Telepromptr 4+

Excellent but no width setting

This is an excellent app but I can’t use it at is because there’s no option to change width of the scrolling text. I use a large iPad and on video, my eyes scanning the lines is quite obvious. I found an alternative app which isn’t quite as good but does offer to narrow the text to my preference and that means that when I view the video I am always looking at directly into the camera instead of side to side. If a width setting is added I would use this app every time.

I also noticed that there is a restore purchases section in the app but as far as I can tell this is a totally free app with no option to purchase further options. Am I missing something here?

Useful & easy to use but with a serious flaw.

This is the first time we have needed to use a teleprompter and choose this app as it seemed to offer a simple interface and got some good reviews. It worked well but there are a couple of flaws one of which is serious.
The serious flaw is it far to easy to loose edits to the script, there seems to be no “are you sure” dialogues and it doesn’t save the script automatically like many iPad apps so it catches you out and you can easily end up loosing a lot of work
The second is text handling. We Imported a document exported from pages as plain text and it gave odd character sequences instead of apostrophes. It was probably an export problem but I think this app should be able to handle it because the built in editor is not good enough for large scripts and changes so you are very likely to have another editor in the workflow.

Developer Response ,

Hello! We’ve recently overhauled the entire app, including a new “are you sure” dialogue to ensure changes aren’t lost. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new version. We also have built-in live chat if you need support. We’d love an opportunity to fix this for you! 🙂

Brilliant for video makers

I absolutely love this app. We use this when making You Tube videos and it means we need less takes because we are no longer relying on memory.
A tip: getting the speed right is crucial. It is well worth reading out loud the entire script before the camera is rolling to make sure it is moving at a natural level for you. Adjust the speed if you find you are having to chase after the text or if you are having to leave unnatural pauses.

Developer Response ,

Great tip! And thank you for your kind words! Our background is in video production and we created Telepromptr with this in mind. 🎥