# Rehearsal Pro vs LineLearner: Two Record-Your-Own Line Apps Compared > Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner both have you record the scene yourself and play it back. Rehearsal Pro marks up the script page; LineLearner keeps it simple and cheap. We compared both, plus Script Rehearser and Offbook, in one table on six points: who reads the cues, how each knows it is your turn, script import, memory tools, devices, and price as of November 2026. Our pick for most actors is Offbook. - URL: https://www.offbook.com/blog/rehearsal-pro-vs-linelearner - Published: 2026-11-15 - Last updated: 2026-11-15 You want an app to run lines, and two of the names that keep coming up are Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner. On iOS, both are paid once, not by the month. Both run on iPhone and iPad. And both start the same way: you record the scene yourself, then rehearse against your own recordings. Past that, they split. Rehearsal Pro is built around the script page: you import a PDF, highlight your lines in color, add notes, and the page scrolls as the recording plays. LineLearner is built around the recording: you record every line, the other characters included, shift their pitch so they sound different from you, and turn your part off to leave gaps. We compared both, plus Script Rehearser, which reads with device voices and waits for you, and Offbook, in one table on six points. Our pick for most actors is Offbook, where realistic voices read every role but yours and it listens for you to finish each line. ## How We Compared Them A line app earns its place if you still reach for it the week before you're off book. These six questions decide that. - Who reads the other parts: generated voices, your own recordings, or a castmate's? - How does it know it's your turn: by listening, by leaving a gap, or by waiting for you to tap? - How does your script get in, and does the app work out who says what? - What does it give you for memorizing, beyond hearing the words again? - Where does it run: iPhone, iPad, Android, a Mac, or a browser? - What does it cost: free, a one-time price, or a subscription? ## Offbook, Rehearsal Pro, LineLearner, and Script Rehearser at a Glance | App | Other parts read by | Your turn | Script in | Memory tools | Runs on | Price (US) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Offbook | Realistic voices for every role but yours | Listens and cues the next line when you finish; Strict, Lenient, or Manual | PDF, PNG, JPEG, or TXT, sorted into roles and lines; up to 50 pages a scene; the page picker splits up to 150 pages into scenes | Hide your lines or the whole script, first-letter cues, teleprompter, listen mode, looping | Rehearse on your laptop with the full script on a big screen, and listen to your scenes on your phone anywhere | 7-day free trial; Starter $9.99/month, annual from $7.99/month | | Rehearsal Pro | Your own recordings of your lines and your partners' lines | Recorded playback; Linesets mode plays one line at a time and you tap to advance | PDF or Word file, or photos of printed pages; you highlight your lines and your partners' yourself | Color highlights, bookmarks, a mode that blacks out lines until you reveal them, auto-repeat, text, audio, photo, and video notes | iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Mac, Apple Vision Pro; no Android or web version | $19.99 one-time, no in-app purchases | | LineLearner | Your own recordings of every line; pitch can be shifted per character; castmates can add theirs | Gaps in the recording where your lines go; no speech recognition | PDF or Word file shown for reference while you record; it does not create the lines | Turn your part off to leave gaps | iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Mac; Android version on Google Play (paid) | $3.99 one-time on iOS, no in-app purchases; free lite version up to 10 lines | | Script Rehearser | Device voices or Engram's own English voices; your own recordings with Pro | Wait For Me pauses at each of your lines until you're ready; no speech recognition | PDF with real text (not scanned images), .txt, or typed lines | Show or hide your lines, or show the first letter of each word | iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Mac, Vision Pro, Android | Free download; Pro $7.99/year or $29.99 one-time | ## Each App in Brief ### Offbook Offbook starts from the script you already have. Upload a PDF, a photo of the pages (PNG or JPEG), or a text file, and it sorts the pages into roles and lines and writes a title and summary for the scene. Pick your role, and realistic voices read every other character. Free and Starter cast from 12 voices; Pro and Premium cast from a larger catalog. Nothing has to be recorded before your first run. When you rehearse, Offbook plays the other lines, listens through your microphone while you say yours, and plays the next cue when it hears you finish. You can also press Enter or say "next line". For memorizing, hide your own lines, hide the whole script for a final test, or swap your lines for the first 1-8 letters of each word. The teleprompter shows your line large and highlights each word as you say it. Price: Starter is $9.99 a month, Pro $14.99, and Premium $29.99, with annual billing from $7.99 a month. