- Here's our roundup
of the best teleprompter apps for Android right now
so that you can do stuff like this or this,
with your smartphone or tablet
the next time you shoot your videos.
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So teleprompters or autocues are a super handy tool
to help you nail a script in front of camera
or even just remember some dot points
or the key things that you need to cover in your video.
These days there are some really powerful teleprompter apps
for your Android tablet or phone
and ultimately there's two different types,
those that will replace a separate teleprompter entirely
and show your script on the screen of your phone
or of your tablet, which is great
if you're going to be creating videos on the go.
And than there's those that work really really well
with a separate teleprompter like in our studio setup here,
where you use your phone or your tablet primarily
to create a feed of your script
that you can easily control.
So we'll be looking at my top picks for both
of these kind of apps in this video.
And while we're going through make sure to let us know
down in the comments what's your favorite teleprompter app
right now and why?
So the first apps we're gonna take a look at
are the teleprompter and camera apps all in one.
So these are designed to completely replace a teleprompter
and they're gonna be perfect for you for creating videos
on the go if you're going to be using your phone
to create your videos.
So the biggest advantage then of using these apps
and this setup is that you are completely mobile,
you won't need any extra gear, tripods,
or anything really to make this work beyond your phone.
The disadvantages then would be that you are limited
just to using your phone
and not using this with any other larger
or a more professional camera
and also you'll have aa much smaller area
from where you'll be reading your text from.
So getting to the apps then,
there are an absolute tons of these in the Play Store
and I have to say that most of them are absolute crap.
Yes, they will let you record a video
using the front facing camera on your phone,
and yes they will put your script
or your dot points or whatever else on screen
so that you can read it,
but the biggest problem with them
is that the script is way too big
and way to far away from your phone's camera
so it's so obvious that you are reading a script
and not talking and connecting with your viewers.
That's the whole point of using a teleprompter,
is to be able to have your notes,
have your dot points, but still have it in a way
where you're able to present and talk and make eye contact
with the viewer.
So it would be exactly the same as me sitting here now
reading or looking off on either side of the camera
as I'm clearly reading a script,
it's a disconnect.
So the biggest thing you need with an app like this
is to have the text small enough and position close enough
to your camera on your phone,
whether you're using it in portrait,
whether you're using it in landscape for it to be effective
and for it to look like you're not reading a script.
So like I said, most of the apps out there are absolute crap
if you want good results in doing this,
but there is one game changer of an app
and it is called Nano Teleprompter,
now this thing is amazing.
This is the one app that you need to download
and install if you're looking to create videos
on your smartphone and have a script or dot points
or whatever on screen.
So the biggest standout feature with this app
is that it's not just making you use their own camera
or the built in camera app on your phone,
you can actually overlay text on top of any app,
meaning that you can open this up
to more professional camera apps, things like Filmic Pro,
or you can even overlay your script or your dot points
over livestreaming apps.
So if you are going to go live on Instagram,
if you are gonna go live on Facebook or really any other app
that you want to use, you can overlay your script
on top of that and have it play through
or you very even tap and swipe it through
and speed it up and slow it down while you're live as well.
So not only does this app work as a floating script widget
that you can put on top of any app
and present your script,
but it also works as a regular teleprompter app as well.
So if you do want to use it with a proper teleprompter,
you can do it with this app as well.
Now the app itself is really really easy to use,
it's fast to get up to speed,
even if you've never used an app like this before.
To get your text in there, once you open the app,
you just press the plus button down the bottom corner,
give your text a title and then you can paste your text in
from anywhere else.
Once you got your text in there,
it's really easy to customize everything up,
you can even highlight sections of your text,
make some words bold or underline to stand out
to make it easier for you while you're presenting as well.
Then all you need to do when you're ready to go
is hit that play button down the bottom right hand corner.
and this where you get to customize out the window
that your script is going to play back in.
So you can change the background color,
the text color, you can change your line spacing,
you can change the opacity,
and then all you need to do, if you wanna float this app
on top of any other app is hit start floating.
So at this point that window or that widget
is now floating above any app that you open up next.
You can pick it up, you can move it around,
you can adjust the size of it by hitting the crop button
down the bottom right hand corner.
If you press play, your script is gonna start scrolling
and you will be able to see it on screen.
And while the text is playing
you can easily adjust the speed
using the slider on the bottom to speed it up or down
and you can also pinch to zoom on that widget
to make the fonts or the text smaller or larger as well.
