Read your script. Look at the lens.
SidePrompter scrolls your words right beside the front camera of your iPhone while it records you. Your eyes stay on the lens, and the take stops by itself when you finish.
Hi. This is where your script goes.
It scrolls up past the red triangle, which points straight at the camera. Read the line next to it and you are looking at your audience.
The text stays in a narrow column on the camera side, so your eyes barely move as you read.
When you say your last sentence, SidePrompter holds for a few seconds and stops the recording for you.
That's the take. It is already in your Photos.
Hi. This is where your script goes.
Held upright, it stays in the top half of the screen, right under the camera.
Read the line under the triangle and you are looking at your audience.
That's the take. It is already in your Photos.
Illustrations of the prompter screen, sideways and upright. You see yourself, dimmed, behind the script, and the text always sits next to the camera.
How a take goes
Every recording gets a quiet moment at the start and at the end, so you have clean room to cut.
Paste your script
Paste it in or type it. It is kept on your device for next time.
Press record
The front camera starts and a short countdown runs before the text moves.
Read beside the lens
Change the speed while you read, or tap the text to pause it.
Finish and hold
After your last line the app holds for a few seconds, stops, and saves the video to Photos.
It follows your voice
SidePrompter listens as you read and keeps the text with you. Recognition runs on the device; your audio is not sent anywhere.
Shows where you are
The words you have said turn grey, so your place is always where the white text starts.
Speeds up and slows down
Get ahead and the scroll picks up. Slow down or pause and it waits for you. On pace, it runs at the speed you set.
Ends the take for you
When it hears your last sentence it holds for a few seconds, then stops the recording.
Upright or sideways
Hold the iPhone upright for vertical video and the script stays in the top half, right under the camera.
An illustration of the upright layout, part way through a sentence.
A second angle, started together
Open SidePrompter on a second iPhone or an iPad and it becomes the operator's camera, filming with the back lens. Record on either device starts both.
Timecode on both files
The two devices agree on a clock and each video carries time-of-day timecode, so your editor can line the angles up for you.
No router needed
The devices find each other directly. It works in a studio, a field, or a hotel room.
The back camera, in 4K
The operator films with the main camera, switches lenses, and starts or stops with the volume buttons or Camera Control.
The details
- Your choice of auto speed
- Let the voice speed the scroll up and slow it down, only speed it up, or leave it at a fixed speed and just show your place.
- Speed, size and width
- Set the scroll speed, the text size and how wide the column is. Speed can follow the text size so your reading pace stays the same.
- iPhone and iPad
- Sideways on an iPhone, the text sits beside the camera on the left. Upright, and on recent iPads where the camera is on the long edge, it sits under the camera at the top.
- See yourself, or don't
- The camera view shows dimmed behind the script so you can check your framing. Hide it with one tap if it distracts you.
- Rehearse
- Run the script without recording to find your pace.
- Straight to Photos
- Videos are saved to your photo library. Nothing is uploaded and there is no account.
Pricing
Prompting and recording on one device is free. Pay only if you want the extras.
Free
$0
- Teleprompter beside the lens
- Front camera recording, upright or sideways, with start delay and end hold
- Speed, size and width controls
- Rehearse mode
Pro
$4.99 a year
or $14.99 once, yours for good
- Second camera on another iPhone or iPad
- Matching timecode on both files
- Voice follow, auto speed and voice stop
Already on the yearly plan? Move to lifetime for $9.99 at any time, then cancel the subscription in your Apple account settings.
Questions
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone and iPad with iOS 18.2 or later. Camera Control needs an iPhone 16 or later; on other devices the volume buttons do the same job.
Does anything leave my device?
No. Scripts, video, audio and speech recognition all stay on the device. See the privacy policy.
Which editors read the timecode?
The files carry a standard QuickTime timecode track, which Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro can use to sync clips. Both devices also record sound, so syncing by audio works too.
Will notifications interrupt a take?
iOS silences notification sounds while you record, but banners can still appear and a call stops the recording. Turn on Do Not Disturb before a take; the support page shows how to make that automatic.
Do both devices need to pay?
One purchase covers every device signed in to the same Apple account.