Beside: Teleprompter

I made Beside because I kept losing my place every time I looked away from the lens. iPhone Duo has the fix built in: a small screen on the back, right next to the good cameras. Beside turns it into a teleprompter.

UNFOLD IT, TURN IT AROUND, PRESS RECORD
The rear cameras record you at 0.5×, 1× or 3×. The outer screen shows your script beside the lenses, so your eyes stay on the camera. The big inner screen becomes the control room: the camera monitor on one side, a live copy of the prompter on the other, with the time left, the speed and big controls. Notes for whoever runs the camera show up there and stay off the prompter.

NO DUO? ANY iPhone WORKS
On any other iPhone, and on a Duo folded shut, the script fills the screen with the reading line just under the front camera. A FaceTime-style camera preview sits in a corner, and you can drag it to whichever corner suits you. Record with the front camera, or flip to the rear.

A REMOTE ON YOUR WRIST (PRO)
With the phone on a tripod across the room, Apple Watch runs the take. Turn the Digital Crown to change the speed, skip between sections, start and stop recording, and get a countdown to settle before it rolls.

WRITE IT THE WAY YOU'LL SAY IT
Scripts are plain text with a little markup, so they paste in from anywhere. Start a section with #, highlight words with ==, give them weight with **, hold the scroll with [pause 3], and leave a note for the camera side with //.

SPEED IN WORDS PER MINUTE
Set the pace in words per minute and every script shows its read time before you start. Turn on voice follow (Pro) and the script moves as you speak, then waits when you stop. The listening happens on the iPhone itself.

EVERY TAKE COMES WITH CHAPTERS
Each recording is kept with its script. When the prompter crosses a section while you record, the take gets a chapter mark. With Pro, copy the chapters and paste them straight into a YouTube description. Save takes to Photos or share them.

AND EVERYTHING AROUND IT
Bluetooth keyboards and page-turner pedals. Siri, Shortcuts and the Action button. An external display, mirrored for a beam-splitter rig. Themes, eight fonts and colors of your own. Import .txt, .md and .rtf files and export any script as plain text. The app speaks 12 languages.

FREE, THEN ONE PAYMENT
The free version is a complete teleprompter: up to 3 scripts, the full prompter, the iPhone Duo outer screen, 1080p recording and two themes.
Beside Pro is a single purchase, with no subscription: unlimited scripts, the Apple Watch remote, voice follow, 4K and 60 fps, every theme plus your own colors and fonts, chapter export, file import and the external display. Restore purchases brings it back on a new iPhone.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your scripts, takes and settings stay on your iPhone.

Questions or ideas? Write to me at hello@akilastudio.com.
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