Stinger
Get your camera setup ready before you record.
Stinger is available now. Get the recording checklist and follow-up tips, or download the app and try your own script today.
What Stinger actually does
Stinger puts your script just below the Mac camera, with a pace you can control.
Keeps your eyes on the lens
The script sits within a couple of degrees of the camera, with one line lit at a time, so glancing at your words looks like eye contact.
Scrolls at a set pace
Timed scrolling at lines-per-minute you control, adjustable on the fly if you speed up or slow down.
Scrolls when you talk
Voice mode moves the script while you're speaking and pauses the moment you stop — no button to hit.
Follows the words you say
Track mode listens to what's leaving your mouth and keeps the lit line there, so skipping ahead or restarting a sentence doesn't throw it off.
Check before you share
Stinger asks macOS to exclude its panel from capture. Use Ghost Check, then verify in the meeting or recording app and sharing mode you plan to use; capture behavior varies.
Moves anywhere you need it
Drag the panel out of the notch and float it wherever it's easiest to see, resized to fit.
Drop in your script
Paste or type your script into the built-in editor, or import a file you already wrote. It's saved as a plain file on your Mac.
Hang it under the lens
The panel anchors right under your Mac's camera — in the notch on newer Macs, top-center on others — so your eyes stay near the lens the whole time.
Pick how it scrolls
Set a pace, let it scroll while you talk, or let it follow the actual words you say — so pausing, ad-libbing, or restarting a line doesn't lose your place.
Check, then record
Stinger asks macOS to exclude its panel from capture. Use Ghost Check, then verify in the meeting or recording app and sharing mode you plan to use; capture behavior varies.
Stop losing takes to a glance
Get the checklist that fixes the setup before you hit record.
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You already know what to say
The camera shouldn't be the thing that takes it from you. Most people who talk to a Mac camera for work are being told they're bad on camera when really they're bad at reading off to the side — nobody's good at that. Put the words where your eyes already are, and you're just talking again.
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Stinger help
Short guides for your first script, scroll modes, screen-capture checks, license management, and Premier minutes.