For eyes near the lens
Your pages follow your voice, hands free.
Hands-free teleprompter for actors built specifically for auditions and self-tapes. Follow your sides at your natural pace with voice-aligned scrolling.
PDF or TXT up to 20 pages. Free to try, and your sides stay private.
Scene 01
Paste the scene or add a PDF or TXT. Sidesly finds the characters, splits the dialogue and mutes stage directions.
Scene 02
Choose who you play. Every other character gets a reader voice, and you can fix any line the parser got wrong.
Scene 03
The reader speaks the cue, listens for you, and moves on when you pause. Tap "I'm done" any time to hand it over yourself.
Watch a read-through
INT. HOME OFFICE - DAY
Sam
(to camera)
This is the part where I tell you everything is fine.
Sam
It isn't. But I'm here, and I'm still talking.
Sam
(a small smile)
Give me one more take.
Our promise
Your sides belong to your account. They are never public and never used to train anything.
Nothing beats a live partner. Sidesly covers the late nights and deadlines when nobody is around.
Runs in a phone browser at 375px, one-handed, next to the lens. No app to install.
Field notes
Standard broadcast teleprompters scroll at constant speeds, forcing you into mechanical, rushed speech patterns that ruin honest acting. A true teleprompter for actors must adapt to pauses, dramatic breaths, and improvisational beats. Sidesly displays sides with intelligent typography, highlighting active cues while remaining completely responsive to your organic vocal cadence.
Actor-friendly prompting is ideal when auditioning for complex industrial presentations, commercial spokespersons, or last-minute television scenes where sides were issued hours before call time. Use the prompter alongside our self tape reader to maintain sightlines near your camera lens. When preparing narrative work, pair this tool with memorize lines drills to gradually wean off the prompt and internalize the text.
No tool should turn an actor into a wooden newscaster. Sidesly is designed to keep your eyes free and your performance spontaneous, acting as a discreet safety net rather than a rigid crutch. Human casting directors can immediately spot an actor reading words off a screen; our system encourages quick glances and vocal cue-ins so your real emotions and human presence shine through on tape, true to our identity as a respectful line reader for actors.
Upload your sides script or paste text directly. Adjust font scale, line contrast, and display width to align right next to your mobile or web camera. Enable voice synchronization so the script scrolls only as you speak and advances when your AI partner delivers cue lines. Experience effortless, hands-free pacing without touch interruption.
FAQ
Standard prompters blindly scroll on a timer. Sidesly waits for your cue, speaks your partner's dialogue out loud, and only scrolls forward when you finish speaking your lines.
Yes. Sidesly is built mobile-first. The text column is optimized for 375px widths and can be anchored near the top of your screen adjacent to your phone's front camera.
Yes. Active cues are brightly illuminated while completed dialogue dims smoothly to keep your eye locked on the current beat.
Yes. Adjust font scale with a single tap to suit any distance or lighting condition.
Put the sides on the desk and run them tonight. The first read is free.