Wispim vs Teleprompter Pro
A Teleprompter Pro alternative that floats over your camera app
Teleprompter.com is a four-platform studio that prompts, records, captions and streams. Wispim is one small iPhone app that puts the script on top of the camera app you already use. Their side of the table comes from their own pages.
People type “Teleprompter Pro” for more than one app. This page compares Wispim with Teleprompter.com, whose paid plans are called Pro, Max and Team, and every fact in its column comes from its own pages on the date shown under the table.
The two are not the same kind of software. Teleprompter.com is a recording studio: its pricing page says it “works seamlessly across iOS, Android, MacOS and Web”, and its feature list runs from prompting through 4K capture, subtitles, audio cleanup and per-platform resizing to live streaming. Wispim is a 1.8 MB iPhone app that never opens the camera. It holds the script, follows the words you say, and stays on top of whatever you film with. If you want one app to carry a video from script to upload, theirs does that and Wispim does not.
Wispim vs Teleprompter Pro, side by side
| Feature | Wispim | Teleprompter.com |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone only, iOS 16 or later. No iPad, Mac, Apple Watch or web app. Android is a waitlist. | Their pricing page says it “works seamlessly across iOS, Android, MacOS and Web”. |
| Scrolling | Voice scrolls to the words you actually said, Sound advances on speech alone, Constant runs at a set words per minute. | Their FAQ says VoiceGlide “listens as you speak and scrolls only as fast as you actually talk”, alongside speed, timed and words-per-minute scrolling. |
| Script on top of another iPhone app | A floating window stays on top while you record: Wide or Tall, rotatable 90° either way, snapping to a corner like Picture in Picture. It does not accept touch — an iOS constraint. | Not stated for iOS on their site. Their platform-features page lists a pop-out window, a transparent window and “keep window always front” under macOS. |
| When another app takes the microphone | Voice tracking keeps following while you record in Camera, Instagram and TikTok — tested. If another app does take the microphone, Wispim switches to Constant on its own, tells you, and switches back when it returns. On by default. | Not stated on their site. |
| Recording, and everything after it | None of it. Wispim does not record; the footage lands in the app you filmed with. | Their site lists “4K recording without a watermark”, automatic subtitle generation, a clean-audio feature that “removes background noise”, automatic formatting for “YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and other platforms”, background blur or replacement, and broadcasting simultaneously to those same networks. |
| Hands-free control | Spoken commands pause, continue and jump between sentences in 10 languages, phrases editable. Volume buttons move one sentence either way — marked Experimental, and they do not work inside camera apps. Tapping a word carries on from it. | Their site lists playback control from “any iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch”, plus “Bluetooth keyboards, presentation remotes, game controllers, MIDI controllers, and foot pedals”. |
| Languages | Voice following in every language your iPhone can recognise — 60+ locales on current iOS. Interface in 16 languages. Spoken commands in 10 of them. | Not stated on their site: their FAQ explains how to change the app’s language in device settings without listing which languages exist. |
| Where speech becomes text | On your iPhone where your language supports it. Where it does not, iOS sends the audio to Apple to convert it — the language picker marks those before the take and the app says so again during it. | Their FAQ says the app “may use cloud-based speech-to-text providers for transcription” by default, and that with Zero Data Retention switched on for teams, transcription runs “only on local models on your device”. |
| Accounts, cloud and teams | No account, no cloud, no shared workspace, no second operator. Scripts, audio and transcripts are never sent to us. | Their FAQ says you can use an anonymous ID without registering and keep scripts local with Cloud Sync off; sign-in with Apple, Google or email is offered, and the Team plan adds “Multiple editors” and a “Shared workspace”. |
| Before the take starts | No 3-2-1 countdown in Voice or Sound — the prompter waits until you speak. Constant has a start delay: off, 5, 10 or 20 seconds, shown inside the floating window too. | Their platform-features page lists “Countdown Before Starting” on all four platforms. |
| Import and mirroring | Import from PDF, Word and RTF, part of Pro. Mirror flips the text horizontally for a beam-splitter rig. | Their site lists “Support for TXT, Word, and PDF files” and “Horizontal and vertical script mirroring for use with teleprompter rigs”. |
| Price | Free gives you six prompter takes, every feature and unlimited scripts. Pro removes the take limit and adds import from PDF, Word and RTF: $9.99 a month, $49.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. | A free Starter tier that records with a watermark, then three paid per-seat tiers, monthly or billed annually, with a free trial on the annual plans. Amounts on their pricing page — we do not reprint them, because a price copied onto another site goes stale without anyone noticing. |
Teleprompter Pro details last checked on 5 September 2026, from their own website.
