Textream
Textream is a teleprompter app for Mac that helps presenters, streamers, and podcasters read scripts with live guidance while speaking.
What is Textream?
Textream is a teleprompter app for macOS for people who speak on camera, record presentations, host interviews, or deliver scripted content. It helps users keep a script visible while maintaining eye contact by showing text in a subtle overlay, floating window, or fullscreen setup. The app supports multiple guidance styles, including real-time word tracking as you speak, traditional auto-scrolling, and voice-activated scrolling that advances with speech. Textream is also offered for iPhone and iPad, which can fit workflows that use Apple devices together for recording or Sidecar-based prompting. The app is published by Fka and is positioned as a focused tool for presentations, streaming, podcasting, and video creation rather than a general writing app.
Key features
- Display scripts in a screen overlay while you present or record.
- Highlight words live as you speak for real-time reading guidance.
- Auto-scroll text at a steady pace for traditional teleprompting.
- Advance the script with voice-activated scrolling that reacts to speech.
- Show the prompt in a floating window or fullscreen view.
- Use Sidecar with iPad for a larger dedicated prompting display.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Textream is a legitimate teleprompter app. Access to the microphone is normal for speech-guided prompting, and camera or Photos access may be relevant only if you use recording or saving features on supported devices. Its privacy materials state that it does not require an account and does not include ads or analytics, but you should still grant only the permissions you plan to use and review saved recordings or scripts on shared devices.
Recommendation: Keep Textream if you use your Mac for presentations, streaming, interviews, or recorded talking-head content. If you no longer use it, removing the app should mainly affect your teleprompting workflows and any local app data you chose to keep there.
Common paths
/Applications/Textream.app
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