# tableread

> Local script reader and listener with text-to-speech and rehearsal tools. (iPhone/iPad app by CONWAY ENTERPRISE WORLDWIDE PTY LTD.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tableread/id1009176110 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [CONWAY ENTERPRISE WORLDWIDE PTY LTD](https://appshunter.io/developer/998406240)
- Category: Productivity, Entertainment
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 3.00/5 from 52 App Store ratings · 56 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 106 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2015-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tableread/id1009176110/reviews.md

## What is tableread?

tableread® Production App.

100% Private. 100% Local.
Text-to-speech happens entirely on your device.
No cloud processing. No uploads. No exceptions.
Your scripts stay on your iPhone, iPad, iCloud, or Google Drive — and nowhere else.

The tableread® Production App is a low cost subscription based, easy-to-use film, stage play and television productivity app, that allows you to read and listen to scripts, including screenplays and teleplays on mobile devices - anytime, anywhere. Simply import a professionally formatted script in PDF or Final Draft FDX format and listen.


tableread® Pro monthly subscription for $2.99(USD). tableread® Pro offers a reduced functionality free version.

Listen to scripts as read by over 90 unique character voices in multiple languages across all ages.
Add an inspiring soundtrack from a library of genre specific scores, or import your own. Create and export script notes, make quick edits and utilize powerful rehearsal features.

From script to stage & screen the tableread® Production App is a must have for the entire production process.

Features:
• Imports professionally formatted scripts directly from PDF. 
• Analyses screenplay and stage play(US and UK) formats. 
• Imports Final Draft files in FDX format. 
• Imports from email, hyperlink or iCloud & Google Drive
• Formats scripts for viewing in mobile devices.
• Read and listen to scripts.
• Skip to next or previous scene/ page or line.
• Access online help via the Help Menu or contact the developers directly.
• Open tableread® Ready Script Projects. (Script Projects exported from the tableread® Production App).

Share your thoughts with the tableread® Production App by leaving a review here in the Apple App Store or by contacting us via Facebook (/tablereadPro) or Twitter (@tablereadPro).  or the CONTACT button in the tableread® Production App.

tableread® Production App Pro (tableread® Pro) subscription plan advantages:

• Assign unique character voices (90+ voices).
• Customize all voices via rate and shape.
• Save Custom Voices to use with other scripts.
• Select voices by gender and age.
• Create script notes.
• Make simple script edits.
• Read and listen to script notes.
• Export and share script notes and edits. 
• Incorporate genre specific scores (20+ tracks).
• Import your own score to play with your script.
• Scores can dynamically dim under dialogue and peak over action. 
• Rehearsal features including character selections, scene/s selection and looping, pause for me to deliver then read, mute rehearsal dialogue and play rehearsal scenes only.
• Playback rate toggle, to read at a standard or faster pace.

Subscriptions include a standard 7 day free trial period. Subscriptions will be charged unless cancelled at least 24-hours before the end of the free trial period. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Subscriptions are automatically renewed unless cancelled at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. You will not be able to cancel a subscription during the active period. Manage your subscriptions in your Account Settings after purchase.

* Free products and services are subject to the tableread® Production App terms of use that accompany them.

Terms of use: http://www.tablereadpro.com/terms

Privacy policy: http://www.tablereadpro.com/privacy-policy

## Key features

- Local text-to-speech processing
- Import PDF and Final Draft FDX scripts
- 90+ character voices
- Add background soundtracks
- Create and export script notes
- Rehearsal features

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| tableread Pro | $2.99 | per month |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 56)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tableread/id1009176110/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Ethically-sourced voice AI for screenwriters on a budget

*2026-05-10*

I was looking for an app that featured ethically-sourced voices that sound more realistic than the system voices on my device, but could also recognize and read screenplays. Tableread uses voices from Acapela Group, which has its own proprietary AI model, and its voice actors are compensated. 

The only other option is the pricey but beautiful WellSaid, but it doesn’t recognize screenplays and is cumbersome. Tableread Pro is the only option that ticks every box: ethical, workable, economic. 

My only complaint with Tableread is that you cannot turn off autoplay. I assume this is because most people use it to rehearse lines so it’s designed to keep going. I’m a screenwriter, though, so I just want to hear my screenplay read aloud because it helps the writing process. 

Overall, it’s a great little app. Would love to see a desktop version that has more options for writers like me, but that’s ok.

**Developer response:** Thanks Ducktemp

If you would like to contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com and we can look at adding an auto-play setting for you.
Just need to know which auto-play you are referring to.

### 3/5 — Much better

*2026-04-02, version 7.2*

Helps a lot. Needs tweaks.

### 1/5 — Wasn’t diverse at all with the voices

*2025-06-04*

I got the app hoping it would take the characters and give each of them their own voice. I downloaded my script and it was a narrator. The entire script nothing else. And I clicked on the settings for it to not read the names multiple times and it still kept doing it. I assumed that most of this was with the pro version. So I bought the pro version and had the same trouble. Nothing changed and I could only get one voice to narrate the entire thing. 
Waste of money.

**Developer response:** Hello CMurrayReiman
Please contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com.
The setting you are referring to is not available before the pro version is enabled.
So we do not know how you are ale to click on something that is not there in the free version.
If you have just purchased pro, then you are still in the free trial, so you have not wasted your money if you cancel the subscription now. Please google "How do i cancel an Apple subscription" if you do not know how to do this.

### 2/5 — Bummer

*2025-03-22*

Got this app so I can listen to screenplays during car rides and I can’t even do that. It has issues reading the text, formating the text, and even reads the pages out of order. What a shame and waste of time.

