Rehearsal® Pro vs Base Delegate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rehearsal® Pro
This app helps professional actors learn lines and prepare for auditions and work. It allows users to import scripts, highlight lines, record themselves, and practice scenes repeatedly. It's designed for ease of use and reliability, supporting various script formats and devices.
- Import and manage scripts
- Highlight lines
- Record and playback scenes
- Teleprompter-style scrolling
- Sync scripts across devices
- Scan physical scripts to PDF
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Rehearsal® Pro is the #1 best-selling app for professional actors! Want to learn your lines? Want to be off-book, and book more work? Grab Rehearsal® Pro now! Rehearsal® Pro is the app for that. It, and its predecessor, Rehearsal® 2, featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, LA Magazine and BACKSTAGE, became the entertainment industry standard for cast and crew to organize their scripts for auditions and working on set. Battle tested in Hollywood and around the world by professional actors and acting students. And now, there's Rehearsal® Pro. "I love this app! Rehearsal® lets me learn my lines in the car while I drive to work. It already saved my butt when I was thrown a major new dialogue scene 45 minutes before we started shooting it. I plugged the new scene into Rehearsal and I was off book by the time I got out of the make up chair." -Clark Gregg (Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Desperate Housewives, New Adventures of Old Christine) "I am very pleased with the results of using Rehearsal® so far. It is a powerful tool in preparing for auditions, or for days of work, especially when I am pressed for time. It is easy to use and I have no doubt that as it evolves, it will be a part of my work process for a long time." -John Carroll Lynch (Shutter Island, Dexter, The Drew Carey Show, Body of Proof) Rehearsal® Pro is - extremely easy to use, solid and reliable - intuitive: it reminds you of what you do with physical scripts - usable with any current iOS device, and syncs script markup between all of them - costs one low price for unlimited usage For actors from every walk of life and all areas of accomplishment: - works with short audition sides, to feature length scripts - easily handles physical scripts by bursting and scanning to PDF - for every actor at any skill level, student, amateur or professional - for every actor in every arena, from community theater, commercial, industrial, stage, web, VO, television, and film - get help with on-board demo videos that show you how to do nearly everything Manage your scripts easily: - Sync scripts between your devices - Manage scanned-in scripts for theater productions - Rotate, crop, collate and tint your pages - add physical scripts by snapping pictures of pages - create bookmarks and easily jump to a particular page - work with the same PDF and Word files you get on your computer - easily break down your script into your scenes - reading your script is a snap - just flick and scroll Learn your lines quickly: - highlight your lines and your scene partners' lines in vibrant colors - record your lines and play them back, watching the script scroll by like a teleprompter - quickly fast forward or rewind to pick up lines simply - record unlimited versions of scenes, exploring your character and creating new reads - automatically repeat your scene over and over until you know your lines cold - group multi-scene auditions into one repeating scene - pause recording and playback - play peekaboo to memorize - reveal your lines in blackout mode - quickly add beat marks to longer passages Explore your characters - easily create and review comments: text, audio, photo or video - record different takes on lines, different looks for characters - have all your choices at your fingertips for instant review Special features just for voice talent - audition for voiceover work from anywhere - email in your auditions as MP3 files from anywhere to anyone Everyone on the production team can use Rehearsal® Pro - location scouts can create quick and easy reports - makeup, wardrobe, set dressers: keep track of continuity and looks from scene to scene - directors and cinematographers: plan shots and create on-the-fly storyboards Rehearsal® Pro was created by a working actor just like you, David H. Lawrence XVII, best known as the creepy Eric Doyle, the Puppetmaster on NBC's Heroes.
Base Delegate
Streamline communication between executives and assistants with a dedicated private space for task delegation and tracking. Record voice messages that are automatically transcribed, and manage all communication and tasks within organized threads.
- Voice message delegation
- Automatic transcription
- Threaded conversations
- Automatic thread summarization
- Trackable tasks
- Complete history log
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Delegate faster. Follow up less. Base Delegate is built for one relationship: the executive and their assistant. It's a dedicated, private space to communicate, delegate, and track tasks without bouncing between email, texts, and to-do apps. Talk, don't type. Record a voice message to delegate a task, give instructions, or add context. Every recording is automatically transcribed, so your assistant always has a written reference. Everything in threads. Each conversation lives in its own thread: messages, files, photos, voice recordings, and tasks. Threads are automatically named and summarized, so you can scan your list and know where things stand. Tasks that track themselves. Action items from your conversations become trackable tasks. When something gets done, it's recorded in the thread. Both of you get a complete history from request to completion. Completely free. Base Delegate is free for both executives and assistants. No subscriptions, no feature gates, no trial periods. Built for how you actually work. Base Delegate is not a project management tool or a team chat app. It's the direct line between you and your assistant.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Base Delegate at Free against Rehearsal® Pro's $19.99. Base Delegate also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Rehearsal® Pro's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 1) and chart position (#133 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Base Delegate is free to download; Rehearsal® Pro costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Base Delegate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rehearsal® Pro has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rehearsal® Pro | Base Delegate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #133 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sotto Voce Filmworks, Inc. | BaseHQ, Inc. |
Customer experience
Rehearsal® Pro
Base Delegate
Bugs and requests
Rehearsal® Pro
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes on startup and during use
- Login page fails to load or authenticate
- Scripts disappear after updates
- Synchronization fails between devices
- Recording freezes mid-session
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- Highlighting disappears after app restart
- Error messages when importing scripts
- App becomes unresponsive when scrolling
- Page rotation issues with camera-captured scripts
- Bluetooth connectivity issues with car systems
- Update notifications loop infinitely
- Server connection errors preventing login
- Recorded scenes won't play in landscape mode
- PDF upload fails intermittently
- App incompatible with older iOS versions
- Bookmark navigation causes recording issues
Requested features
15 requests- Offline mode for scripts and recordings
- Apple Pencil support with reduced lag
- Built-in PDF scanning without Adobe dependency
- External microphone support
- Different cursor sizes for eraser tool
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- Auto-crop and auto-load for multi-page scripts
- AI-powered scene partner voice
- Social features for finding scene partners
- More script category options (commercials, etc.)
- Ability to share scripts between users
- Improved synchronization between devices
- Character auto-highlighting feature
- Dark mode option
- Dropbox integration
- Better video recording capabilities
Base Delegate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rehearsal® Pro
No in-app purchases
Base Delegate
No in-app purchases
Questions
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