Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Orate because every teleprompter app I tried had the same tell: the script fills the screen, so your eyes travel to read it, and anyone watching can see them move. Orate puts the script in a band directly under the front camera. Turn the phone and the band follows the lens to its new edge. Two things I cared about more than features: You never lose a take. The file on disk can be played the whole time you record. A call, a dead battery, or the OS killing the app leaves you everything up to that second. On a test handset, a take killed at 3:58 recovered 3:56. Nothing leaves your phone. No account and no upload. The whole app works in airplane mode. There's no server holding your scripts, so there's nothing to leak and no privacy policy that can quietly change. Also: read times are worked out per writing system, not from an English word count. The same 300 words are 2:00 in English, 2:18 in Hindi and 2:37 in Tamil. Orate is fully translated into 12 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew with right-to-left layout. Free has no watermark and never will. Export and crash-safe recording are free too. Pro adds 4K, HDR, 60fps and unlimited scripts. I'd love to hear what you record, and what gets in your way when you do.

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What gives away that someone is reading from a teleprompter?

I'm launching Orate here on 29 September. It's a phone teleprompter, and I built it around one thing I kept noticing: in most teleprompter videos you can tell the person is reading. Their eyes drift down the screen and snap back at the end of each line.

Orate keeps the script in a narrow band right under the front camera, so your eyes barely move from the lens. It also keeps your take if the app dies mid-recording.

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The teleprompter that doesn't lose your take

The teleprompter that doesn't lose your take

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What gives away that someone is reading from a teleprompter?

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What gives away that someone is reading from a teleprompter?