tableread appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for tableread is 83 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

tableread User Reviews

Name: tableread
Rating: 3 (52 reviews)

tableread

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Customer Experience

Positive experience37.5% of reviews

Neutral8.9% of reviews

Negative experience53.6% of reviews

~ Based on 56 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is tableread Safe?

tableread has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for tableread is 63/100.

This assessment is based on 52 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3/5.

Safety Analysis

46.2% of ratings point to a safe experience

9.6% of ratings suggest some concerns

44.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 52 App Store ratings for tableread.

Is tableread Legit?

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

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

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Ethically-sourced voice AI for screenwriters on a budget

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.

Ducktempo

4 months ago

Response from developer

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.

Much better

Helps a lot. Needs tweaks.

Skippy the Porcelin Horse

5 months ago

Wasn’t diverse at all with the voices

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.

CMurrayReiman

a year ago

Response from developer

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.

Bummer

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.

the brutal postman!!

a year ago

Response from developer

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.

Is this a joke?

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.

MBublitz

a year ago

Response from developer

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 :)

Poor quality and impossible to cancel subscription

Don’t get this app.

steve reginald

2 years ago

Very useful but glitchy

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.

Nicodermus

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hey Nicodermus This issue is hopefully fixed now. Please update and let us know

Very useful

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

Nicodermus

2 years ago

Response from developer

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)

Great Tool for Playwrights!

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!

kalitara

2 years ago

Useful In A Pinch, Glitchy

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.

JuniorProducer

4 years ago

Response from developer

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.

Very glitchy pro version

Doesn’t remember characters. Voices sound very artificial.

Big I Dawg

4 years ago

Love it!

ceramiclife

4 years ago

Exactly what I was looking for

Super cool app! I'm not a frequent script-reader by any means but this so gracefully imported my pdf script, picked up all the different characters and narrator
Some UI pieces are a bit quirky but it's because it has so many options!
Helps me listen to a script on my commute

MaxStruever

4 years ago

DO NOT OPEN - DAMAGES ALL FINAL DRAFT FILES!!!

I just finished up an episode for a show that I have been working on for 3 weeks straight. Upon downloading this app to hear it read from an outside perspective, EVERY SINGLE FINAL DRAFT DOCUMENT/FILE ON MY COMPUTER WAS CORRUPTED!!! I know for a fact it was this program because it has never happened, in my entire life of 16 years of using final draft, until the very moment I imported my first screenplay into this app.

Save yourself the trouble, I now am going to lose an entire nights worth of writing as FinalDraft office’s are closed so no help is available until tomorrow. DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM.

UhaulSUCKSBAD

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Thomdmusic. The app does not write to any files, please contact us at tablereaddeveloper@gmail.com so we can figure out how to retrieve your files. If you have imported it from an email then the app saves a copy of this file to its local drive. If you open them from your iCloud drive then the app saves a local temp copy of the file to open. So in both cases the original file is never opened and read by the app.