CIQ vs Verba
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CIQ
This app helps users diagnose and manage life conflicts by categorizing them as either 'broken clock' (manageable) or 'systemic wisdom' (complex). It offers basic tactics for effective conflict resolution based on original research.
- Conflict diagnosis
- Conflict management tactics
- Systemic Wisdom approach
- Conflict Intelligence framework
- Based on original research
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How should you go about addressing the conflicts in your life? It depends. If they are more manageable, you can approach them like a broken clock where you find and fix the problem. This is called Conflict Intelligence. But if they repeatedly resist your best attempts to fix them, they may require an alternative approach, something we call Systemic Wisdom. This simple app based on original research will help you diagnose the type of conflict you are facing and offer some basic tactics for managing them effectively.
Verba
Practice impromptu speaking with AI-driven feedback. Record yourself talking on various topics and receive instant analysis on structure, clarity, and conciseness. Track your progress over time and access articles on public speaking techniques.
- AI-driven speaking feedback
- On-device speech transcription
- Real-time timer and word counter
- Structured feedback on clarity and conciseness
- Progress tracking and score trends
- Public speaking technique articles
- Local data storage for privacy
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Verba turns impromptu speaking from a vague soft skill into a measurable practice. Pick a category (Leadership, Behavioral, Big Picture, Business, Personal Growth, or Education) and you'll get a fresh prompt at your difficulty level. Hit record, talk for sixty seconds, hit stop. Verba transcribes you live, on-device, with a real-time waveform, timer, and word counter. When you finish, you get structured feedback in seconds: scores across structure, clarity, relevance, and conciseness, plus specific strengths to keep, things to work on, and a one-line summary of how the session landed. Every session lands in your history. The Progress tab visualizes your trajectory across 7 days, 30 days, or all-time, with score trends, filler-word counts, words-per-minute, current streak, best session. Sixteen long-form articles cover the actual technique of public and impromptu speaking (frameworks like PREP and STAR, breath control, dealing with stage fright, handling hostile questions, reading a room. Each ends with a drill you can run in the Practice tab. Built for interview prep, public speaking practice, and anyone who's ever been caught off-guard by "so, tell me about yourself." PRIVACY Speech-to-text runs on your device. Your audio never leaves your phone. Only the transcribed text is sent to get feedback, and nothing is stored on the server. Your sessions, scores, and history live locally on your device. FREE No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. Built because it should exist.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Verba at none against CIQ's shown. Verba also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). CIQ's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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 CIQ against 5.0 for Verba. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | CIQ | Verba |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 254 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Coleman | Amogh Singh |
Customer experience
CIQ
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In-app purchases
CIQ
No in-app purchases
Verba
No in-app purchases









