PrompterPal vs TelepaText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PrompterPal
Transform your iPad or iPhone into a teleprompter or speech assistant. Automatically scroll your script to maintain audience engagement and never lose your place. Offers extensive customization for text appearance and various remote control options.
- Automatic scrolling script
- Customizable text appearance
- Multiple remote control options
- Extensive file import/export
- External monitor support
- Display mirroring
- File sharing via cloud and web server
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PrompterPal turns your iPad and iPhone into a teleprompter or speech assistant! PrompterPal automatically scrolls your speech for you to allow you to engage your audience and not worry about losing your place. Various forms of remote controls are possible as well as an external monitor. Share files between PrompterPal and a computer in several different ways. Check out PromptRemote, the free remote for PrompterPal. Easily configure the appearance of the text content to suit your presentation requirements including... • Font • Font Size • Text Color • Background Color • Head and Tail Indent • Line Spacing • Text Style Prompter features include: • Import File Types: PrompterPal (.prompterPal), Text (.txt), Rich Text (.rtf), Word (.docx) and HTML • Export File Types: PrompterPal (.prompterPal), Text (.txt), Rich Text (.rtf) and HTML • Five Marker Styles: Bar, Marker, Two Line, Inverted, Two Markers • Scroll Speed: Variable with two speed ranges. • Display mirroring for using a reflective teleprompter • Countdown: Two styles • Bidirectional Timer • External Monitor Support • Built-in user manual • Customizable title bar to give access to the features that are important to your workflow. • More... • File Sharing PrompterPal offers a variety of file sharing methods to assist in moving files between devices as well as a computer. - iTunes File Sharing: Copy files to and from PrompterPal using iTunes. - Email Files: Email files from PrompterPal and open files from other apps such as Mail. - iOS File Sharing: Send files directly from one PrompterPal to another. - Web Server: Host a web page that can be used from any computer to upload and download files. - Web Server Browser: Use built-in browser to load web page from another web server to download files or the entire database from another PrompterPal. - AirDrop: Use Apple's AirDrop to send files. - iCloud: Upload and download files from iCloud Drive. - Dropbox: Upload and download files from your Dropbox account. - Google Drive: Upload and download files from your Google Drive account. - iOS Remote Sharing: Send files and databases between host and peers. • Remote Control PrompterPal has a variety different remote options. - iOS Remote: Use another iOS device running PrompterPal or PromptRemote to control PrompterPal. Synchronize multiple devices. - Blue Tooth Keyboard: Assign keys of a blue tooth keyboard to control prompter features. - Touch Tone Remote: Use touch tone signals playing into the microphone line-in to control prompter features. - Audio Remote: Use the headphone in-line remote or other audio remote to control prompter features. - AirTurn Remote: Use wireless remotes from www.airturn.com to control prompter features. - Web Server Remote: Use a web page hosted on the network to control the prompter features. - Apple Watch: Use the Apple Watch to remotely control prompter functions. - Bluetooth MIDI: Use IK Multimedia's iRig Blueboard to control prompter functions. - Game Controller: Use MFi game controllers to control prompter functions. - Touch Recording: Record and playback your interactions with the prompter. - Speech Recognition: Use your speech to control the script using key words or the text content of the script. - Key Commands: Configure key combinations to control prompter features. This feature is enabled at all times. • Recording - Use either camera. - Movable video preview overlaying the script. - Share your video in a variety of ways. • Monitor Out Use an external monitor connected to the dock connector or AppleTV to display the prompter content. - Choose output resolution from supported resolutions. - Configure output to match device, or device to match output. - Adjust transform and mirroring for external display independently of device. - Works great with AppleTV and AirPlay. PrompterPal is perfect for public speakers, public broadcasting and electronic news gathering, school and business presentations and more!
TelepaText
This app offers robust text editing with extensive actions for research, speaking, and sharing across Apple devices. It features text-to-speech, dictation, and speech commands for enhanced productivity. Documents sync seamlessly via iCloud for a unified experience.