There's also a rotate button up the top as well,
so if you are gonna be switching
between portrait and landscape,
you can rotate your text around
so that it matches whichever way you're holding your phone.
Now even if you're someone who's not interesting in using
the advanced camera apps like Filmic Pro
or using this for livestreaming and you just wanna create
your videos using it,
you can get great results
just using the built in camera app on your phone
with this app as well.
But my biggest pro tip for using this app
and getting great results
with the front facing camera on your phone
is to try and make the reading area
as small as possible and the fonts as small as possible
but obviously still big enough so you can easily read it.
And you wanna position this window
as close to the front facing camera as possible
so that your eyes aren't wondering
too far away from the camera
which is where it's obvious that you're not looking directly
at the camera.
Having it close enough in this case is gonna still look like
you're looking directly at your viewers
but with the added advantage
that you've got your script on screen as well.
Now in regards to pricing, Nano Teleprompter
is currently selling for $2.99 in the Play Store
which is ridiculously cheap for what it lets you do.
So that's my pick
for best teleprompter camera app on Android.
Now we're gonna take a look at the best teleprompter apps
for use with a teleprompter in your studio setup
like what I'm using here.
So the advantages of this setup
is that you're able to use a larger range of cameras.
And a lot of cases more professional cameras
than just your smartphone.
It also means that you can have a much larger display
or much larger script on screen
which can make it easier for you to present
especially if you're gonna be further away from the camera.
The biggest disadvantages though with this setup
is that it does require more gear and more setup
and in most cases it is less portable
to pick up and move around
with a teleprompter.
And really quickly just to save
all the questions down in the comments,
the teleprompter that I'm currently using
and the one that I currently recommend
for ease of use and portability
is the Parrot V2 Teleprompter,
there will be a link in the description below for that.
I think this is a really amazing,
really easy to use, really easy to setup teleprompter,
and it will work on a huge range of cameras as well.
So link in the description.
So on to the apps then to use with an actual teleprompter,
again there a heap in the apps store,
and again, most of them are pretty average.
We've gone and tested a ton
and these are my recommendations.
The first one is PromptSmart Pro,
now this one has an absolute ton of customizability,
it'll also work on iOS as well
so if you are mixing the two devices
you can get a subscription and it will work on both.
There's lots of control
over how you're able to mirror the text
so that it does actually work properly
with your teleprompter
but I think one of the biggest standout features
with this app is that it's got voice tracking
and voice scrolling.
And it actually works really really well.
So when you get the app set up
and you got your script in there
and you press play and you start presenting it,
it will actually automatically scroll the text for you
based on where you're up to reading
and presenting your script.
So if you someone who's gonna read word for word
a script from start to finish,
this could be an absolute game changer for you.
If you're someone
who just wants a couple of dot points on screen,
or you're someone who likes to redo takes
over and over again, maybe that feature's not for you,
I have found that if I do wanna redo a sentence
or a paragraph again,
that I manually have to scroll back up,
it doesn't go back and analyze the text
after you've already said it, it only looks forward.
So again, depending on the types of videos you're making
that could be a huge time saver for you.
They also have a separate available that you can use
on a second device to act as a remote control
so you can control the scrolling
and the speed and everything
from a separate device while you're standing in front
of the camera as well.
Now PromptSmart Pro does have the ability
to do video recording and audio recording
while you're presenting your script as well.
But really I wouldn't recommend using this feature
unless it was just there as a reference point.
If you actually wanna use your phone and present a script
and do the recording on your phone,
that's what our last app, Nano Teleprompter is perfect for.
And is much much better
than PromptSmart Pro's video capabilities.
So when you open up PromptSmart Pro,
again, you've got a plus button down the bottom
to add a new script, you can choose bulk import,
you can choose import, or you can just create a new one
where you're copying and pasting your text in.
If we hit import, you've got the ability to import
from places like Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive,
or files that are saved locally on your device as well.
So in this case I'm just gonna go plus,
let's go new script, let's give it a name,
let's paste some text in,
we're gonna hit the back button
and our text is now saved in there.
Then down on the bottom
you can see that we've got a settings button here,
if we press on that, this is where we can customize
everything up for this script,
so we can change the fonts, the size, the color,
the background color.
We've got the ability here
to turn on that voice track scrolling.
