ActingPro vs Ghost Light
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActingPro
This app offers a comprehensive toolkit for actors to enhance their skills, practice various acting techniques, and develop strategies for their careers. It provides interactive exercises for voice, movement, improvisation, and scene work, along with tools for business planning and progress tracking.
- Comprehensive skill development exercises
- Innovative improvisation and scene work tools
- Acting business strategy guidance
- Personalized progress tracking
- Voice and movement warm-ups
- Adaptable exercises for any environment
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ActingPro is your complete acting toolkit. Craft, career, and lines all in one app. Built for working actors, students, and educators, it brings practice, study, and the business of acting together in one place. STUDIED CRAFT A deep library of guided exercises, courses, and workbooks grounded in classical and modern technique. Train across voice, movement, sense memory, character work, emotional technique, improvisation, and scene work. Each exercise with step-by-step instructions, timers, and audio cues you can use at home, in the green room, or anywhere inspiration strikes. SCENES & MONOLOGUES An expansive database of scenes and monologues to bring into your practice, your class, or your next audition. Browse and search a curated library of plays and books built for actors at every level. MEMORIZATION TOOLS Import any script and rehearse with live speech recognition, on-cue line prompts, and a full set of memorization drills: • Performance Mode — Live speech recognition matches your delivery in real time • Line Runner — Full script with character highlighting and line cueing where you can record and hear lines read back to you. • Dress Rehearsal — Full scene run-throughs with separated parts • Cascade, Anchor, First Letter, and Written Rote — Progressive drills for every learning style RUN YOUR CAREER Manage the business of acting from one tab: • Audition Journal — Log submissions, callbacks, and bookings across film, TV, and theater with status tracking and monthly insights • Class Journal — Capture takeaways from every class, taggable and searchable • Weekly Check-in — Guided Sunday reflection on wins, losses, and next week's intentions • Tax-Ready Expense Logger — Live receipt capture with on-device text recognition, categorized entries, multi-currency support, and monthly charts • Goal Tracker — Build SMART goals and watch them move • Career Roadmap — Map multi-step milestones from headshots to series regular • Industry Contacts — A built-in CRM for agents, casting directors, and managers, with interaction history • Agent Directory — Browse representation options for outreach • Career Insights — Analytics on submissions, bookings, and conversion trends PERFECT FOR EVERY ACTOR • Beginners — Build a foundation with classical exercises and clear instructions • Working Actors — Memorize sides fast, log auditions, track expenses, manage contacts • Educators — Use ActingPro as a structured resource for student practice and homework FREE + PRO Free download includes a daily exercise and a monthly community workbook to keep you practicing even without a subscription. Pro subscription unlocks the full exercise library, script import, and career and audition insights. Subscriptions are managed through your App Store account and can be canceled anytime. Restore purchases is available in the My Account tab. Your craft, and career, in your hands.
Ghost Light
Find the perfect acting monologue with intelligent search and freshness scores. Filter by age, gender, length, tone, and emotion for stage and screen. Save your favorites and track auditions with timely reminders.
- Intelligent semantic search for monologues
- Freshness score to avoid overdone pieces
- Filter by age, gender, length, tone, emotion
- Extensive library of stage and screen speeches
- Save monologues for offline access
- Audition tracking with reminders
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The sides came in at nine. The self-tape is due tomorrow, and there is nobody awake to read the other part with you. Ghost Light is built for that night. And for the one before the audition, when you need two minutes that fit and you are scrolling the same forty speeches everyone else will bring into the room. A SCENE PARTNER THAT NEVER CANCELS Bring your sides any way they reach you: a PDF from your agent's email, a Word file, or text you paste in. Ghost Light reads the script, finds the cast, and asks which part is yours. Choose a voice for everyone else and begin. Your partner reads their lines out loud, then waits for you. Finish your line and they come in on cue. Run it once to learn the shape of the scene, then again and again until it lives in your body, at midnight, on the train, in the hallway before they call your name. Not sure how it works? Three short first scenes, a fight, a flirt and a confession, walk you through it in two minutes, free. SEARCH THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY THINK Type "a grieving mother." Type "something funny that isn't Neil Simon." Ghost Light understands what you mean, not just the words you typed, and surfaces monologues that match the feeling. No keyword guessing. No browsing forty pages of Shakespeare to find the one speech that fits. KNOW WHAT'S OVERDONE Every monologue carries a freshness score. Filter for hidden gems and walk in with something the panel has not already heard four times that morning. No other monologue app tells you this. FILTER FOR THE ROOM YOU'RE WALKING INTO Age range and gender. Under one, two, or three minutes. Tone: comedic, dramatic, dark, defiant, anguished, contemplative. Emotion: anger, longing, grief, fear, joy, despair, resolve. STAGE AND SCREEN, ONE LIBRARY 19,000+ monologues from 2,100+ plays, classical and contemporary. Plus 5,000+ speeches from films and TV shows, browsable by poster, character, and length. Shakespeare and Chekhov in the same place as the screen work you actually watch. YOUR BOOK, ALWAYS WITH YOU Save what you love and it's there next time, on any device you sign in on. Subscribers can read their saved pieces offline, so your book still opens in the basement hallway outside the audition room where there's no signal. YOUR WEEK, ON THE BOARD Add an audition, attach the piece you are bringing, and Ghost Light reminds you the evening before and two hours before the call. The reminder opens straight to your monologue. TONIGHT'S SPEECH Every evening Ghost Light picks one monologue for the stage and one for the screen. Put the widget on your home screen and a new speech is waiting each night. BUILT FOR ACTORS, NOT FOR SPREADSHEETS A ghost light is the single bulb left burning on an empty stage overnight, so the theatre is never fully dark. This app is named for it. Warm, quiet, made for working in the dark before you go in. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: search the full catalog, read three monologues in full, run the three first scenes as often as you like, and bring one script of your own to rehearse. Ghost Light Premium unlocks the scene partner for every script you bring, unlimited reading, tone, emotion and freshness filters, offline access, and copy to clipboard. The yearly plan starts with a free week. Terms of Use: https://www.actorrise.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.actorrise.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ghost Light at 100% against ActingPro's 0%. Ghost Light also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and ads (none vs shown). ActingPro's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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. ActingPro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Ghost Light sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Ghost Light holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActingPro has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of ActingPro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ghost Light's.
ActingPro ships an update every 2 weeks, Ghost Light every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActingPro | Ghost Light |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ActingPro LLC | Canberk Varli |
Customer experience
ActingPro
Ghost Light
In-app purchases
ActingPro
- Pro Access14 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Pro Access$99.991 Year
Ghost Light
- Monologues7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$9.991 Month
- Monologues7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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- Premium Yearly$59.991 Year









