Comparison

Interstaff vs Ghost Light

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Interstaff

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Continue your journey with Interstaff at your convenience with easy access to your courses and communities, while on the go. With the Interstaff mobile app, enjoy the freedom of learning and connecting anytime, from anywhere. Access your courses and communities, from one convenient place. Learn when it works best for you at work, at home or on your commute with video, audio, text and other popular lesson types formatted for mobile. With progress tracking and start and stop lessons, it’s easy to pick up from where you left off. Have questions while learning? Join the conversation and get real-time answers by posting and replying to comments and accessing your community feeds on the go. And with push notifications, you can make sure you're always in the loop on all community activities. Download the Interstaff mobile app today!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Interstaff4 screens
Ghost Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Interstaff at none against Ghost Light's 4. Interstaff also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Ghost Light's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ghost Light sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Interstaff asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interstaff ships an update every 3 weeks, Ghost Light every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Interstaff versus Ghost Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterstaffGhost Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB73 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperInterstaff, IncCanberk Varli

In-app purchases

None

Interstaff

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Ghost Light

Subscriptions4
  • 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

Questions

Is Interstaff free?
Interstaff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghost Light free?
Ghost Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Interstaff or Ghost Light have ads?
Neither Interstaff nor Ghost Light shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Interstaff or Ghost Light?
Interstaff ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ghost Light every 5 days. Most recently, Interstaff was updated on October 18, 2026 and Ghost Light on October 29, 2026.

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