Autoprompt questions, answered

Autoprompt is a professional teleprompter app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It lets you scroll your script smoothly while you present, record, or broadcast, so you can deliver your words confidently without memorising them.

iPhone, iPad and Mac. Pro is a one-off purchase that covers all your Apple devices, so buying it on one unlocks it on the others with Restore Purchases. Pro Plus, which adds the production features, is a yearly subscription rather than a one-off purchase.

No. Speech recognition processing runs entirely on your device. Your scripts and audio are never uploaded to any server.

The interface is translated into 33 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. It follows your device language, and you can override it in Settings under Display Language. The language you speak is a separate setting, see the voice-following questions.

Scripts are stored locally on your device. You can back them up and sync them across your Apple devices using iCloud if you have iCloud Drive enabled.

Four. Voice following is the one Autoprompt is built for: it listens and advances the script to match what you are saying. Speed scrolls continuously at a pace you set with a slider. Timer scrolls the whole script top to bottom in an exact duration. Manual Paging does not scroll at all and moves a page at a time when you press a key or a remote button. Pick one from the scroll-mode control in the bottom toolbar.

When speech recognition is enabled, Autoprompt listens to what you say and automatically advances the script to match your position. This means the text follows your natural pace rather than a fixed speed, so you never lose your place.

Four things, in order. Check the round language chip above the bottom toolbar, for example EN: it has to match the language you are actually speaking. Check the status in the toolbar, if it reads 'Speech uses internet' or 'Speech unavailable', press it and Settings opens at the Speech Recognition row with what to do. Check the microphone is the one you are talking into, in Settings. Finally, if it follows but keeps losing you, raise Forward Looking or lower Recognition Accuracy, described in the recognition-tuning question.

Press the round language chip above the bottom toolbar and pick the language and region you are about to speak. It is separate from the app's own interface language. If that language is not on your device yet it downloads automatically and a progress ring shows on the chip. The label at the top of the card, such as 'AI on Device' or 'Dictation on Device', tells you how that language is recognised.

Yes, in Settings under Advanced, in Speech and Text Display. Forward Looking is how far ahead the app searches when it misses a word: Low is one word, Medium three, High five. Raise it if you often skip words, lower it if your script repeats the same words close together. Recognition Accuracy is how exactly a heard word must match the script, from Exact down to Low: lower is more forgiving of accents and unusual names, higher avoids false matches. Scroll Speed sets how quickly the text glides to each new word.

Ad-lib freely: the script waits where it is until it hears the word it is expecting, so you can pause, take a breath or answer a question without it running away from you. Skipping a word or two does not matter either, because it looks a few words ahead. If you jump further than that, or want to go back and repeat something, click or tap the word you want to continue from. It never jumps backwards on its own.

Yes. Space starts and pauses, the left and right arrows step a word at a time, the up and down arrows step a line, and Q and A jump to the top and bottom. Clicking a word continues from there, and you can scroll freely to look ahead or back, the next word you say snaps the text into place. Every one of these keys can be remapped, and a presenter clicker or foot pedal can be used instead, in Settings under Keyboard and remotes.

Speaker Name lets you tag words or phrases in your script as a speaker label. Tagged text is displayed with custom foreground and background colours so you can instantly see who is speaking. Speaker names are excluded from any recorded video subtitles, so they appear only as a visual cue for the presenter.

Speaker Name fields are fields that get ignored by the speech recognition. Select the word or phrase you want to tag, then right-click (Mac) or long-press (iPhone/iPad) and choose "Make Speaker Name" or "Add Speaker Name". A colour picker will appear where you can set the text and background colours and choose an emoji icon. On Mac the shortcut is Command + Shift + N.

Notes let you embed reminders or stage directions directly in your script, for example "pause here" or "cut to camera 2". Noted text is shown in a distinct colour and is excluded from recorded video subtitles, so your audience never sees it.

Note fields are fields that get ignored by the speech recognition. Select the text you want to turn into a note, or position your cursor where you want to insert one, then right-click (Mac) or long-press (iPhone/iPad) and choose "Make Note" or "Add Note". You can customise the note's colours and emoji icon in the picker that appears.

No. Any text marked as a Speaker Name or Note is automatically stripped from the subtitles that are embedded in your recorded video. Only the regular script text appears in the subtitles.

Open a script, press edit, then press the wand icon at the bottom left. Open it with a script loaded and it offers to improve what you have; open it with nothing loaded and it will help you write one from scratch. On a long script it works section by section, and you always get to accept or reject a suggestion before it replaces anything. It needs an Apple Intelligence-capable device with Apple Intelligence switched on, and it is not available in DualScroll.

