Choosing a teleprompter app

An honest guide, including the things EyePrompt deliberately does not do. We make one of these apps, so treat the last section as the important one.

The five things that actually decide it

1. Where the text sits. A prompter in the middle of the screen makes you look below the lens. On camera that reads as avoiding eye contact, and no amount of practice fixes it: the geometry does.
2. What drives the scroll. A fixed timer makes you chase the text. Voice following makes the text wait for you. The difference shows up the first time you pause.
3. Whether other people can see it. On a call, a prompter that appears in your shared screen is worse than no prompter.
4. What the free tier really allows. Most limits are on exports, not on prompting. Read which one is capped.
5. How many purchases it takes. If you record on a phone and a computer, two subscriptions is the normal answer and a bad one.

Where EyePrompt sits

• Anchored at the lens. The reading band sits directly under the camera, not mid-screen.
• Smart Follow. On-device speech recognition follows your voice and waits when you stop. Nine languages, and the recognition language comes from the script rather than being assumed.
• Hidden from screen sharing. On Mac, the band is excluded from capture in supported apps. Best effort, and the app says so out loud.
• Nothing is uploaded. No account, no networking, works in Airplane Mode.
• One purchase. iPhone and Mac from a single purchase.

What EyePrompt does not do

This is the part worth reading before you install anything.

• No script sync. Scripts live on the device you wrote them on. There is no networking in the app, so there is nowhere for them to sync to.
• No cloud speech. A language with no on-device recognition model is refused rather than sent to a server. That is a deliberate trade against convenience.
• No team features, no web editor, no AI script writing.
• Screen-share hiding is best effort, and only in apps that honour it. Test it once with your own setup before trusting it live.
• The native iPad version is still in development. An iPad can install and run the iPhone app today and the subscription covers it.

A note on comparisons

We deliberately do not publish a feature table for other apps. We would have to assert things about products we do not control and cannot re-verify every time they ship an update, and a comparison that goes stale is worse than none. The five questions above are the ones worth asking of any of them, including ours.