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Orate

Video teleprompter · iPhone & Android

Look at the lens,
not the script.

Your words scroll in a narrow band directly under the camera, so your eyes barely leave it. That gap is the difference between speaking to someone and visibly reading.

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Languages
Ten

Why this one

Four things it does that the others don't.

Every number below came off a device rather than out of a meeting, and every one of them is something you can check for yourself in the first ten minutes.

01

The words sit under the lens, not across the screen

Most teleprompters spread your script over the whole display. Your eyes travel to read it, and everybody watching can see them move — it is the tell that separates talking to someone from visibly reading at them.

Orate keeps the script in a band directly beneath the front lens. Turn the phone and the lens changes edge, so the band goes with it rather than staying where it was.

45%
of the screen, by default
15–100%
if you want it another way
4 edges
the band follows the lens
Same script, same phone. The only thing that changes is where the words are.

02

A crash costs you seconds, not the take

The file on disk is playable the whole time you are recording. Being killed mid-take — a call, a flat battery, the system reclaiming memory — leaves you everything up to that moment instead of a file that will not open.

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03

It knows how your language reads

Read time comes from the writing system, not an English word count. The same three hundred words are two minutes of English and well over two and a half of Tamil, and Orate tells you which before you start.

Ten languages, translated in full

04

Nothing leaves your device

No account, no sign-in, no upload. Your scripts and your recordings stay on the phone, and the whole app works with the network switched off.

No backend, by design

The app

Three screens, and that is the whole app.

A library, a recorder, and a short settings screen. That is the whole of it — no fourth tab to find, and nothing to learn past these three.

Scripts 6 +
Series A announcement

What we raised, and the three things we will do with it.

39 words · 0:15
Weekly product update

Two shipped, one slipped, and why.

31 words · 0:12
இந்த வாரம்

வணக்கம், நான் மீரா.

20 words · 0:10
Customer story — Rosa

Rosa films every brief herself, twice a week.

27 words · 0:10
Podcast cold open

No intro music. Straight to the question.

24 words · 0:09
Fundraise FAQ

The six questions we were asked most.

18 words · 0:07
Write or paste Read time comes from the writing system, so the estimate means something in every language.
01:18 4K60

The band sits under the lens, and follows it when you turn the phone, so your eyes barely leave the camera.

Record The script starts scrolling when recording does. A crash costs you seconds, not the take.
SettingsDone

Appearance

SystemLightDark

Recording

Quality4K60 HDR
Countdown3 s

Language

LanguageEnglish

Diagnostics

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Never includes your scripts, your video, or anything that identifies you.

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Set it once Quality, countdown and language, then left alone. The controls you touch during a take live on the recorder.

Every size

One layout, four shapes.

The recorder changes by width, not by device name. What moves is the reading window and the controls — and the window goes wherever that device keeps its front camera.

iPhone portrait · compact Band under the lens. Controls over the bottom of the frame.
Android phone landscape · compact Sideways, the lens is on the leading edge. The band follows it; the controls take the other.
iPad landscape · expanded Recent iPads put the camera on the long edge, so the band sits along the top and the rail comes off the video.
Android tablet portrait · expanded A bottom rail with bigger targets, and the text held to a measure rather than the full width.

No separate tablet build and no orientation lock anywhere in the app — one layout resolving four variants, off the three width classes both platforms agree on.

Controls

Four sliders and a switch.

That is the whole of it. Three live in one sheet, the pace lives on the recorder where you can reach it mid-sentence, and every one of them starts somewhere sensible.

Capture

Up to 4K, 60fps, HDR.

And the part nobody advertises: what happens when the phone cannot manage what you asked for. Orate records at the closest quality your device actually supports and drops down rather than failing at the countdown.

  • 4K 2160p, on any device whose camera provides it. Where it does not, you get the highest it does — you are told which, not left guessing.
  • 60fps For movement that stays smooth: hands, gestures, anything cut into slow motion later. 30 is the default because it is what most footage wants.
  • HDR Ten-bit colour, so a window behind you stops blowing out to white. It sits on top of 4K60, which is the one combination worth having.

1080p at 30fps is free, and it is what most footage wants. The three above are a paid upgrade inside the app — the prompter, and recording that survives a crash, never are.

While you record

Space is checked twice
Once when you press record, then every five seconds after — because the usual reason someone is short of space is that they have been recording.
It stops with room left
Twenty seconds of headroom, deliberately. A take Orate ends is a take you keep; a take the system ends mid-write is junk.
Heat warns, it does not cut
A throttled take beats one that stops mid-sentence, so only a genuinely critical temperature ends a recording.

iPhone records HEVC and Android H.264, so the space it needs is worked out per codec and per quality rather than from one number that is wrong on one of them.

Your language

Ten languages, translated in full.

Not just the menus. Every screen, every setting, and the whole sample script you record on your first day — which is a page of prose translated ten times over, not a label.

A key missing even one of its nine translations fails a test on both platforms, so there is no quiet half-translated state to fall into. Read time is worked out per writing system too, which is why the same three hundred words run to 2:00 of English and 2:37 of Tamil. And right-to-left is independent of the prompter's mirror, so an Arabic script reads correctly whether or not you are shooting through a beam splitter.

Free to start

Stop reading at your audience.

The prompter and crash-safe recording are free, with no account and no watermark. Nothing to set up, and nothing to cancel — install it and record.

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