Most teleprompters force you to read at their pace. Tellie tracks the actual words you say, so you can pause, ad-lib, and play the moment, and it keeps pace with you. Invisible to your self-tape and your casting Zoom. New in 1.5: mark the moments the scene turns on, and Tellie confirms every one landed.
10 days of Tellie Pro on the house. No card, no sign-up.
How it works
Load your sides, look at the lens, and play the scene. Tellie does the keeping-up.
Open your script as text, Markdown, Word, PDF, or Apple Pages. The prompter pops out at the notch, sized to read from a few feet back.
The words sit right under your camera, so your eye line stays on the reader, not down at a phone taped below the laptop.
Turn on Voice Follow and act. Tellie listens, follows your actual words, and waits when you take a beat. No remote, no reader, no robotic scroll.
Why actors use it
Voice Follow tracks the words you actually say, not a fixed scroll speed. Pause for a beat, paraphrase, ad-lib, or skip a line, and Tellie keeps pace instead of running away from you.
The notch is excluded from screen recording, Zoom, and screenshots. The casting director sees you in the moment, never your eyes scanning a script.
Your sides live at the top of the screen, right beside the camera. Your eye contact stays true, no glancing down and breaking the take.
Serif, sans, ALL CAPS, and support for the free OpenDyslexic font for actors who read better with it. Drop the opacity, resize it, float it anywhere, and let the words disappear into the scene.
Mark the moments the scene turns on and they green as you land them. When you cut, an honest note: which beats landed, where you drifted, your pace. Part of Tellie Pro, switched on for your first 10 days.
From working actors
I just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.
It truly is a magnificent app.
Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.
New in Tellie 1.5
In a self-tape there is no reader, no stage manager, nobody on book. You are alone in a room with a phone on a stack of books, and the only person who knows you dropped a beat is you, later, watching it back.
Mark the moments the scene turns on and give each one the words you will not lose: a name, an accusation, the line the whole thing hinges on. Play it your way. Tellie is listening for the beat.
Voice Follow already follows you when you go up, go back, or find a better word. Stagehand adds the other half: not just where you are, but whether you have played what you came to play.
Run it at two in the morning, twelve times, and it is exactly as patient on the twelfth as the first. It does not check its phone during your close-up. Press ⇧R and the last sentence resets for another pass, mid-take, without stopping the clock.
Which beats landed, where you drifted, and how fast you were going. The note a good reader would give you, if you had one.
No clock and no time budget, because a scene is as long as you play it. The marks here are beats, and > key: is the line the beat turns on. The two-minute guide has the rest.
Everything on this page is switched on for your first 10 days. No card, no sign-up, nothing to cancel. Put it on a real self-tape, the one that matters, and see if it earns a place in the room.
After that Tellie stays a complete teleprompter, free, and Pro is $29 once if you want to keep the rest. Break a leg.
No. The prompter is invisible to every screen recorder and to the camera app, so the tape you send is the take, not the take with your lines across it. Nothing to crop, nothing to remember to switch off.
Never. No account, no cloud, no sync. Your sides stay in the file you opened and speech recognition runs on your own Mac. Put the Mac in airplane mode and everything still works. Route by route on the privacy page.
Yes, in the sense the word is used in the UK, Ireland and Australia. The difference from a broadcast autocue is that nobody is running it: the pace comes from your voice, not from an operator matching you.
Mark the other character's lines as sections to jump between, and use anchor phrases so a cue counts whenever you say it, however you phrase it that take. Tellie will not read the other part aloud, but it keeps your place while you improvise around it.