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Orate

Video teleprompter · iPhone & Android

Look at the lens, not the script.

Orate is a free teleprompter app. Your words scroll in a narrow band directly under the camera, so your eyes barely leave it. That gap is the difference between speaking to someone and visibly reading.

iPhone — coming soon Get it on Google Play
  • Free to use
  • No account
  • No watermark
  • Works offline

The prompter is free. Forever.

  • Watermarks on your video0
  • Accounts to make0
  • Languages, translated in full15
  • Network it needsNone

Why this one

Four things this teleprompter does that the others don't.

Every number below came off a device rather than out of a meeting, and every one of them is something you can check for yourself in the first ten minutes.

The words sit under the lens, not across the screen

Most teleprompters spread your script over the whole display. Your eyes travel to read it, and everybody watching can see them move — it is the tell that separates talking to someone from visibly reading at them.

Orate keeps the script in a band directly beneath the front lens. Turn the phone and the lens changes edge, so the band goes with it rather than staying where it was. Why teleprompter videos look like reading comes down to that angle.

45%
of the screen, by default
15–100%
if you want it another way
4 edges
the band follows the lens
Same script, same phone. The only thing that changes is where the words are.

A crash costs you seconds, not the take

The file on disk is playable the whole time you are recording. Being killed mid-take — a call, a flat battery, the system reclaiming memory — leaves you everything up to that moment instead of a file that will not open. Test whether your teleprompter app survives a crash in four minutes.

Verified on device

It knows how your language reads

Read time comes from the writing system, not an English word count. The same three hundred words are two minutes of English and well over two and a half of Tamil, and Orate tells you which before you start. The teleprompter speed for each language is set out in full.

Fifteen languages, translated in full

Nothing leaves your device

No account, no sign-in, no upload. Your scripts and your recordings stay on the phone, and the whole app works with the network switched off — a teleprompter that works offline, with no account.

No backend, by design

The app

Three screens, and that is the whole app.

A library, a recorder, and a short settings screen. That is the whole of it — no fourth tab to find, and nothing to learn past these three.

Write or paste Read time comes from the writing system, so the estimate means something in every language.
Record The script starts scrolling when recording does. A crash costs you seconds, not the take.
Set it once Quality, countdown and language, then left alone. The controls you touch during a take live on the recorder.

Every size

One layout, four shapes.

The recorder changes by width, not by device name. What moves is the reading window and the controls — and the window goes wherever that device keeps its front camera.

iPhone portrait · compact Band under the lens. Controls over the bottom of the frame.
Android phone landscape · compact Sideways, the lens is on the leading edge. The band follows it; the controls take the other.
iPad landscape · expanded Recent iPads put the camera on the long edge, so the band sits along the top and the rail comes off the video.
Android tablet portrait · expanded A bottom rail with bigger targets, and the text held to a measure rather than the full width.

No separate tablet build and no orientation lock anywhere in the app — one layout resolving four variants, off the three width classes both platforms agree on.

Controls

Four sliders and a switch.

That is the whole of it. Three live in one sheet, the pace lives on the recorder where you can reach it mid-sentence, and every one of them starts somewhere sensible.

  • Text size18–96 pt

    Starts at 34 pt

    Bigger is usually better: fewer words per line means less sideways eye movement, and sideways movement is what reads as scanning.

  • Reading window15–100%

    Starts at 45% of the screen

    The height of the band the script moves through. Shorter holds your eyes stiller; taller gives you more warning about what is coming.

  • Background0–100%

    Starts at 55%

    How far the band dims the picture behind it. All the way down and the words sit straight on the video, which is what a bright room wants.

  • Pace0.4×–2×

    Starts at your script's own rate

    On the recorder, not buried in a sheet. Drag it mid-take and the script keeps its place instead of jumping, so a take you are halfway through survives being adjusted.

  • Mirror text

    Off · for a beam-splitter rig

    Independent of right-to-left, because they are two different mirrors. An Arabic script reads correctly whether this is on or off.

Capture

Up to 4K, 60fps, HDR.

And the part nobody advertises: what happens when the phone cannot manage what you asked for. Orate records at the closest quality your device actually supports and drops down rather than failing at the countdown.

  • 4K2160p, on any device whose camera provides it. Where it does not, you get the highest it does — you are told which, not left guessing.
  • 60fpsFor movement that stays smooth: hands, gestures, anything cut into slow motion later. 30 is the default because it is what most footage wants.
  • HDRTen-bit colour, so a window behind you stops blowing out to white. It sits on top of 4K60, which is the one combination worth having.

1080p at 30fps is free, and it is what most footage wants. The three above are a paid upgrade inside the app — the prompter, and recording that survives a crash, never are.

While you record

  • Space is checked twiceOnce when you press record, then every five seconds after — because the usual reason someone is short of space is that they have been recording.
  • It stops with room leftTwenty seconds of headroom, deliberately. A take Orate ends is a take you keep; a take the system ends mid-write is junk.
  • Heat warns, it does not cutA throttled take beats one that stops mid-sentence, so only a genuinely critical temperature ends a recording.

iPhone records HEVC and Android H.264, so the space it needs is worked out per codec and per quality rather than from one number that is wrong on one of them.

Your language

Fifteen languages, translated in full.

Not just the menus. Every screen, every setting, and the whole sample script you record on your first day — which is a page of prose translated fourteen times over, not a label.

A key missing even one of its fourteen translations fails a test on both platforms, so there is no quiet half-translated state to fall into. Read time is worked out per writing system too, which is why the same three hundred words run to 2:00 of English and 2:37 of Tamil. And right-to-left is independent of the prompter's mirror, so an Arabic or Hebrew script reads correctly whether or not you are shooting through a beam splitter.

  • EnglishEnglish · en
  • हिन्दीHindi · hi
  • বাংলাBengali · bn
  • मराठीMarathi · mr
  • தமிழ்Tamil · ta
  • తెలుగుTelugu · te
  • EspañolSpanish · es
  • PortuguêsPortuguese (Brazil) · pt-BR
  • Bahasa IndonesiaIndonesian · id
  • ไทยThai · th
  • العربيةArabic · ar
  • עבריתHebrew · he
  • ČeštinaCzech · cs
  • DanskDanish · da
  • DeutschGerman · de

Free to start

Stop reading at your audience.

The prompter and crash-safe recording are free, with no account and no watermark. Nothing to set up, and nothing to cancel — install it and record.

iPhone — coming soon Get it on Google Play
  • Free to use
  • No account
  • No watermark
  • Fifteen languages