Teleprompter app for Android and the web

The teleprompter that waits for you

Followscript is a voice-controlled teleprompter for YouTubers, TikTok and Instagram creators, and anyone who records themselves talking to a camera. It scrolls at the speed you actually speak, waits when you pause for breath, goes back when you repeat a line — and tells you the moment it stops understanding you, rather than scrolling on and leaving you behind.

Android 8.0 and later · Free tier records 720p with no watermark · The browser version needs no install and no account

The Followscript script library on Android, listing four scripts with their reading time at 140 words per minute
The Followscript prompter mid-take: the reading line across the screen, the script below it, and Voice mode selected
The Followscript floating prompter over the phone camera app, with the current word highlighted

Voice-activated scrolling

It reads you, not a clock

Set a scrolling speed and you spend the take chasing it — talking faster than you meant to, or waiting for the line you already said. Followscript matches what you are saying against the whole script, not just the next expected word. Skip a sentence and it catches up. Repeat a line to fix a stumble and it moves back with you.

And when it loses you — a noisy room, a cough, a word the recogniser will never get — it says so and holds a steady pace until it finds you again. That admission is the feature. A prompter that keeps scrolling confidently while it has no idea where you are is worse than no prompter at all.

Recording a take in Followscript: the live camera behind the script, the reading line, and the Voice, Auto and Manual modes
The script over your camera, mid-take.

For creators

Made for anyone who talks to a camera

YouTube videos, Shorts, TikToks, Reels, courses, voice-overs — if you read a script out loud, the prompter follows you instead of making you follow it.

YouTube videos and Shorts

Read a long script without memorising it, with the text over your camera while you record. On Pro a take has no time limit and records in up to 4K.

TikTok and Instagram Reels

Record in Followscript and upload the take, or float the script over TikTok or Instagram and film in their own camera with Pro. A fast hook does not leave the text behind.

Courses, podcasts and voice-overs

Anything read aloud from a script. The free browser version needs no install: open it on the laptop next to your microphone and it follows your voice.

Calls and presentations

With Pro the prompter floats over Zoom or your phone’s camera app, so your notes stay in front of you while you talk.

Recording

Your take is worth more than the app

Everything below exists because a lost take cannot be re-shot the way it was.

01

The sound does not vanish

Android gives the microphone to one app at a time. Prompters that let the camera and the speech recogniser each open it lose their audio partway through. Followscript captures the microphone once, feeds both, and merges the tracks at the end.

02

It survives the interruption

A foreground service keeps the recording alive, and a crash closes the file before the process dies. If the phone kills the app outright, the next launch names the take that was interrupted and lets you keep the raw file or clear it.

03

The limit warns you first

On the free tier a take stops at one minute — with a countdown ten seconds before, so you can land your sentence. The take is saved, not discarded.

04

No watermark, on any tier

A watermark is a tax on work you already did, and it is the loudest complaint in reviews of every competing prompter. There is not one here.

The Followscript floating prompter drawn over the phone camera app, showing a drag handle, speed, opacity and close controls
Floating over the camera app. Pro.

Floating prompter · Pro

Read it over TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

Shooting in Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or on a call? Put the prompter on top of them. It never takes focus, so you keep operating that app’s shutter. Drag it anywhere, make it transparent enough to see through, change the pace without leaving the app you are recording in.

If the app you are recording with takes the microphone, voice guiding says so and keeps a steady pace — the same honesty as everywhere else.

Getting the words in

Bring the script you already wrote

Write it here, paste it, share text into Followscript from any other app, or open a .txt or Word .docx file. Text arriving from a document usually needs tidying, so the import screen offers it — collapsing double spaces, removing footnote markers, rejoining lines a PDF broke mid-sentence — and shows you the result before anything is saved.

Reading time is estimated from your own speed, so a script tells you how long it will take before you press record.

The Followscript script editor with a written script, word count, estimated reading time and the pause and section markers
59 words, 25 seconds, before you shoot.

In your browser

A free online teleprompter, with nothing to install

followscript.com/app is the whole prompter in a tab. It follows your voice the way the phone does — the same matching, ported line for line — and it needs no download, no sign-up and no card. Open it, paste a script, start reading.

The Followscript browser prompter mid-read: the current word highlighted on the reading line, the words already spoken dimmed above it, and the voice, auto and manual controls along the bottom
Dimmed above, bright below, and the word you are on marked. No account needed for any of it.

Write on a laptop, read on your phone

Sign in on both and your scripts travel between them — the text only, never a recording. Free, and not a trial.

It records nothing

Deliberately. A browser tab can be closed by a notification, a sleeping laptop or a tab that ran out of memory, and a lost take costs more than the app ever could. The camera stays on the phone.

Chrome, Edge and Safari

Voice following uses the browser’s own speech recognition. Firefox has none, so there it scrolls at the speed you set and says so rather than pretending.

Pricing

Usable free. Honest paid.

