NewCaptions in Recording Studio: every word lights up as you say it, spelled from your script.

Features

Everything a take needs. From the first draft to the final cut, on one Mac.

45 features across seven chapters, and most of them are free. Pro adds voice scrolling without limits, the AI tools and remote control.

01 · Read

Read at eye level. Your script sits right under the lens.

Notch Mode tucks the prompter into the MacBook camera notch, so your eyes stay on the lens while you read. On any other display it floats wherever you put it.

Notch Mode

Free

Snaps the prompter window directly into the MacBook camera notch, placing your script at perfect eye level. Maintain natural eye contact without moving your gaze away from the lens. Resize it by dragging its bottom edge or corners, or set an exact width and height in Settings.

Floating Mode

Free

A draggable, resizable window that works on any Mac — including external monitors. Resize it into a narrow sliver or a wide reading block and place it anywhere.

Focus Guide

Free

Automatically dims text you've already read, leaving the active line bright. Your eyes snap back to the right word instantly after glancing away.

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Custom Colors

Free

Tint the prompter background and set your text color to whatever reads best for you — high-contrast white on black, a softer palette, or a look that matches your set. Free for everyone.

Mirror Text

Free

Flips the prompter horizontally so text reads correctly through a physical beam-splitter glass. Enable it in Settings → Prompter. The script and the prompter controls flip together, so everything stays legible inside the rig.

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Adjustable Transparency

Pro

Dial the prompter background from solid down to fully see-through, so your slides, camera, or video call stay in view while you read straight through the script. Works in both Notch and Floating modes.

Prompter Typeface

Pro

Read in the face that suits you. Choose any font installed on your Mac — a serif for long-form delivery, a humanist sans for speed, or the typeface your brand already uses — and the prompter draws your script in it.

Line Spacing

Pro

Set how much air sits between lines. Open it up so your eye finds the next line instantly on a wide floating window, or tighten it to fit more of the script inside the notch.

Hide Controls

Pro

Strips away all buttons, progress bars, and stats while you're presenting. Only smooth, translucent text remains — nothing to distract you or your audience.

Click-Through

Pro

Clicks land on the app behind the prompter, so you can advance your slides or run your video call while the script stays where it is. Scrolling over the prompter still moves your script. Works in both Notch and Floating modes.

While it's on, the prompter takes no mouse of its own — hover controls and resize handles stay hidden until you switch it off.

Follow Slides

Pro

Present from Keynote or PowerPoint and the prompter keeps up. Each time the slideshow moves, forward, back or straight to slide 12, Avocado puts that slide's notes on your reading line, so the clicker in your hand drives both.

In the version from avocadonotch.com. The Mac App Store version can't control other apps.

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Follow Mouse

Pro

Avocado Pro automatically leaps to whichever display your mouse is on. Switch between your slide deck screen and your video call screen without dragging a window.

02 · Scroll

It keeps your pace. Set a speed, or let it follow your voice.

Scroll at a steady speed you choose, nudge it mid-take from the keyboard, or turn on voice scrolling and the script moves when you speak and waits when you pause.

Constant-Speed Scrolling

Free

Set your own words-per-minute pace — anywhere from 50 to 300 WPM, in Settings or straight from the editor — and the script rolls at a constant speed from start to finish. The classic teleprompter autoscroll, free for everyone on scripts of any length.

Mid-Session Pace Control

Free

Running hot or falling behind? ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ nudge the scroll speed up or down mid-take without opening a menu or reaching for the trackpad. Free for everyone.

Voice-Activated Scrolling

Free · Pro

Uses on-device Apple speech recognition, primed with the words in your script, to scroll as you speak and pause when you stop. No cloud, no latency. Unlimited with Pro, and the free plan includes 3 full-Pro sessions a week to use it on a real take.

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Voice Labs

Pro

An early look at where voice following is heading, for Pro subscribers. It follows you word by word with far less delay, highlights the next word to say, waits for as long as you ad-lib and catches up within a second when you skip ahead. For English scripts; the speech model runs on your Mac and downloads once, about 600 MB.

