Précis vs The Stage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Précis
This app records and transcribes meetings on your iPhone, generating structured minutes and actionable follow-ups. It allows you to ask questions across your meeting history and receive cited answers, all while prioritizing user privacy and data security.
- On-device transcription
- Structured meeting minutes
- Actionable follow-up tracking
- Searchable meeting history
- AI-powered Q&A with citations
- Customizable templates
- Private by design
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Be in the moment. Keep what matters. Record the conversation. Leave with clear Minutes and next steps. Live Notes bring the important points into focus while you record. Find answers across your meetings, with citations you can follow. More room. More perspective. Turn your iPhone or open Duo. Keep your meetings and Minutes side by side. STAY PRESENT Précis can transcribe offline, and you don’t need a separate Précis account. Import existing audio, PDFs, text, WebVTT, or SRT transcripts from other apps. LEAVE WITH MINUTES YOU CAN USE • Get clean, editable Minutes with summaries, decisions, commitments, open questions, and suggested Next Moves. • Choose from 28 templates for team meetings, 1:1s, interviews, sales calls, lectures, coaching, appointments, and more. • Customize templates and reprocess past meetings with Précis Pro. TURN COMMITMENTS INTO FOLLOW-THROUGH • Keep meeting-linked Follow-Ups in one focused queue, with priorities, due dates, reminders, waiting states, check-ins, and recurrence. • Calendar-aware Home brings together your next meeting, current Follow-Ups, and recent activity. • Prep Briefs bring back prior decisions, open items, and talking points before the next conversation (Pro). ASK PRÉCIS WITH EVIDENCE • Ask Précis for grounded answers across meetings, with citations back to the source conversations. If the answer isn’t there, it says so instead of guessing (Pro). • Find searches meetings, Minutes, and transcripts as you type (Pro). PRIVATE BY DESIGN Transcription happens on your iPhone. Audio stays on-device unless you enable end-to-end encrypted cloud audio backup (Pro). For AI Minutes, Précis sends transcript text, not audio. Prompts and responses aren’t logged, and your data is never sold or used to train models. No ads. No tracking. Face ID App Lock, retention controls, data export, and in-app account deletion keep you in control. Spotlight search is on by default; you can turn it off in Settings. PRÉCIS PRO Live Notes, unlimited recordings and imports, Find, Ask Précis, Prep Briefs, template customization, meeting reprocessing, private meeting sharing, encrypted audio backup, Research Cards, and recap drafts. Monthly and annual plans through the App Store. TERMS OF USE https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Stage
This app centralizes an actor's entire professional life, from rehearsing lines and self-taping auditions to managing a website, tracking bookings, and logging expenses. It aims to streamline the business side of acting, allowing users to focus on their craft.
- AI-powered line rehearsal with customizable voices
- Self-tape recording and editing tools
- Integrated actor website builder
- Audition and booking tracking with visual funnel
- Unified calendar with Google Calendar sync
- Expense and mileage logging for tax preparation
- Cloud storage for project files
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By popular demand, the official Stage iOS app is here! Rehearse at 2 a.m. Send the self-tape by 9. Build the website you keep putting off. Log the audition, the class, the booking, the receipt. The Stage puts an actor's whole working life in one app, so the hours stop disappearing into everything around the work. REHEARSE WHENEVER YOU WANT No reader tonight? Cue reads every other role and listens for yours. Take the pause; it waits and comes in when you do. It never counts down. Pick the voice: your device's built-in voice, a lifelike performance from a curated cast, or a friend. Send them a link, they record their lines once from any phone with no account needed, and their voice reads opposite you from then on. LEARN THE LINES, KEEP THE NOTES Import your sides. Mark beats, breath, intention and direction right on the page. Drill a section at a time: your line hides, you say it from memory, it moves on when you have it. Every note stays with the scene through rehearsal, Cue and every take. SELF-TAPE WITHOUT THE SETUP Open the scene, press record, and Cue reads while you act. Keep every take. Put Take 7 next to Take 9 and watch them side by side, synced to the beat. Trim, reframe, add the slate you forgot to the front, lift the room hum off without touching the voice, and send a public link from the same screen. A WEBSITE IN ONE SITTING Go live at your own URL today. Open with a cinematic intro, then arrange headshots, reel, scenes, credits, resume, reps and a contact button for the actor you are: film, theater, voice, or all three. PACKAGES BUILT FOR THE PERSON READING THEM Pitch an agency, a manager or a casting office with exactly the headshots, scenes, reel, resume and intro they should see. One clean link. See when it's opened. Swap in a stronger scene tomorrow without the link changing. ONE CALENDAR, CALL SHEETS INCLUDED Type it the way you'd say it: "Film class 2pm tomorrow @ TAG." Auditions, rehearsals, classes and performances in one place. A four-show run entered once and grouped under the production. Syncs with Google Calendar so nothing else has to change. THE CAREER, RUN LIKE ONE Auditions, callbacks and bookings on a visual funnel, so you see your rates at a glance. Contacts and reps with the history of every conversation. Receipts and mileage logged as they happen, and a P&L ready before tax season. Three resumes that update together. Goals and to-dos kept against the role. A STAGE THAT LOOKS LIKE YOURS Pick your own colors and look. Pin the lines you learned in class to your home screen. Build a vision board from your own images and goals, and log every booking on a Wins timeline so the yeses stay visible. Included: 50 GB of cloud storage, synced across your devices. HUMAN FIRST The Stage was never built to replace the people who make you better. Your coach is still your coach. Your teacher is still your teacher. The best reader is a real person, which is why you can send a friend a link. The few places we use AI are the smallest parts of the app, and they exist to close one gap: the self-tape due tomorrow with no one free tonight. We don't clone your voice. We don't generate performances. Because acting is one workflow. Your tools should be too. Welcome to The Stage. Terms of Use: https://thestage.actor/terms Privacy Policy: https://thestage.actor/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: The Stage at every 2 days against Précis's fortnightly. The Stage also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (17.5 vs 26.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Précis sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and The Stage sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Précis against 5.0 for The Stage. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively.
Précis ships an update fortnightly, The Stage every 2 days. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Précis | The Stage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.5 | 17.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pliologik LLC | Raven Beria |
Customer experience
Précis
The Stage
In-app purchases
Précis
- Monthly$7.991 Month
- Annual$59.991 Year
The Stage
- Pro Monthly$15.001 Month
- Pro Annual$99.001 Year
- Actor Pack$9.99
- Studio Pack$19.99









