Press kit

Open Prompter

A free, open-source teleprompter for iPhone and iPad. It reads your scripts as Markdown files straight from iCloud Drive, an Obsidian vault or Files, and follows your voice as you speak.

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Fact sheet

App: Open Prompter
Developer: Leland Dutcher (independent)
Platforms: iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later
Price: Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account.
License: Open source, MIT
Current version: 3.1.2 (3 September 2026)
First released: 27 April 2026
Category: Photo & Video
Privacy: No account, no analytics, no network calls of its own
Links: openprompter.app · App Store · GitHub
Press contact: leland@lelanddutcher.com

About

Open Prompter is a teleprompter for people who already write in Markdown. Point it at a script in iCloud Drive, an Obsidian vault or any Files location and it reads the file as it is: no pasting, no importing, and edits made elsewhere show up live.

On-device voice tracking follows what you actually say, so the script moves when you do. Mirror mode flips the text for beam-splitter rigs, and the app records you with the front camera and can save the video right next to the script it came from.

It is free and open source under the MIT license, made by an independent developer. There is no account, no analytics, and the app makes no network calls of its own.

Highlights

Markdown, in place: reads .md files from iCloud Drive, an Obsidian vault or Files
Voice tracking: on-device speech recognition follows your pace
Mirror mode for beam-splitter teleprompter rigs
Records as you read with the front camera; can save the .mov next to the .md
Private by default: no account, no analytics, no network calls of its own