Frequently Asked Questions
Recording lectures, AI and augmented interviews, memory, pricing, privacy, and how Rehearsal is different.
Getting Started
What is Rehearsal and who is it for?
Rehearsal is a record-and-revise app for students and professionals. It captures your own ideas and voice notes first, then your lectures and meetings; transcribes and organises them; remembers what matters; and turns it all into answers that get you selected. It also runs AI mock interviews and analyses real interviews you record. Built by Gradeless AI, it is available on iOS, Android, and the web.
Is there a free plan, and what does Rehearsal cost?
Yes — Rehearsal is free to start, with no card needed. The free plan includes 10 minutes of daily transcription, AI summaries of every recording, and a couple of AI and augmented interviews each month. Paid plans are Lite at ₹149/month, Pro at ₹349/month (the most popular), and Max at ₹599/month. Every plan can be billed monthly or annually, and annual billing saves about 28%.
What does “record, remember, retrieve, revise” mean?
It is the loop Rehearsal is built around. You record a lecture, meeting, or thought; Rehearsal remembers it by transcribing, summarising, and connecting it to everything else you have saved; you retrieve it later by simply asking your notes a question; and you revise by practising real answers out loud, with AI feedback, before it counts.
What problem does Rehearsal actually solve?
The problem was never access to knowledge — between search and AI, information is everywhere. The problem is recalling the right knowledge at the right moment. We all save a lot — screenshots, PDFs, bookmarks, voice notes — and almost never come back to any of it. Rehearsal closes that gap: it organises everything you capture and surfaces the right piece exactly when it counts, whether that is an interview, a meeting, or an exam. For students and professionals alike, it is the difference between having learned something and being able to use it.
Voice Notes, Lectures & Meetings
Can I use Rehearsal to transcribe lectures and group meetings?
Yes — recording lectures and meetings is the most common way students use Rehearsal. It transcribes the audio, writes a clean summary and key takeaways, and lets you ask questions about the content later. Where free transcription tools tend to give up on a full 60-minute lecture, Rehearsal is built to handle complete sessions.
Can Rehearsal record in the background with the screen off?
Yes, on the Pro and Max plans. Background recording lets you drop your phone in your bag and capture an entire lecture or meeting with the screen off. On the Free and Lite plans, recording happens with the app open.
Do I get the full transcript or just a summary?
The Free plan gives you an AI summary of each recording. Lite and above unlock the full word-for-word transcript plus the summary, and Pro and Max add note templates and speaker tagging, which labels who said what in a meeting or group discussion.
Does Rehearsal store my recordings and voice?
Yes — your voice notes and their transcripts are stored so you can return to and search them. You can delete any note, or your entire account, from inside the app, and deletions are processed within 30 days. Voice-note audio is transcribed by xAI’s Grok and analysed by OpenAI; your content is never used to train any provider’s models. Live AI-interview audio is different: it is streamed in real time during the conversation and is not kept as a recording.
How much can I record on each plan?
Transcription is a daily allowance that resets each day: 10 minutes a day on Free, 60 on Lite, 180 on Pro (about three lectures), and 300 on Max (about five lectures). A lecture is assumed to be roughly 60 minutes and a meeting about 45.
Why should I bother saving voice notes?
Because your best thinking is fragile. The ideas, examples, and lines you come up with across a week are exactly what you need in an interview, a viva, or a meeting — but at the moment it counts, they are almost impossible to recall and organise on the spot. The problem is timing. Rehearsal fixes it: you capture an idea the instant it strikes, and it surfaces the right one at the right moment. The more you save, the better it gets at bringing back what matters.
AI & Augmented Interviews
How do AI mock interviews work?
You pick a company and role, or start from a Skill Brief, then have a live voice conversation with an AI interviewer. It uses DeepProbe technology to adapt its follow-up questions to your actual answers, so no two interviews are the same. Afterwards you get a full report with STAR-framework scores and delivery analysis — pace, pauses, and filler words — plus specific tips on what to improve.
What is an augmented interview?