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial (it requires a card), and students and educators get 50% off with a valid .edu email. Best for actors who want a full scene read to them tonight and a reader that waits for their line. ### Rehearsal Pro Rehearsal Pro, from Sotto Voce Filmworks, is a script-markup app with a recorder built in. You import a PDF or Word file, or photograph printed pages, then mark them up in colors: you highlight your lines and your partners' yourself, by swiping them, per its [highlighting guide](https://help.rehearsal.pro/how-to-highlight-your-script/). You record your lines and your partners' lines, and playback scrolls the script like a teleprompter. It also keeps text, audio, photo, and video notes on the page, syncs markup between iOS devices, works offline, and can email voice-over auditions as MP3s, per its [App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rehearsal-pro/id1116896197). It runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Macs, and Apple Vision Pro, with no Android or web version. Price: $19.99 once, no in-app purchases. ### LineLearner LineLearner, from AlldayApps, is the plainer of the two. You record every line of the scene yourself, the other characters included, shift the pitch of each character so they don't all sound like you, and turn your own part off to leave gaps, as its [App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id368070258) describes. A PDF or Word file can sit on screen for reference while you record, but it doesn't create the lines. Its standout is sharing. You can send a recorded script file to a castmate, who records their lines over yours and sends it back, so you rehearse with their real voice, per the developer's [sharing guide](https://linelearner.wordpress.com/share-script/). It runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Macs, with a paid Android version on Google Play. Price: $3.99 once on iOS, and LineLearner lite is free for up to 10 lines. ### Script Rehearser Script Rehearser, from Engram, reads the other parts with device voices or Engram's own English voices, and Pro lets you record your own voice and choose a voice per character. Its Wait For Me mode pauses at each of your lines until you're ready. It takes a PDF with real text or a .txt file, runs on Apple devices and Android, and is a free download with Pro at $7.99 a year or $29.99 once. ## Who Reads the Other Parts This is the real choice, and it decides how much setup you do before you rehearse. In Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner, the cues are your own voice, so you record the other parts aloud yourself before your first run. In LineLearner, castmates can record their own parts instead, and pitch shifting keeps the characters apart. Script Rehearser reads with built-in voices. Offbook reads every role but yours with realistic voices, so you can upload a scene and run it in the same sitting. **Tip:** if you record the other parts yourself, read them flat and at the speed your scene partner will. You want to react to the cue, not to a line reading you gave it, which you'll start copying without noticing. ## How Each App Knows It's Your Turn LineLearner has no speech recognition, and Rehearsal Pro lists none, so neither moves on by hearing you. In LineLearner you speak your part into the gaps where your line is turned off. In Rehearsal Pro you speak along with your recordings, and Linesets mode plays one line at a time while you tap to advance. Script Rehearser's Wait For Me mode pauses until you're ready. Record your own lines at the pace you'll play the scene, since in LineLearner the gap is your muted line. Offbook listens, and you choose how strict it is: Strict, which keeps you close to the script; Lenient, with a 0-100 slider, while you're still finding the words; or Manual, which never moves on by itself, for when you want to hold a long pause and press Enter. It can also move on after 1 to 6 seconds of silence, so your hands stay free for props and blocking. ## Getting Your Script In Rehearsal Pro imports PDF and Word files, or photos of printed pages, and the markup is yours to do: you highlight your lines and your partners' lines yourself. In LineLearner, the script is a reference to read from while you record. Script Rehearser needs a PDF with real text, not a scanned image, or a .txt file. Offbook takes a PDF, a photo of the pages, or a text file and sorts it into roles and lines. One scene holds up to 50 pages or about 10,000 words, and the page picker splits up to 150 pages into 10 scenes, so a full-length play fits. Afterward you can edit the dialogue, move a line to the right character, or add a pause where the director wants one. ## Memorizing, Not Just Hearing It Again A recording app makes it easy to listen your way through a scene, and listening isn't the best way to learn it. A [University of Waterloo study](https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/study-finds-reading-information-aloud-yourself-improves) of 95 people compared reading silently, hearing someone else read, hearing a recording of yourself, and reading aloud in real time. Reading aloud yourself was remembered best; the researchers call it the production effect. So in a recording app, saying your lines