Tellie holds your talk in the notch where only you can see it, follows the words you actually say, and warns you by name about the point you have not made yet, while there is still time to make it. Any deck, or no deck at all.
10 days of Tellie Pro on the house. No card, no sign-up.
Stagehand · in Tellie Pro
You rehearsed twenty-five minutes. You have eighteen. And you are deciding what goes while you walk to the lectern with the clicker already in your hand. No deck helps with this. Tellie does.
Mark the points the talk does not work without. When the clock turns against you, the question stops being "what do I cut" and becomes "what have I still got to land".
Every good talk has an ending it cannot afford to lose. Mark it, and the warning fires while there is still time to get there, not while you are being played off.
The window is hidden from screen capture by macOS itself, so it stays out of the projector, the recording and the stream. Nothing to switch on, and nothing to forget to switch off.
Which points you made, where you drifted, and your real pace against the slot. Useful the next time you give the same talk somewhere else.
Two marks and a number. minutes: 18 at the top and Tellie measures your real pace against the real slot, then warns you by name about the marked section still ahead. The two-minute guide has the rest.
Your deck
This half of Tellie does not touch your slides, so it does not care what they were made in. Paste your talk in, mark what matters, and advance your own slides the way you always have. Here is the line drawn plainly.
| Deck | Hidden from the room | Your notes appear automatically | Notes follow your slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keynote | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PowerPoint | Yes | No | No |
| Google Slides | Yes | No | No |
| PDF, or no slides | Yes | n/a | n/a |
Google Slides runs in a browser, which puts its notes out of reach entirely. PowerPoint is a native Mac app, so that is work we have not done yet rather than a wall. Everything else on this page works the same on all four rows.
Stagehand, Voice Follow, the time warning and the rest are all switched on for your first 10 days. No card, no sign-up, nothing to cancel. Rehearse a real talk with it.
After that Tellie stays a complete teleprompter, free, and Pro is $29 once if you want to keep the rest.
No. On a projector you are mirroring or extending your desktop, and Tellie is excluded from screen capture and stays on the Mac's own screen. The room sees the deck, the recording gets the deck, you get the notes.
Put the length at the top of your script and Tellie counts down against it, then tells you by name if a point you have not made will not fit the time remaining. Leave the length out and Tellie takes your pace from your own opening instead.
Keynote, yes: Tellie mirrors the live slide's speaker notes into the notch and can advance the deck as you finish each one. PowerPoint does not expose its notes to other apps on macOS, so the workaround there is to paste your talk in as a script.