Paste your script, set the speed, and read it straight down the lens while your webcam records. Or turn the camera off and use it as a plain scrolling prompter for the phone or camera you are already filming on. Your script and your video stay on your device.
The camera stays off until you press the button. Nothing is recorded before that.
Mirroring only changes what you see on this screen. The recorded file is never mirrored, so any writing behind you stays the right way round.
The take is held in this tab until you press stop, and the running size is shown next to the timer. For anything past about fifteen minutes, stop and save in parts so a full tab does not cost you the whole read.
Keys while you read: Space play or pause, ↑ ↓ speed, Home back to the top. Drag or scroll on the text to move it by hand.
Reading off a second monitor means your eyes drift away from the lens, and every stumble costs another take. A prompter that sits on top of your own camera preview fixes both problems: the text scrolls at the pace you actually speak, and it sits near the top of the frame so your eyeline stays close to the camera. This page does that in the browser, with no install, no signup and no watermark. The only practical limit is memory: the take is held in the tab until you stop it, so very long reads are safer taken in parts.
If you are shooting on a phone, a DSLR or a mirrorless body, you do not want this page touching your camera at all. Switch to prompter only mode and it never asks for camera permission. Put this tab on a laptop or tablet just under your lens, hit fullscreen, and read. There is a mirror option for anyone using a beam splitter prompter rig, where the glass flips the text back for you.
Speed is set in words per minute, and the scroll rate is worked out from your own script and your chosen text size, so 140 wpm reads at the same pace whether the text is small or huge. Most people speak between 120 and 160 wpm on camera. Do a practice run first, adjust with the arrow keys while it scrolls, then record. The word count and the estimated read time update as you type, which is handy when a video has to land under 60 seconds.
Chrome, Edge and Safari record straight to MP4 with H.264 video and AAC audio, which every platform accepts. Firefox records WebM instead, because that is the only format its recorder supports. The page tells you which one you are getting before you press record, and either file downloads with one click when you stop. One thing to plan for: a webcam records landscape, so a take meant for a Reel, a Short or TikTok still needs cropping to 9:16 afterwards. The free social video resizer on this site does that, and it needs Chrome, Edge or Opera on a desktop. The video itself is built by your browser and saved to your device. It is never uploaded to us or anyone else.
Short sentences. One idea per line. Blank lines between beats so you get a natural breath. If a line makes you trip twice, rewrite it rather than trying harder. Need the script itself? The free YouTube script generator and TikTok script generator on this site will draft one, then you can paste it straight in here.