For anyone who talks on a Mac
The Mac teleprompter that listens to you.
Skip ahead, pause, or ad-lib.
Keep your eyes on what matters because Tellie always knows where you are.
Open a document. Look at your camera. Start talking.
Most teleprompters scroll at their own pace. Tellie tracks the actual words you say and highlights them as you speak.
Tellie finally solved the exact problem that makes normal teleprompters stressful.
Now it listens to more than your script.
Tellie advances your Keynote slides when you finish your line, no clicker. Tellie taps your notch the moment your agents need you.
Invisible to Zoom and screen recorders. Runs entirely on-device, in more than 40 languages and regional variants. Nothing it hears leaves your Mac.
SAG-AFTRA actors use it for audition prep.
Designed by a 30-year Apple veteran.
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$29 once. No subscription. 14-day refund.
The free version is a full teleprompter, not a trial.
No notch? No problem. Tellie works on any Mac.
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The teleprompter that listens.
Most teleprompters just speed up and slow down when they hear noise. Tellie tracks the actual words you say, and waits when you wander off-script.
Unmute the video to hear the magic.
Note: by design, Tellie can't be screen-recorded or appear in Zoom meetings. That screen is just for you. I used the optional "Make Tellie visible in recordings" feature in Tellie's Settings for this recording, something I added after early users asked to share Tellie with others. Enjoy! - Steve
How it works
Three steps to better screen time.
For creators. For presenters. For sales calls. For teaching. For anyone who talks while looking at a screen.
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Open a document
The prompter pops out automatically.
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Click the mic
Tellie starts listening to the words you say.
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Talk
Your document follows you, even when you ad-lib or jump ahead.
How people use Tellie
However you talk to a screen.
Recording videos
Load your script, look at the lens, and talk like a person. Tellie follows your words, so you never glance away to find your place.
See how →Zoom calls & meetings
Keep your talking points in the notch while you present. Your colleagues see your face, not your notes, because Tellie is invisible to screen sharing.
See how →Sales demos & pitches
Hit every key message without memorizing a word. Tellie holds your talking points while you focus on the prospect, and never shows up in the recording.
See how →Keynotes & presentations
Presenter Mode puts your Keynote speaker notes in the notch and turns the slide when you finish talking. No clicker, no confidence monitor, no second screen.
See how →Teaching & lectures
Keep your lesson plan in the notch and improvise freely. Voice Follow waits while you riff, then picks up the moment you return to the script.
See how →Audition prep
Rehearse your sides with word-level tracking that follows even when you ad-lib or skip a line. Plus support for the free OpenDyslexic font.
See how →What people are saying
People who talk for a living.
Once you've used a camera that lets you tap on the part of screen that you want in focus, you can't understand or tolerate cameras that don't. Tellie is this level of innovation, but for teleprompters.
I tried ten teleprompter apps, Tellie is the only one that just works.
It truly is a magnificent app.
I just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.
Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.
I now make eye contact with everyone, and connect deeper with people. I finally speak less from my notes, and more from my heart.
Shared with us directly, quoted with permission.
Free for everyone. Pro for the pros.
One Tellie app, two tiers. Download free today, then upgrade from inside the app whenever you want Voice Follow.
Tellie Free
Freeforever
A working teleprompter for anyone with a Mac.
- Load Markdown, plain text, RTF, Word (.docx), or PDF scripts
- Auto-scroll at any speed, with font size control
- Mirror mode and adjustable opacity (10% to 100%)
- Invisible to Zoom and screen recorders
- Send to Tellie: push text from any app to the notch
- Auto-updates, free for life
Tellie Pro
$29lifetime
One-time purchase, no subscription. Up to 3 Macs · 14-day refund.
Everything in Free, plus the power features.
- Voice-follow scrolling in more than 40 languages and regional variants
- Presenter Mode: Keynote speaker notes in the notch
- Pulse Log: private history of everything sent to Tellie
- Live pace report after every take
- Multi-script playlists and per-script memory
- Multi-take rewind and Markdown section nav
- Resizable prompter, detach from notch, global hotkeys
Two big new reasons to go Pro.
Tellie Version 1.4 added two new features that change everything: on top of Voice Follow, pace reports, playlists, and one-key retakes.
Presenter Mode
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. The room sees your slides. Only you see your next line. Say your last word and Voice Follow advances the slide for you.
Explore Presenter Mode → NewPulse Log
Tellie remembers. A private, local history of everything pushed to your notch, so you can scroll back through your day. Yours alone, and it never leaves your Mac.
See what Pro unlocks →Your voice never leaves your Mac.
On-device speech recognition. Tellie listens locally and forgets the moment you stop.
- On-device speech recognition
- No server, no API, no telemetry
- No accounts, no sign-in
The story so far.
Started as a teleprompter for vloggers. Turns out the Rest of Us could use one too. Tellie now listens to more than scripts.
The first one.
Tellie ships. A Mac teleprompter that scrolls when you talk. All on-device.
1.0 · MAY 4
Polish + navigation.
Tab and 1-9 to jump between sections. Drag any edge to resize. Reset Window menu item.
1.2.1 + 1.2.2 · MAY 16
For Andrew P.
PDF support. Detach from the notch. Opacity down to 10%. Recordable mode.
Andrew P. told us what actors need.
1.2.3 · MAY 24
For Sprague Theobald.
Opens on double-click. Font picker (Serif, Sans, OpenDyslexic). ALL CAPS toggle.
Sprague Theobald asked for these features. 2x Emmy winner.
1.2.4 · MAY 25
Tellie Pro.
Free for all early users as a thank you for your support.
1.3.0 · MAY 28
Send to Tellie.
Hotkey from anywhere on your Mac. Selected text lands in the prompter.
1.3.1 · JUN 1
Tellie Pulse.
Your secret second screen that listens. Your apps, your terminal, even your AI agents push a glanceable line straight to Tellie's notch.
1.4 · JUN 3
Presenter Mode.
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. Say your last word and Voice Follow turns the slide. Keynote today, PowerPoint soon.
1.4 · JUN 3
Your team of agents.
Every agent on every Mac reports to one notch, each labeled by where it ran. Solo on your machine, or shared across your whole fleet.
1.4.3 · JUN 22
For Conrad G.
Open Apple Pages files. Paste a script with ⌘V. Right-click the prompter for the menu. Reads Keynote 15 too.
Conrad in London asked. More of his ideas land in 1.5.
1.4.6 · JUN 29
Reads for everyone.
OpenDyslexic is built in, no download. Opens RTF files cleanly, and says so when a document has no text to read.
Rana Munad flagged the RTF issue.
1.4.8 · JUL 16
For Jens + Gabrian.
Voice Follow keeps listening through a noisy room and a long pause. The notch remembers which display it was on, and scrolls smoothly at any font size.
Jens and Gabrian each wrote in the day they bought Pro. Less than 24 hours later, here we are.
1.4.9 · JUL 19
Stop reading the screen.
Start talking.
Free to download. macOS 14 or newer, Apple Silicon. Notarized by Apple.
Made by a human
I'm Steve Chazin. I spent three days vibe-coding Tellie this month while visiting my granddaughter in Vermont, sneaking the work in while she napped or was at school. I named the app after her. Her name is Ellie, and she's just learning to read. Same kind of thing I write about every week in AI for the Rest of Us.
