NotchPrompt Teleprompter

Turn the MacBook notch into a scrolling teleprompter for recordings and streams

Problem

People making product videos, screen recordings, or live streams often lose their lines and need a teleprompter on screen, but ordinary teleprompter windows cover content or waste screen space. A teleprompter living in the notch suggests that area is naturally suited for non-intrusive auxiliary display. Recording, demos, and talking-head videos all need a prompting solution that stays near the camera sightline without ruining the captured frame.

Solution

A Mac app that renders scrolling text in the notch area with adjustable speed and font size, using translucency and click-through so it never blocks content. Optional dual modes: prompting mode and a privacy mode that stays outside the capture region. Hotkeys for start/pause and mirrored display.

Users

Developers and content creators doing product demos, tutorial recordings, and live streams

MVP

Render scrolling text in the notch; paste scripts and adjust speed; click-through and translucency; start/pause hotkeys; save common scripts

Revenue

Low one-time purchase, or free basic with a subscription unlocking multiple scripts, mirroring, and recording optimizations; affiliate partnerships with screen recorders

Why now

Notched Macs are ubiquitous and short-form video and demo production is exploding, yet prompting is still done with big windows or phones, leaving a gap for a lightweight notch-native tool