Rafy – Self-Tape Acting Reader

This app is truly a godsend. I used to have my friends and family (reluctantly) read for my self tapes, but when I found Rafy everything changed. You can choose the voice/gender and age range of your reader, so they fit the actual character you’re in the scene with, it shows the lines on the screen while you record and you can also chose alternate line readings if the reader isn’t getting the mood right. My self-tapes have improved by leaps and bounds and I’ve had the most callbacks and castings than I ever landed before I found this app. I’m a Rafy-head now and will use this app for all of my auditions. Not only that, but the support team is incredibly kind and worked with me to get a discount after I missed the promotion. Shoutout to Jam, and all the fellow thespians at Rafy who understand what it means to put your best self on tape. Can’t recommend this app enough. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This app WOULD deserve 5 stars if it allowed for some customization. I love how well it works, it’s definitely better than any other self tape reader app I’ve tried. But it should not cost you more tokens to adjust your lines or to customize the reader’s voices. Especially when you CANNOT listen to a preview of the reader’s speaking your lines before you it charges you for a token. I unfortunately used up all 3 of my initial tokens trying to get the perfect voices for a scene and sadly by the 3rd try it still wasn’t satisfactory. This really makes no sense to me and considering that even paying for a subscription gives you such a small number of tokens, I don’t know if it’s worth it. Especially when it might take you 5 or 6 tokens just to customize the voices in a way that works for your scene. Otherwise this app is incredible and would be a total game changer. I’d happily purchase a subscription if customizations were allowed. And I’d recommend to all my acting friends who I’m positive would also love. But for now, this is just not it.

First off the latest update really added level of believability to the AI. I love the feature to be able to customize the way they say the lines. (Beware of your accent shining through to the AI in custom recordings). I like that the feature to add a timer to lines was added. If this app is perfected, I could see this being my go to for every audition. Right now is just not up to par to replace an actual reader. Features I’d like to see that could bring it closer to replacing the reader would be: a reader only mode for other modes of filming (via mirrorless camera, or another camera) where it will still pick up on cue lines or timer without filming the self tape from the phone; the ability to delete lines from the preview given that casting directors usually cut lines and start mid page. The app disregards the markings that cut lines and adds them into the preview, having the actor go and screenshot the script, crop, convert to pdf and have to use “extra tokens” for just the one audition with multiple scenes. If these were implemented into this app I will give you five stars.