Scene Voice

A screenplay, read to you like a table read.

Import a script, PDF or Final Draft, and Scene Voice performs it with a full cast, every character in their own voice. Listen to it, rehearse against it, tape your audition to it, or break it down for production, all on your iPhone or iPad.

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Fifty voices, built in PDF or Final Draft, locked PDFs too
Only in Scene Voice

Three things no other app does.

Private.

No account. No cloud.

The only app that gives you a full cast of natural voices, a scene partner and a self-tape studio that are completely private: no account, no cloud, and not one word of your script leaves your phone unless you choose to send it.

Unlimited.

No meter. No credits.

The only app that casts every character from what your script says, by age, gender and setting, then rehearses with you for as long as you like. No minutes, no page limits, no credits, no sign-up.

Production-ready.

The paperwork, too.

The only private app that also does the production paperwork. From the same script it builds your scene breakdown, cast list and day out of days, props and picture vehicles, sound and action cues, a continuity sheet, scene timings and sides, all on your phone.

Who’s it for?

One is listening for the writing. One is counting the days. One is learning the lines. It is the same script, and Scene Voice is built for all three.

Writers

Hear it back

A performed read is merciless in the best way. Dialogue that reads well and plays badly gives itself away in seconds, and you hear it on the drive, without booking a room or calling in favours. Bring in the next draft and it can read you just the scenes you rewrote.

Filmmakers

The production view

A full breakdown measured off the page: eighths, locations, cast numbers, continuity, props, picture vehicles, and a page per scene, ready to print. It exports as real spreadsheets with live formulas, so a department can be handed its own document the same afternoon the draft lands.

Actors

Rehearse and tape

Cue Me plays every part but yours, follows your words on your lines, and carries on the moment you finish. Loop a speech until it sticks. Sides cuts the script down to your scenes. Self tape films you while the other parts play into your headphones, so the recording hears only you, slate included, at two in the morning if that is when the request came in.

The readEvery line performed
Scene Voice reading a screenplay: the script page with the reading transport below
The castEvery character, a voice
The cast: every character with their own voice, and a menu to change any of them
RehearseSelf tape, set up your way
The self tape setup on the Rehearse tab: the other parts play in your headphones; which camera, the count-in and the pause after your line
ProductionThe office, in your pocket
The Breakdown sheet: every scene by its number, with its location, time of day and page count in eighths, exportable as a spreadsheet
Privacy

Private by construction.

Your script stays on your device. There is no account to make and nothing to upload. The voices are built into the app and perform on the phone itself, so scripts, audio and self tapes stay where you put them. The only copies that go anywhere are the ones you export or share yourself.

Two extras can reach out: lifelike cloud voices, and an online service you choose for casting help, scene descriptions and coverage. Both are off until you turn them on, and neither can touch a script you mark Confidential. On a device with Apple Intelligence, casting help runs on the phone too, and sends nothing.

You don’t have to take our word for it: Settings keeps a record of every request the app makes to the internet, so you can check for yourself.

Built for working scripts: the ones under NDA, the ones that aren’t announced, the ones that are yours.

Features

Everything Scene Voice does.

Four working parts, one script: the read, the casting, the rehearsal tools, and the paperwork a production actually needs.

Fifty voices · No account · Nothing uploaded

The read

Import a script and hear it performed.

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  • Fifty voices, in the appMen, women, children and teenagers, American and British, and the British voices speak with British pronunciation, with no American r in “car”. No account, no connection, no per-minute charge, however often you play the scene.
  • Heard as a story, not a document“INT. KITCHEN - NIGHT” is read as a place and a time, and a shot call like “MED. SHOT” as “medium shot”. Wrylies land as direction. Abbreviations are said out loud the way a person would say them.
  • Studio drafts openA password-protected PDF asks once and remembers. A name stamped diagonally across every page is ignored rather than cast as a character.
  • Scanned scripts tooA PDF made of photographed pages is read on the phone itself, and the pages never leave it.
  • The next draft picks up where you left offA new draft is recognised by its scenes, whatever the file is called. Cast, recordings and notes come with it, the rewrites are marked, and it will read you only what changed.
  • Single-voice modeOne narrator announcing each speaker, when you would rather have that.
  • Say scene numbersThe narrator can announce “Scene 12” before each scene, using the script’s own numbers, so you always know where you are with your eyes shut.
  • Just the dialogue, or just the actionHear only the lines when you’re listening to the voices, or skip them when you’re checking that the story moves.

The cast

Every speaking role, given its own voice.

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  • A cast profile for every characterEach speaking role gets a profile (gender, age and accent) read from the whole script: how the character is introduced, the full name the page gives them, the “he” or “she” used about them, what the other characters call them, and where the story is set. The voice is chosen to fit, children and teenagers get younger voices, and a voice you pick yourself stays.
  • Names typed more than one wayWhen a character’s name is spelled differently in places, the app offers to merge them into one part, and you can merge any two yourself.
  • It tells you what it guessedAny word the reader wasn’t sure how to say is listed as the script is prepared, so you can fix it before you rehearse instead of hearing it go wrong mid-scene. Spell it the way it sounds, press Hear it, and every voice says it that way, in every script.
  • Cloud voices, if you want themConnect your own ElevenLabs account to use its voices in the cast. Off until you set it up, and never used for a Confidential script.

