Speech Companion vs Pitchie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speech Companion
This app serves as a study guide for public speaking and communication skills. It offers tools and resources to help users become more comfortable and effective speakers, complementing formal coaching or book learning.
- 4 step outline tool
- Nervousness control techniques
- Patterns of reasoning
- Persuasion strategies
- Motivation matrix
- Speaking clearly exercises
- Feedback guidelines
- Stopwatch with marking
- Video recorder
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Speech Companion is the official app of The Speech Improvement Company, Inc., founded in 1964. Our executive communication coaches help leaders of countries, heads of companies, business professionals, celebrities, and people of all walks of life to be more comfortable and effective when they talk. This is our first public app! We created it as a simple study guide for our clients and those who read our books to keep a few tools handy! Not a client? That's OK, you will likely understand a lot in the app but may want to contact a coach to ask questions. The app is intended to complement learning, not replace it. Whether you’ve read one of our books or have had the pleasure to work with one of our coaches, we’ve included in the app a few common, but incredibly useful, tools you have likely studied with us: • The 4 step outline • Controlling nervousness • Patterns of reasoning • Persuasion • The motivation matrix • Speaking clearly • Guidelines for providing feedback • Stopwatch with marking abilities • Video recorder • Links to recommended readings • Podcast • History of coaching • Watch app companion -------------------- About TSIC The Speech Improvement Company Inc. is the oldest speech coaching and training firm in the United States. Founded in 1964 by the late Dr. Paula Borkum Becker and Dr. Dennis Becker, our coaching team has helped millions of people around the globe, has written best-selling books, and is well-known as the authority in speech communication coaching and training.
Pitchie
This app helps you train your ear to recognize musical pitches. It plays a note, and you must quickly identify it by tapping the correct option. The challenge increases as the timer speeds up, rewarding faster responses.
- Pitch recognition training
- Timed note identification
- Scoring based on speed
- Increasing difficulty
- Interactive gameplay
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Pitchie is a simple app that can help you train your ear in recognizing the correct pitch. The app will play a note, then you have to tap which note that is. Answer fast, as you get more points if you do. The timer continuously gets faster so be alert, and have fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Speech Companion at every 3 days against Pitchie's every 27 months. Speech Companion also leads on device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Speech Companion against 5.0 for Pitchie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Speech Companion ships an update every 3 days, Pitchie every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speech Companion | Pitchie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Speech Improvement Company | Lawrence Velasco |
Customer experience
Speech Companion
Pitchie
In-app purchases
Speech Companion
No in-app purchases
Pitchie
No in-app purchases
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