How Memorlined's rehearsal modes work.

Memorlined has three rehearsal modes: Practice, Perform, and Listen. Practice is a silent tap-through you grade yourself. Perform is the scene out loud with a reader, in two styles, Cue Pickup and Free Flow. Listen plays the scene straight through while you do nothing but hear it. This page is the reference: what each mode actually is, when a working actor reaches for it, and how the scoring behaves while you run.

Modes exist because a first pass and a tenth pass are different jobs. On night one you need something that waits while you find the words. A week later you need something that pushes, because a line you can only produce slowly is a line you do not own yet. Any tool with one speed forces the scene to meet the tool. Three modes let the tool meet the scene.

Practice

Practice is self-paced and silent. No microphone, no listening, no clock. You move through the scene line by line, advancing when you tap, and you mark each of your lines yourself: Nailed, Almost, or Missed. Nothing happens until you say so, and nothing judges you but you.

This is the mode for the quiet apartment and the subway, and for the very first passes on new sides, when saying the lines at full voice would mostly be performing your own uncertainty. It is also the mode for going back. If a moment needs six tries, Practice gives you six tries without ceremony.

The one tip: mark honestly. An Almost you call Nailed does not disappear, it just resurfaces in the audition room. The whole value of Practice is that it builds a truthful map of which lines you own and which ones you only recognize.

Perform

Perform is the scene out loud. The microphone is on, the reader plays every line that is not yours, and the app listens as you speak. Which reader you hear is its own decision, covered in casting voices. What changes between the two styles is how the reader treats your turn.

Cue Pickup

In Cue Pickup, the reader enters the moment you land your cue words. Pickups get tight, dead air starts costing you, and the scene moves at something close to performance pace.

Reach for it when the words are essentially in and you want to find out whether they survive speed: callback prep, word-perfect contracts, comedy where the rhythm is the joke. The tip: do not stop when a line comes out Almost. Finish the run at pace, note where it broke, and take the repair back to Practice. Stopping mid-run to fix a line teaches you to stop mid-scene.

Free Flow

In Free Flow, you speak in your own rhythm and the reader follows when your turn is done, even if the words are not exact yet. Your pauses stay yours. The scene waits with you instead of leaving without you.

This is the middle of the work, when the words are mostly in but the acting choices are still moving. Reach for it when you want to try a pause, a turn, a slower thought, without the scene collapsing around the experiment. The tip: take the pause on purpose. Free Flow will let you hang in a silence as long as you like, so use that room deliberately and then check whether the line still lands on the far side of it.

Listen

In Listen, the whole scene plays continuously. No pauses, no part for you, no scoring. It is the one passive mode, and it is honest about that: you are not rehearsing in Listen, you are hearing.

That is worth more than it sounds. Reach for it when you want the shape of the scene away from the page: a first hearing of new sides, or a scene you have run so many times you have stopped hearing it. The tip: listen for everyone else's lines, not yours. Those are the cues you will live on later, and Listen is the cheapest way to get them into your ear.

How Perform's scoring works

While you speak in either Perform style, the app listens and checks what you say against the page, and each of your lines lands as Nailed, Almost, or Missed. How forgiving that judgment is depends on the strictness you set: Strict for near-verbatim work, Balanced for most nights, Lenient when getting the thought across matters more than the exact words. The full picture of what counts as close enough, and when to change strictness, lives in accuracy and strictness.

Which mode for which night

New sides: Listen once if you want the shape in your ear, then live in Practice until the words stop being strangers. Moving to Perform too early mostly rehearses your mistakes at volume.

Callback in two days: Free Flow to settle the choices, then Cue Pickup runs, full scene, no stopping. If it holds at pace under tight pickups, it will hold in the room.

A long run going stale: Free Flow to re-open choices you locked months ago, Listen to hear the scene fresh, and the occasional Cue Pickup run on Strict to catch the paraphrases that creep into week nine.

None of this is a law, and most sessions move between modes without thinking about it. For what a full session looks like end to end, take after take, see an app to run lines with.