Apps that help you learn lines, compared

You record the other parts: LineLearner

With LineLearner, you record every other character’s lines yourself — the app can shift the pitch so they don’t all sound like you — and it plays them back with a gap for yours. It costs $4.99, once, on iPhone.

Where it wins: one payment and done; the voices are human, because they are yours; and it works with any script the moment you start recording.

The catch: someone has to read every other line aloud first, and read it again when the script changes. For a short scene that’s fine. For a whole role, that is a lot of recording.

Audition line readers: Linus, ScenePartner, Aside and others

These are built for a screen actor’s self-tape. You upload your sides, a few pages, pick your role, and voices read the other lines and wait for yours; then you record a take and send it. Linus, ScenePartner, Aside and ActingPal all work this way.

Where they win: self-tape tools that Répliq doesn’t have, like recording your take in the app; and some run on Android and the web, which Répliq doesn’t. If you have an audition tomorrow, use one of these.

The catch: they are sized for sides, not plays. Linus Pro and ScenePartner Plus take scripts of up to 10 pages; a full-length play runs to a hundred, which needs their top plans, at $19.99 and $29.99 a month. And they describe themselves as built for auditions and self-tapes, not for a cast learning a show together.

The whole play, every other part voiced for you: Répliq

Répliq is built for learning a role in a play. Paste the whole script and pick your part: every other role is voiced for you, each in its own voice chosen from dozens to fit the character, and nobody records anything. Then rehearse. The app reads the other parts, listens for your line, and goes on when you’ve said it, so you learn your cues as well as your words.

If you’re directing a cast, you can share the play with a code. Everyone in the cast rehearses their own part with the same voices, and pays nothing, then or ever.

Whoever prepares a play — you, or your director — subscribes, at $9.99 a month or $89.99 a year, and can try it free first on a scene of their own. The plays in our catalog are free to rehearse for anyone.

Where it falls short: it runs on iPhone and iPad only. It doesn’t record self-tapes. Songs are spoken, not sung, so a musical’s numbers stay with your music director. And it is a subscription for whoever prepares the play, where LineLearner is one payment.

At a glance

Prices in US dollars, from each app’s own website as of October 2026. A dash means the app’s website doesn’t mention it.

Which one should you use?

• A self-tape due this week: one of the audition line readers.
• A short scene: Répliq, free up to 1,000 words in total; or LineLearner, if you’d rather record the parts yourself and pay once.
• Android: Linus. Répliq isn’t there today.
• A role in a play, or a cast to get off book: Répliq.