How to use a teleprompter on Zoom without anyone seeing

Zoom doesn't have a teleprompter built in. A Zoom Community Manager says so in Zoom's own forum and points people to third-party apps. So the trick is a teleprompter that sits right under your camera and stays out of screen shares in apps like Zoom, Meet and Teams.

On a Mac, the simplest way is a notch teleprompter: your script rolls in the notch, next to the lens, and the app leaves itself out of screen sharing. Koi 2.0 has one. Open the notch's Tools, pick Teleprompter, paste your script and press Start.

We make Koi, so read this with that in mind. What we say about Zoom, Microsoft and Apple comes from their own help pages, checked October 25, 2026.

1. Hover the notch at the top of your screen to open Koi, then open its Tools and pick Teleprompter.
2. Paste or type your script. Koi keeps the last one, so it's there next time.
3. Pick how it's paced: following your voice, or a steady speed from 60 to 260 words a minute.
4. Press Start. The notch grows down into a black panel right under the camera, with your line brightest.
5. Join your Zoom call and share your screen as usual. The teleprompter isn't in what they see.
6. Space pauses and goes on, the arrows or your trackpad go back and on, and Esc ends it.

Following your voice, Koi listens on the Mac with its own speech model to find your place. Speed up, slow down, or stop to think, and it waits. Skip a sentence or get a word wrong and it doesn't lose you. Nothing it hears is kept, and neither your voice nor your script is sent anywhere. Without microphone access it scrolls at a steady speed instead, and says so.

While the teleprompter is on, Koi hides the notch from screen capture, whatever else is going on, so apps like Zoom, Meet and Teams leave it out of what they share or record. That covers sharing your whole screen in Zoom, not just one window.

Your camera feed is a different matter. People see your face, so they'll notice if your eyes sweep across the screen. Keep the text short and close to the lens: Koi's panel sits right under the camera for that reason. A quick test call with a friend shows you how it looks.

Koi's teleprompter isn't tied to Zoom. It sits in your Mac's notch, so it works the same on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex or a recording: start it, then join or share.

If you're presenting slides in Teams, Microsoft has its own answer. PowerPoint Live in Teams shows your speaker notes only to you, the presenter (Microsoft's guide). That's notes beside your slides, not a script under your camera.

Presenting slides from Keynote on any call? In Keynote, choose Play, then In Window. Keynote opens your slides and the presenter display, with your notes, as two windows (Apple's guide). In Zoom, share only the slides window, and read from the other.

It's free and already on your Mac. It won't scroll a script or follow your voice, and your notes sit wherever the window is, not under the camera.

• Write it how you talk. Short sentences, your own words, contractions.
• Put a few words per line, so your eyes don't travel.
• Let the voice following do the pacing, and pause when you want. It waits.
• Keep notes, not a full script, for the parts where you'd rather talk freely.
• Look up at the lens at the end of a point. People feel it.

More on this in how to read a script while looking at the camera, and every option in the best teleprompter apps for Mac.

Keynote and PowerPoint Live's notes come with apps you may already have. Koi has no free plan and no free trial: Pro is $20 a month, or $7 for a first week, and Lifetime is paid once. See the plans.