TellieFor actors
A teleprompter that lets you act, not read.
Most teleprompters force you to read at their pace. Tellie tracks the words you say, letting you pause, ad-lib, and play the moment, while it keeps pace with you. Invisible to your self-tape and your casting Zoom.
Each download unlocks all of Tellie Pro for 10 days. No account, no card.
Watch it follow a performance.
Officer Hudson says his lines his own way, twice, and each counts. The debrief at the end shows exactly what landed.
How it works
Off-book, even when you’re not.
- Load your sidesText, Markdown, Word, PDF or Pages. The prompter sits at the notch, readable from a few feet back.
- Look at the lensYour eye line stays on the reader, not on a phone taped under the laptop.
- Just performVoice Follow follows your actual words and waits when you take a beat. No remote, no robotic scroll.
Why actors use it
It follows your performance, not a stopwatch.
Pause for a beat, paraphrase, ad-lib or skip a line, and Tellie keeps pace instead of running away from you.
- Invisible to your self-tape and your casting Zoom
- Your sides sit beside the lens, so your eye line stays true
- Serif, sans, ALL CAPS and the free OpenDyslexic font
“I just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.”
“Tellie truly is a magnificent app.”
“Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.”
Stagehand PRO
A reader in the room, even when there isn’t one.
Mark the beats the scene turns on and give each one the line it hinges on. Play it your way: Tellie listens for the beat, not the wording, and when you cut you get the note a good reader would give. Which beats landed, where you drifted, your pace.
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- Reset the last sentence mid-take, without stopping the clock
Run it twelve times at two in the morning. The twelfth pass gets the same patience as the first.
minutes: 1 # Scene 4: The Traffic Stop Silence. A red car slows at a traffic stop. ## OFFICER HUDSON > key: drinks, drinking How many drinks have you had tonight? ## ! JOHN (NERVOUSLY) I was there earlier, but I didn’t see her. ## OFFICER HUDSON > key: woman, female I never told you that ALEX was female.
Questions from actors
More in Help, or email steve@skytech.io and a person replies.
Will my sides show up in the self-tape?
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.
Do my sides get uploaded anywhere?
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.
Is Tellie an autocue?
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.
Can I run lines when I do not have a reader?
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.
What is the best teleprompter for actors?
The best teleprompter for actors is one nobody sees but you: it holds your sides right by the lens, stays out of the self-tape, and keeps your place when you go off-book. Tellie does all three, follows your performance word by word rather than a timer, and never uploads your sides. It is what working actors, including SAG-AFTRA members recording self-tapes, reach for at audition time.
Can Tellie be an actor line reader?
As an actor line reader, Tellie keeps your place while you run the scene: mark the other character's lines and use anchor phrases so a cue counts whenever you say it, however you phrase it that take. It will not read the other part aloud, but it follows you through the improvising and never loses your spot.