For anyone who talks on a Mac
The Mac teleprompter that understands.
Say it your way. Tellie keeps up.
Skip ahead, pause, or ad-lib.
Keep your eyes on what matters, because your script stays locked to your words and stays private on your Mac.
Open a document. Look at your camera. Start talking.
Other prompters scroll while they hear you talking. Tellie tracks the actual words you say and highlights them as you speak.
Now it keeps track so you don't have to.
Mark important sections and they check themselves off as you say them, even when you ad-lib. If you're running long, Tellie gently nudges you while there is still time to cover those points, and even debriefs you when you're done.
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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What it actually does
You talk. Tellie keeps up.
For creators. For presenters. For actors. For teachers. For anyone who talks while looking at a screen.
Where the project stands. What I am not asking for. What I need now.
Focus on them. Tellie's got you.
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.
Watch it follow a take →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 it hide from a call →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 the talk track →Presentations & talks
Your Keynote speaker notes appear in the notch automatically. Tellie helps you nail each point and watches the clock for you.
Open your deck →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.
Take it into a lecture →Audition prep
Rehearse your sides with word-level tracking that follows even when you ad-lib or skip a line. Plus OpenDyslexic support.
Run your sides →The teleprompter that follows you.
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
What people are saying
Tellie users speak freely.
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.
Tellie 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.
Word level tracking is such a clever touch, following you even when you ad-lib or jump back solves the exact thing that makes normal teleprompters stressful.
Real quotes from real users. Some inspired me to build new features to make Tellie better.
Try it free to understand what it can do for you.
Tellie Pro is yours for 10 days
Everythingswitched on
The whole of Tellie Pro, working from your very first script.
- Voice-follow scrolling in more than 40 languages and regional variants
- Stagehand: must-cover marks (the sections you must not skip), a time warning, a debrief New
- Presenter Magic: 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 per-take pace stats
- Resizable prompter, detach from notch, global hotkeys
You can buy Tellie Pro at any time, from inside the app or on the Pro page. $29 once. Never a subscription. Up to 3 Macs, 14-day refund.
What happens after 10 days? →Exciting new reasons to go Pro.
Tellie 1.5 adds Stagehand: on top of Voice Follow, pace reports, playlists, and one-key retakes, Tellie now watches your whole take and, unprompted, helps you land it.
Stagehand
Mark the sections that matter and your script greens as you cover them. A quiet heads-up before an important part runs out of time.
See Stagehand → NewFor the call you cannot script
Tellie keeps listening while Zoom or Teams is in front. Ad-lib the whole call and it ticks off the points you meant to make.
See it on a call → BetaYour Mac in your hand.
- Record anywhere. Need to film beyond your MacBook? Use your phone or iPad as a simple beam-splitter near any camera lens.
- A remote in your hand. Play, restart, jump to a section, and Voice Follow the script, all remotely controlled by you.
- A private view. Open on your Mac to see checklist, view status, or move to a screen near a second camera.
Presenter Magic
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. Finish a point and the slide turns for you.
Explore Presenter Magic → BetaTake Coach
After every take, Tellie scores it and hands you the one thing to sharpen next time.
See what Pro unlocks →Your voice never leaves your Mac.
On-device speech recognition. Tellie listens locally and forgets the moment you stop. Your script stays put too: the file, a paste, a Send to Tellie, none of it leaves this Mac.
- On-device speech recognition
- No server, no API, no telemetry
- No accounts, no sign-in
You asked. Tellie shipped it.
Started as a teleprompter for vloggers. Turns out with your help it has turned into something magical.
The first one.
Tellie ships. A Mac teleprompter that highlights the actual words you say. 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 Magic.
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
Tellie understands.
Stagehand follows your voice, guards the points you must not forget, and helps you nail each take, especially when you ad-lib. Tellie makes sure you cover everything important in time and tells you afterward how it went.
Steve dreamed this one up. Now it is real.
1.5.1 · AUG 4
Say it your way.
Stagehand now credits the points you make in your own words, not just the lines you read. It follows your numbers and contractions, and reads your marks however you write them.
1.5.2 · AUG 13
Your take, everywhere.
The Companion turns any phone, tablet, or laptop into a console for your take, over your own Wi-Fi. And the new Take Coach reviews each one and hands you the single thing to tweak next. Both in beta.
1.5.3 · AUG 31
Clear as glass.
Tellie is remade in Apple's new Liquid Glass look: a soft glass bar that breathes with your voice as you read. The app menu tucks under a brand new icon, and Tellie is ready for macOS 27.
1.6.0 · SEP 10
Stop reading the screen.
Start winning.
Try Tellie Pro for free for 10 days. No credit card. No sign-up. Notarized by Apple.
The short answers.
What is Tellie?
A Mac teleprompter that lives in the notch, right beside your camera. Open a document, start talking, and it highlights your words as you say them. It's the invisible teleprompter for Mac: unseen on Zoom and screen recorders, running entirely on your own Mac, free to download. Tellie Pro adds Voice Follow, Stagehand and the rest for $29 once.
How does it actually work?
Tellie transcribes what you say, on your own Mac, and matches those words against the words in your document to work out where you are in it. Not whether you are speaking: which word. Everything else follows from knowing that position, which is how it can credit a point you made in your own words, or tell you a section will not fit the time you have left. There is a 12-minute walkthrough and a longer piece on the mechanism.
What is an “unprompter”?
Our word for Tellie, because “teleprompter” describes the wrong half. A teleprompter prompts you: it scrolls, you keep up. Tellie waits for you and follows what you actually said, so you can wander off and it stays with you. The word is true twice: a teleprompter inverted, and help you never asked for.
Do I need a Mac with a notch?
No. On a Mac without one, Tellie puts the same strip along the top edge, in the same place relative to the camera. The notch is where it looks best, not where it only works.
Can other people see it?
No. macOS excludes Tellie's window from screen capture, so Zoom, Teams, Meet, recorders and screenshots all get whatever is behind it. That is the window itself, not an integration, so there is no list of supported apps. An opt-in visible mode exists for filming Tellie on purpose, and it resets when you quit.
Made by a human
I'm Steve Chazin. I spent three days vibe-coding Tellie 1.0 while visiting my granddaughter, Ellie, sneaking in the work while she napped. I named the app after her because she's just learning to read. Same kind of thing I write about every week in AI for the Rest of Us.
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