Terms, in plain words
These are the terms of using Line Run, written to be read rather than survived. Everything that matters about what you get, what you pay and what happens if you stop is here, in plain words. The formal licence agreement is Apple's standard one, linked at the bottom, and it applies as well.
What Line Run is
An app for learning lines. You put a scene in, you record the other parts or have the app speak them, and then you rehearse against it until the words are yours.
It runs on your iPhone. Your scripts and your recordings live on your phone, not on a server somewhere, because there is no server. There is no account to make and nothing to log in to.
What you get for free
- One script, with up to three scenes in it.
- Recording the script manually in your own voice, where you can adjust the pitch of each character.
- Every rehearsal mode, every line-hiding mode, the notes, the cues, all of it.
The free version is a real, working rehearsal app for one scene at a time. It is not a demo that stops.
What subscribing adds
- Unlimited scripts and scenes.
- Automatic import, where you hand the app a PDF and it works out the characters, the scenes and the lines for you.
- Generated voices on your phone, so the other parts can be spoken without you having to record them first.
Subscribing is one annual subscription through the App Store.
There is a fair usage limit on importing
Every import costs real money, because a script has to be read by Google's Gemini service before it can become scenes and lines. Unlimited genuinely means unlimited for anybody rehearsing normally, so this will almost certainly never come up for you.
But there has to be a ceiling somewhere, so there is one. It works like this.
- It applies to automatic import only. Nothing else in the app is capped, ever.
- It is measured over a rolling twelve months, not a calendar year, so it refills gradually rather than all at once on some anniversary.
- The app shows you how much of your allowance you have used, as a percentage, in Settings under Usage. You will see a note as you approach the limit rather than hitting it by surprise.
- If you do reach it, importing pauses and nothing else changes. Every script you have stays. Every recording stays. Rehearsing, the voices, the modes, all of it keeps working exactly as before.
To put the number in perspective: the ceiling is several times what a busy actor importing scripts all year would use. It exists to stop a runaway, not to ration you.
The price and the free trial
Both come from the App Store, and neither is written down here or anywhere in the app. The app asks the App Store what the price is in your country and what trial is on offer, and shows you the answer. That way it is right for where you live and it cannot go stale.
You will see the exact price, the exact length of the free trial, and the date it ends, on the screen where you subscribe, before you pay anything.
A free trial gives you the full subscription. It is not a lesser version.
To cancel, change or ask for a refund, you go through Apple, in the Settings app or in the App Store. The app has a Manage Subscription button that hands you straight there. We cannot cancel it for you, because Apple does not let an app touch its own subscriptions.
What happens when a subscription ends
Nothing is taken away. This matters enough to be its own section.
- Every script you made stays. If you built twelve scripts as a subscriber, you still have twelve. The limits above are about making something new, not about keeping what you have.
- Every recording stays. They were always on your phone.
- Voices you already assigned keep working. A script you built with the generated voices still speaks in those voices afterwards. You paid for that work and it stays yours.
What stops is starting new work that needs a subscription: a new import, and assigning a generated voice to something new.
Importing sends your script to Google
If you import a script, the pages of that script go to Google's Gemini service to be read. There is no way around it. It is the whole of how import works, and it is why import is the paid feature.
Nothing else in the app does that. If you build a script by hand, it never leaves your phone.
The privacy policy says exactly what is sent, when, and what happens to it afterwards. Please read that part before you import anything you are not free to share.
Access codes
Line Run is given free to some schools, community theatres and drama departments through access codes. A code lifts the free limits on scripts and scenes. A code is not a subscription: it does not turn on automatic import or the generated voices, both of which cost real money to run.
A few honest limits
- Import is a machine reading a document, and machines misread. The app tells you which lines it was unsure about and lets you fix them, but you should read a script through after importing it. Do not walk into a rehearsal trusting it blind.
- The generated voices need a reasonably recent iPhone. On an older phone they fall back to the voices built into iOS, and the app says so before you pay rather than after.
- Line Run is made by one person. Fixes come as fast as one person can make them.
What you put into it
Your scripts are yours. We claim nothing over them, we keep no copy, and we could not share them if we wanted to.
That said, please only import material you have the right to use. A script from a published play is somebody's copyright, and what you are allowed to do with your sides is between you, your production and the rights holder. Line Run is a tool, the same as a highlighter.
The actual legal agreement
Line Run is licensed under Apple's Standard End User License Agreement, which is the standard licence that covers apps on the App Store. It is the legal document, and this page is only the friendly summary of how the app works.
You can read it here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Questions
Break a leg.