The teleprompter that records, too.

The two-app problem

Only one app can drive the iPhone camera at a time. That single fact is why a text-only teleprompter leaves you stuck. The script scrolls beautifully on screen, but the moment you want a recording of yourself reading it, you are out of options inside that app. So people improvise, and every improvisation costs something.

• A second phone aimed at the screen. Now you are juggling two devices, matching framing, and reading off a prompter that is no longer under your lens — so your eyes drift off camera.
• Screen recording the prompter. You capture the scrolling text, not a clean shot of you, and the quality is whatever the screen recorder allows.
• Filming in the Camera app, prompter on a laptop. More gear, more setup, and still no script directly beneath the lens.

Each workaround pulls your gaze away from the camera, adds friction before every take, and — worst of all — gives you no protection if something interrupts the recording.

One app: prompt and record together

NexCam collapses the whole thing into a single screen. The teleprompter band sits directly beneath the lens, and the camera is recording the entire time. You read; it films. Your eyes stay on the viewer because the words you are reading are right where the camera is looking.

Because the prompter and the recorder are the same app, everything downstream comes for free: the take you just recorded is already in your library, ready to trim, caption, and export — no AirDrop between devices, no re-syncing audio, no quality lost to a screen grab.

Recording you can't lose

A prompter that records is only useful if the recording survives. This is where NexCam is built differently from almost everything else. Every second is written to disk as you film, in short chunks, rather than held in memory until you tap stop. If a call comes in, the battery dies, or the app is interrupted, your footage is already saved — and a recovery screen offers to restore the take the next time you open the app.

That matters most precisely when you are recording something you can't easily redo: a long explainer, a one-take story that landed, a client piece on a deadline. Here is exactly how crash-proof recording and automatic recovery work.

The full path, start to finish

Recording is the middle of the job, not the end. NexCam carries the take all the way to a finished, publishable clip without leaving the app:

• Voice Track scrolls the script as you speak and waits when you pause, using on-device speech recognition — even in airplane mode.
• Take review lets you trim, split, and mark favorites on a timeline, with seam-free joins and full undo. Your original is never touched until you say so.
• Caption Studio adds word-synced captions on device — eight styles, karaoke highlighting, burn-in or sidecar SRT and VTT. More on prompting with captions.
• Export renders clean at 1080p or 4K, in any aspect ratio, with no watermark, ever.