If all you need is a prompter
Not every reading needs captions. If you want a script scrolling on your iPhone for a video call, a speech or a camera you are recording with separately, the free online teleprompter runs in Safari with no sign-up and nothing to install. Paste the text, set the pace, press start. Nothing is uploaded — the text stays in your browser — and it doesn’t record or caption anything. When you want the recording and the captions handled too, that is what the app is for; the overview of how it fits together is on the teleprompter app page.
How the script and the captions work together
Picture a script that says “Our new store opens in Prishtina on Friday.” You read it as written: the captions show that sentence, with Prishtina spelled exactly as you typed it. You say “opens this Friday” instead: the captions say “this Friday”, because that is what you said. You skip the sentence entirely: it doesn’t appear. You add “honestly, we can’t wait”: it stays. The script is a spelling guide for words you really spoke, which is why names and product terms come out right, and why the captions never claim you said something you didn’t. If you stumble on a word, tap it in the editor and fix it like any other caption.
Reading without looking like you’re reading
The tell of a teleprompter is eyes moving across a line, so keep lines short and the phone far enough away that your eyes barely travel. Set the speed just under the pace you speak at; chasing a scroll that is too fast makes you rush, and waiting on one that is too slow makes you stall. Read the script aloud once before the first take and rewrite any sentence you trip on. The longer version of this — eye line, pacing, what to do when you lose your place — is in the guide on how to read a teleprompter, and if you would rather not read at all, how to memorise a script covers the alternative.
What a take costs in minutes
Installing the app is free, and your first video is free up to three minutes; it carries a small Titro mark, which paid plans don’t. On a plan, a take uses minutes by its length, exactly like an uploaded video: a ninety-second take is ninety seconds of your 300 monthly minutes on Creator. Translation, if you want the take in a second language, counts double.
Where the take goes next
Most scripted takes are product explanations, announcements and ads, and most go vertical. The safe zones for each feed are on TikTok captions, Instagram Reels captions and YouTube Shorts captions. Takes you record without a script go through the same app with ordinary speech recognition, described on the caption app page — so a channel that mixes scripted and spontaneous videos keeps one look.
