Changelog

Background opacity. I think this looks sooooo good. You should definitely try it. Go to Settings --> Appearance --> Background Opacity. Start with 75%.

Scrolling is now smoother and more responsive across all supported Mac displays, with better support for high refresh rate (ProMotion) screens and reduced resource usage when idle. improved: Pro upgrade experience by making license activation easier to find.

Fixed a rare issue where recording sessions could appear to hang after stopping, improving overall reliability.

Fixed a rare freeze (mostly for Mac OS 14) that could occur while scrolling during a recording session. Thanks for reporting issues!

Native notch engine for smoother resizing, tighter macOS integration, and a more polished teleprompter experience. improved: Redesigned onboarding with interactive live previews that showcase Avocado in action, plus a refreshed Pro walkthrough with clearer guidance. Added a compact reading speed and remaining time indicator for smaller notch layouts.

Controls now intelligently resize before collapsing, making the notch interface more usable across different Mac displays and notch sizes. Progress bar positioning and notch visuals have been refined for a cleaner, more seamless appearance. Prompter previews and onboarding visuals now better match your screen for a more realistic first-run experience. Added a dedicated Debug section in Settings for easier troubleshooting.

Resolved hover controls not responding reliably when the app was inactive or near the notch edges. Fixed several notch rendering issues, including transparency, menu bar blending, and shape alignment. Improved onboarding reliability by fixing navigation, branding, permissions flow, and visual inconsistencies. Improved subscription status handling to prevent incorrect access changes and provide a more reliable experience.

Track your recording journey with weekly recaps, milestone highlights, and personalized coaching insights to help you improve over time.

Long-script reminders now appear correctly for users who record without editing their scripts, helping keep longer recordings on track.

Better experience when reaching pass limits

Resolved visual artifacts when switching between scripts in the editor

Smart Cues now generates context-aware cue points more accurately throughout your script, producing more natural and consistent results.

Smart Cues generation is now up to 3× faster, making script preparation feel much more responsive. Auto-generated titles and tags are also more reliable across a wider variety of scripts.

Improved handling of scripts containing sensitive topics so automatic tagging behaves more gracefully when AI-generated tags aren't available.

Tap a locked Pro control like Custom Speed or Mouse Scroll and you can now start a free Pro Pass session right on the spot — you get three passes every week, no card required.

New scripts get unique names ("New Script 2") instead of piling up with identical titles; post-session tips no longer get lost behind the session report.

Added an optional, quick feedback prompt after your presentation sessions to seamlessly share your thoughts and help us improve the app.

Weekly Pro Passes give everyone a taste of Pro — free users now get 3 passes every week, and each one makes a full session Pro: voice scrolling on any script length plus the complete delivery report, no card required. Passes are smart about when they're needed, so short scripts never use one up.

Introducing on-device Delivery Coaching (macOS 26 and later): every session can now include private coaching insights that spot filler words, long pauses, and pace consistency — computed entirely on your Mac, storing only the counts and never your words, with a toggle in Settings if you'd rather turn it off. Closed the prompter partway through a script? A new one-tap Resume chip appears on your next run and jumps you right back to where you left off. Free users also get a live preview of their session history with real data, plus a pace trend strip on the post-session report.

Resume your script where you left. Every time you accidentally closed the script, now you can pick it up exactly where you left.

The editor's bottom bar got a major declutter — scrolling speed, mode, and mouse controls now live in one tidy panel, Smart Cues moved up into the toolbar next to the markers sidebar it fills, and your plan status sits in a single compact pill. Also simplified license activation so entering a key in Settings is easier to find.

Minor report fixes and improvements

Introducing a dedicated session history window with progress insights, session statistics, and historical performance tracking. Added dynamic session reports featuring automated insight generation, detailed performance metrics, and deep-linking to associated scripts. Integrated an interactive performance dashboard teaser and dynamic activity heatmaps during onboarding to showcase new features.

Streamlined the main interface by consolidating toolbar items into unified menus for view options and history. Refreshed the user interface with cohesive new button styles and a standardized theme for a cleaner look. Enhanced the onboarding flow to better highlight advanced features, and optimized dashboard widgets to scale automatically across different screen sizes.