**Developer response:** Hello Brutal postman
We've just released an update that should fix Apple CarPlay.
The previous update also addressed the bug where pages were being read out of order.
Please, please contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com if you are still experiencing these issues.

### 3/5 — Is this a joke?

*2025-03-01*

Been looking for a script reading program. Finally managed to get a script imported, and it wants to SING the script to me in a very computer generated voice. I can't find anywhere to change the voice. I can bring up a big list of voices with preview and download buttons, but no matter what I click on it just sings it to me in the same computer voice. I'll *try* the pro version, but I'm not a professional script reader. I'm a writer who is on the final draft of my script and just need it read to me to pick up errors I may have missed while reading it on paper.

UPDATE: It wasn't clear that the free version used the voice applied to a setting on the iPhone, and not a voice chosen in the app.

**Developer response:** Hey Mbublitz
There is a trial period if you want to check out PRO. 
You can subscribe /activate it (free trial is a week) and then immediately cancel the subscription so it doesn't roll over and charge you. Other wise it's $2.99 (USD) a month.
We license the voices, so we can't offer them in the FREE mode 
We'll probably be offering a month free trial soon as a special offer around the Easter period, if you'd like to wait.
Or contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com and we can help you in other secret ways :)

### 1/5 — Poor quality and impossible to cancel subscription

*2025-01-24, version 6.5.3*

Don’t get this app.

### 2/5 — Very useful but glitchy

*2024-11-28*

I use this all the time to read scripts. Love it I can hike and read a script! But lately it keeps skipping back scenes and I listen and realize I already read that scene so it’s sort of like listening to Groundhog Day. If it would stop going that I would give it 5 stars.

**Developer response:** Hey Nicodermus
This issue is hopefully fixed now. Please update and let us know

### 5/5 — Very useful

*2024-06-16*

I use this all the time to read scripts. Love it I can hike and read a script!

**Developer response:** Thanks for the review Nicodermus, much appreciated. 
Please feel free to reach out to us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com if you have any feature requests. (or find any bugs)

### 5/5 — Great Tool for Playwrights!

*2024-04-09*

This is an invaluable tool for playwrights. I've used it to get a sense of how my play sounds while I'm still writing it, during the revision process. Of course it's always best to have it read by live actors, but it's not feasible to get something like that together repeatedly, especially in the early drafts. 

I can't recommend Tableread enough for use as a revision tool. Well worth the subscription!

### 4/5 — Useful In A Pinch, Glitchy

*2023-02-27*

I had been looking for a decent reader for scripts so I could listen to them while driving or while unable to devote my attention to a script. This was recommended online through a NoFilmSchool article, so I downloaded it and imported the script easy enough.  

The Free version worked well enough, but about 5pages in stopped.  It told me I had to wait for an ad to finish playing, but there was no ad.  I refreshed the app twice, same issue.  I decided to pay the $2.99 to try the Pro version, and luckily the free trial was available.

The Pro version worked much better, but still had some issues.  Assigned voices wouldn’t always take, so characters would sound like each other until I manually set them a time or two.  The script paused multiple times while playing with my screen off, and when I opened the app would reset to up to 20 pages EARLIER in the script.  

The app crashed once, and the overall functionality and navigation reminds me more of a pre-iOS 6 app.  Not bad at all, very useful in a pinch, but it isn’t going to be my go-to app for everything in the future if I can find something better.

**Developer response:** Thanks for the honest review JuniorProducer. If you'd like to contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com then we can work through these glitches/concerns/ issues when you have some time.

## Frequently asked questions about tableread

### What does the tableread app do?

The tableread app allows you to read and listen to professionally formatted scripts for film, stage, and television on your mobile device. It utilizes local text-to-speech technology with a variety of character voices and offers features for script analysis, note-taking, and rehearsal.

### What are the key features of the tableread app?

Key features include importing scripts from PDF and Final Draft FDX formats, local text-to-speech with over 90 unique voices, the ability to add background soundtracks, create and export script notes, and utilize powerful rehearsal tools like character selection and scene looping.

### How much does the tableread app cost?

The app offers a reduced functionality free version. A full-featured subscription, tableread® Pro, is available for $2.99(USD) per month and includes a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions are automatically renewed unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.

### What devices is tableread compatible with?

The app is designed for use on mobile devices, specifically mentioning iPhone and iPad. Your scripts are stored locally on your device, iCloud, or Google Drive, ensuring privacy.

### Who would benefit from using the tableread app?

This app is ideal for anyone involved in the production process of film, stage plays, or television. This includes screenwriters, actors, directors, producers, and anyone who needs to review or rehearse scripts on the go.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 7.2.5 — 2026-08-23

We've switched the Google Drive picker from an in-app browser to Google's native Drive picker, making file selection faster, simpler and more secure.
We've also improved support for multiple Google accounts, so tableread can remember which account each Drive file belongs to.

### 7.2 — 2026-02-04

New Voice Technology. Where applicable NT voices have been updated to NV voices. Any previous downloaded NT voices will need to be downloaded again

### 7.1.6 — 2025-10-27

By popular demand we've removed some annoying popups regarding voice technology.
Please "CONTACT" us through the app if tableread is not behaving as you expect.

### 7.1.5 — 2025-10-20

Potential bug fix when reading watermarked PDF.
Portrait / Landscape issues fixed on iPad.
Issue fixed with default voices not starting downloading automatically.
Some other bug fixes.

### 7.1.1 — 2025-07-16

7.1.1
• Bug fix with previewing some voices that have not been downloaded
7.1.0
• New files formats to import .fountain & .highland

• Dual Dialogue formatting (reads one after the other)
• New language voices - Dutch, Arabic, Swedish
• Choice of voice technology for voices (where applicable)

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