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 mobile app for students and professionals who need the right words at the right moment. It combines five sourced daily Signals, your voice notes, saved links, PDFs, screenshots, YouTube transcripts, CV and previous practice to build useful answers and talking points. You can then practise the answer with AI or another person and review what to improve. Built by Gradeless AI, it is available on iOS and Android.
Is there a free plan, and what does Rehearsal cost?
Yes. Record and revisit your thoughts, with limited access to Ask and interview practice. Unlimited consumer app pricing is $3.99 reduced to $2.99/month, or $39.99 reduced to $29.99/year, or ₹399 reduced to ₹299/month, or ₹3,999 reduced to ₹2,999/year. Subscribe in the iOS or Android app. Your store shows the final price, renewal terms and any eligible offer before you confirm.
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?
You can read the news, save useful material and have a good idea, then still go blank when someone asks what you think. Rehearsal helps you prepare before that moment. It brings the relevant pieces together, uses your own examples and point of view, and helps you build and practise the answer for an interview, exam, meeting or difficult conversation.
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?
Background recording is an Unlimited capability. Free includes voice recording, transcription and playback, with allowances shown in the app.
Do I get the full transcript or just a summary?
Free includes recording and transcription. Unlimited adds longer recordings with complete transcripts, AI summaries, takeaways and action items.
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?
Recording allowances depend on your plan and are shown in the app. Unlimited supports longer voice notes with complete transcripts.
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?
No. Free shows only Days recorded in analytics. Unlimited unlocks interview reports, voice-delivery analysis, and every current analytics and progress view.
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 searches across your notes, transcripts, saved material and past interviews. You can ask for a specific answer, talking point, draft or comparison, and it shows which of your sources support the response.
What is memory, and how does it differ by plan?
Rehearsal uses your saved material to help you prepare answers with your own examples. Free includes recording, transcription and playback. Unlimited adds longer recordings, summaries, Ask across saved material and MCP access.
How does Rehearsal's memory actually work?
Under the hood, Rehearsal does not just store your notes as a list. It reads what 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 recurring themes in your thinking and a living picture of you: your strengths, interests, examples, and the way you speak. That is what lets Rehearsal connect a voice note, a line in your CV, and an article into one answer in your own words. Unlimited unlocks complete captures, connected analysis, and the current connector capabilities.
What is the MCP connector, in plain language?
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a secure bridge between Rehearsal and your AI assistant. With Unlimited, compatible assistants can use the notes, PDFs, transcripts, and past interviews you choose to save, so answers can draw on your context instead of generic knowledge.
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, notes, past interviews, or way of saying things. Rehearsal is where you collect that material. Unlimited unlocks the current connectors that can make compatible assistants useful with your context.
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 and there is no easy way to keep months of notes, PDFs, and recordings organised and searchable. Rehearsal is built for capture and rehearsal; Unlimited unlocks full transcripts, summaries, connected analysis, and the current assistant connectors.
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 voice on your phone, and Unlimited unlocks full transcripts, summaries, connected analysis, and spoken interview practice.
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, Vice President, Artificial Intelligence 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
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Record and revisit your thoughts, with limited access to Ask and interview practice. Your available allowances are shown in the app. AI summaries, longer recordings, YouTube and web capture, and detailed analytics need Unlimited.
How much does Rehearsal Unlimited cost?
Discounted consumer app pricing is ₹399 reduced to ₹299/month, or ₹3,999 reduced to ₹2,999/year. USD pricing is $3.99 reduced to $2.99/month, or $39.99 reduced to $29.99/year. Both currencies cover the same consumer app plan. Subscribe in the iOS or Android app. Your store shows the final price, renewal terms and any eligible offer before you confirm.
What does Unlimited unlock?
Unlimited includes longer recordings with complete transcripts, AI summaries and action items, YouTube and web capture, Ask across saved material, detailed analytics, interview feedback and MCP access.
Does this cover simulations and institutional voice journaling?
These prices are for individual subscriptions to the Rehearsal consumer app. For simulations or voice journaling for a class, team or institution, contact our sales team at support@gradeless.ai.
Where can I check my final price and renewal terms?
Subscribe in the iOS or Android app. Your store shows the final price, renewal terms and any eligible offer before you confirm.
Is the pricing already available to buy?
Yes. Free and Unlimited are available through the Rehearsal app on the App Store and Google Play. Subscription management and payment are handled by Apple or Google on your phone.
Can I cancel anytime or get a refund?
You can cancel from your device subscription settings. Purchases made through the App Store or Google Play are refunded under Apple or Google policies.
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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