ABOUT
A prompter rig shouldn't need more than a laptop and a screen.
Cross Prompter is made by Lapmob, Inc. We built it for crews who run a camera, a laptop and a spare monitor, and want those to work as a proper teleprompter: one screen for the person steering the script, one for the person reading it.
The operator sees every section, a live preview with the talent's exact frame, and a manual stick for fine control. The talent sees large, clean text on the glass. Either of them can take over from a phone.
What we hold to
The hardware you already have
A Windows laptop, a second monitor or a beam-splitter rig, and the phone in your pocket. USB presenter clickers work too. There is no special controller to buy and no box to rent.
The script as it was written
Writers work in Word, Google Docs exports, PDFs and plain text. Cross Prompter opens them as they are. Headings become sections you can jump to, and bold, colour and lists come through.
Scripts stay on your PC
Nothing you put on the prompter is uploaded. The phone remote talks to the PC over your own network, and the license check sends only what it needs to count machines.
Licenses you manage yourself
Generate a certificate, rename it after the rig, move it to a new PC or revoke it, all from your account. You don't need to email us to swap a laptop before a show.
Who it's for
- Newsrooms and studios
- An operator runs the script from the control desk while the presenter reads through the glass.
- Churches and venues
- Sermons, liturgy and lyrics on a confidence monitor, steered from the booth or a phone.
- Video creators
- One person, one camera: read from a monitor under the lens and set the pace from your phone.
- Schools and companies
- Lectures, town halls and recorded announcements, with the same rig used by several people.
Tell us about your rig
Running several studios, or need something the app doesn't do yet? We'd like to hear about it.