Tellie

Tellie transforms your Mac camera notch into a voice-aware teleprompter and presentation co-pilot. Designed to keep your eyes locked on the lens during videos, sales pitches, and live talks, Tellie matches your spoken words in real time across more than 40 languages with zero audio leaving your Mac. Tellie does not just follow your script. It helps you deliver on your intentions. Using simple markdown tags in your text, Tellie's Stagehand feature watches your key points, calculates your remaining time against your actual speaking pace, and checks off topics as you cover them, even when you improvise out of order. In Presenter Magic mode, Keynote notes appear in the notch and slides turn automatically when you wrap up a thought. For developers, autonomous AI agents can push status alerts straight to your sightline. Tellie stays completely invisible to Zoom participants and screen recorders. Built in three days by former Apple product executive Steve Chazin using AI as a pair programmer while visiting his granddaughter Ellie in Vermont, Tellie exemplifies practical technology: human-centered, subscription-free, and private. Try it free at tellieapp.com. --- Problem You're recording a video or presenting on Zoom and your eyes keep darting to notes off-screen. Existing teleprompters scroll at a fixed speed, require internet, show up when you share your screen, or cost $15-59/month. Tellie listens. It tracks the actual words you say, not just the sound of your voice, highlights exactly where you are, and stays with you if you skip ahead, go back, or improvise. Tellie lives in the MacBook notch or detach and float anywhere. Invisible to Zoom, screen recorders, and screenshots. ~40 languages, all on-device. No account, no telemetry. Working actors are using it, including Sprague Theobald (Law & Order, Only Murders in the Building, FBI, Poker Face), who uses Tellie for audition prep. NEW: Presenter Mode (Pro). It listens while you pitch, too. Just present in Keynote, and your speakers notes automagically appear in the notch, invisible to your audience and your recording. With voice-follow, as you finish your thought, your next slide is already there. No clicker, no keyboard, no second monitor required. Tellie is the only prompter that knows what you did not say. Every other app, including the voice-follow ones, tracks where you are in the text. Tellie tracks what the take still owes: the marked sections you have covered, the ones you skipped, and whether the clock still allows them. That is a different job from scrolling. Tellie is the only teleprompter that scores an ad-lib. Say your key phrase in your own words, anywhere in the take, and the section counts as covered. Every other prompter loses the thread the moment you leave the page. Tellie does word-level voice-follow, in the notch. Voice-follow apps mostly float a window over your work; notch-native apps mostly scroll at a fixed pace. Tellie is the one that does both, on-device, in more than 40 languages and regional variants. Pricing A free tier that is a real teleprompter, plus 10 days of Pro for everyone, no card. Tellie Pro: $29 One-time purchase, no subscription. Voice-follow in ~40 languages, pace report, playlists, per-script memory, one-key retake, section nav, thin-strip mode, global hotkeys, float anywhere. Up to 3 Macs. 14-day refund. Tellie Download: https://tellieapp.com/?utm_source=peerpush