Script upload and editing, built for actors
blablabla is a script upload app for actors: it takes the PDF from casting, the Word file from a director, the Final Draft export from a writer, or a phone photo of paper sides, works out who says what, and hands you an editor for whatever it got wrong. Actors do not choose the format their sides arrive in, so the app does not either.
Every format you are actually sent
No converting, no retyping, no asking someone to export it again. PDF is the format sides usually arrive in: blablabla reads the text layer directly when there is one and falls back to reading the page as an image when the PDF is a scan. Word (.docx) is where theatre scripts and student work tend to land. Drop the file in as it is.
Fountain (.fountain) and Final Draft (.fdx) are read natively on your device, character names and dialogue blocks included. No AI is involved, and nothing is sent off to be parsed. Pasted Fountain text is read the same way.
A photo of paper sides works too. Shoot the pages or run the built-in document scanner. Multi-page shoots can be reordered before anything gets parsed, so page four does not end up second.
Pasted text covers the rest: the scene from an email, a message, or a rehearsal PDF you cannot export.
It finds the characters for you
Upload a scene and blablabla separates it into turns, works out which character speaks each one, and lists everyone in the scene so you can pick your part. Fountain and Final Draft files are read entirely on your device. Other formats are parsed in the cloud, and blablabla asks your permission the first time before anything leaves your phone.
Scripts are confidential, and plenty of actors are handling material under NDA. Scenes are stored on your device first, and nothing you import is used to train anything.
A script editor that expects the parser to be wrong
Every automatic script parser makes mistakes, particularly on scans and on formatting nobody standardised. What matters is how quickly you can correct one. Everything below is a tap away in the scene editor, before or after you have rehearsed.
Rename a character everywhere. Parsers guess wrong on names, especially when a script writes MAN (CONT'D) or switches from DET. HARRIS to HARRIS halfway down. Rename once and every line follows. Retype any line: every turn is an editable text field, so you can fix an OCR slip, restore a word the scan swallowed, or correct the character a line was assigned to.
Split a speech by putting the cursor where the thought turns, useful for long speeches you want to rehearse beat by beat rather than as a wall. Merge two turns when a page break has chopped one speech into two.
Delete what is not the scene: headers, watermarks, page numbers, and the production company's legal boilerplate that got read in as dialogue. Insert a pause between turns and set how long it holds, so the reader gives you the silence the scene actually has in it.
Uploading is the boring half
Once the scene is right, cast a voice for each character and run it. blablabla speaks everyone else's lines and waits, silently, for as long as your line takes. Once the audio is generated it plays offline, so a dead signal before a callback is not a problem.
The whole feature set is on the features page. If you have a multi-page script rather than a single scene, blablabla splits it into scenes and keeps them together as a project.
Questions actors ask
Which script formats can I upload?
PDF, Word (.docx), Fountain, Final Draft (.fdx), a photo of paper sides, or pasted text. Fountain and Final Draft are read on your device. The rest are parsed in the cloud after you say yes the first time.
What happens when the parser gets a character or a line wrong?
Fix it in the scene editor: rename a character everywhere, retype any line, split or merge turns, delete headers and watermarks that got read in as dialogue, or insert a pause.
Is my script kept private?
Scenes are stored on your device first. Nothing you import is used to train anything, and the app asks permission before any file leaves your phone.
Drop in a script and see what it makes of it
Any format you get sent. Free to start on iPhone, iPad, and Android.