Built for running lines

Hands-free line runs

Rehearse listens as you speak and brings the reader in when you finish. Run lines with headphones while you walk or travel.

• Listens on this device

  Speech recognition runs on your iPhone or iPad, so your rehearsal is not sent anywhere.

• Ask for help out loud

  Say “Line”, “Whole line”, “Go back”, “Cue again”, “From the top” or “Pause”.

• Headphone presses

  Press once to pause or carry on, twice to move on, three times to go back a line.

• Works with your phone locked

  Keep your phone in your pocket. Rehearse keeps listening and answers your headphone button.

• Natural or word-perfect

  Natural rehearsal accepts everyday wording. Word-perfect wants the line as written.

• Learns how you speak

  Read a scene through once, if you like, so SideTape knows how you say your lines.

A reader for every other part

Choose a reader for each character. Mix them in one scene.

• Phone voices

  Apple’s voices on your iPhone or iPad. Ready at once, and nothing leaves this device.

• Your own recordings

  Record the other characters’ lines in your own voice and hear them back.

• A friend’s recordings

  Send a scene to a friend who has SideTape. They record their lines and send them back to you.

• Optional AI readers

  Voices made by ElevenLabs. SideTape asks before it sends a scene’s dialogue, then saves the audio for offline use.

Self-tapes on your mark

Set up once, then perform. SideTape handles the reader and the camera.

• A reader in every take

  Recorded or AI readers play underneath, or someone reads live in the room.

• A prompter that follows you

  Your lines move on as you say them.

• Stops after the last line

  The take ends by itself a few seconds after the scene ends. Start and stop with your headphone button.

• Ready for casting

  Trim the start and end, then export an MP4 with a file name casting can use.

• Set the timing

  Change the pauses between lines, and trim each recorded line, before you record.

• An optional slate

  Turn on a slate, and the reader waits until you have said it.

Learn lines

Get the words in before you rehearse.

• Hear the scene

  Play the scene with your readers, at the speed you choose, with your phone locked if you like.

• Hide your lines in steps

  Go from Full to first Words, first Letters, then Hide as the lines go in.

• Notes and cues

  Highlight words, add notes, and mark the words of your cue.

• Hear yourself

  Record your own lines to hear how you said them.

Any script, in a few taps

• Scan, photos, files or text

  Scan pages, choose photos, open a PDF or Word file, or paste text.

• Tidied for you

  Page numbers and “CONT’D” marks go, and speeches split across pages join up.

• Easy to correct

  Check what SideTape found, fix any line, and undo a change.

• Try it straight away

  A sample scene, “The last train”, comes with two built-in voices. Press Play at once.

Private by design

• On this device

  Scripts, recordings, rehearsal audio and self-tapes stay on your iPhone or iPad.

• No account needed

  Learn, rehearse and record without signing in.

• AI readers ask first

  Only the scene’s dialogue is sent, and only after you agree.

• No advertising or tracking

  The app has no analytics or advertising tracking.

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iPhone and iPad

SideTape runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, in light and dark mode. It is in an invited beta through TestFlight.