste your script, pick a speed and press Start. It runs in your browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, nothing to install and nothing uploaded. Mirror mode, voice scroll and camera recording are built in.
110 words · about 47 sec at 140 wpm
Opens full screen. Space pauses, arrow keys change speed, Esc closes. Nothing is uploaded — your script stays in this browser.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Space · K · B | Play / pause |
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| ↑ / ↓ | Faster / slower (10 wpm) |
| ← / → | Nudge back / forward one line |
| Page Up / Page Down | Nudge three lines (clickers, foot pedals) |
| + / − | Bigger / smaller text |
| M | Mirror |
| F | Full screen |
| R · Home | Back to start |
| Esc | Close |
Wheel or drag to move the text by hand. Tap the text to pause.
How to use the teleprompter
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Paste your script
Type or paste into the script box, or open a .txt file. Put notes to yourself in [square brackets], like [smile] or [show product]. They appear in a different colour and are left out of the read time.
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Set the speed in words per minute
Around 140 wpm is a relaxed talking-head pace. The box under the script shows how long the read will take, so you can trim before you record. Not sure of your pace? Read a paragraph aloud and adjust until the text keeps up with you.
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Pick a reading line and text size
The reading line is where your eyes rest. Put it near the top when the screen sits under your camera, so your gaze stays close to the lens. Bigger text is easier from a distance; a narrower column means less eye movement.
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Press Start
The prompter opens full screen with a short countdown. Space pauses, the up and down arrows change speed, and the left and right arrows nudge the text if you get ahead or fall behind.
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Record, or read while something else records
Use your camera app, OBS or a real camera as usual, or tick "Show camera & record" to see yourself behind the text and save the take straight from the browser.
What you get, free
Most free web prompters stop at a speed slider. This one covers what you would normally pay an app for.
Speed in words per minute
Set 60 to 260 wpm and the text scrolls at that pace whatever the font size or screen. You see the read time before you start and the time left while you read.
Voice scroll (beta)
Switch to "Follow my voice" and the text moves as you speak, waits when you stop and catches up if you skip a line. Works best in Chrome and Edge.
Camera and recording
See yourself behind the script, press Record, and download the take as a video file. Nothing leaves your device.
Mirror and flip
Flip the text left to right for a beam-splitter teleprompter rig, or upside down for monitors mounted the other way up.
Clicker and foot-pedal friendly
Page Up and Page Down nudge the text, and B or the full stop pauses it, which is what most presentation remotes and Bluetooth pedals send.
Private by default
Your script autosaves in this browser only. There is no account, and we never see what you write.
How long is my script? Words per minute at a glance
Use this to size a script before you write it. For an exact figure, paste the script above or use the script timer.
| Pace | 30 sec | 1 min | 3 min | 5 min | 10 min |
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| Slow · 110 wpm | 55 words | 110 | 330 | 550 | 1,100 |
| Conversational · 140 wpm | 70 words | 140 | 420 | 700 | 1,400 |
| Energetic · 160 wpm | 80 words | 160 | 480 | 800 | 1,600 |
| Fast · 180 wpm | 90 words | 180 | 540 | 900 | 1,800 |
Pauses, demos and B-roll add time. If your video has on-screen action, write 10–20% fewer words than the table suggests.
How to read a teleprompter without looking like you are reading
- Keep the text close to the lens. Every centimetre between the reading line and the camera shows up as eyes looking slightly off. Put the reading line near the top of the screen and the screen right under or behind the camera.
- Sit further back. From a metre or more, the side-to-side movement of your eyes is much harder to see. Make the text bigger and the column narrower to suit.
- Slow it down. The usual mistake is a prompter set faster than you naturally talk. Start around 130 wpm and go up only if you are waiting on the text.
- Write the way you speak. Short sentences, contractions, one idea per line. Read the script aloud once before recording and rewrite anything you stumble over.
- Mark the breaths. A blank line or a [pause] gives you a place to look up, react and reset, which reads as natural on camera.
- Do not chase the text. If it gets ahead, pause or tap the left arrow. With voice scroll on, the text waits for you instead.
Which setup should you use?
Phone or tablet only. Open this page on the same device you record with, tick "Show camera & record", and set the reading line near the top. That works for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, where the camera is at the top edge of the screen.
Laptop with a webcam. Make the text column narrow and put the reading line right under the webcam. Read our laptop and Zoom teleprompter guide for the window layout that keeps your eyes on the lens during calls.
Camera on a tripod. Put a laptop or tablet running this page just under the lens. For a YouTube talking-head setup, this alone gets you most of the way to a real prompter.
Beam-splitter rig. Turn on mirror mode and the text reads correctly in the glass. The mirror teleprompter page explains how rigs work and how to build one.
What is a teleprompter?
A teleprompter (also called an autocue or prompter) shows a script to the person on camera so they can read it while appearing to look at the audience. Professional units put a monitor under a sheet of beam-splitter glass angled at 45 degrees in front of the lens. The glass reflects the text towards the speaker while the camera films straight through it, so the reader looks directly into the lens.
A software teleprompter like this one does the scrolling part. On its own it works anywhere you can put a screen close to the camera; with mirror mode it drives a glass rig as well. News presenters, politicians and YouTubers all use the same basic idea: the script moves at the speaker's pace, so they never have to look down at notes.
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Questions
Yes. There is no sign-up, no trial, no watermark and no script length limit. It is a free tool from Short.now, which makes short clips from long videos.
No. It runs in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android. You can add the page to your home screen for one-tap access.
No. The script and your settings are saved in this browser only, and camera recordings stay on your device until you download them. If you turn on voice scroll, your browser sends audio to its own speech-recognition service (Google, Apple or Microsoft) to turn it into words.
Most people speak to camera at 130 to 160 words per minute. Start at 140, read a paragraph aloud, and adjust in steps of 10 with the arrow keys until the text keeps pace without you waiting or rushing.
Yes. Tick "Show camera & record" to see yourself behind the script and save the video from the browser. On iPhone the prompter fills the browser window rather than going true full screen, which is a Safari limit.
Yes. Turn on Mirror to flip the text left to right so it reads correctly in the glass. There is also an upside-down flip for monitors mounted inverted.
Yes, in Chrome, Edge and Safari. Choose "Follow my voice" and the text scrolls as you speak and waits when you pause. Firefox does not support speech recognition, so use auto scroll there.