Adaptive Speed

Free · Pro

Setting a speed is free — Adaptive Speed is what makes it unnecessary. It learns your natural speaking pace in real time and moves the script to match, so there's no number to pick and nothing to correct mid-take. Unlimited with Pro, and included in each of the free plan's 3 full-Pro sessions a week.

Weekly Pro Passes

Free

Free includes 3 Pro Passes every week. Redeem one and your next session runs fully Pro — voice-activated and adaptive scrolling on a script of any length — and that session's full report stays unlocked in your history forever. A pass is only used when your script actually needs one.

Mouse & Touchpad Scroll

Free · Pro

Flick your trackpad or scroll your Magic Mouse to jump forward or back mid-presentation. Seamlessly overrides the autoscroller without breaking flow. Unlimited with Pro, and included in each of the free plan's 3 full-Pro sessions a week.

03 · Write

Write it the way you'll say it. An editor that knows how long each part runs.

Start a line with # to mark a section, and the cues list shows when you'll reach it at your pace. Paste, drop a slide deck, or have your AI assistant write straight into the library.

The Avocado editor: script library, a launch-video script with cue headings and arrival times, and the cues list

Script Markers

Free

Drop structural checkpoints anywhere in your script. They build a live sidebar table of contents so you can jump to any section instantly.

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Drag & Drop Import

Free

Drop a .pptx, .key, .txt, or .md file anywhere in the editor window and it becomes a script. PowerPoint and Keynote decks arrive as your presenter notes, each slide prepended with a Script Marker for sidebar navigation. Text dragged straight from another app lands the same way, and several files at once become one script each.

Script Tags

Free

Add tags to any script for instant organization. The sidebar filter combines as many tags as you pick, so the list narrows to scripts that carry all of them, and an inline editor lets you rename or remove tags without leaving the list.

Script Search

Free

Full-text search across every script title and body. Results show a content snippet centered on the matching keyword so you can identify the right script at a glance — no need to open each one.

Smart Cues

Pro

Uses on-device Apple Intelligence to automatically inject pacing markers — [pause], [breathe], [smile] — into your script. Your personal AI speech coach, fully private.

Requires macOS 15.1+ and Apple Silicon

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AI Agent Access (MCP)

Pro

Ask Claude, Cursor, or Codex for a first draft, a tighter opening, or pacing cues, and the change lands in your Avocado library as you talk. One click installs the Claude Desktop connector; other agents take a single pasted command. The server runs at 127.0.0.1, so it stays on your Mac. Your assistant sizes scripts to the pace you actually speak at, and can find any take you recorded in the Recording Studio.

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Auto-Naming

Pro

Apple Intelligence reads your script and suggests a meaningful title the moment you finish writing — no more 'Untitled Script 7'. Tap to accept or edit before saving.

Requires macOS 15.1+ and Apple Silicon

Auto-Tag Suggestions

Pro

Apple Intelligence analyzes your script content and surfaces relevant tag ideas. One tap to apply any suggestion, keeping your library organized without manual categorization.

Requires macOS 15.1+ and Apple Silicon

04 · Record

Record the take next to the script. Then cut it down in the same window.

Recording Studio films you from your Mac's camera while the prompter runs, and stops when you finish the script. Every take is filed under its script, the silences and pauses come out in a click, and captions light up each word as you say it.

Recording Studio: a take playing with Pop captions, the spoken word lit in green, beside the captions panel with its four looks, typefaces, size, colours and position

Record against your script

Pro

Start a take from any script and the prompter runs while your camera records. Takes are grouped by script and numbered, so the one you want is always easy to find.

Floating camera preview

Pro

While you record, Avocado's windows step aside and your camera sits in a preview just under the prompter, close to the lens. Move it and resize it, and it opens where you left it next time.

Stops when you finish

Pro

Once the prompter reaches the last line and you pause, the take ends by itself and opens ready to trim. ⌘R stops it any time, and ⌥⌘R starts it again from the top.

