Speeches App vs PalmCards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Portable teleprompter for speeches
- Organize speaker's notes
- On-screen timing meter
- Import text files
- Sync speeches via iCloud
- Swipeable cue cards for delivery
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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
PalmCards
Craft, practice, and deliver speeches or presentations with ease. This app helps you write content, time your delivery, and provides visual cues to keep you on track. Prepare for any occasion, from weddings to professional talks.
- AI-powered speech writing and editing
- Timed card-by-card rehearsal
- Q&A preparation with likely questions
- Large, glanceable cue cards
- Quiet pacing and volume-button advance
- Text resizing and screen awake mode
- PDF export for backup
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Write it. Rehearse it. Deliver it. PalmCards is the whole job, not just the cards. Getting the words down, practising them against the clock, and standing up on the day without losing your place. The best man speech, the eulogy, the wedding toast, the big pitch, the lesson, the conference talk. WRITE IT Start from a rough idea and get a first draft to react to, in your own words. Already written it? Paste the whole speech in, or import a Word document, and it comes back as clean cards with cue lines. Templates for the occasion: a wedding toast for the best man or maid of honour, a eulogy, a birthday, a graduation, a retirement, plus sales pitches, lessons and conference talks. Tighten a line that rambles, without rewriting the card around it. Or just ask. Tell the AI what you want changed on a card, in your own words, and it rewrites the cue lines. Undo if you preferred them as they were. REHEARSE IT Run it as often as you like. PalmCards times every card, not just the whole talk. See exactly which section ran long, so you know what to trim before the day. Every run is kept, so you can watch the timing settle. Prepare the Q&A too: Likely questions reads your deck and gives you the questions it invites, hardest first, each one a card with cues for the answer. DELIVER IT One card at a time, large and easy to glance at, so your eyes stay on the room and not on a wall of text. Quiet pacing shows you when you are running over, without a loud timer dragging your attention off the room. Swipe or tap to move. Turn on volume-button advance in Settings and a clicker that works as volume keys will move the cards too. The screen stays awake and nothing breaks your flow. Pinch to size the text mid-talk if the light is bad or the lectern is low. Export to PDF for a paper backup, or to print your cards for the day. Yours, on your device. No account needed. Your speeches stay private. PALMCARDS PRO Go further with unlimited AI, Likely questions, every template, and a clean PDF with no PalmCards footer. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial, then AU$39.99/year. Or go monthly at AU$6.99. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://palmcards.app/terms Privacy: https://palmcards.app/privacy Whether it is the speech of your life or just Monday's presentation, PalmCards keeps it calm, clear, and right where your thumb expects it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PalmCards at Free against Speeches App's $4.99. PalmCards also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). Speeches App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (26 vs 1). On ads 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
PalmCards is free to download; Speeches App costs $4.99 up front. PalmCards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Speeches App asks for nothing beyond the download.
PalmCards holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speeches App has 26 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Speeches App ships an update every 2 months, PalmCards every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speeches App | PalmCards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Mental Faculty | Paul Gawman |
Customer experience
Speeches App
PalmCards
In-app purchases
Speeches App
No in-app purchases
PalmCards
- PalmCards Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- PalmCards Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$24.991 Year








