Will a notch teleprompter show when I share my screen on a Mac?
NotchStar does not hide its teleprompter from screen sharing or screen recording. It is a normal window on your display. If you share your whole screen, people watching may see whatever is on it, which can include the notch area. The safe approach is to share a single window, not the display, and to test first.
What NotchStar does
The notch is a panel that floats above the menu bar. The Teleprompter draws your script in it. There is no code in NotchStar that detects sharing or excludes the panel from capture, and the feature page says plainly that hiding it from a screen recording is not something it does. Meeting apps capture the screen in different ways, so NotchStar makes no claim about what any one of them includes.
How to stay safe
- In your meeting app, choose to share a window or application, not the entire desktop, wherever it gives the choice.
- Before the real call, start a meeting with yourself or a colleague, share, and ask them what they see. Or use the app’s own preview if it has one.
- Keep the script short on the shared display. If it only matters for your eyes, put it in the Teleprompter only when you are not sharing and close the notch (Escape) when you are.
- Press Unpin in the notch header before you share so it is not left open over the content.
- For private notes, think about whether you need them on screen at all. A printed page next to the camera is invisible to every capture method.
A camera feed is different. The lens captures only what it sees, so the Teleprompter text does not appear in your video unless it is reflected in glasses or a shiny surface.
Apps that say they hide
Other notch prompters make claims about hiding. CueNotch says its Ghost Mode hides the prompter when you share or record. NotchPrompter and Avocado make similar statements on their sites. All of these were read on 4 November 2026, and the teleprompter comparison lists them with prices. Those are their claims, not NotchStar facts. Test any app with the meeting software you use, since sharing methods differ between apps and macOS versions.
When NotchStar is still a good fit
If your script is not secret, for instance a talk you will deliver to a camera, or if you share only a window, the lack of hiding does not matter. It matters if you read private notes while sharing a display. Then choose an app that offers hiding, and test it, or use paper.
See the Teleprompter feature page for the list of limits, and the Zoom walkthrough for the full steps.
