PromptCast Portable

PromptCast is a simple application you can use as a teleprompter. It can automatically scroll any text you specify. This type of software is useful for practicing or making speeches in front of a webcam, for example.

The utility isn't wrapped in a setup file. Instead, you can copy the downloaded files to a custom directory on the disk and run the app by just double-clicking its executable file.

It's also possible to copy PromptCast to a USB flash drive to seamlessly fire it up on any PC without setup. However, it's not entirely portable because it depends on .NET Framework to work properly.

It doesn't add new entries to the system registry or create files on the disk without your approval. Because the teleprompter app is open-source, the downloaded package also includes the source code that can be studied by programmers.

As far as the interface is concerned, PromptCast adopts a very small window with tiny buttons, which are pretty difficult to explore since there are no options available for increasing the size. It's actually impossible to read scrolling text from a distance this way.

You can type or paste text in the empty panel or open content from TXT, RTF or HTM files, create bullet lists, align text to the left, right or center, as well as set the font type, size and color.

Once you leave editing mode and switch to the prompter, you can enable text scrolling by pressing play, pause, stop and rewind text, as well as increase or decrease the scrolling speed. Keyboard shortcuts are supported for these commands.

As far as program preferences are concerned, the teleprompter utility gives you the possibility to change the default animation duration of the mouse wheel scroll (milliseconds) and scroll distance (pixels), and keep the app on top of other opened windows.

All things considered, PromptCast may not be feature-rich but it offers a simple and straightforward set of options for reading auto-scrolling text off your screen as a teleprompter.