We are a production house in Beirut, and we kept running into the same small problem on set. Someone needs to read to camera, the script is on a phone propped against a light stand, and the read never quite lands. So we built our own teleprompter into a web page, used it on real shoots, and then made it free for anyone to use.
There is no signup, no account and no upload. Open the teleprompter, paste your script and read. This is what it does.
On a computer, with a second screen
The part most free teleprompters leave out is the second screen. If you are filming with a real setup, the operator needs one view and the presenter needs another.
- External monitor output. Open a separate projector window and drag it onto a second monitor, a TV or a beam-splitter rig. The presenter sees only the script, at the size you set, with nothing else on screen.
- Mirror mode for beam-splitter glass. Proper teleprompter hardware bounces the text off angled glass in front of the lens, which flips it. Mirror mode flips the projector window to match, so it reads correctly through the glass. Only the projector window mirrors, never the operator's own screen.
- Full layout control. Scroll speed, text size, margin width and the position of the reading guide line, so the presenter's eyeline sits where you want it relative to the lens.
- A phone remote. Scan a code and control playback from a phone on the same Wi-Fi, so whoever is running the read does not have to stand over the laptop.
On a phone, one-handed
Plenty of shoots are one person, one phone and a tripod. We rebuilt the phone side around that, after testing it on real handsets.
- Pinch to resize the text. Pinch out for bigger, pinch in for smaller, exactly as you would expect. The page itself does not zoom while you are reading, so only the script changes.
- Sliders on the edge of the screen. One for scroll speed, one for text size, both reachable with the thumb you are already holding the phone with.
- Left-handed or right-handed. One button moves the sliders to the other edge. Set it once and it stays that way next time.
- Tap anywhere to start and stop. No hunting for a small button mid-read; tap the script itself.
- Full screen with a clear way out. Reading fills the screen with just the sliders and an exit button beneath them.
No signup, and no account to lose
There is nothing to sign up for. There is no free tier, no watermark and no trial that expires halfway through a shoot day. You open the page and it works, on a phone or a computer.
Your script never leaves your browser
This matters more than it sounds. Scripts are often confidential long before anything is published: unreleased campaigns, internal announcements, interviews under embargo.
Scripts you write are saved in your browser's own storage so they are still there when you come back, and clearing your browser data clears them. If you are handed a sensitive script, that is one fewer place it has been sent.
Arabic and right-to-left scripts
We work across Lebanon and the wider region, so the prompter handles Arabic and other right-to-left text properly rather than as an afterthought, with a set of Arabic typefaces built in. Cue markers let you jump to a mark mid-read, which helps on longer bilingual scripts.
Why a production house built this
We are Fine Line Production, based in Beirut and working since 2017 with UN agencies, international non-profits and brands. The prompter came out of our own shoots, so it is shaped by what actually goes wrong on the day rather than by a feature list. If you are producing in Lebanon or the region and want a crew rather than a tool, talk to us.