Teleprompter for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
Nail the hook in one take.
Short-form video is unforgiving in a very specific way: the first three seconds decide everything, and there is no room to warm up. That makes it the format where scripting pays off most and where fumbling the opening line costs you the most takes.
The catch is that short-form also has to look unscripted. A prompter helps here precisely because it lets you stop thinking about what comes next — the mental bandwidth you get back is what makes the delivery feel casual.
Why short-form creators use it
- Land the first three seconds exactly as written, take after take.
- Keep a 30-second script to 30 seconds using the live time estimate.
- Film vertically with the script directly under the lens.
- Batch a week of clips without relearning each script.
Recommended settings
Short-form delivery is faster and punchier than any other format — and the scripts are short enough to rehearse properly.
- Scroll speed
- 160–180 wpm. Short-form energy is genuinely quicker than a talking-head video.
- Font size
- 40–56 px, kept narrow so a vertical shot doesn't push the text out of your eye line.
- Display
- High contrast, white on black. You're often filming handheld in changing light.
A vertical-video setup
Stand your phone in portrait on a small tripod and put the prompter on a second device immediately behind or below it, as close to the lens as you can get. Write in short lines — one thought per line reads far better at speed than full paragraphs. Use the word count and time estimate to trim to length before you shoot, since a script that runs six seconds long is a re-record rather than an edit. For a batch session, save each clip's script by name and load them one after another.
Questions about this setup
Other ways people use it
Ready to read on camera with confidence?
Open the prompter, paste your script, and press play.