The app has a good interface, a decent amount of users that make it simple to find auditions in your area. BUT you HAVE to subscribe for a fee to be able to apply to ANYTHING, even unpaid roles. Unfortunately, being an actor means paying a lot already out of pocket for things like headshots, travel, etc. I'd gladly pay like $5/month for the convenience of the app but $20/month just to apply to ANYTHING is kind of ridiculous, especially for unpaid roles which means you won't make back what you spent on the app to find an audition, let alone be cast. I'll keep this app in my back pocket for a future when I can afford it, but for now there are other resources available for the same purpose and a cheaper price. Additionally, maybe it's just me, but it didn't seem clear initially that you needed a subscription to be able to apply for ANYTHING. It wasn't until after I filled out my profile, scrolled through the listings, and found something of interest that I found out you cannot apply to anything without a subscription. At this point I just don't see the cost equalling the value of the app unless MAYBE you're in an area with a high concentration of jobs. Sorry to the developers, I know you need to make money too and it really seems like a good app, I just simply can't afford it.

So, I’ve heard about backstage casting calls and it said it was a really good website to post your casting calls on, I’m 18 and a jr film director and I was looking for actors for 0$ anyways I absolutely loved the website I think it’s very professional and it’s easy to navigate and the layout is great anyways so my problem is and I’m kinda frustrated about it is the price, 25$ I can handle for a month but another 35$ to just post a job???? That’s insane, like I said I love it but it’s way too expensive, especially for independent filmmakers like myself and actors who are just getting started… I would definitely recommend the app but my suggestion is that if you don’t have a lot of money don’t bother to even get the app, I really hope they improve this in the future and make it more affordable! Thanks for making this app backstage, but I don’t like the pricing

I’ve been using backstage for years now and the app has always been a little glitchy for multiple things. Sometimes my messages won’t send so I have to type them out 2 or 3 times and watch it to make sure the message actually sent. My iPhone is also no longer compatible with the app since the app requires the latest iOS, so thats annoying but I switched to just logging in online and using it that way. I like the app, it was fast and easy to apply to things, oh well, I have an old phone its probably my fault. But now the actual site isn’t working properly on every single one of my devices too. Right now when I try to look through projects it shows me only the really old listings, and I’ve tried adjusting the filters to showcase relevant/ newest material but that function is not working. It used to work perfect but for the past 2 or 3 days it has stopped. All of the new listings are getting mixed in with the old so its very hard to apply to projects now since I’m missing half of them due to this glitch. If this glitch isn’t fixed I don’t see a point in keeping backstage. It has failed me in now almost every single way possible. At this state its not useable. I’m done. And if you tell me to email customer support, I have.

Maybe it’s an issue with having an [old?] iPhone 6, or the Yahoo! mail app (I know, “Who still uses Yahoo?! How do you not use gmail?!” I don’t know, its hard to change man.) But anyway, every time I click on a listing from a Backstage email to open separately from the Yahoo mail app in Safari, which would then automatically direct me to the Backstage app, almost half the time the app will NOT open on the listing. It opens on the castings page of the app instead and I have to do the tedious task of putting the title in the search bar. Also, I’ve updated the app and turned on notifications in Settings and the Backstage app to get my saved filter searches to send me listings I’m right for. But I never get notifications from the app. That’s why I have to still resort to counting on those emails which is frustrating because the Yahoo mail app and/or Safari is not always even compatible with the app. It’s super frustrating. Although sure, I could finally enter 2018 and get a Gmail account.