- Extensive text editing actions
- Text-to-speech and dictation
- Speech commands for app control
- iCloud document syncing
- Cross-platform unified interface
- Data detectors for links and addresses
- Print scaling options
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TelepaText provides essential text document editing, with extensive actions for text, research, speaking, sharing and viewing, built for iPad, iPhone, macOS and iCloud. Text-to-speech, dictation, speech commands and speech feedback are featured in TelepaText. Documents are automatically synced between your devices with iCloud. A common display style and command interface is provided on both platforms for best productivity. Main Features: • Easy actions for Wikipedia, Share, Web Search, Map Search, Open URL, Mail selection or document, Speak, Document Info, Sort Lines, Evaluate Expression, Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Markdown, Word Usage, Word Types, Move To Folder, Smooth Scroll, Select Font. • Share action includes activities such as Message, Mail, Facebook, Sina Weibo, Pinterest, Google+, etc. • Actions are organized into a toolbar and a menu with unified keyboard shortcuts. • Many actions are unified on both platforms, with the same keyboard shortcuts. • Support for Handoff to easily switch editing TelepaText iCloud documents between various devices, from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and macOS computers. • Data detectors automatically find and highlight web links, dates, addresses, and phone numbers; simply tap for related actions. • Keyboard accessory, actions toolbar, extensive settings, modern navigation • Print options include scaling options for font size. • File Actions and iCloud file browser including filename, date, size, label color, and sorting • Use iCloud file system and/or device local files on macOS and iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Speech features: • Use text-to-speech for reading of documents, with automatic smooth scroll • Use Dictation support (speech-to-text) to add text to documents, and to control TelepaText with Speech Commands. • Speech Commands (an In-App Purchase) provide powerful ways to control the app with your voice on macOS and iPhone. Use speech commands to select text, open documents, get info about documents, rename documents, query various web search engines, evaluate expressions, change settings, send tweets, insert a contact's address, phone, or email, insert the date or time, and many more actions. • Speech Commands are a powerful Siri-like TelepaText-based extension to speech control functionality. • Speech Commands Reference view displays the complete phrase structure for speech commands. • Tune the Speak action (text-to-speech) to the desired speaking rate, pitch, and paragraph pause intervals. • Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase, and require the Dictation capability on your iOS device. More features: • Document Info action displays date created, date modified, paragraph, line and character counts for both the entire document and the current selection. • Sort Lines action sorts the lines of the selected text or the entire document alphabetically. • Evaluate action evaluates mathematical expressions such as (29.95+39.95)*3.0. • Choose font from common fonts, or any font available on the system. • Dark Style and Light Style. • Enjoy your beautiful desktop image through your document editing on macOS with Window Transparency and Auto-Hide Menu Bar controls. • Unified interface for iCloud file system navigation on both platforms. • The Settings view lets users customize a wide range of app behaviors. • Keyboard shortcuts for actions are the same on both iOS with hardware keyboard and macOS, which makes it easier to shift between devices. See Keyboard shortcuts for TelepaText. • Actions are performed on the selected text. Some actions can use the entire document, such as Mail. • Rename a document by tapping it's title in the editing view. • iCloud support is available on macOS Yosemite 10.10 and iOS 8 and later. Visit http://imaja.com/telepatext for full details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TelepaText at 5.0 against PrompterPal's 3.3. TelepaText also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (67% vs 57%). PrompterPal's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#187 vs unranked). On ads, 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
PrompterPal costs $7.99 and TelepaText $9.99 up front. TelepaText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PrompterPal asks for nothing beyond the download.
TelepaText holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PrompterPal has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of PrompterPal's written reviews are positive against 67% of TelepaText's.
PrompterPal ships an update every 6 weeks, TelepaText every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PrompterPal | TelepaText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #187 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sunshine Valley Systems | Imaja |
Customer experience
PrompterPal
TelepaText
In-app purchases
PrompterPal
No in-app purchases
TelepaText
- Speech Commands$4.99









