pmptr: a dead simple teleprompter, with no ads and nothing to pay for

I built this one for my wife. The teleprompters out there are cluttered with ads, upsells and paywalls, for an app whose job is to scroll text up a screen.

So pmptr is dead simple, and it’s open source.

What it does

It’s an Electron app that puts a transparent, frameless, always-on-top window over whatever else you have open and scrolls your script in it.

Lock it and it turns click-through, so your clicks go to the app underneath while the text keeps rolling. A separate control window holds the script, speed, size, colours, opacity and mirroring, and changes apply live.

npm install -g pmptr && pmptr

It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows, it’s MIT licensed, and there’s no account, no ads and nothing to pay for.

The keys

• Space plays or pauses
• R resets
• Up and down arrows change the speed
• L toggles click-through
• Esc closes it
• V turns on voice follow: it listens to the mic, scrolls while you speak and eases to a stop when you pause

The code is on GitHub.

Tired of teleprompters cluttered with ads, upsells, and paywalls? I built pmptr for my wife, kept it dead simple, and open-sourced it. $ npm install -g pmptr && pmptr > Transparent, always-on-top, click-through overlay. > macOS · Linux · Windows.

@jatinkrmalik, 22 June 2026

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