Rehearsal 2 App Reviews

I use this app every day. Orlando Florida is a commercial market and most auditions are last minute. I can prep my sides easily and go as long as I want with out needing someone to read with me. I dont remember how I rehearsed with out it. I heard about it on INSIDE ACTING PODCAST. Thank you David.

David came through after months of perseverance for you voice over artists out there one can actually email mp3s directly to the casting entity from rehearsal 2! ...and that is not all…it is an awesome tool for on camera audition preparation as well, beautifully facilitating the opportunity to hone ones listening skills while getting off book. I always get a kick out of walking across a studio lot to an audition with my iPhone held up to my ear seemingly I am chatting away when in fact I am listening to the other characters lines and speaking my own in turn.. relaxed focused and confident striding in to the audition! Nice going David H. Lawrence :) Creative Courage

Rehearsal 2 has been a compete game changer for me! I live in LA and spend WAY too much time in my car, so the fact that I can run my lines on a loop while driving is amazing. I love the fact that I can make notes, add audio files, photos, & video to my scripts. I can saturate each script with so much information. Genius!

Another app that makes a grueling monotonous task a little easier. Worth the money if your an actor.

This is a fantastic idea for an app, but switching between blackout mode and the highlight view is abysmally slow. Unusable, honestly. But even if it worked quickly, you should be able to peek at individual blacked out lines. As it is now, all you can do is toggle it on or off for the whole script at one.

This app allows you to do two things well: highlight and notate your script and record/playback audio while looking at the script to practice lines. Its quite good at this. However... As loathe as I am to criticize an app in such a niche market, where any nod from the tech world is welcome, there is a series of seemingly basic features missing in an app that carries such a high price tag, such as: - remembering where you were in the script when you close the app. Dont use this to read long scripts, because theres no way to save your place. Reopening the app takes you back to page 1. -no pause feature on audio playback. Dont use the app to memorize anything long, unless you can get through it without stopping (which means its already basically memorized, right?). Theres no way to pause the audio and resume where you left off. Pressing stop takes you back to the beginning. - The interface (for people who care about this sort of thing) felt dated even before the ios7 update. Now it looks like it was pulled straight from Windows ME by comparison. I want to like this app. I want to cheer what seems like a small development outfit for throwing the acting world a bone and producing an app that meets our unique needs. But I cant get over the feeling that this same small development outfit is taking advantage of the acting world by releasing an app with few features and glaring deficiencies, then charging us 10x the price of slicker, more fully featured general-use apps (Notability, et al) that can do almost the same thing. At best, the app is useful, yet clunky and unnecessarily half-baked. At worst, its exploitive. And yet Im going to go use it right now. Go figure.

Horrible app! It took me long to figure out it only reads PDF and doc files, which you have to send in an email with your scene attached in order for them to upload it, it took them forever to upload, it kept send me back emails that it couldnt load ( error). I had a last minute audition and thought this would have helped; the time i spent figuring out this app, I could have utilize it to actually studied my scene with my own technique! It was a waste of precious time to prepare! I would like my 20 dollars back!! dont waste your time or money

UPDATED REVIEW: Still not a good app after a year of using it. Doesnt sync between iPad and iPhone. Highlights are not really responsive to touch. Still have to email confidential information. And its outrageously expensive for an app. ___ previous review ___ I enjoy the app - even though I havent really even used it yet. But already I dont like emailing confidential material, you need to be able to bookmark the pages (so the app reopened to the last page), as well it should scroll through faster, add new pages as they come in... AS WELL, the iPhone and iPad apps dont sync, so they function as two different apps - if I do all this work on one, it isnt reflected when I open the app on the other. If Im stuck emailing scripts, then your server should sync the apps. Thats REALLY annoying.

I purchased this for use thinking that it would help me to learn lines for a small scene that I am working on for a community theater group. When it opened, the tutorials were confusing and I found it extremely difficult to understand how to load on a pdf file before it could be used. The script we are using is not in public domain and has been paid for…yet how to quickly down load this without the proper scanner and equipt was impossible. Furthermore, when I checked the links to their “store” thinking that I probably had to buy some other program in order to make this work more easily, the “Store” did not exist. I was sent instead to a marketing analytics site. I am not impressed. I deleted this immediately and have requested a refund. There’s got to be a better way to mark a script and learn lines…true, this is a great idea that should be completely updated with intuitive graphics and explanations. Extremely expensive for what I received!