On the iPhone, the window on top is the whole argument
Their macOS app can pop the prompter into a separate window, make it semi-transparent and keep it in front of everything else — their platform-features page lists all three, under macOS. That is the right behaviour, and on a Mac they have it. Wispim’s version of it is the iPhone one. The script goes into a floating window over Camera, Instagram or TikTok, so you shoot in the app you already use, with its stabilisation and its effects, and the file ends up where you expect it. It does not accept touch, because iOS will not allow it, and that single constraint is why the spoken commands and the volume buttons exist — the buttons carrying both of their caveats: Experimental, and useless inside camera apps, which take them for the shutter.
Their app never meets the microphone problem on a phone, because its own recorder is the thing holding the microphone. Wispim sits on top of somebody else’s recorder, so it does meet it — which is what the hand-off row in the table above answers, switched on by default rather than left as a setting you have to go and find.
One app records; the other one refuses to
Subtitles, clean audio, resizing for each platform, background replacement, streaming to four networks at once — that is a real production pipeline, it is on their site, and Wispim does none of it. If your current workflow is “record in the app, fix it in the app, post it”, moving to Wispim means rebuilding that workflow out of other tools. What you get back is the freedom to keep the camera app you like, and a free tier with nothing burned into the picture, because there is no picture: their Starter plan lists recording with a watermark, and Wispim has nothing to watermark.
Where your voice becomes text
Neither app is offline by default, and both say so if you read carefully. Their FAQ states that by default the app may use cloud-based speech-to-text providers, and that with Zero Data Retention switched on for teams, transcription runs only on local models on the device. Wispim asks iOS instead of shipping a recogniser: it requests on-device recognition wherever your language has a model, and where your language has none, iOS sends the audio to Apple to turn into text. Wispim never receives that audio, the language picker marks those languages before you start, and a banner says so during the take. The practical difference is the reach: because the recogniser is the phone’s, following works in every language your iPhone can recognise.
Who should pick Teleprompter.com
Pick theirs if the iPhone is not the only place you present — Android, a Mac and a browser are all on their list, and Wispim has none of them. Pick theirs if you want captions and a clean-audio pass without opening a second tool; if you go live to Instagram or YouTube straight out of the prompter; if a producer or a co-host has to edit the same script in a shared workspace; or if you drive the scroll from a foot pedal, a MIDI controller or a Watch. And on a Mac, their always-in-front transparent window does exactly the job Wispim’s floating window does on a phone.
Pick Wispim for the one case their four platforms do not reach: an iPhone, filming in an app that is not the prompter. Every decision in Wispim is bent around that shape, which is also why the list of things it does not do runs as long as it does. For the names this page leaves out, there is the round-up of iPhone teleprompter apps.
Questions
Can Wispim float over the iPhone camera the way Teleprompter.com floats over a Mac?
Yes, and that is the reason this page exists. Wispim puts the script in a floating window that stays on top of Camera, Instagram, TikTok or anything else while you record, in Wide or Tall, rotatable 90° either way, snapping to a corner like Picture in Picture. It does not accept touch — an iOS constraint, and why the spoken commands and the volume buttons exist. Teleprompter.com’s platform-features page lists its pop-out window, transparent window and “keep window always front” under macOS; nothing equivalent is stated for iOS.
Does Wispim record video, add subtitles or clean up the audio?
No, none of the three. Wispim never touches the camera: you film in the app you already use and the footage lands there as usual, with that app’s stabilisation, filters and export. Teleprompter.com’s site lists 4K recording, automatic subtitle generation, a clean-audio pass that removes background noise, automatic reformatting per platform and live streaming, so if you want one app from script to upload, theirs is the one that does it.
Is Wispim a Teleprompter Pro alternative without a per-seat subscription?
Wispim is free to use for six prompter takes, and the free tier is not a demo: voice following, the floating window and the spoken commands are all in it. Scripts are unlimited. Pro removes the take limit and adds import from PDF, Word and RTF at $9.99 a month, $49.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. Teleprompter.com publishes its own plan prices per seat; they are quoted in the table above with the date they were checked.
Which one should a team of presenters buy?
Teleprompter.com, plainly. Their pricing page lists a Team plan with “Multiple editors” and a “Shared workspace”, and their apps cover iOS, Android, macOS and the web, so a mixed-device team is served. Wispim has no accounts, no cloud, no shared folders and no second-operator mode, and it runs on the iPhone only — it is built for one person with one phone.