Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Macaron: Macros for CoffeeScript
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed in a beautiful Dynamic Island overlay.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 3 we have checked on their own sites, 3 of them free or with a free tier. Macaron: Macros for CoffeeScript launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Notchie▲301Hey HN! 3-4 weeks ago I was trying to record a webinar for another side project. Screen recording, full screen presentation, talking through slides — should be simple. Except I kept forgetting what I wanted to say. And every time I glanced at my notes, it was obvious on camera. Worse — when recording full screen, there's nowhere to put notes without them being captured. Tried a few teleprompter apps. They either covered half my screen, scrolled at a fixed speed I couldn't match, or showed up in the recording. So I thought: I've been a full-stack dev for 20+ years. Never touched Swift or…
Dec 2025 · notchie.app · its alternatives →
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Speak with confidence, no one will know there's a script
2023 · bigvu.tv · its alternatives →
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Sciptly▲272An iOS teleprompter app controlled by your voice
Sep 2026 · jasoneliphalet.com · its alternatives →
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Context-aware voice keyboard for any app
2024 · talktastic.com · its alternatives →
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Tellie Prompter 1.5free tier, from $29/mo▲142Tellie Prompter is the invisible teleprompter for Mac that follows the words you actually say and scrolls to match, right in the MacBook notch. On-device, 40+ languages, unseen on Zoom and screen recorders.
Aug 2026 · tellieapp.com · its alternatives →
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Speechiusfree tier, from $32.14/mo▲127The teleprompter that actually listens
Jul 2026 · speechius.com · its alternatives →
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superwhisper▲274Extremely accurate, AI powered voice-to-text for macOS
2023 · superwhisper.com · its alternatives →
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Wave▲298Turn your voice into text — local or cloud, your choice
Jun 2026 · wave.mxv.sh · its alternatives →
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MacWhisper▲123High quality text transcription with OpenAI's whisper on Mac
2023 · goodsnooze.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on. It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, press it again, and the text gets pasted into whatever field you were in. Everything runs locally and never leaves your computer. Fully OSS and MIT licensed. With macOS 26, Apple recently added two new APIs, SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber, that do streaming on-device speech to text using models the OS ships and manages. So the app ships no model of its own and loads nothing before the first…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Spoke▲102Dictate into any Mac app by holding a key. Spoke runs fully on-device using local AI — no cloud, no account, no subscription. $9.99 one-time.
Mar 2026 · usespoke.app · its alternatives →
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Free, browser-based teleprompter for podcasters and creators
2025 · its alternatives →
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Dictatofree tier, from $20.82/mo▲93I built a macOS dictation app where everything runs on-device. Transcription, auto-correct, translation. No audio or text leaves your machine. It ships with 4 transcription engines you can swap between: WhisperKit (99 languages), NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B (25 European languages, fastest of the bunch), Qwen3-ASR 0.6B (30 languages), and Apple Speech on macOS 26+. They all run through CoreML/Metal. Whisper is the most versatile, Parakeet wins on raw latency for European languages, Qwen3 does better with CJK. I went with a protocol-based architecture so you pick the engine that fits your…
Feb 2026 · dicta.to · its alternatives →
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1. Click capture text 2. Select an area on screen with text 3. Paste the text anywhere Are there other solutions out there? Yes, the best one that I've found is Text Sniper, it $8 so I decided to learn SwiftUI and release Text Capture for $0.99. This one uses MacOS builtin Vision API under the hood so it should also improve with new macOS releases. Would love to hear your feedback!
2024 · textcapture.app · its alternatives →
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TextGenieAI▲109Assistive writing enhancement tool for macos using selection
2025 · textgenieai.com · its alternatives →
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I Built what I believe to be the best online teleprompter that is 100% free and I would love any feedback on any aspects of the site!
2024 · iphoneteleprompter.com · its alternatives →
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Machato is a tiny ChatGPT client that supports all basic features, and more ! I was frustrated with other native implementations that focused on quick access but didn't give easy access to a history of what has been said. Since ChatGPT is a learning tool for me, I'm always ruffling through past conversations. The client supports markdown rendering as well as LaTeX. Feel free to try it out ! For those who see this thread early, you can use the promo code EARLY_BIRD to get a free lifetime license. Let me know if some aspects can be improved or if there are features you'd like to see…
2023 · untimelyunicorn.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Promptor▲16Promptor is a tiny macOS app that lets you drag-in a folder and drag-out a perfectly-formatted prompt ready for ChatGPT (or any LLM). It's free, open-source and easy to use. No server-side processing, no API keys, no rate limits – just a local SwiftUI app that gives you the full context of your project in one click.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FREE: Read script to your screen, screen recorder don't see.
Jun 2026 · enricogum.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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