Script titles are now automatically generated in the detected language of your script, and the app now fully supports CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and Cyrillic scripts across word counts, pacing inputs, and most AI features.

Speech recognition now automatically pairs its language settings with your script for better accuracy while intelligently preserving system locales when they match, and voice words-per-minute detection and scroll pacing are now finely calibrated for CJK text segments.

Locale selection in setting to manually select your locale, otherwise will be detected automatically

Smart Cues are now generated seamlessly in the background without interrupting your workflow.

Major under-the-hood performance upgrades. Enjoy incredibly smooth scrolling during teleprompter playback and a noticeably faster, more responsive typing experience in the script editor, even when working with long documents.

Updated the script completion badges with a fresh look and changed their behavior so they remain visible until you manually dismiss them, ensuring you never miss an alert.

Text rendering sharpness and motion smoothness during teleprompting, especially when using sub-pixel accuracy on non-Retina displays. Application performance during window resizing and dragging. Core prompter initialization, cursor handling, and text layout limits across different screen sizes.

A rare crash that could occur during active scroll loops. An issue where the scroll loop would fail to initialize if microphone permissions were not granted.

Introduced new plan options for better flexibility

under the hood fixes

Resolved an issue where the teleprompter mode could fall out of sync on launch. Fixed a bug that could cause temporary notch layout distortion.

Resolved an issue where using the follow-mouse feature could cause the application to hang.

A beautifully redesigned info bar that delivers a sleek, modern look and feel to your workspace.

Massively optimized typing performance and text highlighting for an ultra-responsive editing experience, along with refreshed interface icons for enhanced visual consistency.

Glitches with multi-line paste highlighting, layout issues with notification text wrapping, and stability bugs to ensure your scripts remain perfectly intact and properly ordered.

Redesigned the Script Markers pane for a cleaner, more modern look. Improved the cues sidebar with automatic scrolling to the active marker, smoother slide transitions, and responsive resizing that remembers your preferred sidebar width. Enhanced overall button click responsiveness throughout the app interface.

A fresh, custom sidebar navigation layout for the Settings menu to make tweaking your preferences more intuitive, optimized layout dimensions for larger screens, and fully upgraded compatibility for the latest macOS features.

Eliminated the halo glow effect around the notch by suppressing window shadows, resolved potential user interface freezes during rapid mode switching, fixed scrolling behavior in manual playback modes, and stabilized multi-monitor support to keep your prompter perfectly positioned when changing displays.

Introduce Apple Intelligence powered auto-naming and intelligent tag suggestions that automatically analyze your text to keep your script library organized.

Add a secure soft-delete system featuring a 30-day trash folder, interactive editor banners, and instant keyboard undo support.

Notch closes faster now!

Launch Director Mode instantly with a convenient new dedicated button placed directly in the editor info bar.

Optimize the onboarding experience with clearer plan status indicators and helpful tips during your first session to ensure you get the most out of your teleprompter setup.

Refine application performance and apply under-the-hood optimizations.

Introduce a robust script tagging system featuring an inline editor and a flexible tag layout.

Add a searchable sidebar that filters by title or body and previews text snippets centered right on your matching keywords.

More intuitive script deletion process that supports keyboard shortcuts and helpful confirmation alerts.

A redesigned onboarding and pro walkthrough experience with a more intuitive feature walkthrough and refreshed UI layouts for a modern, cohesive look.

Refined the visual design of the onboarding interface with updated button styling for a more polished and intuitive setup experience.

Contextual upgrade suggestions to help you discover the right features at the perfect moment in your workflow.

Various under-the-hood improvements.

Smart cue markers ([pause], [breathe], [smile], [long pause]) now correctly render with their highlight colors in the Mac prompter. A stale "cheap path" color update was overwriting annotation tints on every render.

Toggling "Show Smart Cues as Symbols" in Settings now immediately updates the prompter display without requiring a script change.

