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Comparisons without the marketing fog
Comparison pages only work when they are honest about what is being compared. Ours separate vocabulary from hardware, and studio rigs from phone apps, so you can decide on facts instead of adjectives.
Terminology and categories
The setup a phone is being compared against
The three ways people read on camera
Compare approaches before you compare products. Most disappointment comes from picking the wrong category, not the wrong brand.
| Notes off camera | Phone or tablet app | Beam-splitter rig | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eye line | Visibly off camera | Slightly off, and it shrinks with distance | Straight down the lens |
| What it costs | Nothing | A device you already own | Rig, glass, camera, and a stand |
| Time to first take | None | About a minute | Assembly and alignment every session |
| Follows your voice | No | Yes, with Voice Sync | Depends on the prompter software you pair with it |
| Records the video too | No | Yes, and the prompt stays out of the export | The camera does |
What we compare on
Every comparison here is judged on the same four things, and nothing else.
Eye line
How far your gaze sits from the lens, and what it costs in money or setup time to close that gap.
Time to first take
Everything between deciding to record and actually speaking. This is where phone workflows win and rigs lose.
What happens to the script
Whether the prompt can end up in the finished video, and where the text is processed while you read it.
Honest limits
What each approach cannot do, ours included. A comparison that lists no downsides is an advert.
And what the phone side looks like
Our comparison policy
We publish comparisons we can stand behind: dated testing, real evidence, and honest limits, including our own. We do not invent ratings, download counts, or competitor weaknesses. Product shootouts against named alternatives are published only after hands-on testing, so they arrive slower and mean more.
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