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 app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that puts the script on top of the app you already use. Their side of the table comes from their own pages.
6 free takes. iPad, iPadOS 16 or later. 6 free takes. iPhone, iOS 16 or later. 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 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 single app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It 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 | Native app: iPhone with iOS 16 or later, iPad with iPadOS 16 or later, and Mac with macOS 13 or later. A separate browser teleprompter is available for simple sessions, but it does not sync with the app. No Apple Watch app. The Android app is in closed testing on Google Play and is not public. | Their pricing page says it works 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, Tall or Strip, snapping to a corner like Picture in Picture, with text that turns a quarter turn at a time. It does not accept touch, because iOS does not allow it. | 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, all tested. If another app does take the microphone, the text holds on the word you reached, a note says “Mic busy”, and reading carries on from that word when the microphone returns. Always on, with no setting. | 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, go back a sentence, start over and jump to the end, in 10 languages, phrases editable. Volume buttons move one sentence either way. They are marked Experimental and 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 languages before the take; a full-screen notice can appear if on-device recognition repeatedly fails and the app falls back to Apple. The floating window shows no notice. | 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 shared workspace, no second operator. Pro keeps your script library on your own iPhones and Macs through your own iCloud. 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 any mode. After the start delay, Voice and Sound wait until you speak. The delay is off, 5, 10 or 20 seconds, set per script in any mode, shown inside the floating window too. | Their platform-features page lists “Countdown Before Starting” on all four platforms. |
| Import and mirroring | Import from TXT, Markdown, PDF, DOCX 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 6 prompter takes, every prompter feature and unlimited scripts. Pro removes the take limit and adds import from TXT, Markdown, PDF, DOCX and RTF: $9.99 a month, $69.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. | A free tier with watermarked exports, plus paid plans. Features vary by platform. Amounts on their pricing page. We do not reprint them, because a price copied onto another site goes stale without anyone noticing. |
Teleprompter.com details last checked on 2 October 2026, from its home, pricing, platform-features and FAQ pages. This is desk research, not a hands-on comparison.
On the iPhone, the floating window is the difference
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 both apps have it: Wispim for Mac keeps its script in a floating panel above every app. The difference is on the iPhone, where Wispim’s 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 carry both of their caveats: they are marked Experimental, and they do not work 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. The hand-off row in the table above describes what Wispim does about it. It is always on and has no setting.
One app records and the other does not
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 keep is the camera app you like. Wispim’s free tier puts nothing into the picture because Wispim has no picture, while their Starter plan lists recording with a watermark.
Where your voice becomes text
Voice recognition is not always on-device in either product. 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. On the iPhone, Wispim uses the recogniser built into iOS, and voice following requests on-device recognition wherever your language has a model. Where your language has none, iOS sends the audio to Apple to turn into text. Wispim never receives that audio, and the language picker marks languages that need a connection before you start. A full-screen notice can also appear if recognition falls back to Apple; the floating window has no such notice. The practical difference is the reach: because the recogniser is the phone’s, following works in every language your iPhone can recognise. On a Mac it is the recogniser built into macOS, and the language list marks the languages that go to Apple.
Who should pick Teleprompter.com
Pick theirs if you need native apps beyond the iPhone, the iPad and the Mac. Android and a browser-based product are on their list; Wispim’s separate browser teleprompter is for simple reads and does not sync with the app. 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. On a Mac, both keep the script in a window in front of everything else, so choose on the rest of this list.
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. Wispim puts the script in a floating window over other iPhone apps, in Wide, Tall or Strip, snapping to a corner like Picture in Picture, with text that turns a quarter turn at a time. Voice following while recording has been tested in Camera, Instagram and TikTok; other apps may take the microphone. The window does not accept touch, because iOS does not allow it, and that is why the spoken commands and 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.
Does Wispim have a lifetime purchase?
Yes. Pro also comes as a one-time purchase, next to a monthly and a yearly plan. Wispim is free to use for 6 prompter takes, and every prompter feature is in it: voice following, the floating window and the spoken commands. Scripts are unlimited. Pro removes the take limit and adds import from TXT, Markdown, PDF, DOCX and RTF at $9.99 a month, $69.99 a year or $199.99 once, in USD. Teleprompter.com publishes its current plans on its pricing page.
Which one should a team of presenters buy?
Teleprompter.com is the one for a team. 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 shared folders and no second-operator mode. Pro keeps your scripts on your own iPhones and Macs through your own iCloud. That is your own storage, not a workspace anyone can be invited to. It is built for one person, on an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac.