Best Teleprompter Apps for Mac: Notchie, CueNotch and More

Reading a script on camera is easy to spot. Your notes sit in a window below the webcam, your eyes drop every few seconds, and the people on the call (or watching your video) can tell. A teleprompter app fixes that by putting the words right next to the camera, so reading looks like eye contact.

On a MacBook, the camera sits in the notch, and a new wave of apps uses that space as the prompter. This guide compares five teleprompter apps worth using in 2026: Notchie, CueNotch, Avocado, NotchPrompter and Teleprompter.com. The first four are notch apps built for calls, demos and screen recordings; Teleprompter.com is the long-running cross-device option for recorded videos.

Most notch teleprompters are new: Notchie launched in December 2025, CueNotch in March 2026 and Avocado's Mac app in 2026. All of them are being updated often, but expect features and prices to change faster than with older apps.

Quick Verdict

Choose Notchie if you want a simple notch prompter with voice scrolling and screen-share hiding for a one-time $29.99, or through a Setapp subscription.

Choose CueNotch if you want the most features for presentations and interviews: voice following, slide notes, live captions, rehearsal coaching and a memorize mode, with a free tier and a $29.99 lifetime Pro option.

Choose Avocado if you want the most generous free tier, or if you record videos and want a built-in recording studio with captions and flub cutting. Pro is a subscription.

Choose NotchPrompter if you want a lightweight, cheap prompter: $4.99 on the Mac App Store, or a free build from GitHub for personal use.

Choose Teleprompter.com if you film on your iPhone or iPad as well as your Mac, and want one subscription with scripts synced across every device, in-app recording and remote control.

Feature Comparison

Prices are US App Store or vendor prices and vary by region.

Notchie

Notchie is the simplest of the notch apps, and that is the point. You paste a script, it appears in the notch right next to the camera, and it scrolls as you speak: pause mid-sentence and the text waits. If you prefer a steady pace, switch to auto-scroll, change the speed with Shift and the arrow keys, and hover over the text to freeze it.

The overlay is excluded from screen sharing in supported apps, so you can share your screen on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams and keep reading. It runs locally with no account, works on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and also works on MacBooks without a notch. Notchie was #4 Product of the Day on Product Hunt in December 2025 and is made by one indie developer.

Watch out for: there are no slide notes, captions or recording tools. It reads a script and does nothing else.

Price: $29.99 as a one-time purchase with a 30-day money-back guarantee, either direct or on the Mac App Store. It's also included in Setapp, which makes sense if you already use other Setapp apps.

CueNotch

CueNotch is the most feature-packed of the group, and it's aimed at people who present, interview or sell on calls. Its voice following matches what you say to the script word by word, finds your place if you skip a sentence, and waits when you stop to think. A global shortcut (Shift-Command-Space) or Siri starts it from any app.

Beyond reading, it imports PowerPoint, PDF, Word, Markdown and text files and keeps notes for each slide, so you can move between them with shortcuts while your presentation stays in focus. AutoCaption shows live captions of the call in the notch, Rehearsal Coach gives cues on pace and pauses, and Memorize Mode breaks long scripts into chunks so you can practise speaking without reading. Ghost Mode keeps the prompter out of most screen shares and recordings.

Watch out for: CueNotch itself says a few apps and macOS versions ignore the request to hide the window, so check your share preview before an important call. The free tier is tight (3 starts a day, scripts of up to 100 words), and the weekly plan is expensive if you forget to cancel it.

Price: free to start, with a 3-day trial of Pro. Pro is $29.99 once for a lifetime license, or $7.99 a week. It's on the Mac App Store and needs macOS 14 or later.

Avocado

Avocado has the most useful free tier of the paid apps. The free version is not a trial: you get the notch and floating prompter, screen-share hiding, steady scrolling from 50 to 300 words per minute, cues and markers, PowerPoint and Markdown import, and 3 "Pro Passes" a week that turn on voice scrolling for one session each.

