OpenTeleprompter — Speak naturally. Present confidently.

✦ psst — these menus actually work

Hi, I'm Arun Kumar — a full-stack engineer with five years of experience building products that scale. I've worked on systems serving over ten million customers, and I love building things that actually matter to people. Outside of work I ride bikes, play guitar, and chase anything with an adrenaline spike — whether that's a mountain trail, a racetrack, or just a stupid idea that sounds fun. Life's too short for boring weekends.

−35.4 dB

Speaking

1.5×

How it works

Three steps.
That's it.

No accounts. No cloud. No complexity. Just you and your words.

01 / Prepare

📝

Paste your script

Click the pill in your notch. Paste or type your script. See live word count and estimated read time before you even start.

02 / Present

🎙️

Start speaking

Hit Go and talk. The prompter listens to your voice volume in real time. Speak — it scrolls. Go quiet — it pauses. All local, no internet.

03 / Deliver

🎯

Look natural

Eyes stay on camera. Delivery stays fluid. Your audience never suspects a thing. That's the whole point — and it actually works.

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

v3 Flagship

Dynamic Island.
Redesigned.

Seamless notch integration with Apple Dynamic Island-style animations. Real concave corners that blend into the notch bezel. Smooth spring physics. Pixel-perfect fit. Professional-grade — looks like it belongs there.

Teleprompter

🎙️

Voice-activated scroll

Speak naturally. Scrolls when you talk, pauses when you stop. Frequency analysis means only your voice triggers it — not meeting audio or background noise.

📝

Rich text editor

Bold, color highlights, cue markers. Format your script exactly how you want to read it. Live word count and estimated read time as you type.

[PAUSE] [SLOW] [BREATHE]

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Script library

Save multiple scripts, switch in one tap. Auto-saves on start. No cloud, no account — everything lives on your machine.

Intro speech ✓

Q4 All-hands

Podcast opener

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Live stats

Word count and estimated read time update as you type — so you know exactly how long your script runs before you go live.

247WORDS

1:52EST. TIME

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Light & dark theme

Pastel light mode by default. Switch to dark with one click — from settings or the menubar. Preference saved across sessions.

☀️ Light

🌙 Dark

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Classic mode

No notch? No problem. Drag the floating pill anywhere on screen. Resize it. Works on every Mac — notch or not.

1.5× ⏸

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Live controls

Adjust scroll speed and font size on the fly while reading. Hit + or − without stopping your delivery — zero interruption.

Speed

1.5×

Font

20px

👁️

Hide on screen share

Toggle once in settings and the overlay becomes completely invisible — to Zoom, Meet, Loom, and any screen recorder. Only you can see it.

Zoom Meet Loom 👀 hidden

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Global shortcuts

Control everything without touching the mouse. Shortcuts work even when the app is behind other windows — so you never break eye contact with the camera.

Pause / Resume⌘⇧Space

Speed Up / Down⌘⇧↑↓

Font Bigger / Smaller⌘⇧+−

Reset to Top⌘⇧R

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Adjustable opacity

Dial in exactly how much the overlay blends into your screen. Barely-there ghost mode for maximum focus, or fully opaque for easy reading. Set it once and forget it.

transparent solid

FAQ

Questions?

Yes, completely. OpenTeleprompter uses real-time frequency analysis on your microphone input — no speech transcription, no network calls, no cloud anything. Everything runs locally on your Mac with zero latency.

No — and this is by design. OpenTeleprompter doesn't just detect volume. It runs a frequency analysis on your mic input and only responds to sound in the 85–3400 Hz range — the frequency band of human speech. Audio coming through your laptop speakers (meeting participants, music, notifications) has a different frequency profile and gets filtered out. Your colleagues talking won't scroll your script. Only your voice does. It also requires ~130ms of sustained voice activity before scrolling begins, to avoid false triggers from plosives or brief sounds.

No. Toggle "Hide on screen share" in settings and it becomes completely invisible — to your viewers, in recordings, and in screenshots. Only you can see it.

Yes. We ship separate DMGs for Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and Intel Macs. Both are available on the GitHub releases page.

Absolutely. Switch to Classic mode in settings and you get a freely draggable, resizable floating window that works on any Mac — notch or not.

Adjust the Voice Sensitivity slider in settings. Move it right to require louder speech before scrolling triggers. Using headphones with a mic also helps significantly.

The app is not actually damaged. macOS tags apps downloaded from the internet with a "quarantine" flag. Since OpenTeleprompter isn't code-signed with an Apple Developer certificate ($99/yr), Gatekeeper blocks it with a misleading warning.

Fix: open Terminal and run:

xattr -cr /Applications/OpenTeleprompter.app
This strips the quarantine attribute from the app bundle. xattr manages extended file attributes on macOS, -c clears them, and -r applies recursively to the whole bundle. One-time fix — you won't need to do it again.

v3 is a complete UI overhaul. Dynamic Island mode now features real concave corners and Apple spring physics animations — it looks like part of the OS. New in v3: rich text editor with color highlights and cue markers, script library, light/dark theme, smart cue markers ([PAUSE] [SLOW] [BREATHE]), live speed & font control while reading, and a redesigned classic mode. Same tiny binary, same voice-activated scroll core.

Yes. OpenTeleprompter is completely free and open source under the MIT license. Download it, use it, fork it — no strings attached, ever.

Download

Start presenting
with confidence.

Free. Open source. No account needed.

v3 NEW 🍎 Apple Silicon ↓ Download for M1–M4 arm64 · macOS 13+ · v3.0 🍎 Intel Mac ↓ Download for Intel x64 · macOS 13+ · v3.0 NEW 🪟 Windows ↓ Download for Windows x64 · Windows 10+ · v3.0

✦ v3 — Dynamic Island Redesign

4.6 MB

binary (was 150MB)

~40 MB

RAM (was 200MB)

2.6 MB

DMG (was 80MB)

Dynamic Island redesigned. Rich text editor. Script library. Light/dark theme. Smart cue markers. Classic mode overhauled. Same tiny binary, same voice scroll core.

First launch instructions

1 Mount the DMG and drag OpenTeleprompter to Applications

2 Right-click the app → Open (don't double-click)

3 Click Open in the security dialog — done, it opens normally from now on

⚠️ Seeing "App is damaged"?

macOS tags apps downloaded from the internet with a "quarantine" flag. Since OpenTeleprompter isn't signed with an Apple Developer certificate, Gatekeeper blocks it with a false "damaged" warning. The app is fine — just remove the flag.

Open Terminal and run:

xattr -cr /Applications/OpenTeleprompter.app

This strips the quarantine attribute recursively from the app bundle. macOS stops blocking it and it opens normally. You only need to do this once.

Speak naturally.Present confidently.

Three steps.That's it.