Questions, answered

No. NextPrompt scrolls at a pace you or a helper set and adjust in real time, so the scroll follows the person, not a microphone. A person stays in control.

Yes. Open the Display link on your reading screen and the Control link on your phone, and they stay in sync in real time.

No. NextPrompt runs in any modern browser on any device. The reading screen and the control device both just open a link.

No. NextPrompt is a teleprompter, not a recorder. It scrolls your script on the screen you choose while you record with your own camera, phone, or software.

Yes. Flip the text horizontally or vertically to read it correctly through beam-splitter glass on a standard teleprompter rig.

Yes. Free gives you Control and Display links, real-time sync across devices, and password protection: a working two-screen teleprompter you can run a real read on.

One Event, with unlimited Scripts inside it, fully unlocked for 30 days. Ideal for a single conference, shoot, or service when you do not need it year round.

No. NextPrompt is a one-time Event Pass or a flat yearly plan. There is no monthly subscription.

Your Scripts are never deleted. If Pro lapses, saved work beyond the free limit locks until you renew. Nothing is lost.

Yes. NextPrompt is free to start: the free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter with Control and Display links, real-time sync, and password protection. Paid unlocks cover long scripts and unlimited Events, never the core two-screen setup.

Unlocked events run with no watermark. On the free plan, the shared reading screen carries a small NextPrompt wordmark in the corner.

Not to try it: the live demo opens with just your email. The full app uses a free account so your Scripts are saved and shareable.

Open the full NextPrompt app, free to start. Scripts save into Events, keep their own size and speed settings, and can be shared with Control and Display links.

The script sits on a stage-facing confidence monitor near your eye line, scrolling as you speak. You glance at it the way you would glance at notes, but your face stays up and toward the audience.

Yes. Hand the Control link to a helper backstage. They start, pause, and pace the scroll in real time while you focus on the room.

Any screen a browser can reach: a TV at the foot of the stage, a monitor on the floor, or a laptop on a stand. Open the Display link on it and it shows clean scrolling text and nothing else.

Yes. Open the Control link on any device at the booth, a laptop, a tablet, or a phone, and drive the scroll from there. The stage screen follows in real time.

Yes. There is nothing to install and nothing to configure on the day. A volunteer opens a link, presses play, and nudges the speed up or down.

Yes. NextPrompt runs in its own browser window on its own screen, so it sits beside whatever you use for lyrics and slides without touching it.

Yes. Mount the display device behind the beam-splitter glass and flip the text horizontally or vertically so it reads correctly in the reflection.

Yes. Open the Control link on your phone or laptop at the camera position. Start, pause, and speed changes reach the talent's screen in real time.

No. NextPrompt is the prompter, not the recorder. You capture with your own camera, phone, or software while it scrolls the script.

Yes. The producer opens the Control link and the presenter just reads. Start, pause, and speed all happen from the producer's device in real time.

Yes. The prompter is a browser window near your webcam, separate from your webinar tool. It never appears in the call unless you share that window.

Yes. The Scripts live in an Event, and the Control and Display links open in any browser. Password-protect either link and pass it to exactly the people who need it.

Yes. NextPrompt runs in a browser window on any screen near your lens, completely separate from OBS. It stays out of your scenes unless you deliberately add that window as a source, and there is no plugin to install.

Yes. The Control link on your phone starts, pauses, and re-paces the scroll in real time, so you can go off script for chat and pick the thread back up cleanly.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt runs in Safari or any modern browser on your iPad. You open a link instead of installing an app, so there is nothing to download and nothing to update.

Yes. Mount the iPad behind the beam-splitter glass and flip the text horizontally or vertically in NextPrompt so it reads correctly in the reflection.

Yes. Open the Control link on your phone and the Display link on the iPad. Start, pause, and speed changes on the phone show up on the iPad in real time.

No. It runs in Safari on your iPhone. Open the link and the prompter is there, with no download and no account needed to open a shared link.

Yes. Open the Display link on the laptop and the Control link on your iPhone. The phone becomes the remote, and the laptop follows every change instantly.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter with Control and Display links and real-time sync. The live demo also opens with just an email, no account needed.

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Yes. NextPrompt runs in Chrome or any modern browser on Android. There is nothing to install from the Play Store.

Yes. Open the Control link on the phone and the Display link on the screen you read from. The phone drives the scroll and the reading screen follows instantly.

Yes. The free plan gives you Control and Display links and real-time sync. The live demo opens with just an email, no account needed.

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No. It runs in Safari, Chrome, or any modern browser on your Mac. There is no download and no license key.

Yes. Open the Display link on the Mac and the Control link on your iPhone. The phone becomes the remote and the Mac follows in real time.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt runs in any modern browser on Windows. There is no installer, no license key, and nothing to update.

Yes. Put the Display link window as close to your webcam as possible and read from it while you look at the lens. Control the scroll from your phone so your hands stay off the keyboard.

Yes. The free plan gives you Control and Display links with real-time sync, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt is a browser window that sits near your webcam. Zoom needs no plugin, no marketplace app, and no settings changes.

No. The prompter is a separate browser window on your screen. It only becomes visible if you choose to share that specific window.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt is a browser window that sits near your webcam. Google Meet needs no plugin, no add-on, and no settings changes.

No. The prompter is a separate browser window on your screen. It only becomes visible if you choose to present that specific window.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt is a browser window that sits near your webcam. Teams needs no plugin, no add-in, and no settings changes.

