SideReader vs Audition Buddy

You’re an actor. Or a content creator. Or a journalist. Or maybe you’re just someone who has something to say and would really, really like the words to stay in front of your eyes while you say it. And to get portrait and landscape videos from one take, instantly. Maybe you’re rehearsing an audition. Recording a reporting segment. Filming a video essay. Making content for social media. Or trying to remember your next line without looking six feet below the camera. That’s why I made SideReader. SideReader brings your script, teleprompter, camera, rehearsal tools, and takes together in one focused creative studio. And it solves another problem I kept running into: needing the same performance in portrait and landscape. One for TikTok, Reels, or Shorts. Another for YouTube, a presentation, an edit, or whatever comes next. Record once. Deliver twice. YOUR SCRIPT, RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU Write or import a script, then keep it in front of you while you rehearse or record. Adjust the reading experience to your pace, so you can spend less time fighting the screen and more time delivering the words. REHEARSE AT YOUR PACE Sometimes you’re not ready to hit Record. That’s fine. Work through the script, find your rhythm, get comfortable with the material, and start filming when you’re ready. TWO VIDEOS, ONE PERFORMANCE Dual Capture makes portrait and landscape videos together while you record. Tap Stop and both files finish without a second render, ready to review, save, or share in moments. No second take just because another platform wants a different shape. YOUR STUDIO, ON YOUR WRIST The new Apple Watch companion works as a remote for your paired iPhone or iPad. Start and stop recording, switch cameras, adjust zoom, choose scripts, control rehearsals, and check recording status from your wrist. HIGH-QUALITY VIDEO On supported devices and configurations, SideReader can capture at up to 4K and 60 FPS. Because something made for creators should take the actual camera part seriously, too. YOUR TAKES ARE YOURS Review your takes, keep the ones you love, and share them when you choose. Your scripts and recordings stay on your device unless you choose to export or share them. Your performance doesn’t need a trip through somebody else’s server just to belong to you. Settings also gives you control over product analytics and optional advertising measurement. WHY I BUILT SIDEREADER I’m an actor, and I wanted something that felt surprisingly difficult to find: a teleprompter and camera simple enough to disappear while I was using them, but powerful enough to keep up with how I actually create. I wanted my script in front of me. I wanted to rehearse. I wanted great-quality video. I wanted portrait and landscape versions without recording the same performance twice. And I didn’t want the app itself to become the production. So I built SideReader. It has taken plenty of testing, redesigns, strange little discoveries, major overhauls, and “okay, we need to rethink this entire thing” moments. I’m proud to put this bigger, faster creative studio in your hands, and I’m excited to keep improving it with the people who use it. So rehearse the audition. Record the story. Make the video. Deliver the report. Say the thing. Hopefully with SideReader by Clapps, with love from Los Angeles

Audition Buddy reads every other role aloud, so you can self-tape any script, at any hour, without a reader. It is eleven at night, the sides came through at six, and the tape is due in the morning. Nobody is free to read with you. Audition Buddy is the scene partner who always is. Upload the script. Audition Buddy reads it, finds the scenes, and works out who is in them. Choose the character you are playing. Every other role gets a voice, and you choose how each one sounds — mood, energy, and which voice reads it — because a reader who rushes you is worse than no reader at all. Then tape it. Your lines scroll on screen while the camera stays on your face, so your eyes stay on the lens instead of a page just out of frame. Pick the pace before you start and it holds it: slow to find the scene, natural to run it, brisk when you already know it cold. Watch the take back straight away. Keep it, retake it, or record five more. Every take is saved under its script, scene and character, so the one you want at four in the morning is the one you can actually find. Download it in full quality or send it straight to your agent. Record your slate once — name, height, location, agent — and it is there for every submission after that. When you're not taping, the Search tab carries a reading list on auditioning, self-taping and the craft — pulled from working actors' own sites, updated through the day. WHAT YOU GET FREE Your first script is free, and it stays free: unlimited takes, unlimited retakes, and AI co-actors reading every other role, for as long as you keep it. Uploading, reading and organising scripts are free forever, on every script. AUDITION BUDDY PRO Pro unlocks recording on every script you upload, not just your first: • Record every script, not just your first • AI co-actors read every other role aloud • Unlimited takes, downloaded and shared in full quality Pro is a monthly subscription and renews until you cancel. Cancel any time from your Apple Account settings. BUILT TO BE PRIVATE No trackers, no analytics SDKs, no advertising. Your scripts and your takes are files on your phone. An account exists so you can restore them later and so the co-actor voices can run — nothing more. You can delete your account, and everything held for it, from inside the app. Made for actors who tape their own auditions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://haratechnologies.com/audition-buddy/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://haratechnologies.com/audition-buddy/privacy.html