Subtext: The Actor's App
Run lines, Self-tape, Audition
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
For every day you act, audition or not. Run lines with voices that read back. Tape with a real reader, send one link. Book it, own the role. The whole job. One app.
My fellow actor,
I've been in this business for over 20 years, so in many ways, this is my life's work. Subtext is here for every inch of our job. Break down the sides. Learn your lines, and your songs. Tape it with a real reader. Cut it and send casting one link. When you book it, go deep: ask the script anything, hear it like a table read, carry your notes to set or stage, and keep a journal of the whole year.
I built what I always wished I had and now it's yours.
Break a leg,
Ali Momen
Actor and maker of Subtext
GET THE AUDITION IN
Import your sides as a PDF, scan printed pages, pick photos, or share them straight from Mail. Give Subtext its own address and casting emails arrive with the role, the due date and the breakdown already pulled out. When a new draft lands, Subtext shows which of your lines changed.
KNOW THE SCRIPT
Subtext reads your script and finds the characters, the scenes and the beats. Get a synopsis, then ask the script anything: what a line means, what led here, what the scene is really about. Mark up the page with a pencil: highlight, underline, circle the turn.
LEARN YOUR LINES
Run lines hands-free with an AI scene partner that listens and answers when you finish. Pick a voice for every character by casting type. Paraphrase or strict, your call. Hide your lines, or show only the first letter of each word. Cut in over your reader and they trail off, like a person would. Stuck? Say "Subtext, line?" and you'll hear the next three words.
Then drill with Cue Cards. Hear the cue, say your line, and watch it fill in word by word. Misses come back round, clean streaks add up, and each deck ends with how much of your part is by heart.
READ WITH A REAL PERSON
Send a friend a link. They record the other lines in their browser, no app and no account, and their voice plays when you rehearse and tape. Or read live together on video, with the script moving as you both speak. No one free tonight? Record the other lines in your own voice.
TAPE IT
A self-tape studio with a teleprompter that scrolls your lines while you film. Use two devices with the Rig: one films, the other holds your lines, plays your reader and rolls and cuts. Mark your print, trim, add your slate, clean up the audio, and export it named the way casting asks. Share one link casting can watch in any browser.
MUSICAL MODE
Add your score beside your book. Every song cue in the script becomes a link to that number in the score. On iPad, they sit side by side and turn pages together. Mark up the score like you would in rehearsal: circle the cutoff, pencil in a breath, highlight your line. Magnify the tight spots.
VOICEOVER BOOTH
Record VO with the script scrolling in front of you. Studio Sound makes it cleaner and fuller. Export an MP3, or separate files for every take.
OWN THE ROLE
Drop notes anywhere on the page and keep them in your Notebook. Hear the whole script as a table read. On iPad, Stage Mode turns it into your script: hold to read, turn pages with your thumb.
YOUR JOURNAL
Every tape you send lands in your Journal with the date and the part. Log rooms, callbacks and coaching by hand, and mark what came of each. Search by project, role or casting office, so when an office calls you back you know what they asked for last time. And keep the work in between: a line that stuck, a note from class, a picture of the coat that's exactly the character. It counts how many times you went out. It will never show you a percentage.
YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS
Your scripts never train an AI model, and neither does your voice. No AI voice ever goes on your tape: a tape is a performance, and your reader is a real person.
FREE TO START
Your first two scripts are free. Go unlimited with a Subtext membership, monthly or annual, with a free trial. Members sync scripts, notes and progress across devices with their own iCloud.
Terms: https://getsubtext.co/terms
Privacy: https://getsubtext.co/privacy
Blocking, right on the page. In Read & Annotate, tap the walking figure, then tap a line and pick where you go: a move, a spot on the stage from USR to DSL, and a number. Zero in the middle, twenty a side, or set your own for the house you’re in. It sits beside the line like pencil, and holding the figure shows every move in the show, in order.
Also, we are laying the foundations for iPhone Duo. We can't wait to show you!
Love Subtext? A rating on the App Store goes a long way for a one-person team.
Questions, or something not reading right? Contact support lives in Settings and lands straight in my inbox.
The developer, Babbi Brains Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Babbi Brains Ltd.
- Size
- 47.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Subtext Monthly $12.99
- Subtext Yearly $79.99
- Copyright
- © Babbi Brains Ltd.

