Need A Reader Actor App vs Distill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Need A Reader Actor App
Connects actors with readers for auditions, self-tapes, and rehearsals. Actors receive necessary assistance while readers earn income. Easily review profiles, schedule sessions, and hire professionals for in-person meetings or remote self-taping.
- Connect with audition readers
- Schedule self-tapes
- Hire for rehearsals
- Review actor resumes
- In-person or remote sessions
- Find acting coaches
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Need A Reader is the first app to connect actors with readers for auditions, self tapes, classes, rehearsals, and practice. Actors get the help they need, and readers get paid. Review an actor's resume, skill set, and personal rating with just a few quick taps on your phone. Swipe right, add your job details and hire. Schedule to meet your reader in person or self tape right on your phone. You can also change your location and broaden your reach! Want to work with a professional acting coach? Need A Reader now connects you with acting coaches for that all-important self-tape audition, or find other readers who tape and edit at a discount. Invite up to twenty readers or coaches to your job, and the first to confirm is hired. Download now for free and choose a reader that works best for you. The Need A Reader Actor App. We'll do our part, so you can land yours.
Distill
This app allows users to act out short scenes with friends or an AI partner. It features a feed of acted scenes, duet capabilities, and tools for scriptwriting and performance practice. Special features are available for iPhone Duo users.
- Act out short scenes
- Duet with friends or AI
- AI scene partner and writer
- Weekly acting challenges
- Script reading teleprompter
- iPhone Duo specific modes
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Distill is where you act out short scenes and share them. Distill 2.0 is a new app: a new feed, duets with anyone, an AI scene partner, and new features made for iPhone Duo. Distill opens a few seats at a time. Join the waitlist and record a short audition scene to move up the list, or enter an invite code from a friend to get in at once. NEW IN DISTILL 2.0 - A For You feed of short acted scenes, from comedy to drama. Follow people you like and see what is trending. - Duet in open seats. Many scenes leave one part open. In the feed, a duet with an open part shows the open line and a Play button. Take the seat, record your side, and the two halves play together as one scene. - Invite a friend to play a role with a link. - Scene looks for your takes. Natural, Film and Noir are free. - Weekly challenges. Post your entry and give awards to takes you love. - Pick a script, write your own, or scan a printed page and it becomes a scene. A script page shows the opening lines. Tap it to read the whole script. Record line by line while your lines scroll like a teleprompter. AI SCENE PARTNER, WRITER AND COACH - No one to read with? The AI partner speaks the other part in a synthetic voice, so you can act a full scene alone. - The AI writer drafts a new scene from an idea. - The AI coach is a separate practice mode. You rehearse alone and it gives short notes on your timing and pace. Coach notes never appear in the posting flow. NEW ON IPHONE DUO Everything above works on any iPhone and iPad. iPhone Duo adds these: - Director mode. Stand the Duo up like a book. Point the outside screen at one actor and the back camera at the other. You watch both cameras on the inside screen and call Next line, Again, Back and Cut. - Act together. Two actors, one Duo, two cameras. One of you faces the inside screen, the other faces the outside screen. You play the scene straight through and Distill posts it as a duet. - Script beside your take. Unfold the Duo and hold it sideways. The scene plays on one side and the script on the other, with the line being spoken highlighted. Half-fold it like a book and the script opens by itself. - Lines on the outer screen. Prop the Duo up and have a friend film you with the rear camera. Your lines show large on the outside screen, facing you. - Turn cue. While your partner speaks, your screen shows Wait with a short bar. Just before your turn, your first words appear. SAFETY Report any take, comment, script or profile. Block anyone. Delete your takes. Delete your account in Settings. DISTILL PLUS Acting, posting and duets are free. Plus adds every Scene look, changing the look after you record, unlimited AI writer drafts and coach notes (free accounts get 5 drafts and 3 notes a day), and a Plus badge. - Distill Plus Monthly: $4.99 a month. - Distill Plus Yearly: $29.99 a year, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase (after the trial, for the yearly plan). The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you subscribe. Terms of use: https://distillapp.co/terms Privacy policy: https://distillapp.co/policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Distill at 5.0 against Need A Reader Actor App's 4.4. Need A Reader Actor App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Distill sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Need A Reader Actor App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Distill holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Need A Reader Actor App has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Need A Reader Actor App ships an update fortnightly, Distill every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Need A Reader Actor App | Distill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jason Buyer | Devois Inc |
Customer experience
Need A Reader Actor App
Distill
In-app purchases
Need A Reader Actor App
No in-app purchases
Distill
- Distill Plus Monthly$4.991 Month
- Distill Plus Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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