Elgato Turns Your Screen Into a Teleprompter
Virtual Prompter ships now in Elgato Studio 2.0 for Windows and Mac, with voice-tracking scrolling and no extra hardware.
Updated on Nov. 3, 2026 in Software
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Elgato has announced Virtual Prompter, a teleprompter feature in Elgato Studio 2.0 that turns a computer screen into a teleprompter without external hardware, available now for Windows and Mac. The announcement is a shipped product feature, not a pending release.
Why it matters
Creators who record on a laptop or desktop can now read scripts on-screen near the camera without buying a separate teleprompter rig. Built-in voice-tracking scrolling reflects a broader push to fold hardware-dependent production tools into software.
Virtual Prompter runs entirely on the computer's screen and needs no external teleprompter hardware. Pricing is set at $2.99 per month, $29.90 per year, or $49.99 for a lifetime license, with the free docked mode carrying no time limits.
The players
Elgato
A Corsair-owned maker of streaming and content-creation hardware and software, known for capture cards, stream decks, and the Elgato Studio creator suite.
The details
Virtual Prompter displays a script on the computer screen, so the presenter reads text positioned close to the webcam, which keeps eye contact with the lens. It offers two layouts: docked mode, a strip along the top of the screen near the camera, and floating mode, a movable, resizable window that can be full-screened on another display. Scrolling can run at a fixed speed or use Voice Sync, which listens through the microphone to detect speech, advances the text as the user talks, and recovers if a line is skipped. Scripts can be written in Elgato Studio, pasted in, or imported from Word, Markdown, and plain text files.
Timeline
Elgato announced Virtual Prompter on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
Virtual Prompter is available now as part of Elgato Studio 2.0.
The Tech Race
Creator-tool vendors are competing to absorb functions that once required dedicated hardware, and teleprompting is now one of them. Elgato's Voice Sync scrolling positions Virtual Prompter against standalone hardware rigs that offer no speech-tracking equivalent in the extraction.
Creators on Windows or macOS 15 and later can start using the free docked mode today without any purchase. Those who want floating mode on a second display need Virtual Prompter Pro at $2.99 per month, $29.90 per year, or $49.99 once.
The takeaway
Watch whether Voice Sync holds up under real recording conditions, since the feature's accuracy is the main unverified claim. Creators weighing a hardware teleprompter purchase can test the free docked mode first to judge whether software scrolling meets their needs.
Further reading
For more on the tools reshaping creator workflows, explore our Software coverage.
Source note: This article includes information reported by AppleInsider.
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