The free tier is meant to be used, not endured. Nothing is stamped on your video and nothing expires.

Free

$0

forever, no card

  • Voice guiding, auto and manual modes
  • Records 720p with sound
  • One minute per take, with a ten-second warning
  • No watermark, ever
  • Import, editor, takes library
  • All thirteen languages

Pro · yearly

Best value

$49.99/year

$4.17 a month, billed once

  • Takes with no time limit
  • Choose 720p, 1080p or 4K
  • Floating prompter over other apps
  • Everything in Free

Pro · monthly

$6.99/month

cancel any time in Google Play

  • Takes with no time limit
  • Choose 720p, 1080p or 4K
  • Floating prompter over other apps
  • Everything in Free

Prices in US dollars. Google Play shows your own currency, with tax included where your country requires it. A subscription is managed and cancelled in Google Play, not here — and everything you have already recorded stays on your phone if you stop paying.

Languages

Thirteen languages in the Android app, from the first build

Followscript opens in your phone’s language and falls back to English when it does not ship yours. You can override it in Settings, where every language is written in its own words — so anyone who picks the wrong one can find their way back.

EnglishEspañolPortuguêsDeutschFrançaisItalianoPolskiРусскийУкраїнська中文日本語Bahasa Indonesiaहिन्दी

From the blog

Guides for recording yourself on camera

Questions

Straight answers

What is a voice-controlled teleprompter?

A voice-controlled teleprompter listens to what you are saying and moves the script to match, instead of scrolling at a fixed speed you set beforehand. Followscript matches your speech against the whole script, so it keeps up when you speed up, waits when you pause for breath, and moves back when you repeat a line to fix a stumble.

Can I use Followscript for YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Reels?

Yes. Followscript is made for people who record themselves talking to a camera. Record in the Android app with the script over your camera and upload the take, or, with Pro, float the prompter over TikTok, Instagram or YouTube and record in their own camera. The script follows your voice, so a fast hook or a pause to think does not leave the text behind.

Is there a free teleprompter app with no watermark?

Followscript’s free tier records 720p video with no watermark, and nothing expires. The limits are one minute per take and the resolution. The browser version at followscript.com/app is also free and needs no account; it shows the script and follows your voice, but does not record.

Is there an online teleprompter I can use without installing anything?

Yes. followscript.com/app runs in Chrome, Edge and Safari with voice following, and needs no download, no sign-up and no card. It does not record video; to record with the script over your camera, use the Android app.

What happens when the app cannot hear you?

Followscript says so. A banner appears and the script falls back to a steady pace at the words-per-minute you set. Most prompters keep scrolling as though nothing happened, which leaves you reading a line the app has already passed. Telling you is the whole difference: you can lower the pace, move closer, or switch to manual and carry on.

Does the audio keep working through a long take?

Yes. Android hands the microphone to one client at a time, which is why prompters that let the camera and the speech recogniser each open the microphone lose their sound partway through a recording. Followscript captures the microphone once, writes that audio to the video and feeds the same stream to voice tracking, then merges the tracks when you stop.

What does the free version of Followscript include?

The free tier records at 720p, allows one minute per take, and puts no watermark on your video. You get voice guiding, the script editor, import, and every one of the thirteen interface languages. A watermark is a tax on work you already did, so there is not one on any tier.

What do you get with Followscript Pro?

Pro removes the one-minute cap, lets you choose 720p, 1080p or 4K, and unlocks the floating prompter that sits above another app while you record in it.

Can I use a teleprompter while recording in another app?

Yes, with Followscript Pro. The floating prompter draws over Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Zoom or your phone’s own camera app. It never takes focus, so you keep operating that app’s shutter, and you can drag it out of the way or make it transparent enough to see through.

How do I get my script into the app?

Type it, paste it, share text into Followscript from any other app, or import a .txt or Word .docx file. Imported text is previewed with optional clean-up: collapsing double spaces, removing footnote markers, and rejoining lines a PDF or a narrow column broke mid-sentence. Nothing is changed until you can see the result.

What happens to my recording if the app is interrupted?

A foreground service keeps the recording alive while it runs, and if the app crashes the file is closed before the process dies, so the take survives. If the process is killed outright, the next launch tells you which take was interrupted and how large it is, and lets you keep the raw file or delete it. Nothing is quietly deleted and nothing is quietly left behind.

Is Followscript available for iPhone?

Not yet. Followscript is Android first. The parts that do the work — the script model, the alignment engine that follows your voice — are written in plain Kotlin with no Android dependencies, so they move to iOS without being rewritten.

Which languages does Followscript support?

The interface ships in thirteen languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Hindi. It follows your phone by default and you can override it in Settings. Voice recognition follows the app language.

Stop chasing the scroll

The browser version runs anywhere, needs no install and works without an account. The Android app adds recording with the script over your camera, and iOS is to follow. Sign in on both and your scripts travel between them.

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