Instagram brings teleprompter and overlays to Edits app

Instagram’s Edits just got a few much-anticipated features with teleprompters, overlays, and more, the company announced this week on Instagram.

“New on Edits,” the Creators’ Instagram account posted on Wednesday. “Update your Edits app today to find more insights, overlays and the much requested Teleprompter feature which allows you to read your script while filming and focus on capturing the perfect take. Swipe through to learn more — and comment below to let us know what features you’d like us to add next!”

The most exciting update in the new package of features is probably the teleprompter feature, which makes content creation a whole lot easier. To try it out yourself, start recording a video by clicking the record button at the bottom of the screen in Edits. On the left, you’ll see five options: a music symbol, a little guy with a dotted box around them, a timer button, a zoom button, and, at the bottom of that list, a teleprompter button. Simply click the teleprompter, add your script, and change the text size and teleprompter speed with the slides at the bottom left of the script screen.

Meta launched Edits in late April. Much like TikTok’s CapCut, the app is intended to aid in creating Reels, but it’s also pretty clearly a CapCut competitor. The only problem is that CapCut is more established in the space and has a ton more features than Reels does, so the app is having to fight to keep up.

Since Edits launched two months ago, it has added additional fonts, filters, and voice effects, more cropping tools, 35 transition effects, alignment guides and beat markers, tracking sensitivity, and more, as Social Media Today reported.