I have used this app over three past 3 years. It was just a basic teleprompt with no voice recognition. However last night it automatically updated on my iPad and now I am unable to use it at all until I upgrade to the pro version and pay 29.99. The worst thing was I had downloaded a script onto it ready to give a talk this morning. I turned up to give the talk to find I was locked out of the app and my script had been whiped. Fortunately I had a paper version to fall back on. I don’t want a cleaver version with voice recognition because they are no 100% reliable. I would rather just hit pause if I was to ad-lib for a bit.

The concept of an automatic teleprompter which responds to the spoken word is a great idea. I am in the market for that sort of thing and was keen to try the demo version, but it didn’t work for me. I have a very clear native English speaking voice and have done voice over work. I’m also an audio professional and can use my condenser microphones fed through digital interfaces into my iPad in order to feed optimum quality into it. The problem I found was that it didn’t keep up with my speaking speed, which is always slow and measured when speaking to camera. When I work with a prompter operated by myself or by an operator, I would expect the current text to be near the top of the screen, with at least a couple of lines of upcoming text visible. PromptSmartLite let me speak right to the bottom of the screen and I then had to pause to let it catch up. It’s also a big flaw if you end up reading the bottom line of the screen because you can’t glance ahead in order to correctly deliver the entire phrase. I tried it initially with the demo text and then with some old scripts, but it made no difference. With a camera peeping over the iPad, my eyeline was way too low for most of the time when it did scroll.

I’m reviewing the demo version. It understood me as I read the Gettysburg address. Pace of the promoter responded to my pace. I’m tempted to get the Pro version for the selfie mode so can see how I am presenting as I read the teleprompter.

It works

I found the prompter moved quite erratically which meant I lost my place several times. What was more serious was that it completely failed to recognise well spoken English in a higher voice. It seems to work better with lower voices. It struggles to recognise English spoken with a foreign accent as well, even if they have good pronunciation. Maybe I’m doing something wrong???

I needed to give a speech at a funeral. I was a bit nervous about using an app I didn’t have much experience of in case it went wrong but it worked perfectly and did a great job.

Disappointed - paid £19.99 for nothing - reason I bought it because I’m deaf and I need to translate what the video is saying. I put the script and play the video in high volume and nothing is happening. I want my money back.

Used this a good few times now when you rotate phone 90 degrees the app crashes

Have tried other apps like this before and didn’t get on well with them but this one is great. I might never print out a speech again

I find this app really useful. Thank you developers - very impressed!