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A Teleprompter for Your MacBook
A premium, native teleprompter built specifically for macOS. Read seamlessly from your notch, maintain eye contact, and never break a sweat during a presentation.
Why it works for Mac. Four things you get the moment you open it.
Invisible on Mac
Left out of every screen share, recording and screenshot, whatever you share.
Right under the camera
Notch Mode puts the words where your eyes should be, so you read toward the lens.
Scrolls with your voice
Speak and it moves. Pause and it waits. No clicker, no second person.
Private and on-device
Speech recognition and the AI features run on your Mac, and it works offline.
In detail
Avocado for Mac
Most teleprompter apps for Mac are Electron wrappers around a web app, or iPad apps ported through Catalyst. They work, technically — but they carry the overhead of a full browser engine, ignore macOS conventions, and treat the platform as an afterthought. Avocado was written from scratch in SwiftUI, specifically for macOS. The difference in behavior is immediate: it launches in under a second and imposes no measurable battery drain during long recording sessions.
The notch integration is the most visible expression of this. On MacBooks with a notch, Avocado snaps into that space precisely — the teleprompter text sits directly above the camera, which is exactly where it needs to be for natural eye contact. When you look at the script, you're looking at the lens. This isn't cosmetic. It's the entire reason eye contact works with a teleprompter: the text and the camera have to be in the same place.
For voice-activated scrolling, Avocado uses Apple's on-device SFSpeechRecognizer framework — the same engine powering Siri dictation. All audio processing happens locally, in real time, with no uploads and no API calls. Your script content and your voice never leave the Mac. For professionals using teleprompters with sensitive content — unreleased product announcements, legal disclosures, financial results — on-device processing is not a feature, it's a requirement.
Avocado also integrates with the macOS input layer rather than working around it. Trackpad scroll gestures advance the script naturally. The window respects macOS window management. The app doesn't fight the operating system to do its job. If you've used Electron teleprompter apps and found them sluggish or inconsistent, the comparison with a native implementation is stark — see a direct feature comparison here.
New to recording on a Mac? Our guide to recording yourself on a Mac covers QuickTime, Photo Booth and the camera, light and sound settings that matter more than the app. And the speech length calculator tells you how long your script will run before you hit record.
Questions about Avocado for Mac.
Yes. Avocado is a teleprompter built specifically for MacBooks with a notch, placing your script right next to the camera so eye contact is natural rather than approximated. It's a native SwiftUI app, runs entirely on-device, and is free to download — with Pro subscription plans available at avocadonotch.com/pricing.
Avocado is designed for exactly this. It occupies the notch above your camera rather than overlaying your main display, so your desktop, browser, or video call remains fully visible. Voice-activated scrolling means you don't need a physical remote either.
Avocado has a free tier that lets you use core teleprompter features with no account or sign-up required. Pro adds unlimited voice-activated scrolling, AI agent access, Director Mode, and more — available as monthly or yearly subscription plans. See avocadonotch.com/pricing.
Avocado is fully on-device — no internet connection, no account, and no data sent to external servers. Your scripts stay on your Mac. This also means it works in airplane mode, in studios without Wi-Fi, or anywhere else you record.
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