# Steady — Hard Conversations — Practice before it's real > Practice before it's real (iPhone/iPad app by simbarashe Kowo.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steady-hard-conversations/id6795124810 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [simbarashe Kowo](https://appshunter.io/developer/1559541684) - Category: Education, Business - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 40 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-14 - Data updated: 2026-10-09 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steady-hard-conversations/id6795124810/reviews.md ## What is Steady? No script to memorise. Practice for whatever they say. Steady is a flight school for hard conversations. You speak out loud. Someone answers back, in a real voice, in real time. They have a position and they hold it. And you watch what your words cost while you are still saying them. START WITH A BASELINE Eight questions about how these conversations actually feel, then five minutes in a room picked for the seat you are in. The read-out puts what you said about yourself next to what the run showed: what is working, what you might not be seeing, and where to start. A STRUCTURE TO LEAN ON Five phases - pre-flight, take-off, cruise, turbulence, landing - and every run is marked against them in words, never a score. Marks read what you did. There is no script to memorise. A PLAN FOR YOUR SEAT Six weeks, built from your baseline and the conversations your seat finds riskiest. Two sessions a week on the days you choose, five to eight minutes each, ending in a proficiency check. THE ROOM You talk. She answers. She interrupts, goes quiet, gets defensive, softens. Her state is drawn above her and it moves while you speak, so you see how she takes each sentence as you say it. Choose how hard it goes and the room draws its own curveballs, hidden until they happen. If you are somewhere you cannot speak, type instead: same room, same instruments. TAKE IT BACK Pull back one beat and say it differently. The two attempts run side by side. THE FLIGHT LOG Not a grade. What worked, the moment it turned, and the sentence it turned on - scrub back and hear yourself say it. Then what they walked away thinking, in their words. PROGRESS Since your baseline: how long you take to get to the point, how often you hedge, how long you can sit inside a silence, and the blind spots closing. LEARN Eleven short courses on the conversations new managers find hardest, each with articles, talks and books picked for them. Read one, then practise it. Pass a checkride to earn the rating. OVER A HUNDRED ROOMS Feedback - the friend who was your peer last month. The one who was passed over for your job. Your strongest performer, who talks over everyone. Boundaries - 11pm Slack. A report who goes around you. Friday at five, again. Saying no - no to your boss. No promotion this cycle. Carrying a decision you did not make. More for your line of work. Or bring your own: describe the conversation you are dreading and Steady builds that room. A REAL ONE COMING UP Prepare for it, practise it, then say how it went. Steady checks in when you asked it to. PRIVACY, BECAUSE YOU ARE NAMING REAL PEOPLE Your audio is never saved. It is processed as you speak and then it is gone. Your transcripts stay on this phone, encrypted. Real names never leave it. When you name a colleague, that name is replaced with a placeholder before anything is sent. There is no account, so there is nothing of yours on a server to lose. The counterpart is played by a language model, in character, and the debrief is written the same way. What you say in a run is sent as text - names already replaced - so they have something to answer. It is not used to train anyone's model. WHAT THIS IS NOT Not therapy, not HR advice, and not a script to memorise. If what you describe needs reporting rather than practice, Steady stops and says so. STEADY PRO The baseline flight, every room, an hour of practice a week, phase marks, your plan, Progress, proficiency checks, Take It Back, Compare Runs and Drills. The self-check and the whole library are free. $59.99 a year, with the first 7 days free, or $9.99 a month. Prices in your local currency are shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms: https://steadyyy.com/terms Privacy: https://steadyyy.com/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Steady Pro Yearly | $59.99 | per year | | Steady Pro Monthly | $9.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.1.3 — 2026-10-06 Bug fix: tapping "Your plan" or "How you think you do" on the Home screen opened a page with no way back. Both now open the right screen, and the eight questions have a close button. Also in this update: conversations flow more naturally, and a proper goodbye ends the practice. Ending a paused practice, or leaving right after the conversation ends, now keeps your results. Your Bring Your Own prep carries into the practice, and the wording is clearer across the app. ### 2.1.1 — 2026-09-30 Bug fixes and UX improvements. ### 2.1 — 2026-09-27 Minor bug fix and UI update. ### 2.0 — 2026-09-22 We are requesting an expedited review for version 2. MAJOR LOGIC BUG FIXES. The AI was getting stuck in a loop during conversations, causing chat to go of for hours, most users will be affected by this and the AI credits usage is currently going through the roof. Because existing users are currently affected by this issue, we would greatly appreciate an expedited review of this bug-fix release. YOUR BASELINE FLIGHT Eight questions about how hard conversations actually feel, then five minutes in a room picked for your seat. You get a read-out: what is working, what you might not be seeing, and where to start. THE FLIGHT PATH Every run is marked phase by phase - pre-flight, take-off, cruise, turbulence, landing. Marks in words, never a score, and always read from what you did rather than from a script. YOUR PLAN Six weeks, built from your seat and your baseline. Two sessions a week on the days you pick, five to eight minutes each, ending in a proficiency check. PROGRESS Since your baseline: the habits that moved, the blind spots closing, and the conversations you used to avoid. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-14 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Steady | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Rehearse - Hard Conversations](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rehearse-hard-conversations/id6812669011) | — | Free | Education | | [ManagerGym](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/managergym/id6803929582) | — | Free | Education | | [Rehearsd: Talk With Confidence](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rehearsd-talk-with-confidence/id6801181721) | — | Free | Education | | [The Talk Ahead - Speaking](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-talk-ahead-speaking/id6804394356) | — | Free | Education | | [WonBul App](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wonbul-app/id6480511777) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Education | | [EQ Trainer — AI Talk Coach](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eq-trainer-ai-talk-coach/id6761092142) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Education | ## More apps by simbarashe Kowo - [SignBFF](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/signbff/id6753321025) - [PrayerSisters](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/prayersisters/id6761209227) - [Contour: Jawline & Posture](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/contour-jawline-and-posture/id6788520829) All apps by simbarashe Kowo: https://appshunter.io/developer/1559541684 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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