Windows has no built-in teleprompter, and you do not need to install one. Miracue runs free in any modern browser on Windows 10 or 11: paste a script, press play, and read. It follows your voice, works with clickers and foot pedals, keeps working offline once loaded, and there are no time caps and no account needed to start. We are a video production company, and this is the prompter we use on our own machines.
Does Windows have a built-in teleprompter?
No. Neither Windows 10 nor Windows 11 ships with one, so the choice is between installing a teleprompter program and running one in the browser. Installation sounds like the serious option, and for years it was the only one. It also brings everything that comes with Windows software: an installer, updates to accept, and administrator rights you may not have on a work machine.
A browser prompter skips all of it: no installer, no updates to accept, and nothing for an IT policy to object to. Open the free teleprompter page, and the same app is simply there on every PC you sign in on, your laptop included. The one honest caveat: some managed work laptops restrict the browser's microphone, which voice follow needs, so if your machine is company-issued, test the microphone once before a day that matters.
What you get on a PC
Voice follow. Press the microphone button and read. The script moves when your spoken words match the text, holds still while you ad-lib, and comes back to meet you when you re-read an earlier line. Recognition runs inside your browser on your own machine: your audio never leaves the PC, and a desktop computer is exactly the hardware it runs best on. The first use fetches the voice model, about 65 MB, once; after that it stays on your machine.
Hands-free control. Bluetooth presenter remotes, number pads and foot pedals all work, so your hands stay free for the take. Keyboard shortcuts cover everything if the remote stays in the drawer.
A rig, if you use one. Mirror modes cover beam-splitter glass, and the reading line sits at lens height. If those words mean nothing to you, you will never need the buttons; if they do, the glass note is for you.
Scripts that behave. Paste from anywhere and a long document can split itself into separate, named scripts. Chapters let you film in sections and jump straight back for a retake.
Install it like an app, if you want to
In Edge or Chrome, Miracue installs from inside the app: it gets its own window and its own place in the Start menu, and it opens like any program you installed the long way. It still updates itself, and once loaded it works without internet, which matters the day you are filming somewhere with none. The install is a convenience, not a requirement; the browser tab does everything the installed version does.
Recording on your PC
For camera work the setup is placement, not software: make the browser window narrow, and dock it directly under your webcam so your eyes stay near the lens. If you record with OBS or similar, capture your camera or a specific window rather than the whole display, and the prompter stays out of the recording. The full walkthrough, including why the script should wait for you rather than scroll at you, is in how to record a video while reading a script.
On video calls
This is where a Windows machine gets something extra. Miracue's call mode opens a script small and docked instead of full screen, and on Chrome or Edge, the pin lifts it into a little window that stays on top of Zoom, Teams or Meet. Edge is already on every Windows PC, so the pin works out of the box. Every free account includes three pinned calls; Pro keeps the pin on every call. The window placement and the eye-contact craft are in the Zoom note.
Your phone or tablet as the screen
Scripts tend to get written at the PC and read somewhere else. With a free account your library opens on any device you sign in on, so the script you tidied at the desk is already on the tablet propped under the camera. A share link or QR code hands a script to a presenter's phone without them needing an account at all.
Trying it
Open Miracue in the browser you are reading this in, paste something you have to say to a camera this month, and press play. If it earns a place in your kit, install it to the Start menu from inside the app. There is nothing to uninstall if it does not.
How to record a video while reading a script covers the camera setup, and a teleprompter for Zoom calls covers the pin on meetings.
Written 4 September 2026 by Lumira Studio, a video production company in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The screenshots on this page are the real app, taken while writing.