From an empty folder to 20,400+ takes.
Orate began on 16 August 2026 as an empty repository and one idea: keep the script right under the lens, so nobody watching can tell you are reading. This is the record of what shipped, when, and how many people have recorded with it since — newest first, all the way back to day 1.
Today · Day 87
20,400+ takes recorded in 116 countries.
87 days after the first commit, people have recorded more than 241 hours of video with Orate, on iPhone and Android, in eighteen languages.
- 241+ hours of video
- 1,500+ creators
- 3,000+ scripts
- 87 takes rescued after a crash
Growth
Every take, added up.
All-time takes recorded in Orate, at each count published since the first one on 30 September. Floors, not estimates: how they are counted.
Takes recorded, all time
The numbers behind the chart
| Date | Takes | Video |
|---|---|---|
| 363 | 5 h 47 min | |
| 377 | 6 h 21 min | |
| 524 | 7 h 18 min | |
| 677 | 9 h 31 min | |
| 858 | 10 h 59 min | |
| 1,230 | 15 h 31 min | |
| 1,987 | 22 h 17 min | |
| 2,576 | 27 h 55 min | |
| 3,343 | 36 h 35 min | |
| 3,651 | 40 h 11 min | |
| 4,271 | 46 h 16 min | |
| 4,898 | 53 h 9 min | |
| 6,452 | 70 h 48 min | |
| 7,602 | 85 h 22 min | |
| 8,100 | 89 h 28 min | |
| 11,324 | 128 h 25 min | |
| 14,608 | 167 h 59 min | |
| 17,067 | 196 h 55 min | |
| 20,494 | 241 h 6 min |
Timeline
What shipped, newest first.
The moments that changed what Orate is, from today back to the first commit. The small fixes in between are left out; there were a lot of them.
November 2026 Past ten thousand takes
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Today: 20,400+ takes in 116 countries
More than 241 hours of video, 1,500 creators and 3,000 scripts. This page grows with every count we publish.
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The busiest day yet
1,541 takes, 17 hours 32 minutes of video and 211 saves on 2 November: the most of all three in a single day, and nearly twice the day before.
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A hundredth country
Germany recorded its first take on 2 November, the hundredth country to do so. Slovakia followed that afternoon.
October 2026 Two stores, eighteen languages
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Take number 10,000
Recorded on 31 October, nine days after take number 5,000.
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Eleven hours of video in one day
830 takes and 11 hours 5 minutes of video on 29 October, the most video recorded with Orate in a single day.
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Russian, Vietnamese and French
Orate now speaks eighteen languages on iPhone and Android, each read at its own pace. Five days later, this website did too.
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810 takes in a single day
The busiest day at the time, and the day guided setup reached iPhone and a new Pro screen shipped on both phones.
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400 takes in a day, for the first time
403 takes and more than four hours of video on a single day.
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On the App Store
Orate reaches iPhone and iPad, with a Record widget for the home screen. Within ten days, more takes were being recorded on iPhone than on Android.
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Prices by country
Pro costs what makes sense where you live, rather than one price converted for everyone. Recording, export and the prompter stay free everywhere.
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A brighter Orate, in fifteen languages
A new look on every screen, in light and dark. Czech, Danish and German joined, and twenty new guides went up on the blog.
September 2026 Finding the first people
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The first public count
363 takes and 5 hours 47 minutes of video, recorded by people we had never met.
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Launched on Product Hunt
The first public launch day, as “the teleprompter that doesn’t lose your take”.
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Twelve languages, Hebrew included
Right-to-left on every screen, alongside Arabic — and a reading pace measured for each writing system rather than one English words-per-minute figure.
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The first wave of installs
A small ad test on Google Play brought Orate its first real wave of new people.
August 2026 From day 1 to a store
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Orate 1.0 on Google Play, and the blog
The first public release: the prompter, crash-safe recording and export, free and with no watermark. The blog started the same day, with seven field notes measured on real phones.
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orateapp.co goes up
The website, built from the same design tokens as the two apps, so all three look like one product.
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A crash can’t take your take
Takes are written to disk as they record: kill the app mid-sentence and you keep everything up to that second. Ten languages arrived the same day.
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Where it started
The first commit: two native apps from the start, one for iPhone in Swift and one for Android in Kotlin, drawn from one shared set of design tokens.
Next
What we’re building next.
In the order we plan to ship them. Tell us what you would move up: contact@planifyapps.com.
- Pause and resume a takeStop for breath or a cough without starting the take again.
- A script that follows your voiceThe prompter scrolls as you speak, and waits when you pause.
- An optional end cardYour name or handle at the end of a video, only if you want it. Never a watermark.
Free to start
Record the next take with us.
The prompter and crash-safe recording are free, with no account and no watermark, on iPhone and Android.
Get OrateFigures come from Orate’s anonymous app analytics, only on phones whose owners allowed it, so the true numbers are higher. Test devices and our own phones are left out. How these are counted.