An augmented interview is a real mock with a friend — one of you interviews the other, with the phone lying on the table. Rehearsal listens, transcribes, and runs the conversation through the same report engine as an AI mock, so you both get the full STAR breakdown, speech analysis, and written feedback on a real exchange, not just a summary. It is the best of both worlds: the realism of practising with a human, plus the analysis a friend could never give you.
Is the full interview report available on the free plan?
Yes — every plan, including Free, gets the full interview report with STAR scores and written feedback. The voice-delivery analysis (pace, pauses, and filler-word identification) is included on the Pro and Max plans.
Can I practise for a specific company or role?
Yes. Rehearsal covers 236 companies across 297 roles in 40+ sectors, from consulting and banking to SaaS, FMCG, and real estate. Each company profile includes recent news, a domain glossary, and recommended Skill Briefs, so your practice is targeted to the role you are aiming for.
Ask Coach & Memory
What is Ask Coach?
Ask Coach is your personal coach that remembers everything you have saved. It searches across your notes, transcripts, and past interviews and answers questions like “what are my blind spots?” or “compare my last three interviews” with specific, cited answers drawn from your own history.
What is memory, and how does it differ by plan?
Rehearsal builds a private memory of what you save and connects the dots across it, which is what makes its answers personal rather than generic. The Free plan keeps 30 days of memory; Lite keeps 90 days; and Pro and Max remember everything, forever.
How does Rehearsal's memory actually work?
Under the hood, Rehearsal does not just store your notes as a list. It reads everything you save — voice notes, uploaded PDFs and files, transcripts, and past interviews — and builds a knowledge graph that links the people, companies, ideas, and experiences across all of it. From that graph our DeepProbe engine surfaces the recurring themes in your thinking and a living picture of you: your strengths, your interests, the examples you reach for, the way you speak. That is what lets Rehearsal connect a voice note from last month, a line in your CV, and an article you saved into one answer in your own words, surface the right idea at the right moment, show you patterns you had not noticed, and — on Pro and Max — hand that context to ChatGPT or Claude through the MCP connector. It gets sharper the more you save.
What is the MCP connector, in plain language?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a secure bridge between Rehearsal and your AI assistant. Switch it on (Pro and Max) and ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP-compatible assistant can reach into Rehearsal and pull your memories — every note, PDF, transcript, and past interview you have saved. So whatever you ask it, it answers with your context instead of generic knowledge. The usual first reaction is that your ChatGPT suddenly seems to know you — and the more you save, the smarter it gets.
Is the memory layer behind Rehearsal open source?
Partly — and deliberately. The memory inside Rehearsal, DeepProbe, is the applied, private version: it reads your notes, files, transcripts, and interviews and builds a personal knowledge graph just for you. The open foundation underneath the same idea is Context Hub — our MIT-licensed, open-source MCP memory server that lets any AI client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity) read from one shared context. Context Hub came out of building Rehearsal, and we open-sourced it so the memory layer is not locked to a single vendor. In short: Context Hub is the open memory layer anyone can self-host; DeepProbe is that same idea turned into your private knowledge graph for interviews and learning. You can read more at tryrehearsal.ai/context-hub.
How Rehearsal Is Different
How is Rehearsal different from Final Round AI?
Final Round AI is a live, in-interview copilot — it feeds you answers in real time during the actual interview. Rehearsal is the opposite: it builds your ability before the room, through deliberate practice — record, remember, revise, and rehearse. Nothing runs during your real interview; you simply walk in genuinely prepared, which is the durable advantage.
Is Rehearsal a replacement for ChatGPT or Claude?
No — Rehearsal makes your AI assistant better. ChatGPT and Claude are powerful, but they start cold: they do not have your lectures, your notes, your past interviews, or your way of saying things, so their answers can feel generic. Rehearsal is where you collect all of that, and its DeepProbe memory connects it into rich, personal context. On the Pro and Max plans, the MCP connector feeds that context straight into ChatGPT and Claude, so the answers come back grounded in your own material and sounding like you, not a stranger.
Can’t I just save everything in ChatGPT or Claude directly?
