FloatText vs Readglide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FloatText
This app acts as a teleprompter, allowing you to place customizable text anywhere on your screen. Read your script while recording yourself for professional-looking videos without memorizing lines.
- Place scripts anywhere on screen
- Customizable text size and color
- Adjustable scroll speed
- Save and manage scripts
- Full customizable teleprompter screen
- Adjustable side margins
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Float your script anywhere — now with 4K, Voice-Follow, and full rotation. FloatText is a teleprompter that floats your script over any app, follows your voice as you speak, and records sharp video. Version 4.0 adds Script Challenge: read a script aloud, get scored, and level up. TELEPROMPTER & RECORDING • Floating Prompter — keep your script on screen over other apps with picture in picture, and place it where you want. • Voice Follow — the script scrolls as you speak. Choose Classic or Adaptive read-along. • Auto Scroll — set your speed; guide-line and highlight modes for easier reading. • Portrait & Landscape — the prompter rotates with you. • Full-Screen Prompter — focus on your script with nothing else on screen. • Style It Your Way — font size, colours, alignment, line spacing, background opacity and a countdown. • 4K Recording — with the script right under the camera while you record. • Scripts & Recordings — save, reuse and organise your scripts and videos in the app. WHO IT’S FOR • YouTube creators and vloggers • TikTok and short-video creators • Streamers and presenters • Teachers and online course creators • Mobile journalists and reporters • Marketers and content teams • Anyone practising clear, confident speaking Challenge scoring uses on-device speech recognition and requires iOS 26 or later. On earlier versions you can still read and record challenges for practice. Have ideas or feedback? Email: app@floattext.com SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Subscribe to FloatText Pro for unlimited scripts, longer recordings, unlimited Voice Follow and floating prompter, and 4K recording. • Subscription options: Monthly / Half-yearly / Yearly • Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase. • If you cancel, your subscription remains active until the end of the current billing period. • Any unused portion of a free trial (if offered) will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.floattext.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.floattext.com/terms.html
Readglide
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Rehearse a speech, a presentation or an interview answer with the script in front of you, then find out how closely you kept to it. Readglide scrolls your script, records the take and scores it against the text, all on the iPhone or iPad in your hands. SCORED AGAINST YOUR SCRIPT • Read as written: how closely the part you read matched the script, word for word, and how many of its lines you covered • Skipped lines are listed, so you know what to look at before the next take • Speaking rate in words (or characters) per minute, and each pause of two seconds or longer with the words you resumed on • A practice history for each script: a chart of recent takes, the change since the last take, and your personal best • Set a time budget to compare planned and actual time for each section (start a line with # to make a section) ON THE CLOCK WHILE YOU SPEAK • Give a script a time budget and watch a green, yellow or red signal, the time left, and whether the scroll is ahead of or behind plan • A marker in the script shows where the scroll should be by now • Fit to time: one tap sets the scroll speed so the rest of the script finishes close to your time • Timer & Bell, with no script on screen: green, yellow and red, a large countdown, and bells — one ring for the warning, two when time is up, three for an optional third bell REHEARSE YOUR WAY • Audio only: practice with the microphone alone — no camera, and the recording is not saved to Photos • On camera: the script floats over the live preview and is not recorded into the video, at up to 4K and 60 fps depending on the model • Script captions: save a video take with captions made from your script text, in its original aspect ratio or 9:16, or share an .srt file • Shoot by Section: in a saved script, record one # section at a time, retake only the parts you want, and join the takes you pick into one video in Photos; each take is scored against its own section • Retakes: when you reread part of the script in a video take, choose the false starts to cut and save a new video to Photos; the original stays as it is SELF-TAPES, SCENES AND INTERVIEWS • Write character names in capitals ("ANNA: …") and pick your role from a menu; your partner's lines dim • Hear your partner's lines read aloud by the system voice — the scroll waits until each line is finished • Put a slate card with your name, role and agency at the start of a captioned video • Interview practice: a sample interview reads each Q: question aloud while you answer from the A: lines, and you can write your own Q: and A: script the same way READ-ALOUD LOG FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS • Read a saved script or pasted text aloud with audio-only practice, then see the reading time and the spots to practice • Add each reading to a dated log and share a month as one image THE PROMPTER • Smooth auto-scroll with fine speed control, adjustable while it runs, and the reading time at the current speed • Jump between sections, pause with a tap, and start from a countdown • Font size, typeface, line spacing, margins and five color themes • Mirror mode for beam-splitter rigs, and vertical text for Japanese scripts • Import PDF, text and RTF files, and keep as many scripts as you like • Bluetooth remote and foot-switch control ON-DEVICE SPEECH RECOGNITION Readglide turns your take into text on the iPhone or iPad itself and compares it with the script without uploading the audio. Scoring, captions, retakes and the Read-Aloud Log work for scripts in languages the iPhone or iPad can recognize offline; for a language it cannot, the app tells you instead. A score keeps only numbers, script by script; the log also keeps each script's title and the spots to practice, but not the audio or the recognized words. Readglide costs a single up-front price, and everything described here comes with it — no monthly fee.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FloatText at Free against Readglide's $1.99. Readglide's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
FloatText is free to download; Readglide costs $1.99 up front. FloatText sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Readglide asks for nothing beyond the download.
FloatText ships an update every 3 weeks, Readglide weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FloatText | Readglide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (334 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 334 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 东方 刘 | Kohei Omori |
Bugs and requests
FloatText
Reported bugs
4 issues- Camera stops recording when app is running
- Text resizing/speed issues
- Buttons/features not working as expected
- Compatibility issues with iOS 16.2
Requested features
4 requests- Free trial option
- Improved camera integration
- More customization options
- Better customer support
Readglide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FloatText
- FloatText Pro$9.991 Month
- FloatText - Teleprompter Pro$39.996 Months
- FloatText Pro3 Days trial$49.991 Year
Readglide
No in-app purchases









