Features
Everything that stands between the script and the camera
Built for the moment somebody has to speak in a second. Hence few buttons, large type and nothing that wants to load first.
In front of the camera
Everything a shooting day needs, built so that it still works with cold fingers.
The prompter
Large text, a calm crawl, a reading line where your eyes actually sit. Type size, line height and mirroring are set on the device, upside down for rigs above the lens. Black screen in one move, countdown before the start, full screen with no browser bars.
- Mirrored and upside down for any rig
- Reading line, type size, line height, column width
- Black screen, countdown, full screen
- Time left per chapter and against a target time
The remote
Your phone drives the iPad through a QR code, with no sign-in. Start and stop, speed, chapter jumps, black screen. Whoever directs sees the same spot you do and can move it with a thumb.
- Pair with the QR code shown by the prompter
- Usable without an account, one link is enough
- Speed and position in real time
- Chapter list to jump around
Follow along by microphone
The prompter listens and moves the text as far as you have spoken. Stage directions and speaker names are skipped, because nobody reads them out. Speech recognition runs in the browser at Apple or Google, not with us.
- It follows your pace, not the other way round
- Pauses stay pauses, and it never jumps back
- Six script languages with their own default pace
- Switch it off any time and the crawl goes steady
Offline mode
The prompter puts itself into the browser store the first time you open it. If the network dies on set, you will not notice it at the prompter. Changes go up as soon as there is signal again.
- Runs without a network after the first load
- Editing stays possible
- A visible note about what is not available right now
- Uploading afterwards takes no action from you
Foot pedals and presenters
When your hands are busy, use your foot. Foot pedals, presenters and Bluetooth clickers show up as a keyboard and drive the prompter, without a network and without a phone in between. Which key does what is up to you: press Learn key, press your key, done.
- Every function freely assignable
- The last key pressed always in view
- A held key runs instead of jumping
- Gamepad on the computer, if you have one
Two prompters on set
Your guest gets an iPad of their own, and both show the same position in the text. How it looks there is each device's own business: their lines bright and yours dimmed on their screen, the other way round on yours. Pairing takes two deliberate taps, never happens on its own.
- Position, run and speed stay in step
- Type size, mirroring and colours per device
- Two sets in one project are kept apart by location
- A second window asks instead of joining in
Edit live from the phone
A typo shows up on set, somebody fixes it on the phone, and two seconds later the prompter shows the right sentence. You edit the single paragraph, not the whole script, and the running prompter does not lose its place.
- A long press opens the paragraph
- The neighbour above and below stays in view
- The prompter takes it over without stopping
- The other device shows who is writing right now
Readable, also when reading is hard
Three fonts, five colour schemes and three contrast levels, plus line spacing, letter spacing and column width. Amber on black for long shooting days, dark on light for outdoors in the sun. All of it is free, in every tier: bad eyesight should not cost extra.
- Figtree, Lexend and OpenDyslexic
- Five colour schemes, three contrast levels
- Line spacing, letters, column width
- Can be set from the phone as well
At the desk
By the time a script reaches the set it usually has three versions and two opinions behind it.
The editor
Speakers and chapters take colour while you type, the outline sits beside the text and follows along. Seven hints flag what causes trouble on set: the speaker without a line, the chapter without a name, the pause without a number. On a bad connection a plain text box remains, and you can still write.
- Outline with chapters and speakers
- Suggestions for names that already exist
- Paste from Word and Google Docs
- Clean up tidies quotation marks and dashes
Import from Word and PDF
Upload the document, look at the preview, take it over. Your document on the left, the finished script on the right, and you see beforehand what became of which line. Styles are read: a heading becomes a chapter, an italic paragraph becomes a stage direction.
- Word, LibreOffice, PDF and plain text
- A side by side preview before anything is created
- Two column screenplays are recognised
- The file is read and deleted right away
Sign-off by your client
A share link, with commenting switched on if you want it. Whoever opens it reads the text as the prompter will show it, marks a spot and writes a comment on it. They need no account, and they give their name once.
- Comments stay attached to the place in the text
- One digest email instead of ten separate ones
- Handled comments are ticked off, not deleted
- What can no longer be found stays, with its quote
Versions
Every save creates a version. You see what changed and bring back any earlier one. On shooting day this is the insurance against that one cut which turned out not to be a good idea.
- History per script
- Differences marked up
- Restore with one click
- Export as plain text files
Teamwork
An account is the customer, not the person. You invite colleagues with a role: view, edit or administer. Whoever stands on set without an account gets a share link, with an expiry date if you want one.
- Three roles, cleanly separated
- Invitation by email, revocable at any time
- Share links per project, four levels of access
- You can see where someone is signed in from
Bring your own AI
You store your own key, we pass the request through. Six ready-made instructions are waiting: more relaxed, shorter to the target time, translate, add stage directions, easier to speak, spelling. The suggestion appears while it is written and then stands next to your script. You take it over paragraph by paragraph, and only what you tick.
- OpenAI, Anthropic or any OpenAI compatible address
- Your key, encrypted and personal to you
- We store neither the request nor the answer
- What you take over becomes a version with its instruction
The text format that is not one
You write plain text. Six rules are enough, and none of them needs a menu.
- A speaker name goes at the start of a line with an at sign in front: @Tanja, or @Anna Mueller for names in several parts. It holds until the next one comes and gets a colour of its own. @Tanja: Good morning works too, and then the first sentence stays on the same line.
- A chapter mark goes at the start of a line with a hash in front: #Opening. Chapters appear in the jump list and on the remote.
- Anything in square brackets is a stage direction: [click on Guests]. It stands small and dimmed in the text, is not read out and does not count towards the reading time.
- [Pause 2] holds the steady crawl for two seconds. Without a number it is one and a half.
An example, exactly as you type it
#Welcome
@Tanja
Good to have you here. In the next two minutes I will show you how to write your first script.
[click on Projects]
We start with projects, because that is where every script lives.Create an account, paste your text, put the iPad on the camera. It takes no longer than that.