Plain text (.txt), rich text (.rtf) and PDF on every device. On macOS, Word documents (.doc and .docx) import as well; on iPhone and iPad they do not, so use Word or Pages to save those as .txt or .rtf first. You can also drag files straight onto the script library, and dropping several text or rich text files at once adds each as its own script named after the file.

PDFs can store text in different ways, so different filters help extract the script text when the default option does not work.

That is the free plan's limit: on Lite a PDF import keeps the first page only. Upgrading removes it and the whole document comes in. If the whole document imported but text is missing from some pages, that is a different problem, try one of the other PDF filter types instead.

Switch to Speed mode in the bottom toolbar, then use the speed slider to set the pace, before or during playback. Play, pause and reset are on the same toolbar. In voice-following mode there is no speed to set, because the script moves at whatever pace you speak; what you can adjust there is how quickly the text glides to each new word, with Scroll Speed in Settings.

Choose Timer mode, set the duration, then press play or record. The script scrolls from top to bottom in that time.

Hide the top and bottom menu bars in the app settings.

Long-press play on iOS or right-click play on macOS, then choose loop. The same works with recording.

Use the queue feature from the script list. Add scripts or folders, order them, then start the queue.

Yes. You can manually adjust while auto-scrolling, or use Manual Paging mode with page up/down controls.

Use the flip/mirror controls in the teleprompter view, options menu, or settings. On iOS, long-pressing the text also exposes these options.

Text pasted from a word processor often arrives with colours and spacing that do not suit a prompter, and light text can vanish against the background. 'Fix colors on paste' normalises the pasted colours to match your script style. A companion setting, 'Paragraph Formatting', re-applies your own alignment, line spacing and indents instead of keeping the source document's. Both are on by default.

The text-size control has two modes and they do different things. Font size is absolute: drag the slider and every word in the script becomes that exact size, which flattens any size differences you had built in. Magnification is a multiplier that scales whatever size each word already is, so headings stay proportionally larger. One press of the icon switches modes, and the icon tells you which one you are in. To type a value instead of dragging, right-click the icon on a Mac or touch and hold it on iPhone and iPad.

You were in font-size mode rather than magnification. Font size is an absolute setting, so it makes every word in the script the one size and flattens any variation you had built in. Magnification multiplies whatever size each word already is, so mixed sizes are kept in proportion. If you have deliberately mixed sizes, use magnification. This is a change to the script itself and it is saved, so undo it before saving if it was not what you meant.

Enter edit mode and open the formatting controls.

Yes. Choose the Custom caption type and the captions are drawn into the video with your chosen style and animations. Use the captions editor to adjust them before creating the video.

Choose your camera and microphone in Settings first, or the app will stop and tell you so. Open a script, set the mode selector in the bottom toolbar to Record (camera and prompt) or Record Audio (sound only), then press the big round button. The first time you will be asked to allow access to the camera and microphone. The button shows a red stop square while recording; press it again to stop, and the take is saved to the recordings library automatically.

Turn on Perform Countdown in Settings and set how many seconds you want. A large numeral then fills the screen before the script starts, and the big round button becomes a cancel button while it runs, so you can stop without recording anything. Space cancels it too.

Enable the app in your device's Camera and Microphone system settings, then restart the app if needed.

Yes. In Record mode the More menu offers Camera background, which replaces what is behind you with a blur, a colour, an image or a video, and Filters, which applies a look to the picture. Both apply live, so what you see is what is recorded. Live background replacement is demanding: if your Mac cannot keep up the app will say frames were dropped, in which case record without it and apply the background afterwards in Studio, which gives a better result anyway.

Yes. Set "Continue Recording" in settings, or add blank lines to the end of the script.

Native captions must be enabled by the viewer in iOS Settings under Accessibility → Subtitles & Captioning. Custom captions are drawn into the video and always visible.

In recordings, long-press on iOS or right-click on macOS, then choose delete.

Recording stops when the script ends unless you configure extra recording time or add blank lines at the bottom.

Long-press a recording on iOS (right-click on macOS) and choose Captions, or use the Captions button in the video editor, to change caption text, timing, style and animations.

Native captions are a subtitle track viewers can toggle in their player. Custom captions are drawn into the video with your chosen style and animations. Off saves the video without captions.

Yes. Choose Generate from Audio in the captions editor to transcribe the recording with word-level timing.

Yes. Use the Sentence/Word switch in the captions editor; switching converts the existing captions in place.

With sentence captions, each word bounces as it is spoken. Enable it in the captions editor and optionally pick a pop colour. Custom captions only.

Yes. Each caption can have Appear and Disappear effects such as Fade, Pop, Drop and slides. Custom captions only.

Set font, size, colours, background and outline in the captions editor, and drag captions in the preview to move, resize and rotate them, per caption or applied to all.

