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Takeline for Mac

Fork of Textream that follows your voice in French and English, all on your Mac.

By Bouliw. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Takeline at a glance

Version
0.1.0
Released
12 October 2026
Download size
2.6 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Utilities
Developer
Bouliw
GitHub stars
1

About Takeline

A teleprompter for Mac that follows your voice in French and English, entirely on your Mac. Fork of Textream.

How to install Takeline on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Takeline and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.1.0 from Bouliw's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Takeline show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Takeline.dmg (2.6 MB).

What is new in Takeline 0.1.0

The first release of Takeline, a teleprompter for Mac that follows your voice in French and English, entirely on your Mac. Based on [Textream](https://github.com/f/textream) by Fatih Kadir Akın.

### What's new compared to Textream

- **Speech recognition on the Mac only** (Apple's SpeechAnalyzer): audio never leaves it, and when a language isn't available on the Mac, Takeline says so instead of using a server.
- **French, English, or both**: the language is detected from the script, and a script that mixes them is followed in both.
- **Tracking that holds**: misheard words, improvising, re-reading a sentence, skipping a line.
- **Retakes**: say "on la refait", "take two", "scratch that"… or read the sentence again, and the text goes back to the start of the sentence. Apple's on-device model settles ambiguous phrases.
- **Voice commands** in French and English: previous paragraph, from the top, pause, resume, bigger or smaller text.
- **Session files** (`.takeline.json`) with every take and retake, for editing tools ([format](https://github.com/Bouliw/takeline/blob/master/docs/session-format.md)).
- **Word, Markdown and text imports**, besides PowerPoint notes and `.textream` files.
- **Remote view and Director protected** by an access code and limited to the local network.
- **Estimated video length** at your own pace, **French interface**, and many fixes.

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