A teleprompter for Microsoft Teams, on Windows and Mac

What the meeting can see

Camera only, no sharing. The meeting receives your camera and your microphone, and nothing on your screen. A script on your screen is yours alone; the only question is where your eyes go.
Sharing a window. Under Share you can present one window, and that window is what Teams shows. If Terera will sit on top of that window, test this case too.
Sharing your screen. Teams shows your entire screen, including notifications and other activity, so turn on Do not disturb first. Anything on that screen can end up in the share. Screen-share hiding depends on the capture method your app uses, so check your sharing preview before a live call.

On a Mac, Teams asks for permission to record your screen the first time you share.

Option 1: a document by the camera

The simplest version needs one screen. Make a document window narrow, put it at the top centre of the screen under the camera, set the type large, and scroll with the mouse wheel. It works and costs nothing. The limits: one hand stays on the mouse, your eyes stay fixed on one spot, and when you leave the script to answer a question, finding your place again is your job.

Option 2: PowerPoint Live notes

If you are presenting slides and your notes are a few bullets each, PowerPoint Live shows them next to the slides. The steps and the limits are in our guide to your notes and your slides in Teams on one monitor.

Option 3: a teleprompter that floats over Teams

Terera is a separate desktop app for Windows and Mac, not a Teams add-in. It floats over the Teams window, your clicks pass through it to the meeting controls underneath, and it follows your voice word by word. It waits when you pause, holds your place when you go off script, and resumes when you return to the script.

Paste your script, or import it from Word (.docx).
Under Delivery, choose the microphone you use in Teams, ideally a headset. Terera does not identify speakers, so a headset keeps other people’s voices out of its microphone. On Windows, several apps can share one microphone unless one of them takes exclusive control of it; on a Mac, check it once in a test meeting.
Set Audience to who is on the call: 1:1, 2 people or 3 or more. Terera never sees your call; you tell it. For one person, the line stays near your camera. For two people, it holds two fixed reading panels, and you arrange the Teams window so the two faces sit near them. Two people means two listeners, not two presenters. For three or more, Script placement offers Stations, which holds the text at fixed positions, or Moving, which lets the reading window travel.
If you will share your screen on Windows, turn on Hide from screen share under Privacy & meeting. On a Mac the switch is there too, but current macOS lets 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.
Press M in Terera for the meeting overlay, or Ctrl+Alt+M from any app (Control+Option+M on a Mac). Click-through turns on when you enter the overlay, so you can reach mute and the rest of Teams through it; Ctrl+Alt+C (Control+Option+C on a Mac) switches it.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Space (Control+Option+Return on a Mac) to start, and talk. If another app already holds those keys, Terera uses an alternative and lists the keys in use under Global hotkeys in its Shortcuts panel.

Terera’s transparent two-person overlay on a Windows desktop: the same opening lines held at two fixed reading panels, with the floating toolbar reading Ready, Two people. — Real screenshot Two people, on Windows: the script holds at two fixed panels, which you place by each face on your call.

What Terera will not do: voice following works in English only, though timed and manual scrolling work in any language. It will not write your script. And your accent, your microphone and your room all affect speech recognition, which is why there is a 30-day refund: you find out with your own voice, in your own meetings.

Test what others see

On Windows, Hide from screen share asks Windows to leave Terera’s window out of captures, and whether that holds depends on how the app doing the capture works; Microsoft says the mechanism is not a security feature and gives no guarantee. On a Mac, assume a share can show Terera. Either way, start a meeting alone, join it from your phone with the sound off, share exactly what you plan to share, and look at the phone. It takes three minutes. Screen-share hiding depends on the capture method your app uses, so check your sharing preview before a live call.

When something else is the better choice

A few bullet points. A narrow document under the camera is enough.
Slides with short notes. PowerPoint Live, which is part of Teams.
Teams on a phone, a tablet or a meeting-room device. Terera is a desktop app for Windows and Mac.
A locked-down work computer. On Windows, Terera installs for one user without administrator rights, but if policy forbids installing software, ask IT first. The security page has what they will want to know.

Terera

USD 89 once, tax included. Three of your own machines, Windows or Mac. Twelve months of updates, and the installed version keeps working after that. A 30-day refund by email. Speech recognition runs on your own computer.

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Questions

Is there a teleprompter for Microsoft Teams?

Yes. Terera is a teleprompter for Windows and Mac that floats over the Teams window, lets clicks pass through to Teams, and follows your voice word by word. It is a separate app, not a Teams add-in.

Can other people in a Teams meeting see my teleprompter?

If you are not sharing, no: only your camera and microphone are sent. If you share, it depends on what you share and how it is captured. On Windows, turn on Hide from screen share; on a Mac, current macOS lets 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.

Can Terera and Teams use the same microphone at once?

On Windows, usually yes: several apps can share one microphone unless one of them has taken exclusive control of it. On a Mac, check it once in a test meeting. A headset helps either way, because Terera does not identify speakers.

What happens when I stop reading to answer a question in the meeting?

Terera waits when you pause and holds your place when you go off script. It resumes when you return to the script.

Does Terera work with Teams on a Mac?

Yes. Terera runs on macOS 15.5 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel, and floats over the Teams window there too. On a Mac, current macOS lets many sharing tools capture Terera anyway, so keep it out of what you share.

Sources

Microsoft Support, “Share content in Microsoft Teams meetings”: your entire screen or a window, notifications and other activity, Do not disturb, and the permission to record your screen on a Mac. Checked 1 October 2026.
Microsoft Support, “Share slides in Microsoft Teams meetings with PowerPoint Live”: notes next to the slides. Checked 1 October 2026.
Microsoft Learn, “Exclusive-Mode Streams”: several applications can share an audio device through shared-mode streams, and an application in exclusive mode has exclusive use of it. Checked 1 October 2026.
Microsoft Learn, “SetWindowDisplayAffinity function”: the Windows setting Terera uses to ask to be left out of captures, from Windows 10 version 2004, and its limits. Checked 1 October 2026.
Electron documentation, BrowserWindow, setContentProtection: on macOS, apps that capture through ScreenCaptureKit capture the window anyway. Checked 1 October 2026.
Terera’s behaviour, keys and settings: Features, Security and the questions on the home page. Checked 1 October 2026.

Related guides: your notes and your slides in Teams on one monitor, a teleprompter for Zoom and reading a teleprompter without moving your eyes. Compared with other prompters that sit over a call: Terera vs Speakflow and Terera vs Virtual Teleprompter; all of the dated comparisons. All guides.