Rehearsal & taping

Run the lines, then put them on camera.

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  • Cue MePlays every part but yours and follows your words on your lines, using Apple’s speech recognition on the phone. It picks up the moment you finish and prompts you if you stop, or waits for a beat you choose or your tap, so the scene runs at the speed you play it.
  • Your part, measuredPick your character and see the size of the role: lines, words, scenes and pages, first and last scene, and who you share scenes with.
  • BlackoutHides your lines, or leaves just their first letters, to test whether you really have them. When you go up, the prompt gives you the opening words, on screen or spoken in your character’s voice so your eyes stay off the phone.
  • Loop these linesBracket a speech or an exchange and it plays round and round until it sticks. The lines you looped last time are still bracketed when you come back.
  • Build up and slip drillsBuild up, beside Loop these lines, adds your speech a sentence at a time until you have it all. After a slip, Hear your line plays your line as written.
  • SidesPlay just the scenes you’re in, or export them as proper sides: script pages with the scene numbers kept and your lines marked.
  • Run the scene on a walkExport the read as one audio file with your lines left as silence, so you can run it with AirPods and nothing to look at. It plays at the speed you rehearse at, and it can be just the scenes you name.
  • Self tapeFilms you while the other parts play into your headphones. Your voice is recorded clean, and the other characters are mixed in afterwards at full quality, at the level you choose, not played out loud and picked up by the microphone. Front or rear camera, a count-in, your own pause after any of your lines, a dimmed picture or a teleprompter, and Start over without leaving the camera. The camera opens first so you can frame the shot, with zoom up to 3x, brightness and an eye-line guide, and the teleprompter sits under the lens. Every take is kept in the app to trim and clean up, then saved to Photos or sent, with no watermark on it (a Confidential script’s takes are only sent). Each take keeps its own reader level and voice cleanup. New to taping alone? Read how to shoot a self-tape without a reader.
  • SlatesName, role and agency as their own clip, ended by your silence and trimmed to your last word.
  • Your own voice on your own linesRecord your lines and they play in the read in place of the app’s voice.
  • A scene partner who is not in the roomSend your recorded lines or your notes as a file. No accounts, no server. Their lines play in the read where the app’s voice would have been.

The production view

The paperwork, measured from the page itself.

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  • Scene-by-scene breakdownEighths, INT/EXT, day and night, locations with their rooms gathered under them, the speaking cast by cast number, and how long each scene takes to read aloud, all under the script’s own scene numbers, so 44A stays 44A. An online service you choose can add a one-line description of each scene.
  • A page per sceneThe classic breakdown page for every scene, as a PDF: heading and number, pages, the cast by number, props, vehicles, continuity, the writer’s sound cues, action cues and camera, and your own notes, with room left to write by hand.
  • Continuity sheetStory days read off the page, wardrobe and its changes per character, damage carried through the day, weather, season and hair and make-up cues.
  • Props breakdownEvery object a character handles, every gun or knife a scene names and what the writer set in capitals: who handles it and where, with the sentence it came from. Weapons, money, consumables and damage flagged; class and quantity yours to set.
  • Picture vehiclesEvery vehicle the page puts on screen: which scenes, moving or static, interior dialogue, stunts, description, and who the page says is driving. Hero, background or stunt is your call; strike a row, or join two names for one vehicle.
  • Cast profilesEvery character in one table: gender and where on the page it came from, age, an origin only where the script states one, their scenes and lines, and the writer’s own words introducing them.
  • Day out of daysWho appears in which scenes, by cast number, with the full character-by-scene grid in the export.
  • Sound and action cuesWhat the writer set in capitals in the action, gathered scene by scene on two sheets: the sounds and music for one department, the action beats for another.
  • CinematographyThe writer’s camera, scene by scene: every shot call and camera move the page asks for.
  • Notes on any linePress and hold to write a direction, a beat, a reminder. They gather under their scenes, follow the next draft, and print as a PDF you can hand out.
  • The whole book in one fileEvery report as one spreadsheet, a sheet each, behind a cover page. Live formulas, not pictures of numbers. Each also exports alone, so a department gets only its own document, and every sheet says which draft it was made from.

Put it to work on your own script.

The beta is the real app, not a demo. Import your own scripts, cast them, rehearse against them, and export the paperwork.

Free beta, available now

Join the beta

The full app, on your iPhone or iPad. Leave your email and the free TestFlight link comes straight back. The first 100 beta testers to claim it in the app get a free lifetime license when Scene Voice launches. After an hour of reading, on three different days, the claim appears in Settings.

One reply now with the link, and one email at launch. Your address is used for nothing else. Already have the link? Join on TestFlight directly.