The Mac teleprompter that understands
Each download unlocks all of Tellie for 10 days. No account, no card.
Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) · macOS 14 or later
“The virtue of Tellie for me lies in my not having to control it.”
The teleprompter
It starts as a beautiful teleprompter that becomes magical.
Open a document and hit play. Tellie hangs from the notch near your camera, and hides there when done.
Made by Steve Chazin, a former Apple exec, to feel like it was always part of your Mac.
Voice follow
It follows the words you say
Click the mic and Tellie follows the words you actually say, one at a time, and waits while you pause.
Go off script and it keeps your place. Skip a line and it finds you. You talk. Tellie keeps up.
Watch a real take2:41Episode 12 · the cold open
- Hook in the first eight seconds
- Name the scoop before the sponsor
- One ask at the end, only one
Drag the handle.
Only you can see it
Tellie is invisible to screen recording, Zoom, Meet, and FaceTime. Record your whole screen and your words stay yours.
It sits right under your camera, so your eyes stay on the people you're talking to.
Say what you came to say.
Mark the points that matter, and they check themselves off as you say them, even in your own words. If time gets tight, Tellie gently nudges you while there's still time to cover everything. Tellie keeps track so you don't have to.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
“I named Tellie for my 3 year old granddaughter Ellie, who is just learning to read. I made her a promise to help her read, and I make this one to you: nothing Tellie touches ever leaves your Mac.”
Steve Chazin, maker of Tellie · Read the privacy details
On-device speech
Apple's speech recognition runs on your Mac. Your voice is never uploaded, and nothing you say is kept.
No account
Download and start talking. Pro is just a key you paste into Settings.
Works offline
A tiny 4MB download that works with no internet connection. No cloud AI, ever.
More features
Six more things Tellie does
Presenter MagicPRO
Present in Keynote and your notes appear in the notch, a slide at a time.
For presentersTake CoachPRO
After every take: what landed, and the one thing to fix next time.
See Take CoachYup, everyone thought it was going to be called iPhone Ultra, but we have the real scoop.
Yup, everyone thought it was going to be called iPhone Ultra, but we have the real scoop.
CompanionPRO
Control Tellie from your phone or tablet. Works perfectly with beam-splitter rigs.
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Tellie PulseFREE
Send anything you select to Tellie with one keystroke, or have your agents use the notch to keep you informed.
Bring your documentFREE
Open Word, Pages, PDF, RTF, or Markdown. Bold, italic, and headings come with it.
Scripting guideremember this one idea.
Stays where you put itPRO
On your MacBook or any display, Tellie opens where you last used it.
Get helpCompare
Tellie vs. other voice teleprompters
Plenty of teleprompters scroll while you talk now. Tellie understands what you say, what you still need to say, and how the take went.
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Need a feature you love on another app? Ask Steve to add it to Tellie.
Many early customers helped make Tellie what it is today. So for $29, once, you get more than an app that already does more than most of these. You get a developer who reads every message and keeps making it better.
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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.”
Tellie truly is a magnificent app.
I tried ten teleprompter apps, Tellie is the only one that just works.
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.
Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.
I just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.
I now make eye contact with everyone, and connect deeper with people. I finally speak less from my notes, and more from my heart.
Your work reflects Steve [Jobs’] vision of simplicity & minimalism, merging form & function, and user experience first, always.
Try everything. Keep what you love.
All of Tellie, free for 10 days. Keep it for $29, once.
Try everything
Free for 10 daysEvery download unlocks all of Tellie
- Pause, skip, or ad-lib. It keeps your place.
- Checks off your points as you hit them
- Keeps you on time, and coaches every take
- Invisible on Zoom, Teams, and recordings
Tellie stays free as a basic teleprompter: it scrolls at your speed, sits in the notch, and stays invisible on Zoom. What stays free
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · Notarized by Apple
Keep everything
One payment, no subscriptiononce, for up to 3 Macs, with every update
- Everything you tried, for good
- Every Tellie 1.x update, free
- Use it on up to 3 Macs, and switch anytime
- No subscription, ever. Others charge $60 to $80 a year.
“I tried ten teleprompter apps, Tellie is the only one that just works.”
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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.
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.
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
Stays where you put it.
Tellie remembers which display it lives on, whether it was docked or floating, and exactly where and how big. A second monitor, a closed MacBook: it stays put. Raj S. asked for it. Tellie listened.
1.6.2 · SEP 16
Notes to yourself.
Write [pause] or [look at camera] anywhere in your document. Tellie shows it as a quiet note and glides right past. Bold and italic show up too. Yavuz Gürkan asked for it. Tellie listened.
1.6.3 · SEP 29
Meet the unprompter
Tellie understands
While you talk
- What you're saying
- When you've paused
- What you've already said
- Where you are in the script
- When you've gone off script
- When you've jumped ahead
- When you've come back
What matters
- Which points you've covered
- Which points you haven't
- Whether you're running out of time
After the take
- What you actually did
- With Take Coach, what to improve next time
Questions, answered
Something else? Check out Help, or email Steve at steve@skytech.io. He answers every message himself.
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Using Tellie
How does Tellie follow my voice?
Voice Follow listens with Apple's on-device speech recognition and moves the words as you say them. Pause and it waits. Skip ahead or ad-lib and it finds your place. Voice Follow is part of Tellie Pro, and every download includes 10 days of it.
Do I need a Mac with a notch?
No. Tellie runs on any Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later. Without a notch (an iMac, a Mac mini, an external display) it sits top-center, just below the menu bar, with the same features.
What files can I open?
Plain text, Markdown, Rich Text, Word, PDF, and Pages. Bold, italics, and headings come through, and headings become sections you can jump to.
Does it work in my language?
About 50 languages, and it adapts to your accent. Voice Follow runs on your Mac, so it works in the languages Apple ships an on-device model for.
Stagehand
How do I mark what matters?
Three small marks. ## starts a section, ##! marks one you must cover, and > key: a phrase is a point that checks itself off when you say it, in your own words.
What is Take Coach?
When you finish a take, Take Coach reviews it: what landed, and the one change that makes the next take better. Everything it writes stays on your Mac.
Buying
What's free, and what's Pro?
Free is a complete teleprompter: open a script, scroll it, stay invisible to recordings, and push to the notch from any app or agent. Pro adds Voice Follow, Stagehand, Take Coach, Presenter Magic, and Companion.
What happens after 10 days?
Tellie becomes Tellie Free. The Pro features switch off, nothing is deleted, and you can buy at any time to turn them back on.
Can I use it on more than one Mac?
Yes. One purchase covers up to 3 Macs. Activate each one with the same key from your purchase email.
Are updates free?
Yes. Every Tellie 1.x update is free, and installs itself. If Pro is not for you, email within 14 days for a full refund.
Privacy
Can people see it on Zoom?
No. Tellie's window is excluded from screen capture, so your script is invisible to Zoom, Meet, FaceTime, recordings, and screenshots. Want it visible for a demo? One toggle in Settings, for this session only.
Does my voice leave my Mac?
No. Speech recognition runs on your Mac, and Tellie never keeps what you say.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up for the 10 days of Pro, and nothing to cancel. Pro is a license key you paste into Settings.