For anyone who talks on a Mac
The Mac teleprompter that listens to you.
Skip ahead, pause, or ad-lib.
Keep your eyes on what matters, because your script stays locked to your words and stays private on your Mac.
Open a document. Look at your camera. Start talking.
Other prompters scroll while they hear you talking. Tellie tracks the actual words you say and highlights them as you speak.
Now it keeps track so you don't have to.
Mark important sections and they check themselves off as you say them, even when you ad-lib. If you're running long, Tellie gently nudges you while there is still time to cover those points, and even debriefs you when you're done.
Invisible to Zoom and screen recorders. Runs entirely on-device, in more than 40 languages and regional variants. Nothing it hears leaves your Mac.
SAG-AFTRA actors use it for audition prep.
Designed by a 30-year Apple veteran.
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Keep your eyes on what matters.
For creators. For presenters. For actors. For teachers. For anyone who talks while looking at a screen.
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Hit play
Open a script, hit play, and read. It scrolls; you talk. That's the whole thing: a simple, beautiful teleprompter, free forever.
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Click the mic
Just speak, and Tellie follows your voice word for word. Pause, skip, ad-lib; it waits for you. On-device, always your choice.
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Mark what matters
Add a few key marks to your script, and Tellie helps you nail every take, even when you go off script.
Free download. Everything is on for your first 10 days. Keep it all for $29, once.
The teleprompter that follows you.
Most teleprompters just speed up and slow down when they hear noise. Tellie tracks the actual words you say, and waits when you wander off-script.
Unmute the video to hear the magic.
Note: by design, Tellie can't be screen-recorded or appear in Zoom meetings. That screen is just for you. I used the optional "Make Tellie visible in recordings" feature in Tellie's Settings for this recording, something I added after early users asked to share Tellie with others. Enjoy! - Steve
Focus on them. Tellie's got you.
Recording videos
Load your script, look at the lens, and talk like a person. Tellie follows your words, so you never glance away to find your place.
Watch it follow a take →Zoom calls & meetings
Keep your talking points in the notch while you present. Your colleagues see your face, not your notes, because Tellie is invisible to screen sharing.
See it hide from a call →Sales demos & pitches
Hit every key message without memorizing a word. Tellie holds your talking points while you focus on the prospect, and never shows up in the recording.
See the talk track →Presentations & talks
Your Keynote speaker notes appear in the notch automatically. On any deck, Tellie helps you nail each point and watches the clock for you.
Open your deck →Teaching & lectures
Keep your lesson plan in the notch and improvise freely. Voice Follow waits while you riff, then picks up the moment you return to the script.
Take it into a lecture →Audition prep
Rehearse your sides with word-level tracking that follows even when you ad-lib or skip a line. Plus support for the free OpenDyslexic font.
Run your sides →What people are saying
Tellie users speak freely.
Once you've used a camera that lets you tap on the part of screen that you want in focus, you can't understand or tolerate cameras that don't. Tellie is this level of innovation, but for teleprompters.
I tried ten teleprompter apps, Tellie is the only one that just works.
It truly is a magnificent app.
I just used Tellie on my first Casting Director Zoom workshop in 13 years.
Having a teleprompter that follows my speech instead of scrolling at a fixed speed is an absolute game changer.
I now make eye contact with everyone, and connect deeper with people. I finally speak less from my notes, and more from my heart.
Word level tracking is such a clever touch, following you even when you ad-lib or jump back solves the exact thing that makes normal teleprompters stressful.
Real quotes from real users. Some inspired me to build new features to make Tellie better.
Try it free to understand what it can do for you.
Tellie Pro is yours for 10 days
Everythingswitched on
The whole of Tellie Pro, working from your very first script.
- Voice-follow scrolling in more than 40 languages and regional variants
- Stagehand: must-cover marks (the sections you must not skip), a live coach, a time warning, a debrief New
- Presenter Magic: Keynote speaker notes in the notch
- Pulse Log: private history of everything sent to Tellie
- Live pace report after every take
- Multi-script playlists and per-script memory
- Multi-take rewind and per-take pace stats
- Resizable prompter, detach from notch, global hotkeys
You can buy Tellie Pro at any time, from inside the app or on the Pro page. $29 once. Never a subscription. Up to 3 Macs, 14-day refund.
What happens after 10 days? →Exciting new reasons to go Pro.
Tellie 1.5 adds Stagehand: on top of Voice Follow, pace reports, playlists, and one-key retakes, Tellie now watches your whole take and, unprompted, helps you land it.
Stagehand
Mark the sections that matter and your script greens as you cover them. A quiet coach helps you as you go, and a time warning tells you, by name, before an important part runs out of time.
See Stagehand → NewTake debrief
After every take: your real pace and words per minute, which must-cover sections you hit, and exactly where you went off script, with the words you skipped.
See what Pro unlocks → NewPresenter Magic
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. The room sees your slides. Only you see your next line. Finish your thought and Voice Follow advances the slide for you.
