Comparison

NYCUDL Debate Timer vs Bruce Speech

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

NYCUDL Debate Timer

This app provides a straightforward timer designed for debate participants, including debaters, coaches, and judges. It offers specific formats like Circuit PF, NYCUDL Virtual PF, and Parliamentary to enhance debate sessions.

Highlights
  • Debate timer for debaters, coaches, and judges
  • Circuit PF format
  • NYCUDL Virtual PF format
  • Parliamentary format
  • Simple and intuitive interface
Features
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A simple timer for debaters, coaches and judges. Formats include: Circuit PF, NYCUDL Virtual PF and Parliamentary. Enjoy your debates!

About

Bruce Speech

This app provides a comprehensive practice environment for high school speech and debate, featuring event-specific formats, timers that mimic judges, and tools for building speeches. It includes over 300 timeless topics and is available in three languages, all while working offline without ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Event-specific formats
  • Judge-like timers with haptics
  • Speech case builders
  • Offline functionality
  • 300+ timeless topics
  • Multilingual support (EN, ZH, ES)
  • Integrated learning guide
Features
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Bruce Speech is a complete practice room for high school speech and debate — every event, every timer, every draw, in one app that works entirely offline. TWELVE EVENTS, PROPERLY BUILT Extemp. Lincoln-Douglas. Original Oratory. Informative. Public Forum. Policy. World Schools. Dramatic, Humorous, Duo, and Program Oral Interpretation. Congress. Each one knows its own format: the real speech lengths, the real speaking order, the real structure. Lincoln-Douglas runs 1AC through 2AR with cross-examination in the right places. Congress tracks the docket, the sponsor and affirmative/negative cycle, precedence and recency, with a full set of presiding officer tools. A TIMER THAT BEHAVES LIKE A JUDGE Time signals at the intervals you actually get in a round, with sound and haptics, so you learn to feel your grace period instead of watching a clock. Lock your phone or switch apps mid-speech — the timer keeps its place and hands back the right time when you return. A BUILDER FOR EVERY FORMAT Write a speech the way the event is scored. Extemp walks you from attention-getting device through link, significance, thesis, and preview. Oratory shapes an opening into a problem and a call to action. Interp works from theme to cutting to climax. Every finished piece lands in an archive you can reopen, revise, and rehearse against. 300+ TOPICS THAT DON'T EXPIRE Extemp questions, Lincoln-Douglas resolutions, Public Forum and Policy and World Schools motions, oratory and informative starting points, interp themes, and a full congressional docket. Every one is written at the level of the standing question rather than this week's headline — no dates, no officeholders, no single news events. The bank you draw from in October still works in April, and next season. THREE LANGUAGES, ALL THE WAY DOWN English, 简体中文, and Español — not just the menus, but every prompt, every resolution, every motion, every chapter of the guide. BUILT TO LEARN FROM A twelve-chapter guide covers each event, the signal ladder, prep strategy, and the archive — and it reads from the live app, so what it shows you is what you'll actually see in a round. MADE FOR YOUR SCREEN iPhone and iPad, with a sidebar and readable column widths on larger displays. Three looks: Midnight, Daylight, and Chamber. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Bruce Speech has no network code at all. Nothing you write leaves your device, nothing is collected, and everything works on airplane mode in a tournament hallway with no signal. "The first step to making the greatest speech is to open your mouth."

Screenshots

NYCUDL Debate Timer4 screens
Bruce Speech4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: NYCUDL Debate Timer at 5.0 against Bruce Speech's 4.0. NYCUDL Debate Timer also leads on ratings volume (18 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NYCUDL Debate Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 4 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
NYCUDL Debate Timer versus Bruce Speech: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNYCUDL Debate TimerBruce Speech
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNew York City Urban Debate League, Inc.伟 高

Customer experience

NYCUDL Debate Timer

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bruce Speech

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

NYCUDL Debate Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Bruce Speech

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NYCUDL Debate Timer free?
NYCUDL Debate Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bruce Speech free?
Bruce Speech is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, NYCUDL Debate Timer or Bruce Speech?
NYCUDL Debate Timer is rated higher. NYCUDL Debate Timer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Bruce Speech averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do NYCUDL Debate Timer or Bruce Speech have ads?
Neither NYCUDL Debate Timer nor Bruce Speech shows ads.

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