Script upload and editing, built for actors
Actors do not choose the format their sides arrive in. You get a PDF from casting, a Word file from a director, a Final Draft export from a writer friend, and sometimes a phone photo of paper. blablabla takes all of it, works out who says what, and then hands you an editor so you can fix whatever it got wrong.
Every format you are actually sent
No converting, no retyping, no asking someone to export it again.
The format sides arrive in most of the time. 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)
Theatre scripts and student work land in Word more often than anyone admits. Drop the file in as it is.
Fountain (.fountain)
Parsed natively on your device. No upload, no waiting, no AI involved. The same is true of pasted Fountain text.
Final Draft (.fdx)
Read natively too, including character names and dialogue blocks, straight from the file your writer sent.
A photo of paper sides
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
Paste from an email, a message, or a rehearsal PDF you cannot export. Fountain-formatted text works with no AI at all.
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 most 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. Fix an OCR slip, restore a word the scan swallowed, or correct the character a line was assigned to.
Split a speech
Put the cursor where the thought turns and split the turn in two. 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, merge them back into a single line.
Delete what is not the scene
Swipe away headers, watermarks, page numbers, and the production company's legal boilerplate that got read in as dialogue.
Insert a pause
Add a beat 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, and if you have a multi-page script rather than a single scene, blablabla splits it into scenes and keeps them together as a project.
Drop in a script and see what it makes of it
Two fully voiced scenes are free, with no card.