Trim silence and cut pauses

Pro

One click removes the dead air at the start and end of a take, and another tightens the long pauses in the middle, straight from the waveform.

Split and delete ranges

Pro

Split a take at the playhead or select a range and delete it. Edits are kept beside the take, and the original recording is never touched.

Captions that follow every word

Pro

Avocado listens to the take on your Mac and lights up each word as you say it, spelled the way your script spells it, names included. Choose Pop, Box, Karaoke or Classic, then the typeface, size, colours and position, or drag the captions on the picture. They follow every cut, and save as an .srt file for YouTube too.

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Export

Pro

Export the finished clip as an MP4 in 16:9, vertical 9:16 or square, with its captions burned in, ready for YouTube, Shorts, LinkedIn or your editor.

05 · Rehearse

Get better with every run. Private numbers after each take.

Every run-through becomes an on-device report: pace, completion, streaks and, on macOS 26, delivery coaching. Only the counts are stored, never your words.

Session history with a coach's note, session count, streak, words delivered, average pace and a pace trend

Weekly Recap

Free

Every Monday, a one-card recap of your week on stage: sessions, words delivered, time on camera, best pace, and how it all compares to the week before — including whether your filler words are trending down. Free for everyone.

Session History

Free · Pro

Every run-through you actually deliver is saved as a private, on-device report. Free shows your last 3 sessions, your pace trend, session count, and day streak; Pro unlocks the full archive with total time on stage, words delivered, and completion trends.

Rehearsal History

Free · Pro

Every run of a single script, grouped and framed around improvement — your first take versus your latest, your best pace, average completion, and a pace-per-run trend. Free shows your last 3 runs per script plus the pace trend; Pro unlocks the rest.

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Delivery Coaching

Free · Pro

Voice-scrolled sessions get on-device delivery metrics — filler words, long pauses, off-script moments, and pace consistency. Every session receipt shows a one-line summary; Pro unlocks the full breakdown in Session History. Only the counts are ever stored, never your words.

Requires macOS 26

06 · Direct

Hand the controls to someone else. Any phone becomes a remote or a second prompter.

Director Mode serves a page on your Wi-Fi. A producer opens it on any phone, tablet or laptop, with no app and no account, and runs the take while you talk.

Two phones: the Director remote with the live script, time left and pace controls, and the Teleprompter Viewer showing the script

Director Mode

Pro

Hosts a local web app on your Wi-Fi. A producer opens the URL on any phone, tablet, or laptop — no app download, no account — and gets real-time control of the prompter.

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Director Controls

Pro

Play, pause, scrub position, adjust scroll speed, toggle Adaptive Speed, and jump between cue markers. Live progress, remaining time, and word count always visible to the director.

Follow the Script

Pro

The director's page shows the script scrolling in real time, marked at the line the presenter is reading right now — so you can call a cue a beat before it lands instead of watching over their shoulder.

Director Talkback

Pro

Send a message that appears over the prompter mid-take — “slow down”, “wrap up”, “look at camera”, or anything you type. It shows on the Mac and on every connected Teleprompter Viewer.

Teleprompter Viewer

Pro

Director Mode serves a second page (/viewer) that turns any device on the same Wi-Fi into a standalone teleprompter display — no app install required. Works on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. Font size, colors, alignment, and smart cue markers stay in sync in real time.

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07 · Private

Invisible to your audience. Private to your Mac.

The prompter is left out of every screen share, recording and screenshot. Your scripts, your voice and the AI features all stay on your Mac, and it works offline.

A video call as the other participants see it: the presenter looking into the camera with no script visible

Screen-Share Invisibility

Free

Avocado is completely invisible on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Loom, OBS, and even native macOS screenshots. Your audience sees a clean desktop.

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On-Device Processing

Free

Every voice recognition pass, AI inference, and script file stays on your Mac. No accounts, no cloud uploads. Works 100% offline.

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