For Mac creators
Follows your voice. Word by word.
Tellie is the Mac teleprompter that listens. It follows your voice word by word, so the script keeps up with you.
Open a script. Look at your camera. Start talking.
End of script
Hit ↓Download
How it works
Three steps to better screen time.
For actors. For podcasters. For presenters. For anyone on camera.
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Open a script
Use the file picker to open your script. The prompter pops out automatically.
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Click the microphone
Tellie starts listening.
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Talk
The script follows your voice. You stay on camera.
Free for everyone. Pro for the pros.
One Tellie app, two tiers. Download free today, then upgrade from inside the app whenever you want Voice Follow.
Tellie Free
Freeforever
A working teleprompter for anyone with a Mac.
- Load Markdown, plain text, RTF, Word (.docx), or PDF scripts
- Auto-scroll at any speed, with font size control
- Mirror mode and adjustable opacity (10% to 100%)
- Invisible to Zoom and screen recorders
- Send to Tellie: push text from any app to the notch
- Auto-updates, free for life
Tellie Pro
$29lifetime
Everything in Free, plus the power features.
- Voice-follow scrolling in about 50 languages
- Presenter Mode: Keynote speaker notes in the notch
- Pulse Log: private history of everything sent to Tellie
- Live pace report after every take
- Multi-script playlists and per-script memory
- Multi-take rewind and Markdown section nav
- Resizable prompter, detach from notch, global hotkeys
Lock in the $19 early-bird price through July 15, before it goes to $29.
Two big new reasons to go Pro.
Tellie Version 1.4 added two new features that change everything: on top of Voice Follow, pace reports, playlists, and one-key retakes.
Presenter Mode
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. The room sees your slides. Only you see your next line. Say your last word and Voice Follow advances the slide for you.
Explore Presenter Mode → NewPulse Log
Tellie remembers. A private, local history of everything pushed to your notch, so you can scroll back through your day. Yours alone, and it never leaves your Mac.
See what Pro unlocks →Your voice never leaves your Mac.
On-device speech recognition. Tellie listens locally and forgets the moment you stop.
- On-device speech recognition
- No server, no API, no telemetry
- No accounts, no sign-in
Everyone needs a Tellie Prompter.
Started as a teleprompter for vloggers. Turns out the Rest of Us could use one too. Tellie now listens to more than scripts.
The first one.
Tellie ships. A Mac teleprompter that scrolls when you talk. All on-device.
1.0 · MAY 4
Polish + navigation.
Tab and 1-9 to jump between sections. Drag any edge to resize. Reset Window menu item.
1.2.1 + 1.2.2 · MAY 16
For Andrew P.
PDF support. Detach from the notch. Opacity down to 10%. Recordable mode.
Andrew P. told us what actors need.
1.2.3 · MAY 24
For Sprague Theobald.
Opens on double-click. Font picker (Serif, Sans, OpenDyslexic). ALL CAPS toggle.
Sprague Theobald asked for these features. 2x Emmy winner.
1.2.4 · MAY 25
Tellie Pro.
Free for all early users as a thank you for your support.
1.3.0 · MAY 28
Send to Tellie.
Hotkey from anywhere on your Mac. Selected text lands in the prompter.
1.3.1 · JUN 1
Tellie Pulse.
Your secret second screen that listens. Your apps, your terminal, even your AI agents push a glanceable line straight to Tellie's notch.
1.4 · NEW
Presenter Mode.
Your Keynote speaker notes, live in the notch. Say your last word and Voice Follow turns the slide. Keynote today, PowerPoint soon.
1.4 · NEW
Stop reading the screen.
Start talking to the camera.
Free to download. macOS 14 or newer. Notarized by Apple.
Made by a human
I'm Steve Chazin. I spent three days vibe-coding Tellie this month while visiting my granddaughter in Vermont, sneaking the work in while she napped or was at school. I named the app after her. Her name is Ellie, and she's just learning to read. Same kind of thing I write about every week in AI for the Rest of Us.
