What's new in OffBookly.

Start faster. Cast everyone.

Getting started

• A new first screen asks what you're running — a scene or a monologue — and takes you straight there.
• The sample scene plays instantly, even offline.
• The guide now teaches your own first scene, not just the sample.
• Deleting the sample script now sticks. Reset all tips brings it back.

Your script

• Trim to your entrance: one tap removes every line before your first one. Your cue line stays.
• Select a run of lines by dragging down the checkboxes, the way you select photos.
• Type or paste a monologue instead of uploading a PDF.

Setup

• Cast each character: give every role its own voice while you set up.
• Cast everyone, and the App voice picker steps aside.

Practice

• Arrows under the round dots move you between monologue practice levels yourself.
• Monologues have their own margin notes the first time you mark beats.

Scene Partner

• A short walkthrough shows the whole send-a-scene flow on your first share.

Also

• Steadier recording, navigation and CarPlay.

Rehearsal listens better.

This release rebuilds how the app follows you while you speak. If you have ever said a line correctly and watched it come back red, that was us, not you.

When you rehearse

• Smarter line tracking. A line that repeats a phrase no longer ends early: saying "very fortunate" the first time will not skip the rest of the line.
• Filler passes. Lines that are only "Um" or "Uh" now advance on any sound. No more saying "skip line" for every filler.
• Natural delivery. Slow repeats, restarts and half-finished lines are read as one turn, so the app waits for you to land instead of judging your first attempt.
• Long-press any line to compare what you said against the script.
• If a scene stalls, it rescues itself instead of sitting there.
• Previous, pause and next controls while you rehearse.
• Fixed a blank screen when editing a line from the voice-only view.

Beat Work and Shakespeare

• Notes stopped losing your transcript between rounds. Whole rounds you had actually said were coming back red.
• Saying half a sentence no longer marks the whole sentence missed.
• Verse stays verse. Line breaks are kept in Beat Work and Read & Mark, with a Verse/Prose toggle.
• Early Modern English is understood properly now: elisions, accented endings, archaic spellings.
• The Beat Work layout no longer jumps when a word is revealed.

Scene Partner

• The hub is organised by what each scene is waiting on: Your Turn, Ready To Rehearse, Waiting On Them.
• Scenes waiting on you are marked on the home screen. A scene that needed your recording used to say it was ready.
• Recording shows the whole scene in order, so you can see where your lines sit.

Also

• Fixed a crash that hit roughly one in nine of you, caused by the app fetching its typefaces over the network at launch.
• A short in-app guide, including one thing most people never discover: the app runs on CarPlay.

Two of the fixes at the top of this list came from actors who wrote in. Keep the reports coming — I read every message.

Behind-the-scenes update.

We turned on Apple's privacy-preserving measurement so we can finally tell which of our ads reach actors who actually need us. No advertising identifier is collected, we do not track you across other apps or websites, and nothing about your scripts, recordings, or rehearsals is ever shared.

Everything else works exactly as before: CarPlay, lock-screen controls, and voice-only rehearsal.

Your car is now a rehearsal room.

OffBookly on CarPlay

Stuck in traffic? That's rehearsal time now. Your cues play out loud — the Reader's voice or your scene partner's real recording — and the scene advances as you speak. Control everything by voice: say "skip line" or "hint line," and when the scene ends it replays on its own. Prefer to just listen? Drive Mode plays the whole scene through. Ten minutes of spoken recall on the drive beats another silent read — that's how lines stick.

Lock-screen controls

Phone rehearsals now live on your lock screen: your project's cover, your place in the scene, and play, pause, previous and next — no unlocking mid-run. Pocket the phone and keep going.

Founding Members

The first actors on OffBookly get a permanent numbered Founding Member badge. Claim yours in Settings.

Plus a smoother Facebook sign-in, faster project loading, and stability fixes throughout.

A cleaner, calmer studio.

Fresh look

A full visual refresh — new typography and a unified color system across every screen, from your library to rehearsal.

Smarter start

Tell us what you're working on the first time you sign in — self-tapes, scenes, or monologues — and OffBookly opens to the right place.

A better first rehearsal

The built-in demo now teaches in two acts: a guided first scene, then one that's all yours. In-app tips got sharper across the board.

Fairer daily limits

Opening a monologue no longer counts toward your daily practices — only rehearsing does.

Plus faster, more reliable line audio, two crash fixes, and polish throughout.

Rehearse with a real partner — and a lot more.

New: Scene Partner

Record your lines, share a 6-character code, and run the scene with your partner's real recorded voice in place of the Reader. They record their part back on their own time — no schedules, no studio.

New: Audition reminders

Set an audition date and get a nudge so you walk in ready.

Also new and improved

• Flashcard Drill — active-recall practice, card by card.
• Hands-free rehearsal — keep running lines with the screen off, on a walk or on the way to set.
• Smarter scene detection — scripts are parsed with a better understanding of dramatic context.
• Account controls — manage your subscription, restore purchases, and delete your account and data right from Settings.
• Stability and polish across rehearsal, scoring, and sharing.

Better scene detection.

Upgraded scene-detection model. Scripts get parsed with better understanding of dramatic context.

More forgiving, more resilient.

• Rehearsals now survive interruptions. Take a phone call, switch apps, or get a notification — your line position is saved and rehearsal picks up automatically when you return.
• Smarter speech recognition. Whether the script says "OK" or "Okay," "Mr." or "Mister," "yeah" or "yes" — your line is recognized either way. Over 60 new abbreviation and contraction pairs added.
• Better scene splitting for longer scripts. Multi-scene scripts are now divided into more dramatically coherent sections.
• Flashcards scoring overhaul. Cards now reward gist accuracy over word-perfect recitation — shuffle word order or skip filler, the meaning still counts.