Comparison

Speeches App vs Fireflies

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

Head to head
About

Speeches App

Prepare and deliver speeches with ease using this app. It acts as a portable teleprompter, helping you organize notes, time your delivery, and practice for any occasion. Import text files, sync across devices, and get feedback before you present.

Highlights
  • Portable teleprompter for speeches
  • Organize speaker's notes
  • On-screen timing meter
  • Import text files
  • Sync speeches via iCloud
  • Swipeable cue cards for delivery
Features
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Speeches is an App for preparing and delivering speeches and pitches. Prepare speaker's notes and deliver a great speech — perfectly timed — no matter what the occasion. Be it a wedding speech, sermon, business presentation, or evening at the debating club, navigating your notes is that much easier with Speeches as your portable teleprompter. Prepare your notes directly in Speeches on your iPhone or iPad, or import a text file from Mail or another App (e.g. Dropbox, Files). You can also email your speech to solicit feedback from friends and colleagues, and your speeches sync between devices with iCloud. Speeches helps with your preparation. Organize notes, set a speech duration, and practice to make sure you can finish on time. Having difficulty with a particular section? Jump to any note and continue from there. Once your speech is prepared, it's time to deliver. Speeches presents your notes as easy to navigate cue cards. No more juggling of paper notes, or fiddly scrolling in an App not designed for the pressure of public speaking. Just swipe back and forth. Simple gestures keep you focussed on speaking, and not on negotiating your notes. Speeches goes well beyond paper notes when it comes to keeping track of your time. The onscreen timing meter shows at a glance exactly how far along you are. A second bar shows your progress through the notes. By comparing the two, you can see if you are going too fast or too slow. In short, Speeches is the App you need to write, practice and deliver your next speech with precision and confidence. F E A T U R E S – Universal app optimized for both iPhone and iPad – Keep speeches in sync between your devices with iCloud – Prepare speaker's notes on your iOS devices – Swipe through cue cards to practice your speech – Unique timing meter shows time and progress through notes – Set speech duration down to the second – Import text files from Mail, Files and Dropbox – Split any note in two while editing – Mail your speeches to others – Customize font and font size of notes – Set speech category

About

Fireflies

This AI-powered tool automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes your voice conversations and meetings. It allows you to search through transcripts, extract key information like action items, and collaborate with your team by sharing soundbites and insights. Analyze meeting performance to improve various business processes.

Highlights
  • Automatic meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered search for key topics and action items
  • Meeting summarization in minutes
  • Integration with video conferencing and collaboration apps
  • Conversation intelligence for performance analysis
  • Create and share meeting soundbites
Features
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Fireflies Talk now on mobile. Tap the mic and dictate into any app, in 90+ languages. Unlimited on every plan. Fireflies.ai helps your team transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations. Automatically record and transcribe meetings - Transcribe meetings across several video-conferencing apps, dialers, and audio files. - Easily invite Fireflies.ai notetaker to meetings on your calendar. - Fireflies captures video + audio and generates transcripts in minutes. - Integrates with apps like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, RingCentral, Aircall, and other platforms. Find anything with AI-powered search - Review a 1-hour meeting in 5 minutes. - With 1 click, see action items, tasks, questions, and other key metrics. - Filter and listen to key topics discussed in your meetings. Collaborate with your co-workers - Create soundbites and easily share the most memorable moments from meetings. - Use AskFred to answer questions, summarize key moments, or create content. - Send meeting notes to your favorite collaboration apps like Slack, Notion, Asana, and more. Analyze meetings using Conversation Intelligence - Track speaker talk time, sentiment, monologues, and other key metrics to coach teammates. - Identify objections, competitors, and other topics that you can customize. - Measure performance and improve your sales, recruiting, and internal processes.

Screenshots

Speeches App4 screens
Fireflies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fireflies at Free against Speeches App's $4.99. Fireflies also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). Speeches App's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Fireflies is free to download; Speeches App costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fireflies holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fireflies has 5.4K ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Speeches App's written reviews are positive against 54% of Fireflies's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speeches App ships an update every 2 months, Fireflies every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Speeches App versus Fireflies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeeches AppFireflies
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (26 ratings)4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.4% of reviews54.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings265.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Mental FacultyFireflies.ai

Customer experience

Speeches App

All ratings26 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral3.8%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive29.4%
Neutral14.7%
Negative55.9%

Fireflies

All ratings5,367 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive54.2%
Neutral4.6%
Negative41.2%

Bugs and requests

Speeches App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Fireflies

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes during live recordings
  • Recordings disappearing after upload
  • Inability to log in from iPhone
  • Transcription failures for some meetings

Requested features

4 requests
  • On-device settings for audio controls
  • Automatic meeting title generation
  • Improved summarization of key contributions
  • Standalone login option without calendar access

In-app purchases

None

Speeches App

No in-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Speeches App free?
Speeches App costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fireflies free?
Fireflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Speeches App or Fireflies?
Fireflies is rated higher. Speeches App averages 4.4 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Fireflies averages 4.8 from 5.4K ratings.
Do Speeches App or Fireflies have ads?
Neither Speeches App nor Fireflies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speeches App or Fireflies?
Speeches App ships an update every 2 months, and Fireflies every 8 days. Most recently, Speeches App was updated on November 6, 2026 and Fireflies on November 3, 2026.

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