into the gaps does more for memory than listening to the playback. Hiding the words helps too. Henry Roediger and Jeffrey Karpicke showed it in a study [summarized by the APS](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/test-enhanced-learning): students who tested themselves read the passages about 3.4 times and recalled 61% a week later, while students who kept rereading read them about 14.2 times and recalled 40%. Rehearsal Pro's blackout mode is that kind of test, and so is LineLearner with your part switched off. Offbook builds the test into the scene. Hide your lines, hide the whole script, or show only the first 1-8 letters of each word, while the voices keep giving you cues. You can try first-letter cues on any text with our free [first-letter memorizer](https://www.offbook.com/tools/first-letter-memorizer), no account needed. ## Phones, Tablets, Android, and Laptops Rehearsal Pro is Apple-only: iPhone, iPad, Apple silicon Macs, and Vision Pro, with no Android or web version. LineLearner runs on iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Macs, and has a paid Android version on Google Play. Script Rehearser is on Apple devices and Android. With Offbook, rehearse on your laptop with the full script on a big screen, and listen to your scenes on your phone anywhere. ## What Each One Costs LineLearner is $3.99 once on iOS with no in-app purchases, and its lite version is free for up to 10 lines. Rehearsal Pro is $19.99 once with no in-app purchases. Script Rehearser is free to download, with Pro at $7.99 a year or $29.99 once. Offbook's Starter plan is $9.99 a month, or from $7.99 a month billed annually, after a 7-day free trial, and students and educators get 50% off. ## What Your Situation Calls For - You want your cues spoken without recording them first: Offbook, where realistic voices read every role but yours. - You want the reader to wait for you: Offbook listens and plays the next cue when you finish, with Strict, Lenient, or Manual matching. - You want drills on top of a spoken scene: Offbook hides your lines, hides the whole script, or shows first-letter cues while the voices read. - You're learning a full-length play: Offbook, where the page picker splits up to 150 pages into scenes. - You want to ask about the character, not just drill: Offbook's Genie answers questions about motivation, scene context, and line interpretation. If you're coming from one of these apps, our [Rehearsal Pro comparison](https://www.offbook.com/rehearsal-pro-alternative) and [LineLearner comparison](https://www.offbook.com/linelearner-alternative) go into more detail. For more apps judged the same way, see the [best line learning apps](https://www.offbook.com/blog/best-line-learning-apps), or how Rehearsal Pro compares with a reader that listens in [Scriptmate vs Rehearsal Pro](https://www.offbook.com/blog/scriptmate-vs-rehearsal-pro). ## Questions Actors Ask ### What is the difference between Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner? Both have you record the scene yourself. Rehearsal Pro centers on the script page: you import a PDF or Word file, highlight lines in color, add notes, and the page scrolls with playback. LineLearner centers on the recording: you record every line, shift each character's pitch, leave gaps for your part, and can swap recordings with castmates. ### Which is cheaper, Rehearsal Pro or LineLearner? LineLearner is $3.99 once on iOS, with a free lite version for up to 10 lines. Rehearsal Pro is $19.99 once. Neither paid app has in-app purchases; LineLearner lite is free for 10 lines with a $3.99 upgrade. Offbook's free run lines tool and first-letter memorizer need no account, free accounts can practice scenes shared with them, and every Offbook plan starts with a 7-day free trial. ### Do Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner read the other lines for you? No. In both, the other lines are recordings, made by you or, in LineLearner, by a castmate. Neither lists text-to-speech or speech recognition. In Offbook, realistic voices read every role but yours, and it listens for you to finish your line before it plays the next cue. ### Do Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner work on Android? LineLearner has a paid Android version on Google Play. Rehearsal Pro has no Android or web version. Offbook's rehearsal runs in a laptop or desktop browser, on Mac or Windows; on a phone you listen to your scenes, with your own lines spoken, skipped, or left as silent gaps. ## The Verdict Our pick for most actors is Offbook. Realistic voices read every role but yours, so you hear your cues out loud with no recording session first. It listens for you to finish and lets you choose how closely, with Strict, Lenient, or Manual. And it keeps the drills that make lines stick, hidden lines and first-letter cues, inside a spoken scene, from a two-page side to a full-length play. Between Rehearsal Pro and LineLearner, the split is the page against the recording. Rehearsal Pro is a $19.99 script-markup app for Apple devices, with color highlights, notes, and a scrolling page. LineLearner is a $3.99 iOS recorder with pitch shifting and castmate sharing, plus a paid Android version. Offbook is made by the team behind this blog. Prices as of November 2026.