For anyone who talks on a Mac
The Mac teleprompter that follows your voice. Word by word.
Tellie listens, right on your Mac, and lights up the exact word you're saying as you talk.
Open a script. Look at your camera. Start talking.
Most voice-follow teleprompters adjust scroll speed when they hear your voice. Tellie tracks the actual words you're saying and highlights exactly where you are.
Skip ahead, go back, ad-lib: it follows.
It also auto-advances your Keynote slides when you finish talking (no clicker needed), is invisible to Zoom and screen recorders, and runs entirely on-device in about 50 languages.
SAG-AFTRA actors use it for audition prep.
Designed by a 30-year Apple veteran.
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No notch? No problem. Tellie works on any Mac.
More belowHow 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 script
Use the file picker to open your script. The prompter pops out automatically.
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Click the microphone
Tellie starts listening.
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Talk
The script follows your voice. You stay on camera.
See it live
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. Sound on.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.
It truly is a magnificent app.
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
Everything in Free, plus the power features.
- Voice-follow scrolling in about 50 languages
- 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
Lock in the $19 early-bird price through July 15, before it goes to $29.
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
Stop reading the screen.
Start talking.
Free to download. macOS 14 or newer. 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.
