Audiences
Deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons, non-native speakers, and anyone who loses a line to a cough or a bad seat.
Sit with your group. Nobody is moved to a caption section.
Live captions for theater
Every seat can follow every word.
Bookholder puts your show's words on your audience's own phones: in sync with the performance, in the language and the size each person chooses. No app. No account. No special seats.
Now in closed beta: sign-up is by invitation. Have a code? Sign up your theater. Need one? Request an invite.
The audience view, as it looks from the seats.
Almost no friction
Scan. Read. Make it yours.
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Scan the code
Point a phone at the QR code in your program or on a lobby sign. Prefer typing? Enter the short show code.
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The words appear
The page opens in the phone's browser and joins the show at once. Latecomers see the lines they missed.
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Make it comfortable
Size, colors, language, notes and screen glow are one tap away, and the phone remembers them.
- No app to install
- No account
- No special seats
- No hardware to borrow
Who it's for
Built for everyone in the house.
Captions shouldn't be a separate performance with its own seating chart. They should be there for whoever finds them useful.
Theaters
Access at every performance, with no hardware to buy, charge or hand out.
Your colors and logo on every screen, run from a simple teleprompter.
Creative teams
Captions that follow your script, with each character set apart by color and shape.
Translations, director's notes, dramaturgical footnotes and audio description travel with every line.
Planned A live sign-language stream, alongside the captions.
In the lobby and on the stage
What people are saying
Audiences, theaters and the people who run the show.
[A sentence or two from an audience member about following the show.]
[Name][Audience member, Theater] [A sentence or two from a theater manager about what changed.]
[Name][Role, Theater] [A sentence or two from an operator or director.]
[Name][Role, Theater]
Theaters using Bookholder
- Your theater here
- Theater name
- Theater name
From the lobby
- Coming soon[Story or how-to title]
- Coming soon[Story or how-to title]
Ready to caption your next show?
Create your theater, add a show, and share the code. Bookholder is in closed beta, so you'll need an invite: ask for one and you can be live this week.
Not ready? Try the live demo, or sign in.