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An AI voice reads every other part. Or drill them as cue cards: see the cue, say your line.
Forward the casting email, or have your agent CC your address. The audition lands: sides, role, due date, what casting asked for.
Drop the sides in. It finds your scenes and your lines.
When you tape, text a friend a link. Read together live on video, or they record their lines on their own time.
Maya · reader
Teleprompter, edit, clean up audio. Then a link Subtext hosts.
Nothing to upload. Nothing too big to send.
Highlight, underline, circle the turn. On every device.
What the scene is about. Who you are. What happened before.
Harry and Sally share a drive to New York as near-strangers, part ways, and cross paths for years, circling one question: can a man and a woman ever really be just friends?
The pull between friendship and desire: whether two people can stay just friends once attraction keeps surfacing.
Press play. Every character, performed. On the drive in.
The screen locks, so a stray hand can't scroll or zoom. Tap the corner to turn the page. Double-tap to go back.
Musical Mode
Add the score to the book. Tap a song and its page opens, right where the music starts.
On iPad, the book and the score sit next to each other. Turn one and the other follows.
Pen and highlighter, straight on the music. A magnifier for the small print.
Pick all your parts, the ensemble too. Your lines are yours. Subtext reads the rest.
Productions trust you with their pages. Subtext keeps them safe, from the first read to the tape you send.
Add the NDA casting sent you. Your reader fills it in and signs it on the real pages before your sides open, live reads included. The signed copy comes back to you, and it goes out with your tape so casting has it too.
Your scripts and your voice never train an AI model. Not ours, not anyone’s.
No AI voice ever goes on a self-tape. A tape is a performance, and your reader is an actor.
Reader links close after 14 days. Tape links close after 7, on a clean page with nobody else’s branding.
When the breakdown says how to name your file, your export is already named that way.
Your reader opens one link in their browser. No app to download, no account to make.
Your scripts and notes live on your device and in your own iCloud, not in a Subtext account.
How we keep the work secureWhere we stand on AIPrivacy policy
Your first two scripts are free. Go unlimited with a membership, monthly or annual, with a free trial.
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$79.99 a year, or $12.99 month to month.
Free to try, every feature unlocked. Subscribe here or in the App Store. iPhone and iPad.
I’ve been in this business for over 20 years. In many ways, this is my life’s work. I built what I always wished I had and now it’s yours.
Break a leg,
Ali MomenActor and maker of Subtext
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Import your sides as a PDF. Subtext reads the script, works out who is in it, and gives every other character a real-sounding voice. It speaks their lines aloud and then waits, listening, while you say yours. You rehearse out loud, in real time, at two in the morning if that's when you're free.
It drills you. Your lines can be hidden entirely so you're recalling rather than reading, with a word revealed at a time when you're stuck. It listens while you speak and follows along, so fumbling a line doesn't stop the scene, and you can run the same scene until it's yours.
Yes. When you send a scene to a reader, add the NDA casting sent you. Subtext finds where your reader fills in and signs, they sign it on the real pages in their browser, and nothing opens until they do, live reads included. The signed copy comes back to you, and it can go out with your self-tape link so casting has it too.
Yes. There's a teleprompter, a slate, take-by-take recording, trimming, and export, plus voiceover recording with studio-clean polish. When the tape is done, Subtext hosts it and gives you one short link to send to casting instead of a file too big to email.
Text a friend a link. They record the other character's lines in their browser, once, whenever suits them. No scheduling, no Zoom, no favor you feel bad asking for. Their real voice then reads opposite you in every rehearsal and on every take.
Free to start, with every feature unlocked from the first launch, so you can take a real audition all the way through before paying anything. After that it's a membership, monthly or annual, and there's a 14-day free trial.
An iPhone or an iPad. One device does the whole job: run lines, mark up the script, and tape on the front camera with the teleprompter. To put a reader's voice on your tape you need two: your best camera films, and the other device holds your lines and plays your reader. Scripts and notes sync between your devices.
No. Your scripts and your voice are never used to train any model, ours or anyone else's. We also never put a synthetic voice on your finished self-tape. That's the whole reason the reader link exists. Our full position is on the where we stand on AI page.