Run the lines, then shoot the take. v2.0 adds self-tape mode: teleprompter, countdown, framing grid, mic-check.
blablabla is the rehearsal partner built by an actor for actors. Drop in a scene, pick your character, and the app reads every other line out loud while you practice yours. When the lines are in your head, switch to self-tape mode and shoot the take without leaving the app. One workflow from cold read to tape day.
How it works:
1. Bring your script. Paste text, import a PDF, snap a photo of your pages, or upload a Fountain or Final Draft file. blablabla figures out the dialogue automatically.
2. Pick your character. The app finds who's in the scene. Tap the one you're playing and assign a voice to each of the others.
3. Hit rehearse. blablabla speaks the other characters' lines, then waits for you. It won't cut you off. When you're ready, tap to continue or let the app listen and advance on its own.
4. When the scene's in your body, tap Selftape - Record. The phone rotates to landscape, the teleprompter waits at the bottom of the frame, and the camera rolls. One take, ready to send.
Five modes, in order:
- Listen. Hear the whole scene read aloud. Get a feel for the rhythm.
- Read. All lines on screen. Tap through at your pace.
- Practice. Hints visible, speech detection on. The app nudges you if you go quiet.
- Perform. No text. Off-book. The closest thing to being on set.
- Selftape - Record. The other lines play through your phone while the camera rolls and the teleprompter waits for you. Front camera as your prompter, or flip to the back and hand the phone to your reader.
Once audio is cached, rehearsal runs offline. Practice on the subway, backstage, wherever.
What else:
- Distinct voice per character, so you can follow the scene by ear.
- Self-tape with a teleprompter that waits for your line, a 3-2-1, 5, or 8-second countdown, a thirds grid, and a mic-check before every take so you never ship a silent tape.
- Mute the partner audio when you have a real reader in the room.
- Front-camera takes save mirrored, the way casting saw you compose them in the preview.
- Full screenplays, not just single scenes. Import a whole script and rehearse any scene in the project.
- Photo import. Snap your sides with the camera or pull them from your library.
- Cue button. Forgot your next line? Tap it and blablabla reads it aloud without breaking the flow.
- Hardware advance from Bluetooth shutters, AirPods squeeze, foot pedals, and the volume-up button. Useful when your hands are full of script.
- Track your streak, session count, and rehearsal time.
- Works in Danish, English, German, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. Classical Nordic texts (Ibsen, Holberg) won't penalize your delivery for using modern spoken forms.
- Dark Mode. VoiceOver. Dynamic Type. Reduced Motion.
Who it's for: Actors shooting self-tapes for casting. Students prepping audition sides. Drama-school applicants working off-book. Presenters practicing a talk. Anyone who needs to rehearse spoken material and doesn't have a reader around.
blablabla is free to start with 2 voiced scenes using premium voices. Pro ($6.99/month or $69.99/year) gives you 14+ voiced scenes per month, plus self-tape with all the trimmings. Apple's built-in voices are always available at no cost.
Your scripts are encrypted on your device and never used for AI training. More at sayblablabla.com/security
Enough blablabla in your head. Say it out loud.
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blablabla 2.1.0. The voice list just doubled.
Eleven new readers, including the first Norwegian voice, plus more Danish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish, and Castilian Spanish. Open the cast screen, tap a name, hear how it actually talks. We also pulled the tuning a little looser so every voice reads with more breath.
Quick reminder: self-tape lives in here too. And it kept getting better since launch. Vertical takes, built-in teleprompter, your phone won't auto-lock mid-take, and orientation locks the second you hit record so framing stays steady.
A few quieter wins since 2.0: feature-length scripts fit in one import now, scripts that won't read give you three real recovery options (paste, photos, different file), and voices no longer silently drop to Apple mid-session.
Plus a fix some of you ran into: if you generated voices and then changed your own character's voice, rehearsal used to keep the old one. Fixed. Sorry that took us a minute.
Pick your reader, run the scene.
Version 2.1.2
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Information
Seller
Elias Munk
Size
23.9 MB
Category
Entertainment
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.2 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.2 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 5 more
English, Danish, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Spanish, Swedish