coldRead User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.1% of reviews
Neutral19.6% of reviews
Negative experience39.3% of reviews

~ Based on 321 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is coldRead Safe?

coldRead appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for coldRead is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 3,831 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

84.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,831 App Store ratings for coldRead.

Is coldRead Legit?

coldRead appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for coldRead is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

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A perfect tool for my older brain

Great idea, but the execution is subpar

This app is really convenient and it’s helped me more than I can count, but it’s also stressed me out a lot. Even when I’m speaking right next to it it doesn’t always hear the word that I’m saying or it will interpret what I’m saying in a weird way. I have a sentence that ends with “Ten”, but the app kept interpreting the word ten for the number 10. I’m not sure how you fix that but the microphone is definitely an issue and the way the software interprets what you’re saying is also an issue. I would love to see this app updated especially because I’m paying for it.
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Annoying

I’m giving a bad review simply because I hate having to give reviews and every time I open the app up it asked me to give a review so here you go I’ll give you one.

No support

I have written so many times about the inability to import and maybe other things. Zero response or support for paying customers

Could be good

This app is literally perfect, only downside is you totally have to pay, when many aspiring actors are struggling financially. You only get 8 lines (4 for yourself, 4 for the reader) and that’s simply not enough… So essentially this app is not free.

More time

You guys should give him one more time to try the app before you ask for purchasing

Sucks

This app sucks..it never picks up the cues properly

Overall good but room for improvement

I use this app all the time to practice and even shoot some self tapes. It’s great you can add silences when extra beats are needed and overall it’s pretty customisable.

Where I would find it super useful is if there could be folders so when there’s a new project I can put all the scenes pertaining to that project in one file.

Also would be great to be able to delete multiple files easier - I’ve got multiple scenes from multiple episodes over the years and it’s quite a hassle to individually delete each one.
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Awesome for Learning lines

Despite it being expensive it is the best app for memorizing lines. It is so helpful when you’re on a tight schedule! Love it so much. Def worth the money.

Excellent, but…

I use this app a lot, it is super helpful. But, I would like to see the transcription improved. I have to do a TON of editing to make sure the lines are exactly right. With today’s AI capabilities, I would think that the transcription could be better. Thanks.

Did not work

Can’t import scenes or purchase membership. This is the most frustrating and useless use of my time

Lots of bugs

This app is helpful, esp when in a pinch. But often — I’d say at least once a month, when I get on here to run lines, it immediately fails and aborts, stating “voice recognition error” … but the error message comes up before I’ve had a chance to say anything.
Also if you add a pause somewhere, and then close the app for any reason - maybe you were running lines then come back later to tape it - check where that pause is. More often than not, it’s moved.
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Should be better for the price

Just finished taping today and editing it now. This is for a network level lead. The stress using this app is seriously not worth it. I’ve just watched amazing takes all ruined because the app didn’t “hear” the cue line and therefore that take is ruined. No rhyme or reason when this happens. This happens every single time I use it. It ruins those takes and then has a knock on negative effect to your psychology on the next take. I have literally deleted 22 takes — all because the app made them useless. I had 2 takes to use, which are fine and I’m happy with, but I would have liked to have offered some more variations.

If you are going to charge us 100% of the cost; the product should work 100% of the time. It doesn’t.
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App issues

It’s really annoying that the app doesn’t recognize when I’m saying the line and I’ll have to see it multiple times for it to recognize that in speaking to it and for it to pick up my words to the point to where sometimes I need to shout for it to hear me. I don’t think this is the microphone issue because I can talk at a normal pace and my speech to text works my phone calls work my videos pick up audio. I hope this gets figured out because besides that the app is great.
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cues

And it’s absolutely gotten better over these past few months, better vocal cue pickup always. Thank you for the tool my friends. Better and better every day and incredibly useful.

Sound cuts out

In theory, this is such a great idea, but unfortunately, the video are sub quality and the sound cuts out.

Several bugs and inaccessible UI

Fantastic concept but gets lost in the several bugs. Sometimes the app doesn't hear your sound cue properly during filming or just stops altogether during rehearsal. It's incredible overpriced to have these sorts of issues. The UI isn't the most accessible either, very cluttered and lowkey ugly too.
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Poor Quailty

Unlike other line reading apps, there’s limited options to make changes in “Reader” voices. Regardless of settings, Reader’s voices on playback are always metallic sounding. And worst of all, saving a completed video is hit-or-miss. There have been numerous times where the app would not process the video when trying to save it to the phone. I’ve ended up wasting a lot of time losing many good self tapes because the app functioned poorly. For the above reasons, I’m not renewing the subscription.
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Great app

Fantastic
app ! A game changer for actors. Love it

Over all good

Over all it’s pretty good. The recording of the lines and being able to fix the text is great. The options used for the replaying of the lines are also good.
The ONLY problem is, if you have a lot of lines and you want to just import them instead of manually recording them. The app doesn’t accept PDF files it seems like. Which is what all the scripts & sides that casting send are in…so kind of useless feature.
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