Teleprompter for social media video

Short-form video

The words matter most where you have the least room.

A thirty-second video has no space for a stumble, a re-phrase or a glance down at your notes. But reading it off a timed scroll is exactly what makes a piece to camera sound written.

The hook

The first line is the one you rewrote nine times. Deliver it word for word, at the pace you meant, looking at the lens rather than at a phone propped against a mug.

The energy

Pace is performance in short form. When the script follows you, you can push the tempo or land a beat without the text sliding out from under you.

The pickup

Fluff one line and you re-record one line. Skip back and start again mid-script and it searches the whole script to find where you have gone.

Filming

Read it without looking like you’re reading it.

Your current line sits on the guide line across the middle of the screen, with everything else faded back — so your eyes stay in one place instead of tracking down a page.

Put the screen next to the lens and scale the type up until the line is comfortable at that distance.
Using teleprompter glass? Mirror mode flips the text for a beam splitter.
Filming on a phone? Run Onwords full screen on the laptop behind it.
A live meter shows the app is hearing you before you commit to a take.

Mic Laptop mic array Listening

Heard

Batch days

Six videos in an afternoon, one script window.

Most creators don’t film one video, they film a week of them. Onwords keeps whatever is in the script box between takes and between days — paste the next one in, or keep them all in one long script and let the tracking find its place.

Your script is saved automatically and restored next time you open the app.
Word count, character count and an estimated reading time as you write.
The arrow keys nudge the position by a line; the mouse wheel scrolls freely.
Restart to the top of the script in one click between takes.

A creator filming herself at home with a camera on a tripod and a laptop on the table.

A baker recording a video tutorial to a camera on a tripod in a kitchen.

Demos and tutorials

Hands busy, script still moving.

Cooking, unboxing, building, demonstrating — the moment your hands are in shot, a clicker stops being an option and a fixed scroll becomes a race you lose.