An app that scans your sides.

Sides never arrive the same way twice. Casting sends a PDF attachment at nine on a Friday night. A scene partner texts you a photo of a page taped to a rehearsal room wall. A coach pastes 2 pages of dialogue into an email. And some weeks nothing arrives at all, class is Tuesday, and you still need material. An app that scans your sides is only useful if it meets the sides wherever they landed, so that the time between "the sides exist" and "I am rehearsing" is minutes, not a retyping session.

Memorlined meets sides wherever they show up. The main roads in:

1. Camera scan. For the printed or photographed page. Point the iPhone camera at the sheet and the app lifts the text off the paper. This is the route for the printout in your bag, the page on the wall, the photo a stage manager sent at midnight.

2. PDF upload. For the casting attachment. Save the PDF from the email and hand it to the app. This is how most audition sides arrive, and it is the most common way in.

3. Paste. For the emailed text. If the sides came as words in a message rather than a file, copy them and paste them straight in.

4. Typing. For the short scene, the 2-line pickup, or the monologue you already have on paper. Typing is also the fix-up route when a scan needs a hand, which we will get to. And if typing is not your speed, there is a speak-it-in option that takes lines by voice, one at a time.

5. The library. For the week nothing arrived. The app carries a curated library of original scenes, so when you need material for class today, you pick a scene and start.

What happens after the sides are in

This is the part that matters, because getting text into an app is not the goal. Rehearsing is.

Once the sides are in, the app detects the characters in the scene. You see who speaks, you claim your role, and then you cast: audition reader voices from a library of 60+ and choose one for each character opposite you. A gravelly detective for the interrogation scene, a warm older voice for the mother. Casting the reader takes about as long as choosing a coffee.

From there the sides are live. The reader plays the other roles, you play yours, and you can run the scene as many times as the scene needs. If you want the fuller picture of what that rehearsal looks like, the guide on an app to run lines with walks through the modes, and there is a separate guide on an app that reads lines with you if the reader side is your main question. When the deadline is brutal, the piece on same-day sides covers how to spend the hours you actually have.

The honest total: from a PDF landing in your inbox to running the scene against a cast reader is a few minutes of setup. That is the actual pitch. Not the scan itself, but how little stands between the scan and the work.

What scans well, honestly

A clean, flat, well-lit page scans beautifully. That covers most printed sides and most decent photos of them.

A crumpled page shot at an angle in a dim hallway is a harder read, for the app and for you. If a word or a character name comes through wrong, you fix it by hand; the typing input is the repair tool, and correcting 3 words is far faster than retyping 2 pages. Take 10 seconds to flatten the page and find some light before you scan, and you will rarely need to.

Your sides never leave the phone

Audition sides are often watermarked with your name, and the release forms are not shy about what happens if material leaks. So this part is not a footnote: in Memorlined, your sides stay on your device. No account is required and there is no upload step. The material you were trusted with stays exactly where you put it, and once your readers are cast, the rehearsal works offline too.

Getting the words in is the first minute of the job. What you do with them next, from first read to taping the scene to actually getting the lines into your body, is the rest of it. The app's job is to make sure the first minute only takes a minute.