A new scene every day
Get better at acting.
Every day.
You get one scene. Act it on camera. See how other actors played the same lines, find out what worked, and come back tomorrow for a new one.
On a computer?
Scan with your
iPhone camera.
A daily gym for actors. Free on iOS. No audition required. Just act.
TODAY’S CHALLENGE
The Thing in the Hallway
Peter
“The Thing in the Hallway”
Horror · 42s
Built for the performance.
Not the algorithm.
Actors don’t need another place to scroll. They need a place to practice. Act It Up gives them a fresh script every day, and an audience that came here for the craft.
The daily engine
A new stage, every day
A new 60-second scene drops every day, and everyone performs the same one. Daily practice that doesn’t wait on a scene partner — and never a blank screen.
The rep
One scene. One take. Every day.
Build a body of work while you build the habit.
The guardrail
Healthy by design
Time limits for performers under 18 are built in and automatic, not a setting anyone has to go looking for.
The payout
Real money from real fans
Not an opaque creator fund paying in pennies. Viewers back the takes they love, and that converts to cash.
You don’t need an audition to get your reps in.
Actors get better by doing the work, and most days there is no casting call, no scene partner and no class to do it in. Open the app and the work is already there.
No casting call
Today’s scene is the material.
No scene partner
Play your side. In a two-hander, the other lines are on screen.
No class to book
One minute, any day, wherever you are.
How a day works.
Actors improve by working in front of people. Most days there are no people, and no audition to prepare for. This is the part that fixes that.
Read the scene
A few lines with a situation behind them. Horror on Monday, a breakup on Tuesday. A monologue one day, one side of a two-hander the next. Written to be playable, not to be clever.
Perform it
Record straight to camera with the teleprompter running, so you can stay in it instead of memorising — the same setup as a self-tape, without the deadline. Trim it, keep the take you like, post it.
Find out what landed
Get timestamped feedback on specific moments. See exactly where you held their attention and where you lost it — the direct, honest note you can never get from a mirror.
Practice Locker
Rehearse in private. Post when you’re ready.
Not every take is for an audience. Keep your tries in the locker, run the scene again, and send out only the one you would stand behind.
Private by default
A take stays yours until you decide to post it.
Side by side
Put two takes next to each other and see which one is truer.
Post from the locker
Pick the take you like and post it whenever you choose.
Eight genres. Don’t play the same person every day.
Actors who only play one thing get cast as one thing. Spread your takes across genres and find out what else you can do.
- Drama
- Comedy
- Thriller
- Romance
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
- Classical
- Documentary
Gifts
What a gift is actually worth.
Coins land on the take, not on your profile — so it is the performance that earns, every time. They become points at a fixed rate, and points convert at half a cent each once you pass fifty dollars.
Paid monthly through Stripe, into your own bank account. Performers under 18 earn on the same terms — a parent or legal guardian completes the verification and owns the account the money lands in.
How a payout works
Past it, every point is worth half a cent.
Paid through Stripe, into your own bank account. What you earn depends on what viewers back.
The boring parts, taken seriously.
Sixty minutes, then it stops
Drama students and performers under 18 get a one-hour daily cap and blocked overnight hours, applied from their age without anyone opting in. Rehearsal, not an infinite scroll.
Report and block, everywhere
Every take and every account can be reported or blocked from where you are looking at it, and reports are reviewed by a person.
Your takes stay yours
Playback is signed and expires. A link captured once does not keep working after a take is deleted or an account is closed.
Never training data
We do not use your takes or your writing to train AI models, and we do not sell or license them for anyone else to do so.
In your browser · Beta
Not on an iPhone? Use Act It Up on the web.
Sign in with the same account as the app to watch the feed, perform the daily scene on camera and send gifts. Streamers get an overlay for OBS.
The web version is in beta. Messages, the Practice Locker and Pro features like self-tapes are in the app for now.
iOS first
Built for iOS. Android is next.
The teleprompter follows your voice while you perform, and that leans hard on the camera and speech stack. We built it properly on one platform before spreading it thin across two.
Tomorrow’s scene is already written.
Act It Up is on the App Store. Free on iOS.
On a computer?
Scan with your
iPhone camera.
Do you coach actors?
Start a class, share the join code with your students, and set the scene you want worked on. Your students’ takes stay in the class unless they choose to post them to everyone. Adults only for now — students under 18 can’t join a class yet.
Are you a brand, studio, or acting school?
Every day, everyone on Act It Up performs the same scene. Sponsor one and the day is yours — your film, your show or your school, in front of people who came to perform rather than to scroll.