SlateMate questions, answered.

SlateMate is an iPhone app for actors that helps you get ready for self-tapes and auditions, and learn from each one. It puts a pre-audition check-in, line learning, an AI scene partner, Slate the AI voice coach and an audition journal in one place. It’s in testing on TestFlight now, with an App Store launch planned for December 2026.

SlateMate is built to help you walk into every audition ready. Before you tape, a one-minute check-in gives you a short plan. Learn your lines in five rounds, then rehearse with an AI scene partner (18+). After each audition, a quick reflection helps you see what worked, and Insights spots your patterns over time. Booking is up to casting, but your preparation is up to you, and that’s what SlateMate is for.

SlateMate’s Learn your lines takes you through five short rounds, each with fewer cues than the last. Add photos of your sides or a PDF (reading them uses SlateMate’s AI features), check the lines SlateMate reads, and tap your character. Then you work through Understand, Fill the gaps, Build the line, First letters and Cold cue. You rate yourself in the last round, so you decide when a line is solid.

Yes. SlateMate’s scene partner uses AI voices to read the other characters while you say your lines. Your iPhone listens for your cue on the phone itself, so the scene moves at your pace. Say “Hey Slate” mid-scene to ask for changes, like slower pacing or a longer pause, and if you hide your lines, call “Line!” when you need one. The voices are AI, and the app labels them. The scene partner’s voices are for people 18 and older.

Slate is SlateMate’s AI acting coach, a voice you can talk to. Talk with him about your auditions, callbacks, classes, goals and whatever’s been hard lately. He listens first and gets to know you, and he can do things in the app for you: add an audition you tell him about (you tap Approve), help you add the sides, mark an audition as sent, tell you what’s coming up, open the right screen, put a breathing exercise or affirmations on your screen, or get a scene ready to rehearse. Slate and the scene partner are AI, not real people, and the app says so. Slate is for adults 18 and older, and he isn’t a therapist.

SlateMate gives you a few calm, practical tools before you tape. A check-in takes about a minute and asks about your nerves, your energy and how well you know the material, then gives you a short plan. You can follow guided breathing exercises, read affirmations, or talk it through with Slate. These are preparation tools, not medical care or therapy.

SlateMate’s Journal is where you log each audition, whether it’s a self-tape, in person or virtual, with your sides, and reflect on it in a few taps. A month view shows all your auditions, past and coming up, day by day. After three reflections, Insights starts showing patterns in what helps you do your best work. Insights includes notes written by AI, so it needs AI features turned on.

Yes. SlateMate uses outside AI services for features such as the scene partner’s voices, Slate, reading your sides, line suggestions, Insights, prep plans and “Hey Slate” requests. The app asks the first time you use an AI feature, with one checkbox, and nothing goes to an outside AI service until you tick it. You can turn AI features off any time in Account, and the privacy policy names each service.

SlateMate doesn’t record your calls with Slate or your voice in a rehearsal, but some features send what you say to an outside AI service. If you turn on “Save my transcripts” in Account, the words of your chats with Slate (never the audio) are kept with your account. In a rehearsal, your iPhone listens for your cue on the phone itself, and the sound stays there. When a “Hey Slate” request needs more than the phone can do, the words you said are sent as text, and if you ask Slate a question, a live call with him opens. During a call with Slate, your voice streams live to an outside AI service while you talk.

No. SlateMate doesn’t use your journal, tapes, sides or anything you say to train AI models. The outside AI services we use either don’t train on what apps like SlateMate send them, or let us switch that off, and we have. The privacy policy has the details. We also don’t sell your information, show ads or track you across other apps and websites.

Yes. You can delete a single audition, a set of sides, a prep plan or your whole account right inside the app. Deleting your account permanently removes your account and everything in it, including your files, and it can’t be undone. Copies can stay in our database backups for about 7 days, and an outside AI service may keep what it received for up to 30 days for safety checks. The privacy policy has the details.

SlateMate is in testing on TestFlight for iPhone now, and the App Store launch is planned for December 2026. SlateMate is iPhone only for now, and we haven’t announced an Android version. To hear when it’s out, add your email on our homepage. You’ll get emails about SlateMate only, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

SlateMate’s pricing hasn’t been announced yet. We’ll share it at launch, planned for the App Store in December 2026. SlateMate is in testing on TestFlight now, so details can still change. If you’d like to hear when pricing and the launch date are final, add your email on our homepage, and we’ll write to you about SlateMate only.

SlateMate is for people 13 and older. Slate, the AI voice coach, and the scene partner’s AI voices are for people 18 and older, and the app asks you to confirm you’re 18 or older before you use either. If you’re 13 to 17, you can still use Prep (check-ins, breathing, affirmations and Learn your lines), the Journal and Insights.

No. Slate is an AI coach, not a therapist, and SlateMate is a preparation tool, not a health or medical service. Slate can help you talk through audition nerves, take a breathing break or get a scene ready, but he can’t diagnose or treat anything. If you’re struggling with anxiety or your mental health, please talk to a doctor or a qualified professional. If you’re in crisis or thinking about hurting yourself, in the US call or text 988, in the UK call Samaritans on 116 123, or call your local emergency number.