How to use the online teleprompter
- Paste or type your script in the box. It's saved in this browser, so it's still here next time.
- Pick how it scrolls: Follow my words, Fixed speed or Tap to scroll.
- Set the text size so you can read it from where you sit.
- Turn on Record with my camera if you want to film yourself while you read.
- Press Start reading. The script opens full screen with a marker on the line to read.
- When you reach the end, you see how long the read took, and with Follow my words, your pace in words per minute.
Three ways to scroll
Follow my words listens through your microphone and moves the script as you say each word. Pause to think and it waits. Skip a word or add a line of your own and it picks you up when you're back on the script. It's the same idea as the voice activated teleprompter in Float Script for iPhone.
Fixed speed scrolls at the pace you set, from 60 to 220 words per minute, with the microphone off. Most people speak at 120 to 150 words per minute on camera. To find yours, time a paragraph with the words to minutes calculator.
Tap to scroll moves one line each time you tap the screen or press the down arrow or space bar. It suits a slow, careful read, or a friend running the prompter for you.
Use it with Zoom, a webcam or a teleprompter mirror
For a video call or a webcam recording, open the teleprompter in a window right under your webcam and make it small. Keep the text near the top of the screen so your eyes stay close to the lens. If Zoom, Google Meet or Teams is already using your microphone, use Fixed speed or Tap to scroll.
With a beam splitter teleprompter, the glass flips the screen. Turn on Mirror text and the words read the right way round in the glass.
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Space | Start or pause. With Tap to scroll, moves one line. |
| Down or right arrow | Next line |
| Up or left arrow | Previous line |
| Esc | Close the teleprompter |
Online teleprompter or the iPhone app
This page works in any browser, on a computer, tablet or phone. It can't float over other apps, because a browser tab can only show its own page. When you film on an iPhone in the Camera app, TikTok or Instagram, that's what the app is for.
| This page | Float Script for iPhone | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you read | In a browser tab, full screen | In a window floating over any app |
| Where you film | Your webcam, on this page | The iPhone Camera app, TikTok, Instagram or any camera app |
| Follows your voice | Yes, in Chrome, Edge and Safari | Yes, in the languages Apple's speech recognition supports |
| AirPods remote | No | Yes, press or swipe to move two lines |
| Price | Free | Free |
