Works as advertised, but...

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.

FiftyTwoSouth about Rehearsal 2