The tape room is here. Open Tape, say "action" and it rolls, say "cut" and it stops. If "cut" is a word in your piece, it knows the difference. Your lines sit right under the lens and light up as you say them, so your eyes stay where casting wants them. Every take stays on your phone. Star the keepers, trim the start and end, and save or send it with your slate joined to the front, named the way casting asks for it. Self-tapes on your Board now have a Tape it button, and a countdown sits on your lock screen until it's due. Mark it sent and the reminders stop. The bell on the home screen keeps what's waiting for you in one place.

A new look for the plans page: the ghost light on an empty stage, both plans side by side, and what the year saves you, said plainly. Your profile opens at once. Your streak, your plan and your counts fill in as they arrive, and after the first time they are simply there. Check in from your profile: tell us what you worked on tonight, in class, at an audition or in rehearsal, and the night is counted. A scene you run counts by itself. Small fixes throughout.

Tonight's speech is now yours. Ghost Light picks it from what you keep, right under the search field, and the widget shows your own pick too. Keep it or say "not for me" and tomorrow's choice gets better. Your sides, in order. Hold a script to drag it where you want it, slide it left to delete (it waits 30 days in Recently deleted), and keep using the app while a long script is still being read. The Book is simpler: one + to add a list, an audition, a casting email or a speech, and your next audition sits at the top. Send a list to your agent or teacher. Hold a list and share a link with the titles and running times. Free readers now get three monologues a day, every day. Plus: the scene partner no longer stops listening mid-scene, scenes end with a proper curtain, and a lot of small fixes across the app.

A scene partner, in your pocket. Bring your sides as a PDF, a Word file or pasted text. Ghost Light reads the script, finds the cast and asks which part is yours. Pick a voice for the other part, hear it first, and begin. Your partner reads their lines out loud, listens to yours, and comes in on your last word. Three first scenes, a fight, a flirt and a confession, show you how it works in two minutes. They are always free. Also new: • Fix the sides: rename a speaker, turn a line into a stage direction, join or split lines, undo and redo. • Hold your sides to move them or delete them. • Your streak and this week on your profile, and what is left on your plan. • A cleaner sign in, a faster Scene room, and many smaller fixes.

Tonight's speech. Every evening Ghost Light picks one monologue for the stage and one for the screen, and a new home screen widget shows it: the quote, the character, the play or film. Small, medium and large sizes. Long press the widget to choose Stage or Film & TV. Tap it to read. Open the app signed out and the front door is a playbill: one speech to a page, swipe to the next, switch between stage and screen, or search a feeling in one tap. Faster shelves on first launch, and fixes for the screen that stayed dark for some new users.

Auditions are in the app. Add the next one, attach the piece from your book, and Ghost Light reminds you the evening before and two hours before the call, with your monologue one tap away. Also in this version: a quick way to rate the app, and small fixes.

A new icon. Recent searches now remember whether you were in plays or film & TV, and you can clear any of them with a tap. Previews show three lines instead of two, Film & TV posters load faster, and each play gets a small sketch of its own. And a little note from me, the actor building this.

When you reach the end of your free reads, the page now stays readable for the first two lines and the offer sits right on it, instead of a block at the bottom. Sign-in is fixed for everyone, and search works again.

A new look, drawn like a theatre. - The whole app is redesigned: paper sides on a dark stage, one warm light, stage directions in the margins. - Search opens on a single question and asks it differently each time you come back. - Results are now printed pages, with a freshness mark on every piece so you know what the panel has already heard. - Film and TV pieces show their posters, on their own violet shelf. - Reading is easier on the eyes in a dark hallway, and your book lists what you have kept with a clear offline mark. - Smaller things: smoother transitions between search and results, a gentler paywall, and fewer taps to sign in. Built by a working actor, for the night before.

Your saved pieces and your free reads now stay with you properly, even if you reinstall. A new app icon, drawn from the ghost light itself. The lamp on the search screen is calmer, so the search field sits where your thumb expects it. Faster, quieter loading when you open a speech: the page now shows you it is coming instead of a blank sheet.

Signing in with an email address is clearer, and you can now reset a forgotten password. Film & TV browsing is faster. The launch screen holds its quote until you're ready.