How to Use an Online Teleprompter

A teleprompter scrolls your script up the screen at a steady pace so you can read it while looking toward the camera, instead of glancing down at notes. The result is a confident, natural delivery with your eyes forward — the reason news anchors and video creators rely on them.

An online teleprompter does this in your browser: you paste a script, set the pace, and run it fullscreen. There's no hardware or app required for reading straight from your screen.

The single most important setting is scroll speed, and it should match your natural speaking pace — too fast and you rush, too slow and you drift. Start a little slow, do a test read, and nudge the speed until the current line sits comfortably where you're looking.

Font size matters because the farther you sit from the screen, the bigger the text needs to be. A large font also keeps only a few lines visible at once, which helps you read in natural phrases rather than a wall of words.

Mirror mode flips the text horizontally. You only need it with a hardware teleprompter, where a piece of angled glass reflects your screen in front of the lens — the reflection flips the text back to normal. Reading directly from the screen, leave mirror mode off.