Privacy, casting, rehearsal, self-tape and the production reports, in short answers.
No, not on its own. The voices are built into the app and perform on the device, so your scripts, the audio and your self-tapes stay there. There’s no account and nothing is uploaded; the only copies that go anywhere are the ones you export or share yourself. Like any app’s documents, your scripts are part of your iPhone’s or iPad’s own backup if you have one switched on.
Yes. Mark a script Confidential and the two optional cloud features can’t touch it, or turn on Private mode in Settings to switch them off for every script. We never receive your script, so there’s nothing for us to read.
No, not by default. Only two optional extras can, and both are off until you switch them on: ElevenLabs voices, with your own ElevenLabs account, and an online service (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, with your own key) for casting help, coverage and scene descriptions. Apple Intelligence, where your device has it, works on the device and sends nothing. Everything else works offline.
No. There are no analytics, no tracking and no ads, and no account. The app never sends us anything on its own: only what you choose to send, like a bug report, and nothing it sends us contains your script’s words. To check for yourself, Settings → Privacy → What has left this device lists every request the app has made to the internet.
It reads the whole script, not just each character’s introduction. That includes descriptions, "he" and "she", titles like Mr. or Madame, what the other characters call them, and stated ages and nationalities. It then gives every speaking part its own voice: children and teenagers get younger voices, a story set in Britain is cast British, and a narrator reads the action. The Cast profiles report (Production tab) shows where on the page each answer came from.
Only the voices the app chose, and only once. A script keeps its cast, and a new draft inherits it. When an update improves casting, the app re-casts the voices it picked; any voice you chose yourself stays.
Yes. On the Cast tab, pick any of the fifty voices for any character; your choice stays, through app updates and into the next draft. For a name said wrong, open Pronunciations, spell it the way it sounds and press Hear it. When a name is typed two ways, Merge characters makes them one part.
Choose your character and turn on Cue Me. The app reads every part but yours and waits for you at your lines. It understands your words with Apple's speech recognition, on your phone, so it picks up the moment you finish and prompts you if you go up. Nothing is sent. Or it picks up after a beat you choose, or when you tap, at any speed from 0.8× to 2×.
Blackout hides your lines, or leaves just their first letters. When you go up, the prompt gives you the opening words, on screen or spoken in your character’s voice. Loop these lines repeats a speech or an exchange until it sticks.
Yes. Record your lines and they play in the read in place of the app’s voice, or have a scene partner record theirs and send you the file. To rehearse on a walk, export the scene as one audio file with your lines left as silence.
Mark the scene, put your headphones in and press Start self tape. The other parts play in your ears, so the microphone hears only you, and they’re mixed into the video afterwards at full quality, at the level you choose. There’s a front or rear camera, a count-in, your own pause after each line, a dimmed picture or a teleprompter, and a slate. The camera opens first, 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, where you trim it, set the reader’s level and clean up your voice, then save it to Photos or send it, with no watermark (a Confidential script’s takes are only sent).
From the page itself: the breakdown (eighths, INT/EXT, day and night, locations, the cast by number), a breakdown page per scene as a PDF, timing, cast profiles with Day Out of Days, continuity (story days, weather, wardrobe, hair and make-up), props, picture vehicles, sound and action cues, cinematography, and your line notes.
Yes, as spreadsheets for Numbers or Excel. Export the whole book puts every report in one workbook, and each report also exports on its own, so a department gets just its part. Every sheet uses the script’s own scene numbers (44A stays 44A) and names the draft it came from.
They’re read from the page, so treat them as a first pass that saves hours, not a finished schedule. You can correct anything where you see it: page counts, story days, a prop’s class and quantity, a vehicle’s role, or a row you want struck.
Import it and the app recognises it as the same script. The cast, your recordings and notes carry over, and so do your corrections to scenes that are still in it. The changed scenes are marked, and it can read you only what changed.
PDF and Final Draft (.fdx), from a full feature to a page of sides. A password-protected PDF asks once, and a scanned PDF is read on the device.
iOS 18, iOS 26.6 and later, and iOS 27 work fully. On iOS 26.0 to 26.3, a read with the phone locked may pause by itself. On 26.4 and 26.5 the voices are switched off because of an Apple bug. Update to 26.6 or later. There’s no Android version.
The beta is free. Leave your email and the beta 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. Install Apple’s TestFlight app from the App Store, open the Scene Voice beta link on your iPhone or iPad, then tap Accept and Install. Found a problem? Settings → Report a bug in the app, or write from the help page.
The first 100 beta testers to claim it get a free lifetime license when Scene Voice launches. To claim it:
Each phone can claim once. The claim sends only your name and email, the app’s build number, your reading time, an anonymous install code and the time of the claim, and only when you tap Claim.
There is nothing to do until then. When Scene Voice launches, we will email your license and the code that unlocks it to the address you claimed with, with step-by-step instructions. Keep using the beta until that email arrives.
If the claim has not appeared after an hour of reading on three days, or the email does not arrive, use Settings → Report a bug in the app, or write from the help page.