Comedian Rehearsal Teleprompter for Mac Sets
Rehearsing a tight five means timing every beat, tag, and callback exactly the way you'll deliver it on stage — but staring at a notebook kills the bit. Telepront is a free native macOS teleprompter with voice-tracked scrolling, so you can pace your living room while your set scrolls itself on a floating panel. Built for comics workshopping new material before the open mic.
See It in Action
Standup is the rare performance form where reading a script on stage is a death sentence — but rehearsing without one means your tags drift, your callbacks get fuzzy, and your tight five turns into a loose seven. Comics need a tool for the apartment phase: running the set out loud, with the exact words, until the script disappears into muscle memory. Telepront is built for that phase.
The pacing-while-rehearsing problem is what kills paper scripts and laptop screens. You need to be able to walk the room, gesture, do the bit physically — not be locked to a chair reading. Set Telepront on a kitchen counter or a floor stand, glance at it when you blank on a tag, and let voice tracking advance the next beat as you talk through it.
Voice tracking specifically helps with comedy timing because it pauses when you do. A standup set is half pauses — the pause before the punchline, the pause for the laugh you're hoping for, the pause before the tag. Apps that scroll on a fixed timer wreck this rhythm. Telepront waits as long as you wait.
For new material, save each bit as its own file and switch fast. A comic working on a half-hour will rotate ten bits in a single rehearsal session, dropping the ones that didn't land at last night's mic and pushing the ones that did. Quick file switching means you spend rehearsal time rehearsing, not file-managing.
Key Features
How to Get Started
Tips from Creators
Position the floating panel at standing eye level on a counter or shelf — sitting at a desk to rehearse standup trains the wrong physical delivery and squashes your projection
Use 44-52pt font so you can read it from across the room while pacing, without locking your gaze to the screen and breaking the bit's physicality
Set opacity to 90% so your reflection in the screen doesn't distract — you're rehearsing for an audience, not watching yourself
Frequently Asked Questions
Will it wait for my pause-for-laugh timing?
Yes. Voice-tracked scrolling only advances when you speak, so when you pause for an imagined laugh — or a real one at the showcase — the script holds.
Can I use it on stage at an open mic?
Some comics do, parked on a stool-side iPad mirroring the Mac. But the main use case is rehearsal — running your set at home until you can ditch the script entirely.
How do I tag bits without losing my place?
Add your tags as inline annotations or new lines. The voice tracker advances through them naturally as you say them, so you see the next tag right when you need it.
Does it work for crowd-work practice?
Use it for memorizing your callback structure and pre-written crowd-work pivots. Real crowd work is improvised, but the framework around it is rehearsable.
Is it really free for working comics?
Yes. Free on the Mac App Store, no subscription, no watermark — useful when you're getting paid in drink tickets and showcase slots.
Ready to try it?
Free on the Mac App Store. No account needed.
Download on Mac App Store