Comparison

ActMate 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

ActMate

Features
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ActMate is your ultimate acting companion designed to help you master the art of performance. WHAT IS ACTMATE? ActMate provides professionally crafted scripts across Drama, Comedy, Thriller, Horror and more genres. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned actor, ActMate helps you practice, improve and perform at your best. PRACTICE LIKE A PRO Run lines on your own schedule. ActMate lets you rehearse any scene, any time — no scene partner required. With scripts spanning every major genre, you'll always have fresh material to work with. BUILT FOR EVERY ACTOR Whether you're preparing for your first school play, a regional audition, or a professional role, ActMate meets you where you are. Progress at your own pace and track your growth as a performer. YOUR PERSONAL STAGE Acting is a craft that demands consistency. ActMate makes daily practice effortless — so you can focus on what matters: finding truth in every scene and owning every performance. Download ActMate today and take the first step toward your best performance yet. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://actmate.in/privacy-policy/

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
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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

ActMate4 screens
Ghost Light4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ghost Light at every 5 days against ActMate's every 2 weeks. ActMate's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. ActMate sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ActMate ships an update every 2 weeks, Ghost Light every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ActMate versus Ghost Light: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActMateGhost Light
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB73 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperChandan VishwakarmaCanberk Varli

In-app purchases

6 purchases

ActMate

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$7.991 Month
  • 6 Months$17.996 Months
  • Yearly$79.991 Year
One-time3
  • ActMate 50 Credits Pack$3.99
  • ActMate 100 Credits Pack$7.99
  • ActMate 200 Credits Pack$9.99
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 ActMate free?
ActMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghost Light free?
Ghost Light is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ActMate or Ghost Light have ads?
Neither ActMate nor Ghost Light shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ActMate or Ghost Light?
ActMate ships an update every 2 weeks, and Ghost Light every 5 days. Most recently, ActMate was updated on October 8, 2026 and Ghost Light on October 29, 2026.

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