No. The prompter is a separate browser window on your screen. It only becomes visible if you choose to share that specific window.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No. NextPrompt is a browser window that sits near your webcam. Riverside needs no plugin and no settings changes.

No. The prompter is a separate browser window on your screen. Riverside records your camera and anything you deliberately share, not your other windows.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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No connection is needed. NextPrompt is a browser teleprompter you read from while you film. You record with your own camera and edit the footage in CapCut afterward.

Yes. Put the Display link on a second screen near the lens, a tablet or laptop works well, and control the scroll from another device or have a helper drive it.

Yes. The free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter, and the live demo opens with just an email.

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A teleprompter is a device or app that shows a script as scrolling text near a camera lens or in a presenter's line of sight, so the speaker can read while appearing to speak naturally to the audience.

The script scrolls on a screen at a controlled pace. On studio rigs, angled glass reflects the screen over the lens, with the text mirrored so it reads correctly. Software teleprompters do the same job on a phone, tablet, or monitor.

How does a teleprompter work

Yes. NextPrompt is free to start: a working two-screen teleprompter with Control and Display links and real-time sync. The live demo opens with just your email, no account needed.

Open the free teleprompter

No. A browser teleprompter works on any screen near your lens. Hardware rigs with mirrored glass put the text directly over the lens, which helps for broadcast-style eye contact, but they are optional.

On rigs that reflect the screen in angled glass, the reflection reverses the image. The text is flipped at the source so it reads correctly in the glass.

It depends on the tool. Fixed auto-scroll runs at a set speed, voice tracking tries to follow your speech, and operator-driven tools like NextPrompt let you or a helper set and adjust the pace in real time.

Yes. They are two names for the same tool: a display of scrolling script text a presenter reads while looking at the camera or audience. Teleprompter is the common American term, autocue the common British one.

Autocue is a British prompting brand whose name became the generic word in the UK, the same way the TelePrompTer brand became the generic word in the US.

Yes. A browser teleprompter is an autocue without the hardware. NextPrompt is free to start: a working two-screen setup in any browser, and the live demo opens with just your email.

Open the free teleprompter

No. Stream Deck's built-in Website / System: Open action fires a URL, and every NextPrompt control action is a URL. There is nothing to install on either side.

Play, pause, restart to the top of the current Script, an exact scroll speed from 0 to 5, or a small speed nudge up or down, the same nudge as the on-screen arrows.

The share id in the URL is what grants control, so anyone with the URL can drive the prompter. Keep it on hardware you trust, add a password to the link in the Share panel, and regenerate the link in the Share panel to revoke it; the old URL stops working immediately.

It does not need one. Companion's Generic HTTP module covers it, because every NextPrompt control action is a plain GET URL. There is nothing to install and no API key to manage.

Play, pause, restart to the top of the current Script, an exact scroll speed from 0 to 5, or a speed nudge up or down. Add the password parameter if the Controller link is protected.

Yes. Actions interleave and the last one to land wins. For a single automated driver that is seamless; with a live operator too, agree on who is pacing which segment.

There is no plugin and none is needed. NextPrompt is a browser teleprompter that runs beside vMix, and its control actions are plain GET URLs that vMix Scripting and shortcuts can fire.

The Display link opens in any browser, so you can put it on any screen a vMix machine feeds. Most operators simply open it on the monitor or tablet at the lens.

Play, pause, restart to the top of the current Script, an exact scroll speed from 0 to 5, or a speed nudge up or down. Add the password parameter if the Controller link is protected.

No. The prompter runs in a browser window beside OBS, or in a standard OBS browser source if you want it on a monitoring output. Automation uses plain GET URLs that existing OBS tooling can fire.

Not unless you put it there. In its own browser window it is invisible to OBS. As a browser source it appears only in scenes and outputs you add it to, so keep it off your program scenes.

Yes, through any OBS-side tool that can fire a web request, such as an obs-websocket script or the Advanced Scene Switcher's web-request action, pointed at the play and pause control URLs. Add the password parameter if the Controller link is protected.

It depends on what "free" needs to include. NextPrompt's free plan is a working two-screen teleprompter with real-time sync and password protection; long scripts and unlimited Events are the paid part. Most other tools' free tiers add a watermark, cap length or sessions, or limit their headline feature, per their own pricing pages as of August 2026.

Several do, on recordings or on the prompter screen itself; check each vendor's own site for its current policy. On NextPrompt's free plan the shared reading screen carries a small NextPrompt wordmark; unlocked events run with no watermark.

It does not record video, it has no voice-activated scrolling, and it has no AI features. It is a teleprompter a person drives, with the reading screen and the controls on separate synced devices.

There is no single best; there are different jobs. For live delivery with a person pacing the scroll, use an operator-driven browser tool like NextPrompt. For recording yourself, a recording-first app fits better. For hands-free solo work, pick a voice-tracking tool.

Not necessarily. Browser teleprompters like NextPrompt run on any device with a modern browser, so the reading screen and the remote are both just links. Native apps make sense when you want in-app recording or platform-specific hardware output.

Most tools here have a free tier with limits stated on their own pricing pages, watermarks and caps being the common ones as of August 2026. NextPrompt is free to start: a working two-screen teleprompter, with long scripts and unlimited Events as the paid part.

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