How to use a teleprompter for Reels
- Paste your script into Float Script and tap Start.
- Open Instagram, tap + and choose Reel.
- Move the floating window to the top, near the front camera.
- Record. With Follow my words, the script follows your voice and waits when you pause.
- Edit and post in Instagram as usual.
The window also floats over Edits, Instagram's video app, and over any other camera app. If you film in the iPhone Camera app instead, here's how to read a script while recording there.
The Edits teleprompter or Float Script?
Edits, Instagram's video editing app, has a teleprompter in its camera. If you film every Reel in Edits and a steady speed suits you, it does the job. Float Script is for when you want the script to keep up with you, or you film in Instagram itself, TikTok or the iPhone Camera app.
| Edits teleprompter | Float Script | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it works | Inside the Edits camera | Over Instagram, Edits, TikTok, the iPhone Camera app and any other app |
| How it scrolls | At a speed you set | With your voice, at a speed you set, or when you press your AirPods |
| When you pause | It keeps scrolling | Follow my words waits for you |
| Placement | Drag it anywhere on the screen | A Picture in Picture window you can move and resize |
| Price | Free | Free |
Film Reels in clips without losing your place
Instagram lets you record a Reel in several clips. With Follow my words, the script waits on the line you reached while you set up the next clip, and moves again as soon as you start talking.
- Put the hook in the first line, so the Reel opens on it.
- Make the text big enough to read at arm's length. The size slider changes the window and the editor together.
- Keep each clip to one idea, so a retake only costs you a few lines.