Teleprompter Premium vs Orate: three apps share the name, and how each compares

If you searched for Teleprompter Premium, you may have meant any of three apps, and the store will not tell you which one you remember. This page sorts them out first, then compares the two that matter with Orate, cell by cell. We make Orate, so read this as a disclosure. Every competitor figure below was read from the app’s own store listing or website on 2 November 2026, and anything we could not confirm says Not verified.

Which Teleprompter Premium do you mean?

Most people who remember “Teleprompter Premium” from a few years ago mean the first one, now called Teleprompter Pro. If you found it on Android, you found the second one: we could not find an Android app from Teleprompter Apps Ltd. The third app is too new to have a displayed rating, so the rest of this page compares the first two with Orate.

Credit where it is due

Teleprompter Pro has a long record and a real audience: 4.7 stars from about 16,000 ratings on the US App Store as of November 2026, a recent update (3.85.0, which improved its video recording controls), and a feature list built for studios. It can drive a prompter from a PlayStation or Xbox controller, an IKAN Elite remote, a keyboard or another iOS device, send a clean mirrored feed to an external display or AirPlay TV, import PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and generate .srt captions. Orate does none of that.

Teleprompter Premium+ is young (4.1 stars from 51 ratings on the US App Store) but ambitious. It follows your voice, takes “go next” and “go back” as commands in six languages, runs the same app on iPhone, iPad and Mac, turns a second phone into a remote, and on the Mac floats a semi-transparent prompter over other windows for video calls. Orate has no remote and no desktop app.

Teleprompter Premium vs Orate, side by side

What you get without paying

This is where the three apps differ most, and where the store pages are least clear.

Teleprompter Pro is generous with the prompter itself. Free, it gives you unlimited scripts, smooth or paging scroll, cue points, timed scrolling, and control from a web browser or an Apple Watch. The paid upgrade is the studio kit: imports, mirroring, external displays, hardware remotes and captions. Recording is the unclear part. The App Store description lists “use your device camera to record your scripts” under the Pro upgrade, while the pricing page on the developer’s website lists video recording on the free plan. We have not tested which one is current, so try a take before you plan around it.

Teleprompter Premium+ is free to start with three scripts, full playback at a fixed speed or on a timer, and three video takes a month, watermarked on the free tier according to its App Store listing. Plus unlocks voice scrolling, unlimited takes, 4K without a watermark, mirroring, remotes and captions. One App Store review in October complained about branding appearing on finished videos, which is worth knowing before you record something you mean to post.

Orate gives away the prompter and the recording: full controls, prompter-only and audio-only modes, recording up to 1080p, and saving or sharing with no watermark. Pro adds 4K, 60fps, HDR, unlimited scripts and Follow my voice. If a free tier matters to you, the test that settles it in any app takes twenty seconds and is set out in teleprompter apps, watermarks and free export.

Voice scrolling: who has it, and how it listens

Teleprompter Pro does not list voice scrolling. It scrolls at a speed you set, or to a time you set, and leans on remotes for control. For a presenter with a clicker in hand that is a reasonable design.

Teleprompter Premium+ is built around it. Its listing says the script follows your pace, highlights each word, waits when you pause and skips stage directions in brackets. On Android, its Play listing is candid about how: it uses the phone’s speech recognition, “which in most languages means Google’s speech service and an internet connection,” unless you download the offline language pack. That is worth knowing if you record somewhere with a weak signal, or would rather your script stayed on the phone.

Orate’s Follow my voice recognises speech on the device only, works offline once the phone has its language, holds still when you go off script, and takes seven voice commands in six languages. On iPhone it keeps following while you record; we tested that on an iPhone 15. On Android it is built to do the same but not yet verified on a real phone, and falls back to a fixed speed if the phone will not share the microphone. It needs iOS 18 or Android 12. Why voice teleprompters lose your place, and what to test in any of them, is in how a voice activated teleprompter works; the commands are compared in teleprompter voice commands.

Remotes, rigs and a Mac

If you run a studio prompter, with a tablet under beam-splitter glass and a camera behind it, Teleprompter Pro is the stronger tool and it is not close. Mirrored output to an external display, game-controller remotes and a browser remote are exactly what an operator needs, and Orate has no remote at all. Orate’s apps have no mirror setting either, so they are not made for glass: for a rig, use a studio prompter such as Teleprompter Pro, or the free browser online teleprompter, which mirrors. How the glass works, and why the text has to be reversed, is in why teleprompters are mirrored.

If you need a prompter on a computer, both competitors have a Mac app and Orate does not. Teleprompter Premium+ adds Ghost Mode on the Mac, a see-through prompter over Zoom or a slide deck. Orate’s answer on a laptop is the free browser online teleprompter, which scrolls in words per minute, mirrors and goes full screen but does not record. The full set of desktop options is in teleprompter for Mac and PC.

Where Orate is built differently is the phone itself. The script sits in a band directly under the front camera, 45% of the screen to start and adjustable from 15% to all of it, and the band moves to whichever edge the lens is on when you turn the phone, so landscape works. You can change pace in the middle of a take without losing your place, and if the app is killed you keep the take minus at most its last two seconds. The setup that makes that read as eye contact is in how to use a teleprompter on your phone, and what happens to a take in a crash is tested in does a teleprompter app save your video if it crashes.

Should you choose Teleprompter Premium or Orate?

For the wider field, including BIGVU, PromptSmart and Evelize, see the teleprompter app comparison, and for apps whose voice scrolling costs nothing, free voice activated teleprompter apps.

Questions people ask

Is Teleprompter Premium the same as Teleprompter Pro?

Yes, for the long-established app by Teleprompter Apps Ltd. Its App Store listing says Teleprompter Premium was renamed Teleprompter Pro from late 2023. It is a different app from Teleprompter Premium+, which is made by Roadtrip Technologies and was first released in 2026, and from a small app called Teleprompter Premium by Martinho Medeiros.

Is Teleprompter Premium available on Android?

The renamed Teleprompter Pro is not: as of November 2026 we found it only on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and, as Teleprompter Pro+, the Mac. Teleprompter Premium+ by Roadtrip Technologies has been on Google Play since September 2026. Orate is on both iPhone and Android, with recording and saving free on each.

How much does Teleprompter Pro cost?

The developer’s pricing page listed the Pro upgrade at $59.99 a year or $159.99 once when we checked on 2 November 2026, with a free plan alongside it. The App Store shows several in-app purchase prices, so check the price in your own store before buying, since it can differ by country.

Does Teleprompter Premium follow your voice?

Teleprompter Pro, the renamed original, does not list voice scrolling on its App Store page or website as of November 2026. Teleprompter Premium+ does, as part of its paid Plus tier, and on Android it uses the phone’s speech service unless you download an offline language pack. Orate’s Follow my voice runs on device in Pro and its free trial.

Which teleprompter app records video without a watermark for free?

Orate saves free recordings up to 1080p with no watermark on either tier. Teleprompter Premium+ watermarks free takes, according to its listing. For Teleprompter Pro we could not verify watermark terms. The quickest check in any app is to record a short take, save it to your gallery and look at the corners and the final frames.