Explore Presenter Magic → NewFor the call you cannot script
Tellie keeps listening while Zoom or Teams is the app in front, using your microphone. You never switch to it and never click anything. Ad-lib for as long as the call runs, and the moment you say a point you meant to make, Stagehand ticks it off. Nobody on the call sees a thing.
See it on a call →Your voice never leaves your Mac.
On-device speech recognition. Tellie listens locally and forgets the moment you stop. Your script stays put too: the file, a paste, a Send to Tellie, none of it leaves this Mac.
- On-device speech recognition
- No server, no API, no telemetry
- No accounts, no sign-in
The story so far.
Started as a teleprompter for vloggers. Turns out the Rest of Us could use one too. Tellie now listens to more than scripts.
The first one.
Tellie ships. A Mac teleprompter that highlights the actual words you say. All on-device.
1.0 · MAY 4
Polish + navigation.
Tab and 1-9 to jump between sections. Drag any edge to resize. Reset Window menu item.
1.2.1 + 1.2.2 · MAY 16
For Andrew P.
PDF support. Detach from the notch. Opacity down to 10%. Recordable mode.
Andrew P. told us what actors need.
1.2.3 · MAY 24
For Sprague Theobald.
Opens on double-click. Font picker (Serif, Sans, OpenDyslexic). ALL CAPS toggle.
Sprague Theobald asked for these features. 2x Emmy winner.
1.2.4 · MAY 25
Tellie Pro.
Free for all early users as a thank you for your support.
1.3.0 · MAY 28
Send to Tellie.
Hotkey from anywhere on your Mac. Selected text lands in the prompter.
1.3.1 · JUN 1
Tellie Pulse.
Your secret second screen that listens. Your apps, your terminal, even your AI agents push a glanceable line straight to Tellie's notch.
1.4 · JUN 3
Presenter Magic.
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. Say your last word and Voice Follow turns the slide. Keynote today, PowerPoint soon.
1.4 · JUN 3
Your team of agents.
Every agent on every Mac reports to one notch, each labeled by where it ran. Solo on your machine, or shared across your whole fleet.
1.4.3 · JUN 22
For Conrad G.
Open Apple Pages files. Paste a script with ⌘V. Right-click the prompter for the menu. Reads Keynote 15 too.
Conrad in London asked. More of his ideas land in 1.5.
1.4.6 · JUN 29
Reads for everyone.
OpenDyslexic is built in, no download. Opens RTF files cleanly, and says so when a document has no text to read.
Rana Munad flagged the RTF issue.
1.4.8 · JUL 16
For Jens + Gabrian.
Voice Follow keeps listening through a noisy room and a long pause. The notch remembers which display it was on, and scrolls smoothly at any font size.
Jens and Gabrian each wrote in the day they bought Pro. Less than 24 hours later, here we are.
1.4.9 · JUL 19
Tellie understands.
Stagehand follows your voice, guards the points you must not forget, and helps you nail each take, especially when you ad-lib. Tellie makes sure you cover everything important in time and tells you afterward how it went.
Steve dreamed this one up. Now it is real.
1.5.1 · AUG 4
Say it your way.
Stagehand now credits the points you make in your own words, not just the lines you read. It follows your numbers and contractions, and reads your marks however you write them.
1.5.2 · AUG 13
Stop reading the screen.
Start winning.
Try Tellie Pro for free for 10 days. No credit card. No sign-up. Notarized by Apple.
The short answers.
What is Tellie?
A Mac teleprompter that lives in the notch, right beside your camera. Open a document, start talking, and it highlights your words as you say them. Invisible to Zoom and screen recorders, runs entirely on your own Mac, free to download. Tellie Pro adds Voice Follow, Stagehand and the rest for $29 once.
How does it actually work?
Tellie transcribes what you say, on your own Mac, and matches those words against the words in your document to work out where you are in it. Not whether you are speaking: which word. Everything else follows from knowing that position, which is how it can credit a point you made in your own words, or tell you a section will not fit the time you have left. There is a 12-minute walkthrough and a longer piece on the mechanism.
What is an “unprompter”?
Our word for Tellie, because “teleprompter” describes the wrong half. A teleprompter prompts you: it scrolls, you keep up. Tellie waits for you and follows what you actually said, so you can wander off and it stays with you. The word is true twice: a teleprompter inverted, and help you never asked for.
Do I need a Mac with a notch?
No. On a Mac without one, Tellie puts the same strip along the top edge, in the same place relative to the camera. The notch is where it looks best, not where it only works.
Can other people see it?
No. macOS excludes Tellie's window from screen capture, so Zoom, Teams, Meet, recorders and screenshots all get whatever is behind it. That is the window itself, not an integration, so there is no list of supported apps. An opt-in visible mode exists for filming Tellie on purpose, and it resets when you quit.
Made by a human
I'm Steve Chazin. I spent three days vibe-coding Tellie 1.0 while visiting my granddaughter, Ellie, sneaking in the work while she napped. I named the app after her because she's just learning to read. Same kind of thing I write about every week in AI for the Rest of Us.