You can try, but it is a hassle and it does not stick. They cannot record a lecture, their memory is limited and resets between chats, and there is no easy way to keep months of notes, PDFs, and recordings organised and searchable. Rehearsal is built for capture: record (even with the screen off), transcribe, summarise, and keep it forever, with unlimited memory on Pro and Max — then hand that organised context to any assistant through the MCP connector.
How is Rehearsal different from NotebookLM?
NotebookLM is good at answering questions across documents you upload, but it cannot record — you have to bring it the sources. Rehearsal captures them for you: record a lecture or meeting (screen off, on Pro and Max) and it transcribes, summarises, and remembers it automatically. It also keeps an unlimited, persistent memory of everything you save and practises real interview answers with you out loud — things a document question-and-answer tool does not do.
Is Rehearsal a CAT or MBA exam-prep app?
No. CAT and MBA prep apps focus on mock tests, percentiles, and cut-off prediction — exam logistics. Rehearsal is for the spoken and applied parts of getting selected (interviews, GD/PI, viva) and for capturing and recalling what you learn. It complements exam preparation rather than replacing it.
Is Rehearsal based on research, and who designed it?
Yes. Rehearsal is designed by Dr. Shiva Kakkar — PhD from IIM Ahmedabad, VP-AI at Jaipuria Institute of Management and former faculty at XLRI Jamshedpur — and is grounded in his peer-reviewed research on AI in the classroom. The SAGE paper “From Chatbot to Classroom: Developing Critical Thinking and Evaluative Judgment With AI” (Sharma, Kakkar & Agrawal, 2025; Business and Professional Communication Quarterly) argues that AI should make learners think harder, not less. That principle is exactly how Rehearsal’s record-remember-revise loop and its probing AI interviewer are built.
Is Rehearsal a cheating tool?
No — and we are deliberate about that. Many interview AIs are built to feed you answers live and undetected during the real interview. That is cheating, and it does not actually make you better; the moment the tool is gone, so is the performance. Rehearsal is the opposite: it helps you think, practise, and genuinely improve, so you walk in prepared on your own merit. Nothing runs during your interview and there is nothing to hide. We would rather you earn it.
Plans & Payments
What subscription plans does Rehearsal offer?
Rehearsal has four plans: Free (₹0), Lite (₹149/month), Pro (₹349/month, the most popular), and Max (₹599/month). Each can be billed monthly or annually, with annual billing saving about 28%. Higher plans unlock more daily transcription, background recording, full transcripts, speaker tagging, voice-delivery analysis, more interviews, unlimited Ask Coach, full memory, and the MCP connector. You can subscribe through the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, or our website.
How do I cancel my subscription or get a refund?
If you subscribed through Apple or Google Play, manage or cancel the subscription in your device’s settings; refunds for those purchases are handled by Apple or Google directly. For subscriptions purchased on our website, email contact@gradeless.ai and we will review your request on a case-by-case basis.
Your Data & Privacy
Which AI providers does Rehearsal use, and is my data used to train them?
Transcription uses xAI’s Grok; summaries, reports, AI interviews, and Ask Coach use OpenAI and routed models. Every provider operates under a commercial agreement with model training disabled, so your content is never used to train their foundation models. The full list is in our Privacy Policy at tryrehearsal.ai/privacy-policy.
How does Rehearsal protect my data?
Your data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256), authentication tokens are stored securely on your device, and we never sell your personal data to anyone. It is sent to our AI providers only to process what you ask — to transcribe, summarise, or answer — under agreements that forbid using it to train their models. For institutions, we offer isolated, dedicated environments with stricter access controls, so a cohort's data stays walled off. We are also in the process of formal security certification (SOC 2 and ISO 27001). You can read the full Privacy Policy at tryrehearsal.ai/privacy-policy.
How do I delete my account and data?
Open your Profile in the app and tap “Delete Account.” Your account enters a 30-day grace period, so logging back in cancels the deletion; after 30 days, your personal data is permanently removed. You can also request deletion by emailing contact@gradeless.ai.
What permissions does the app need?
Microphone, to record voice notes and interviews; and access to files or photos only when you choose to upload or save a document or image. Rehearsal does not use your location, contacts, or background camera.
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