Two desktop prompters for online meetings. One scrolls at the speed you choose; the other follows your voice word by word.
Virtual Teleprompter scrolls at your chosen speed. Terera follows your voice word by word.
Virtual Teleprompter, from VTP Apps, is a laptop prompter for online meetings. You paste your notes, choose a scrolling speed and a transparency, and place it over your meeting window. A no-cost version takes up to 1,000 characters; the Pro version is a one-off $8.99 in the Microsoft Store. Terera floats over your call or slides too, but it follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script. You pay for it once.
Virtual Teleprompter
A straightforward scrolling prompter, made for meetings. Manual scroll, or auto scroll at a speed you change with the arrow keys; a window with adjustable transparency that you lay over Zoom, Teams or Webex; bold, italic and underline; mirror text for beam-splitter glass; and right-to-left text for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. VTP Apps says it “does not use or require any internet connectivity”. It has been in the Microsoft Store since 2021.
Terera
A desktop app for Windows and Mac that floats over whatever you’re presenting from: your slides, your call, your notes. It follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script. It has a timed scroll too, for a steady read. Speech recognition runs on your own computer.
Virtual Teleprompter
Price and reach. The Pro version is $8.99 in the Microsoft Store and $6.99 in the Mac App Store, and a version limited to 1,000 characters costs nothing. It runs on older Macs than Terera does, and it never needs the internet; Terera needs the network for model downloads and licensing, including periodic licence checks. It handles right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew, and a Microsoft Store purchase installs on up to ten Windows devices.
If a steady scroll is all you need, Virtual Teleprompter is the sensible buy. Terera’s own site says Terera isn’t for anyone who only needs a steady scroll at a set speed.
Terera
Following you. Virtual Teleprompter offers manual scroll or auto scroll at an adjustable speed, and its site and store listings do not describe voice following. Terera follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script. You can answer a question without managing the scroll.
The meeting itself. VTP Apps advises keeping its window off your meeting’s mute, camera and sharing buttons, and its PowerPoint guide runs the slide show in a window and advises sharing only the PowerPoint application, not the desktop or the entire screen. Terera’s overlay passes your clicks through to the window beneath. On Windows it stays above a full-screen slideshow and can be left out of a screen share. Screen-share hiding depends on the capture method your app uses, so check your sharing preview before a live call.
The rest. Reading positions for two listeners or a room. Word import that keeps bold, italics and colour, where Virtual Teleprompter takes pasted text. And a thirty-day refund, no reason needed; VTP Apps does not publish a refund policy.
| Feature | Virtual Teleprompter | Terera |
|---|---|---|
| What it’s for | Notes over online meetings and presentations | Live meetings, pitches and one-take recordings at a desk |
| Follows your voice | No: Manual scroll or auto scroll at an adjustable speed | Yes: Word by word; waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, resumes when you return to the script. Also a timed scroll and manual mode |
| Works over other apps | A window with adjustable transparency, placed over your meeting; VTP Apps advises keeping it off the meeting controls; click-through not documented | Yes: A click-through overlay that stays on top; on Windows, above a full-screen slideshow |
| Screen-share hiding | Not claimed; VTP Apps advises sharing only the application you present, not the whole screen | On Windows it can be left out of a screen share; on a Mac many sharing tools capture it anyway. Screen-share hiding depends on the capture method your app uses, so check your sharing preview before a live call. |
| Platforms | Windows 10 (version 14316 or later) through the Microsoft Store; Mac through the Mac App Store (macOS 12 or later) | Windows 10 and 11; macOS 15.5 or later |
| Two people or a room | Not documented | Reading positions for one person, two people (two listeners, not two presenters) or a room |
| Mirror mode | Yes | Yes |
| Script input | Paste from Word, OneNote, Notepad or email; bold, italic and underline; find and replace | Word (.docx) keeps bold, italics and colour; .txt and .md; paste from Word or Google Docs |
| Languages | Multilingual, with right-to-left support such as Arabic and Hebrew | Voice following in English; manual and timed modes work in any language |
| Internet | Not needed | Needed for setup (about 190 MB speech model) and periodic licence checks |
| Account required | No: No app account; the Microsoft Store purchase uses a Microsoft account | No: A licence key |
| Price | No-cost version (up to 1,000 characters); Pro $8.99 one-off (Microsoft Store, US) or $6.99 (Mac App Store) | USD 89 once, tax included |
| Licence | Microsoft Store: up to ten Windows devices | Three of your own machines, Windows and Mac |
| Refund | Not published by VTP Apps | 30 days, no reason needed; a refund ends the licence |
Feature rows describe presence as documented by each product’s own site and store listings on the date above; Terera’s column describes its current release. They are not quality judgments.
Buy Virtual Teleprompter if a steady scroll is enough.
You set the speed, the text keeps it, and $8.99 covers it. With Terera you would be paying for a job you don’t need done.
Buy Terera if you want the prompter to follow you.
On a live call or over a deck, where you’ll stop, take a question and come back: Terera waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script.
No. As of 1 October 2026, Virtual Teleprompter by VTP Apps offers manual scroll or auto scroll at an adjustable speed, and its site and store listings do not describe voice following. Terera follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script.
A version limited to 1,000 characters costs nothing. As of 1 October 2026, Virtual teleprompter PRO costs $8.99 one-off in the Microsoft Store (US price), and Virtual Teleprompter Pro costs $6.99 in the Mac App Store. Terera costs USD 89 once, tax included.
VTP Apps does not claim that. Its PowerPoint guide advises sharing only the PowerPoint application, not the desktop or entire screen. Terera can be left out of a screen share on Windows; on a Mac, many sharing tools capture Terera anyway. Screen-share hiding depends on the capture method your app uses, so check your sharing preview before a live call.
Because it does a different job. A scrolling prompter moves at a set speed. Terera follows your voice word by word, waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script. It also has a timed scroll for when a steady speed is what you want.
Virtual Teleprompter and Virtual teleprompter PRO by VTP Apps, whose site is vtpapps.com, and its Mac apps. Other Microsoft Store apps with similar names come from other publishers and are not covered here.
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