You can see here detects your speech
and scrolls accordingly,
or you can manually set a scrolling speed,
or you can manually control it yourself,
where you're just swiping it yourself
and moving the script along as and when you need it.
You've got all of your mirror options there
from mirror horizontally, vertically.
You can remember your script position if you close the app
and you come back in, it will remember where you were.
You got things like timers and guides.
This side margin position,
depending on which teleprompter you're using,
is an amazing feature to really help you
position the text so that it matches your camera
and the teleprompter that you're using.
A lot of teleprompter apps don't have this feature
and this plays into the frustration with some of them,
because it's really hard to get the text fitting properly
for your device.
And you can see there's just a heap of other features
in here as well.
When you've locked down your settings
all you need to do is hit the play button
and your script is now ready to go.
And if you've got that auto voice scrolling enabled,
it's gonna automatically start scrolling
once you start speaking.
Now in regards to pricing there is a free version
of PromptSmart Pro called PromptSmart Lite,
as far as I'm concerned
there's way too many restrictions on that
and it's not really worth a look in.
But they've recently changed the pricing on PromptSmart Pro,
now you actually download the app for free
and that includes a seven day free trial
so that you can try it all out,
see that it works for you and that you like the things
like voice control, and then inside the app itself,
to upgrade to the pro version after the seven days,
it's either $2.99 per month
or $29.99 for the year.
They also offer an extended subscription
which is either $3.99 per month or $34.99 per year,
which does unlock some additional features
like being able to use the remote
that they give you the free app for.
So the next Android teleprompter app for use
with an actual teleprompter, is once again,
Nano Teleprompter.
Not only is it a fantastic teleprompter camera app,
it's also a fantastic teleprompter app as well.
So I don't need to do a full run through on this app again,
but to trigger teleprompter mode
instead of the floating mode, all you need to do different,
once you've got your script in there
and you've got it set up, ready to go,
press that play button down the bottom,
customize up, again, the look and feel
of how you want your text to be displayed.
You do wanna make sure that you're ticking the box there
for mirrored, so that your text is going to be flipped,
so that it will work fine on your teleprompter,
and then instead if hitting start floating
just press start in app.
And just the same then as the little floating app window,
you've got all of your controls down the bottom
to adjust the speed, you can pinch to zoom
to adjust the font size,
you can rotate your phone around to change it easily
between portrait and horizontal,
and using the two sliders at the top
you can easily adjust the margin widths
or how wide the text is gonna be displayed
on your teleprompter.
And also the focus area,
which is where the text is brightest
which should be the area that you're focusing on
while you're reading your script.
So it's really awesome to have these features
so easily accessible without then having to go back
into menus and those sorts of things
to configure everything up.
You can actually do it while it's setup on your teleprompter
and in presenting mode.
In regards to pricing again,
the Nano Teleprompter app currently sells for $2.99
as a one time purchase, not $2.99 a month,
just $2.99.
So whether you're gonna be using this with an actual
teleprompter or whether you're going to be using this app
to do the video recording
and bring your script up on screen,
you can see how amazing this app is
and why I'm so pumped to share it with you.
So to round this our for you,
if you are are looking for the best app right now
to use your phone camera and to present to the front camera
and have your script on screen,
hands down it's gonna go to Nano Teleprompter,
there's really nothing else out there like it.
But if you wanna use your Android phone or tablet
with an actual teleprompter,
then you've really got two app options,
you've got PromptSmart Pro if you're someone who is looking
for all of the advanced features and controls
and obviously having that voice control in there as well
and automatic voice scrolling.
That's an amazing feature and if you're creating videos
where you've written out the entire script
that could be the best thing for you.
Or if you're not too worried about the voice control
and you're still looking for an amazing app to use
with your teleprompter, then Nano Teleprompter
is going to be a great choice for you.
Personally, for me,
my go to right now for Android teleprompter app
is Nano Teleprompter,
given that it's one app that ticks a lot of boxes,
but if I am gonna be presenting out a really long script
and something where I'm not
gonna be doing multiple takes on things,
then yes, I'll be using PromptSmart Pro,
and I'll be using that voice scrolling feature.
So those are our top recommended apps for teleprompter apps
and teleprompter camera apps on Android right now.
Now if you are creating videos using your Android device
and you're looking to up the quality and your process
to get the best results out of your device,
then check out the video linked on screen
and I'll see you in the next one.