Free teleprompter: what’s actually free, and why we built ours

Yes, there is a genuinely free teleprompter. Miracue is one: a teleprompter that runs in your browser on any device, free, with no time caps and no account needed to start prompting. We are a video production company, and we built it for our own filming days.

“Free” deserves a straight answer on this page, because it usually comes with an asterisk. Here is exactly where the line sits in Miracue:

• The prompter itself is free and needs no sign-in. Open miracue.app, paste your script, and prompt. Scroll by speed or let it follow your voice. No time limits, nothing to cancel.
• A free account adds a script library, so your scripts sync between the phone on the rig and the laptop at the desk, and it unlocks the import that turns one document into a whole day of scripts. Also free.
• A Pro tier exists ($49 a year) for shoot-day extras like folders and shot lists. The prompter never moves behind it.

That is the whole arrangement. Now the questions people actually ask, answered plainly, and then the story of why this tool exists.

What is the best free teleprompter?

Honestly: it depends on the job. Free teleprompters come in three shapes.

A browser teleprompter runs on anything with a screen: phone, tablet, laptop. There is nothing to install, which matters when you are borrowing a device or handing a script to a presenter who will never install an app for you. This is where Miracue sits.

A phone teleprompter app records through its own camera while the script scrolls near the lens. Good for solo social clips filmed on the same phone. The trade is that your footage now lives inside that app’s camera, at whatever quality it records.

A hardware prompter is beam-splitter glass in front of a real camera lens, fed by a tablet or phone. It is how presenters appear to look straight down the barrel, and it is what we use on client shoots, with Miracue as the feed. The glass costs money; the software driving it does not have to.

If you want app-by-app detail, we keep a separate note on the best teleprompter apps and one on prompter glass.

Does the iPhone have a built-in teleprompter?

No. As of September 2026, iOS does not include a teleprompter, and the built-in Camera app cannot scroll a script. On an iPhone you either install a teleprompter app or open a browser teleprompter in Safari. The second route is how Miracue runs on an iPhone: no install, and it works the same on Android and on a desktop.

Is the CapCut teleprompter free?

Yes. As of September 2026, CapCut’s mobile app includes a teleprompter inside its camera screen at no charge, though some of the editing features around it are paid, and the desktop version of CapCut does not include a teleprompter at all. If you already record and edit inside CapCut on your phone, it is a reasonable tool for that workflow. A standalone prompter does a different job: it prompts for any camera, including the real one on a tripod.

Why a production company built its own teleprompter

When we film talking-head or training content, a day can run to thirty to fifty short scripts, not one. The filming is not the hard part. The preparation was. Before Miracue, getting those scripts into a teleprompter meant loading them one at a time and tidying the formatting as we went: three to six hours on an iPad, a hundred small repetitive tasks, before anyone said a word to camera. We do not shoot days like that every week, but often enough that the preparation became the part we dreaded.

We got tired of paying that cost, so we built the tool that removes it, and then made it free. Miracue is built and run by Lumira Studio, the production company we operate in the UK. This teleprompter exists because a working film crew needed it on real shoot days, and it earns its keep on ours every week.

Loading a whole shooting day in one paste

The feature that came directly from those filming days is the import. You paste one document containing every script for the shoot, and Miracue splits it into separate, named scripts in your library. The splitting runs locally in your browser; your document is not uploaded anywhere to be processed. If the document uses SCRIPT: marker lines, the split is exact: one marker, one script. Without markers, Miracue splits on the shapes real documents use and always shows you the list before anything is created.

The practical effect: script preparation that used to cost us an evening is now one paste and a quick check of the list. The full walkthrough, including a copy-ready prompt for tidying a messy document first, is in the import note.

A training library is dozens of scripts, not one

The clearest case for all of this is training and educational content. A course is not one video; it is a library of short pieces to camera: a welcome, a module intro, a safety briefing, a walkthrough per station. The businesses doing this well film them in batches, and batch filming lives or dies on preparation. Our own record is 104 videos filmed for a single client in one day, and days like that are only possible because every script is written before the shoot and loaded into the prompter as a set, in order, named.

If you are building a training library, the workflow that works: write every script in one document with a SCRIPT: line naming each piece, paste it into Miracue’s import, and film down the list. The presenter reads naturally off the prompter, the operator taps to the next script between takes, and the preparation for the next filming day is already half done, because the document is the plan.

Frequently asked questions

Open Miracue and paste a script. That is the whole setup.