Astound User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.0% of reviews
Neutral12.5% of reviews
Negative experience36.5% of reviews

~ Based on 104 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Astound Safe?

Astound – Voice & Speech Coach appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Astound is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 1,327 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,327 App Store ratings for Astound.

Is Astound Legit?

Astound – Voice & Speech Coach appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Astound is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Breath-focused speaking app

The app is currently being improved by responsive devs—if you have a replicable issue, reach out through the app, and they are likely to contact you to help you with your issue. On the iPad, the app does crash fairly often, but not in the middle of content, so it is easy enough to simply reopen it and continue. It does not seem to lose progress when it does this.

Content wise, the app focuses on breathing. This is an underserved area of public speaking, and if you don’t have proper breath control, it is impossible to be a fully effective speaker. Hopeful speakers who have a great deal of vocal training via singing may find this less useful, but those who don’t may consider it a must have for the breath and specificity of the exercises.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the review! And for pointing to the importance of breathing exercises. Appreciate it a lot. Please give your iPad experience another try. The bug was found and gently squashed.

App crashes right away

I just got the app and after 3 screens, it crashed. Tried again and same result. I won't be using this!

Costs money

Speech and learning to converse better should never be strictly for people who can afford a monthly subscription.

You care about profit, not people.

Great for improving your speech in any situation!

I am using this app to be better at speaking with confidence and clarity for my job. I have noticed a difference in the recordings of my voice. This will benefit anyone who wants to improve their speech, tone, conviction and clarity. I highly recommend this to anyone.

didn’t work w/o money

couldn’t do a single lesson to test the app without paying

Can’t use without premium

Better off getting an actual speech therapist

App crashes… so I'm reluctant to pay

Plz fix the issues
Looks like I'm not the only one

Can’t use without premium?

I downloaded the app, and it looks great, but I can’t seem to use it at all unless I pay for premium. Can’t tell if this is just a bug? But every single aspect of the app is locked. Why even offer a free download if there isn’t even a basic version?

Going around in circles

Hello, this is a response to Robin’s response to my earlier review. Robin, you suggested I send you an email via the contact us button. That’s what I did and it did not get answered. In your response, you also provided a link to contact the developer, which goes to a Facebook page that has not been updated since 2019. I would be willing to try the app with a monthly subscription. However, as noted in all my previous correspondence, there does not seem to be any way to actually get a monthly subscription.
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Response from developer

Hello, this is a followup response to your latest message. There seems to be an issue with our email forwarding that you have pointed out. Please use my personal email here for the time being: robincgreenwood@gmail.com. I also found the bug that you encountered with the selection of a monthly subscription, and will have that fixed within the next release. I'm so sorry for the inconvenience the delayed responses has caused you, and hope to make it up to you. Best, Robin --------- Thanks for your feedback! My sincere apologies that two emails seem to have gone unanswered. If you send an email to us directly from the app under “profile”, that will make sure it reaches me directly and I’ll attend to it personally asap. If you believe there was a mixup in the plan, you can also request a refund at this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084 Thanks for your patience! Robin (Founder, CEO)

Trash

Trash, the thing is mostly repetitive videos. They offered me their 1 week trial, I forgot to cancel it before the trial end, instead of charging me for the 1 month for $9.99, they went and charge me a 1 year plan for $49.99.

Just a bunch of physical exercise videos and hardly any speech training.

I downloaded this to give it a try after using a couple other speech coaching apps. You can access 1 baseline recording which has you practice a speaking a single sentence. Then anything else you want to do requires a premium membership. I did the trial thinking if I liked the features, I would subscribe. I can’t believe you have to have a premium membership to watch 1min modules on people doing random physical exercises like deep breathing and massaging your jaw - something you can easily read online or YouTube for FREE. I went through them thinking at the end there would be some speech practice. No. It’s another recording where you only say one sentence. This method will never help you improve your tempo, pitch, or projection. I cancelled the trial and deleted it after 1 day. Orai might be a better tool if you’re fine with the price.
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It doesn’t let you cancel the subscription…

..even though the app has the most recent update. Not that it should matter.

$49/month is outrageous!

I don’t know what to say programming issue or a glitch but I keep getting charged the yearly amount every month.

I’ve already contacted my bank to report fraud.

Could be a great app once they fix the theft.

free trial doesn’t work

if you select one month and continue to process your payment, it charges you for a whole year and doesn’t include the free trial.

Can’t even try it out

There is nothing I can try out without the app asking me to sign up for pro. They are basically catfishing people to download the app for “free” so you can pay for everything once downloaded. Seems like a scam

Does not work -crashes

Unfortunately this app is outdated and notfunctional

Stuck at Baseline Recording

App begins with a baseline recording. I keep doing mine over and over and app doesn’t go anywhere or progress. Not a good beginning.

DATA SCAM?

This app is collecting data from copy&paste when you launch it.

Don’t download don’t buy

This app is an absolute joke. How the **** am I supposed to improve my speech when everything is locked? Just a cheap cash grab and attempt to get you to buy the premium. A three day trial isn’t enough to even see slight improvement or convince me to buy it

It has a bug

It’s complete recording touch doesn’t work. I tried many times with many ways but it doesn’t complete my recording.