Teleprompter for teachers

Recording a lesson should not take three hours for six minutes of usable video. A teleprompter you can pace to your own delivery lets you deliver the whole thing in one take, looking at the camera, and on iPhone you can caption and edit it in the same app.

Updated July 2026 · by the Reelvana team

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The problem with recording lessons

Every teacher who has tried to film a lesson knows the loop. You start strong, lose your place, glance down at your notes, break eye contact, stumble on a definition, and start the take over. Ten attempts later you have a rough cut that still needs editing. The content was never the problem. Delivering it in one continuous, camera-facing take is the hard part.

A teleprompter solves the delivery. A fixed, unchangeable scroll can fight you: too fast and you rush the material, too slow and you are waiting on the screen. Reelvana lets you set the reading speed on a words-per-minute slider (80 to 360), so you can dial in a pace that matches how you teach.

A prompter that moves at your pace

Reelvana's teleprompter auto-scrolls your script at the speed you choose. Set a slower pace to explain a point in detail, or a quicker one for a brisk recap. Because you tune the words-per-minute to your natural teaching rhythm, you deliver the lesson the way you would in a classroom, not in a race against a scroll bar.

The prompter is an overlay that sits over the camera view while you record, and you set the font size and text color so your line stays easy to read. Arabic scripts lay out right to left automatically, and you can save lessons to a searchable script library. Your eyes stay on the camera, which is what makes a recorded lesson feel like you are speaking to each student directly.

Captions so students can follow on mute

A lot of learning now happens on a phone, on a commute, with the sound off. Reelvana transcribes your speech on the device and burns captions into the video, so students can read along without audio and the lesson is accessible to anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing. Captions work in English and Arabic, laid out right to left where needed, and you can fix any misheard term before you export. There is a full guide to adding captions if you want the details.

Fix the take without starting over

Even with a prompter, a single recording is rarely perfect. Reelvana's cleanup finds silent gaps and filler and removes them, so the pauses where you gathered your thoughts do not end up in the final cut. On the timeline you can split out a fumbled sentence and delete it, re-speed a section, and trim the ends, all non-destructively. One long recording becomes a tight lesson without re-shooting.

Your material stays on your device

For teachers, privacy is not a nice-to-have. Unreleased course content, student names, and your own face should not be shuttled off to someone's server to be captioned or edited. The prompter, transcription, captions, and editing all run on the phone, so your video never leaves it. Recording, editing, on-device captions, and export all work offline. Your course is yours.

How to record a lesson

1. Script the lesson the way you would say it out loud, in short spoken sentences.
2. Set your scroll pace on the words-per-minute slider and start the prompter over the front camera.
3. Teach the whole thing in one take, at your own pace.
4. Cut the dead air and filler so the lesson tightens up.
5. Generate captions, fix any term, and export a burned-in version.

Common questions

Why should a teacher use a teleprompter?

To deliver a lesson in one camera-facing take without memorizing it. You set the scroll to your pace on a words-per-minute slider (80 to 360), so you cover every point and cut your re-take time.

Can I record a whole lesson in one take?

Yes. You set the scroll to your own pace, and you can cut any fumble and remove dead air afterward, so one recording becomes a clean lesson.

Can students watch on mute?

Yes. Speech is transcribed on device and captions are burned in, in English or Arabic, so the lesson is followable with the sound off.

Is my footage uploaded?

No. The prompter, captions, and editing run on the phone, so your video never leaves it.

Is it free?

Free to use, including the teleprompter. Pro unlocks a custom watermark or no watermark, premium transitions, background effects, premium caption styles and animations, unlimited cloud captions, and unlimited AI script generation: $9.99 monthly, $49.99 yearly with a trial, or $99.99 once.