Vastly overpriced for something I can accomplish with my iPhones voice memos and my paper sides and a highlighter. Very disappointed, attempting to get a refund. And as an FYI, Im a professional actor in LA and Ive done over forty episodes of tv as a guest star, recurring guest, and series regular. Please refund my hard earned money. I have no use for this app. H

Good app to have. Lots of great features. Two huge missing features: - searching the PDF - skipping it any page. These are KEY and missing. Cant give it a better rating without these. Hard to believe its 20 bucks and doesnt have these.

I love this app so much, but lately its been doing to me what others are complaining about. My highlights disappear and I have to exit the script and then come back to get them to show. Then I lose my place. Please fix this bug. Thanks!

I really like this app, but my main complaint is that it doesn’t remember what page you were last on akin to a Kindle. For a 100+ page script, having to scroll to the page you were last on every time you open it is a bit of a pain. I suppose you’d have to save each of your scenes separately, but when you have lines throughout and you want use rehearsal to aid in memorization for a full play and not just an audition it’s not the greatest. That said, it is very useful for sides.

Over the last two years, I had the (absolute) luxury problem of having a number of jobs that overlapped each other. The work was very challenging and I was inundated with dialects to (attempt!) to master and dialogue to memorize. I was doing a show called Copper at the same time as Sons of Anarchy and about to start Vikings. In fact, there was a five week period in 2013 where I had nine episodes of those three series to film in less than five weeks. A friend told me about “Rehearsal” and it was like an answer to my prayers. I would highlight the script, record the dialogue (everyone’s lines) and listen to the scenes over and over. In my car, on set- wherever- Rehearsal was my constant companion. I always feel that as an actor, my only defense against any scenario is preparation. Especially when I am showing up in high pressure situations on high profile projects. I don’t care how experienced you may be, there is always a feeling of being the new kid on campus. There is no better way to assure your new cast mates you can handle the situation than being off book and ready to throw down. This app is an incredible tool for us actors. Before I would record voice memos, but Rehearsal loops the scenes and allows me to add notes to the script. Thanks David for such a useful tool. Sincerely, Donal Logue

I read good things about this app and decided to purchase it. I have made several attempts to activate my account, but nothing has worked. There is nothing in my inbox or my spam folder. I should be able to sign-in, receive my activation code and be on my way. However, Im here writing a review for product that has NOT impressed me, because I cant use it! In the meantime, Ill continue to use conventional methods for rehearsing dialogue.

Hey, guys. Rehearsal needs an update now. Since adapting iOS 8, the app will not open a script without automatically recording a scene. Not at all good on a quiet film set. Upgrade, please.

I run an acting studio in New York City, and I tell all of my students to use this app. Not to mention I’ve been using it myself for years. It is a total game-changer, and has raised the bar for memorization. Love it, can’t recommend it enough!

I read a few reviews about the app not being easy to use. I dont know how you can make it much easier without adding a robot voice to read the other characters for you. My wife reads the second character parts, so it doesnt feel like I am talking to myself. For me it is hard to practice when the other person is my voice. The other interesting side effect of knowing the lines cold is when the reader skipped ahead a full page, I didnt miss a beat. I knew it was wrong, but after working with rehearsal 2 the day before , it flowed perfectly. The CD didnt even catch it. During class, my instructor thanked me for being so much better prepared. I spent about half the time and felt like I had spent all week rehearsing, a luxury we dont get often if ever. If you dont have a read partner for rehearsal, this is about as good as it gets.

The scene to MP3 audio email feature isnt working. Thanks for wasting my time and audition opportunity. Oh and my $20.

Just activated my account and went to login and cant. Says all are invalid. Resent activation, says active. Tried forgot password. App email says they are concerned about security. This app has a lot of issues. Its a joke how bad and frustrating just logging in is. Hello voice recorder.