Add timed image overlays in the captions editor: place an image from the sticker library, drag to position and size it, and set when it shows. Stickers are always drawn into the saved video.

Studio is the full video editor, for anything beyond a trim. The timeline gives you a track each for video, captions, stickers, the replaced background, filters and an overlay clip, so each can be edited independently and can change part-way through a take. The inspector holds speed, volume automation, stabilisation and colour, and you can join several takes on one timeline. For a straight trim, the trim tool on the recording itself is quicker.

Open the recording in Studio and use the crop tool. It has presets for Free, 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5, which cut straight to the shapes each platform wants, or you can drag the handles on the preview yourself. Ken Burns sets a slow move between a start and an end frame if you want the shot to drift rather than sit still.

Press export and pick a preset. 'Current' keeps the framing you shot, and there are portrait and square presets sized for TikTok, Instagram Reels and LinkedIn, each showing the aspect ratio, the resolution and the file size you will get. 'All export options' opens the full set, where you can set an exact resolution, choose Landscape or Portrait, pick a codec or aim at a target file size.

Give a script a folder when you save it and the folder is created if it does not exist. After that, folders appear down the side of the script library and you can filter by one, drag a script onto a folder to file it, or use Move to Folder from the script's own menu. There are also built-in filters for All Scripts, Unfiled and Recent, which collects anything you have opened or changed in the last thirty days.

Long-press on iOS or right-click on macOS, then choose rename.

Long-press or right-click the script tile, then choose delete.

Long-press or right-click the script tile, then choose move to folder.

Turn on 'Remote / Watch Enabled' in Settings on both devices, the one showing the script and the one acting as the remote, and put them on the same Wi-Fi network. A Remote tab then appears, and becomes active once the other device is showing a script. Both the iOS and macOS versions can act as either end, so you can drive a Mac prompter from an iPhone or the other way round. The same switch enables the Apple Watch app.

Yes. Turn on 'Remote / Watch Enabled' in Settings, the same switch that enables the software remote. The watch app gives you play and pause, taps at the edges to jump to the top or bottom of the script, and the Digital Crown sets the scroll speed, which is a good way to ride the pace during a talk without going near the machine.

Yes, either with the built-in software remote or with an external keyboard or controller.

Set the remote or controller to keyboard mode, then map its buttons in the Hardware Remote and Keyboard Mapping settings.

Remote buttons have to be mapped to teleprompter actions before they do anything, and some remotes need an extra setting switched on first. Work through this in order, and stop as soon as the remote responds.

1. Open the app's settings with the gear icon, then choose the Advanced tab.
2. Search for "Map", or scroll down to the Hardware Remote and Keyboard Mapping section.
3. Turn on "Use media buttons on hardware remote".
4. Tap the action you want the remote button to trigger, for example Play.
5. A new view opens. Press the button on your remote. If it is being seen, that button lights up on screen, which tells you the mapping worked.
6. Leave that screen, open a script in the teleprompter and press the same button to check it plays. Repeat for each button you want to map.
7. If the button did not light up, go back and also turn on "Use scroll and click buttons on hardware remote", which is usually what a ring or finger remote needs, then try the mapping again.
8. If it still does not respond, open the iOS Settings app, go to Accessibility, then Touch, and turn on AssistiveTouch. Then try the mapping again from the first step.

Place the device on the rig, flip the text, and control scrolling on-device or from another device as a remote.

Yes. Touch and hold the play button in the dock and choose Play Floating, and the prompter becomes a floating window that stays on top while you use something else. On a Mac the equivalent is a duplicate prompter window, or making the script window see-through and putting it over the other app.

On macOS, make the script window transparent and position it over the conferencing app window.

On macOS, either mirror the whole screen or create a duplicate script window and move it to the external display.

On macOS, use the ScreenMirror menu to choose the source and destination displays, then flip the mirrored output if needed.

Lite is free and is a real working prompter: one script, one recording, up to 60 seconds of prompting at a time, and the first page of a PDF. Voice following, the AI Assistant, iCloud sync and text mirroring are all included in it. Pro is a one-off purchase that removes those limits, giving unlimited scripts, unlimited recording and full PDF import on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Pro Plus is a yearly subscription that adds the production features: captions and stickers, camera backgrounds and filters, the Studio editing tools, remote control, duplicate prompter windows and Screen Mirror.

Go to Settings, then General, then Restore Purchases. It brings back anything already bought with the same Apple Account and there is nothing to type in. Subscriptions are managed in your App Store account rather than in the app.

Autoprompt shows an 'Upgrade to...' card rather than simply refusing. Yes opens the plan screen, No carries on without that feature. You can also press the plan badge beside the cog at any time to see exactly what your plan includes, which is always the definitive list for your version of the app.

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