On a video call the problem is not remembering your words. It is that everyone can see your eyes. Reading from a document open somewhere else on your screen is instantly obvious to the person watching, and the fix is entirely about geometry.
FreeTeleprompter.io works as an autocue during a Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet call. You open it in a second browser window, size it into a narrow strip directly beneath your webcam, and read from it while the call runs. It does not join the meeting, does not need permission from your IT department, and the other participants see only your camera. It is free and requires no account.
Open the autocue in a second window
Not a tab, a separate window you can size and move. It sits alongside the call rather than inside it.
Make it a narrow strip, not a full screen
A wide block of text forces your eyes to sweep left and right, which is the movement people notice. Narrow it until each line is a handful of words.
Park it directly under your webcam
On a laptop the camera sits above the screen, so the strip belongs along the top edge. On an external monitor, put it wherever your camera physically is. The closer to the lens, the smaller the giveaway.
Turn off your own self-view
Watching yourself is the second biggest cause of shifty eyes on a call, and most meeting apps let you hide it. You will look more present within about thirty seconds.
Slow the scroll slightly
Calls compress audio and add a little lag. Speaking marginally slower than feels natural reads as considered on the other end, not slow.
Frequently asked questions
No. It is a separate browser window on your own screen and it does not join the meeting. The only way anyone sees it is if you share your entire desktop, so share a specific window or application instead.
Yes. It is not integrated with any meeting platform, which is exactly why it works with all of them. It is just a browser window showing scrolling text on your own machine, so the meeting app is irrelevant to it.
No. It runs in the browser you already have. There is nothing to install, no extension, no account and no admin permission needed, which matters on a locked-down work laptop.
Record a fifteen second test with your camera in the same position you will use for the call, then watch it back. Eye movement that feels invisible while you are doing it is usually obvious on playback, and the fix is almost always a narrower column of text closer to the lens.
It can be, if you prop the phone immediately beneath your webcam. That puts the text physically closer to the lens than anywhere on your screen. The trade-off is that you cannot scroll it easily with a keyboard while the call runs.
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