ScriptForge companion app
Action!
A script rehearsal studio for actors and filmmakers. Upload a screenplay PDF, choose your role, rehearse scenes, and use voice, transcript, teleprompter, and AI scene tools to prepare the performance.
Action!: a script rehearsal studio by ScriptForge
Action! is an iOS app for actors and filmmakers. Upload a standard screenplay PDF and Action extracts the project, scenes, characters, dialogue, and narrator/action lines, then turns them into rehearsable scenes with cast voices, teleprompter support, speech recognition, line accuracy feedback, scene notes, and AI-generated summaries.
Available on the App Store for iPhone.
How it works
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Script import and project workspace
Action! keeps the screenplay as the source of truth. Import the PDF, review the extracted project, and move into a workspace built around characters and scenes.
- PDF screenplay upload
- Project library with script title, scene count, cast count, and source PDF name
- Local project storage and import workflow
- Project workspace with Characters, My Scenes, and All Scenes
- My Scenes filters the script to scenes where the selected actor has lines
- All Scenes lets users browse and rehearse the full script
- Character cards with dialogue line count and scene appearances
- "This is me" role selection
- Gender and accent profile controls
- Suggested and selected voice display
- Voice preview
- Separate casting for characters and narrator in Pro
- Standard line-by-line rehearsal
- Other characters and optional narrator/action lines spoken by the app
- Actor speaks their own lines
- Speech recognition listens for line completion
- Adjustable line-match strictness, from looser rehearsal to stricter word accuracy
- Play, pause, stop, and restart controls
- Live transcript
- Scene accuracy score after spoken lines
- Full-screen teleprompter
- "My lines only" teleprompter option
- Optional settings for action lines, parentheticals, scene intro, pauses, response timing, and merging dialogue across hidden actions
Rehearse with voice, transcript, and teleprompter
Action! supports standard line-by-line rehearsal, live listening, and scene controls that let actors work at different levels of precision, from loose rehearsal through stricter word accuracy.
Listen
The app reads other characters and optional action lines.
Speak
The actor performs their own lines while speech recognition listens.
Review
Transcript and accuracy feedback show what was spoken.
- AI scene summaries
- AI acting notes focused on objective, stakes, rhythm, and emotional shifts
- Optional auto-generation for scene summaries and scene notes
- Project-level summary support
- Live back-and-forth voice rehearsal powered by OpenAI Realtime
- Guided or freeform scene partner style
- Realtime transcript
- Manual turn mode where the actor can tap when finished
- Settings for interruption, strict script mode, stuck help, action-line handling, emotion style, noise reduction, and voice activity detection
Free vs Action Pro
- Unlimited script scanning and import
- Full scene breakdown and character list
- Script transcript editing and review
- Demo rehearsal with one standard Apple system voice
- 7-day free trial
- AI voice rehearsal generation
- Realistic voices
- Different voices for each character and narrator
- Smart voice commands for play, pause, restart, and "my line"
- AI scene summaries and acting notes
Pricing note: the UK App Store listing currently shows Action Pro as a £9.99 in-app purchase. Pricing can vary by country or App Store storefront.
Built with ScriptForge
Action! is the rehearsal companion to ScriptForge. It shares the same screenplay-first workflow, but focuses on performance, memorisation, and rehearsal instead of broader script feedback, reports, and analysis.
ScriptForge
Understand the script through feedback, reports, and analysis.
Action!
Turn the screenplay into scenes, voices, prompts, and rehearsal feedback.
Together
Move from script understanding to performance preparation without changing the source document.