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.
Teleprompter app for Android and the web
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



Voice-activated scrolling
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.

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

Floating prompter · Pro
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
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.

In your browser
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.

Sign in on both and your scripts travel between them — the text only, never a recording. Free, and not a trial.
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.
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
The free tier is meant to be used, not endured. Nothing is stamped on your video and nothing expires.
Free
$0
forever, no card
Pro · yearly
Best value$49.99/year
$4.17 a month, billed once
Pro · monthly
$6.99/month
cancel any time in Google Play
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
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.
From the blog
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Why Your Teleprompter Breaks When You Switch LanguagesThe moment you switch languages mid-sentence, voice recognition usually stops following you - not a bug, but a limit built into how it listens. This guide covers why it happens and how to script and record a bilingual video without losing your place.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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