Free Online Autocue: Read Your Script Straight to Camera

News teams have relied on autocues for decades. Media scholars have studied how the device quietly reshaped broadcast and political delivery, tracing it from a 1948 stage trick to the invisible screens of modern newsrooms in the Journal of Visual Culture. A free online autocue brings that same broadcast tool to your desk: paste a script, set a words-per-minute pace, and the cue rolls at a steady speed while you read to camera. Because everything runs in the tab, the online autocue free option works on any laptop, tablet, or phone.

What is an autocue?

An autocue is a prompting display that shows your script as scrolling text. It sits just off to the side of the lens, so your eyes stay near the camera instead of dropping to a page or a tablet. In the UK and parts of Europe it is still called an autocue, after Autocue Ltd, the London firm that has built broadcasting prompters since 1955; everywhere else it is usually called a teleprompter, from the TelePrompTer Corporation that first put scripts on air in the 1950s. The words are interchangeable.

A modern online autocue adds tools a hardware unit can't: adjustable reading speed, countdown timer, loop mode, mirror controls for glass rigs, and formatting for bold, italic, underline, and highlight. All free, on one page.

Why use a free online autocue?

• Look at the camera. A cue prompter keeps your script in your peripheral view, so viewers feel like you are talking to them.
• No software needed to start. The online autocue free runs from a URL: open it, paste, and read. Want it to feel like an app later? Install it free in a click or two.
• Read at the right pace. Set an exact WPM from 50 to 400 and adjust it live with the +/− keys while you talk.
• Keep your script private. Words live in your browser's local storage, never uploaded to our servers.

What you get with this cue prompter

This free online autocue is the full tool under the hood of the homepage prompter, tuned for prompt-readers:

• Adjustable words-per-minute pacing, tuned live with the +/− keys while you speak.
• Focus guides: arrows, line, dashed, dot, ruler ticks, band, glow, or corner brackets.
• Countdown timer, target reading time, and loop mode for retakes.
• Mirror H and mirror V for beam-splitter and overhead autocue rigs.
• Fullscreen presenter mode with speed, progress, and jump-to-position.
• Formatting markers: bold, italic, underline, highlight, [chapter: Name] headings, pauses, and mid-script [wpm] changes.

Autocue vs teleprompter: same words, same tool

You may search for an autocue online and land on "teleprompter." That is expected. An autocue teleprompter is one and the same product. Whatever you call it, a cue prompter, a web autocue, or an online teleprompter, this page gives you the same reading prompt with the same free features.

How to use this free online autocue

1. Paste your script. Type or paste the script in the editor.
2. Set the pace. Choose a WPM speed, add a countdown, and pick your guide.
3. Press play and read. Space toggles play/pause, and the +/− keys nudge speed mid-take. Go fullscreen with F whenever you like.