[long pause] no longer corrupts to "[long ⏸ ]" when Smart Cue symbols are enabled — markers are now replaced longest-first so shorter overlapping markers don't match inside longer ones.

Teleprompter Viewer: Director Mode now serves a second page (/viewer) that turns any phone or tablet on the same Wi-Fi into a real-time teleprompter display — no app install required. Font size, colors, text alignment, and smart cue markers stay in sync with the Mac.

Mirror Text (Settings → Prompter): Flips the prompter horizontally so text reads correctly through a physical beam-splitter glass. The stats pill mirrors too so it stays legible inside the rig.

Director Mode settings now shows two QR codes side by side — one for the Director control panel, one for the new Teleprompter Viewer.

Director Mode server now returns a proper 404 for unknown paths instead of silently serving the Director HTML.

The advertised local IP now skips VPN tunnels, AWDL, bridge, and IPsec interfaces so Director and Viewer QR codes always point to a reachable LAN address.

Director Mode (Pro): Let a producer control the teleprompter from any phone, tablet, or laptop on the same Wi-Fi — no app download required. Play, pause, scrub position, adjust speed, and jump between cue markers in real time. Up to 5 simultaneous connections. Purely local network, no internet required.

Follow Mouse: Seamlessly jump across monitors without dragging. Avocado automatically leaps to the screen your mouse is on. Available for Avocado Pro users.

PowerPoint (.pptx) Notes Import: Drop a .pptx file directly into the app to instantly extract your presenter notes.

Slide Marker Automation: Each generated slide is automatically prepended with your custom Script Marker, so you can easily jump between presentation pages in the sidebar.

Under-the-hood improvements and reliability fixes.

Smart Cues: Your AI speech coach. Automatically generate perfect pacing pauses, breath marks, and smiles using on-device Apple Intelligence.

Cue Points have been redesigned and renamed to Script Markers for better clarity and organization.

Various under-the-hood improvements to the upgrade experience.

Voice-activated scrolling is now free for scripts up to 200 words — try the full smart scrolling experience before you buy.

Interactive speed and scroll mode controls in the editor bottom bar — switch between manual and adaptive speed, and toggle mouse scroll without opening Settings.

Adaptive speed now reacts faster when your pace slows down and stays conservative when speeding up, preventing the prompter from running ahead of you.

Scrolling text now starts just below the reading guide, giving a natural lead-in before the first word enters the active reading zone.

Refreshed onboarding experience that highlights what's available in the free tier.

Cue point navigation shortcut (⌘⇧C) now works correctly in Floating mode.

Smart Cue Points — mark any section of your script with a custom prefix and it becomes a visual bookmark in the Editor sidebar and Prompter.

Cue Points sidebar in the Editor, togglable from the toolbar, with an empty-state that shows you how to get started.

Onboarding now includes a dedicated Cue Points step.

Toolbar buttons are now logically grouped with visual separation between launch and sidebar controls.

Improved license management reliability.

Avocado now supports automatic updates via Sparkle. You'll be notified whenever a new version is available.

Update check runs silently in the background on launch, with a non-intrusive notification when an update is ready.

Improved notch width detection based on screen geometry for more precise notch fitting.

Fixed prompter window not gracefully handling monitor connection and disconnection events.

Floating Mode: detach the prompter from the notch and drag it anywhere on screen — even over external monitors.

Mouse scroll support in Floating Mode for manual speed control.

Pause on hover: the prompter pauses automatically when you hover the floating window.

Controls and stats fade out gracefully while presenting, reappearing on hover.

Adaptive speed model tuned for better accuracy during fast speech.

Fixed auto-scrolling occasionally stopping due to -10877 audio errors during long sessions.

Notch Prompter: a teleprompter that lives invisibly inside your MacBook Pro notch.

Voice-activated auto-scroll using on-device speech recognition — no cloud required.

Calibration flow that learns your natural speaking rate and sets scroll speed automatically.

Full text customization: font size, color, background, alignment (left, center, right, justify).

Script manager with multiple saved scripts.

Completely invisible on screen shares (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Loom).

Pro license via LemonSqueezy — one-time payment, two device activations.