Pro adds unlimited voice scrolling and adaptive speed, plus a Recording Studio that records your take, cuts flubs and pauses, re-records a single line, and burns in captions spelled from your script. It can also follow your Keynote or PowerPoint slideshow, run as a remote-controlled prompter from your phone (Director Mode), and let AI tools such as Claude, Cursor or Codex write scripts into it. There's a separate iPhone and iPad app for filming on your phone.

Watch out for: Avocado is the newest app here, and Pro is subscription only. Some AI features need macOS 15.1 and Apple silicon, and delivery coaching needs macOS 26.

Price: free forever for the basics. Pro is $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year, for two personal Macs.

NotchPrompter

NotchPrompter is a small, always-on-top floating prompter by indie developer Jakub Pomykała, with nearly 700 stars on GitHub and frequent releases. You can place it under the notch or anywhere else, pick the speed, size and font, use it on any display, and let voice activation start and stop the scrolling. It stays hidden from screen recording apps.

It's the right pick if you want a prompter without a subscription, an account or a long feature list, for quick videos or keeping talking points on screen during a call.

Watch out for: the code is source-available, not open source: its license allows personal, non-commercial use only. There's no voice following word by word, no slide notes and no recording.

Price: $4.99 on the Mac App Store (macOS 14.6 or later), which gets you automatic updates, or a free build from GitHub releases for personal use.

Teleprompter.com

Teleprompter.com is the veteran here: it has been on the App Store since 2018, with more than 5 million downloads and a 4.8 rating from over 30,000 reviews. It works differently from the notch apps. Instead of a small overlay, it's a full teleprompter and recorder that runs on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with one subscription and scripts synced across all of them.

You write or import scripts (TXT, Word and PDF), read them with voice-activated VoiceGlide scrolling, fixed or timed scrolling, and record in the app with background replacement, background blur, noise removal, trimming and automatic subtitles. Another device can act as a remote, and it also supports Bluetooth keyboards, presentation clickers, foot pedals and game controllers. Mirroring makes it work with a hardware teleprompter rig.

Watch out for: it's built for recording videos, not for reading notes during a live screen share, and the free plan adds a watermark to recordings.

Price: the Starter plan is free. Pro is $19.99 a month, or $7.50 a month billed yearly, with a 7-day trial; Max and Team plans add cloud storage and shared workspaces.

Built-In Options

If you only need notes during a slideshow, you may not need a teleprompter at all. Keynote's presenter display and PowerPoint's Presenter View show your notes on your own screen while the audience sees only the slides. They don't sit next to the camera, though, and they don't help when you're talking to the webcam without slides. For that, a notch app is the better tool.

Which Teleprompter App Should You Use?

• For sales calls, interviews and video meetings: CueNotch, for word-by-word voice following and slide notes, or Notchie if you want something simpler.
• For screen-recorded tutorials and product demos: Notchie or NotchPrompter keep the script out of the recording. If you also want your face in the recording, FaceScreen adds a floating camera overlay on top of your screen.
• For YouTube, Reels and course videos: Avocado, if you want to record and edit takes in the same app, or Teleprompter.com if you also film on your phone.
• On a budget: Avocado's free tier or NotchPrompter.
• Without a subscription: Notchie, CueNotch's lifetime Pro or NotchPrompter.

Final Verdict

CueNotch is the most complete teleprompter for live calls and presentations, and its lifetime license keeps the cost reasonable. Notchie is the better choice if you want a focused app that just works, with a one-time price or Setapp access. Avocado gives you the most for free and the strongest recording tools, but its Pro features are subscription only. NotchPrompter is the cheapest way to get a reliable notch prompter, and Teleprompter.com remains the best choice when you record across Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Whichever you pick, test screen-share hiding with your own video app before an important call; every app here depends on macOS and the meeting app respecting that setting.

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Features and prices are current as of November 2026.

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