Skill Levels vs Fast Speak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skill Levels
Assess and classify your English language skills into elementary, intermediate, or advanced levels. This app offers five types of tests covering grammar, business English, synonyms, idioms, and common errors to help you improve and track your progress.
- Grammar exercises
- Business English tests
- Synonym expansion
- Idiomatic expressions
- Common error identification
- Progress tracking
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The "Skill Levels: ESL/EFL Tests" is designed to assess your mastery of the English language and classify your skills into one of three levels: elementary, intermediate, or advanced. This application provides a comprehensive approach to improving your English skills and helps you progress in your language learning journey. This package features five different types of tests: 1. English Grammar Exercises to improve your language skills. 2. ESL Business English Tests to help you excel in the business world. 3. English Synonym Worksheets to expand your vocabulary and synonym knowledge. 4. Idiomatic Expressions in English to enhance your understanding of everyday expressions. 5. Common Errors in English Usage to help you avoid common mistakes. Each test contains ten questions with three or four possible answers. If the test is focused on common errors, you'll need to find the error in the sentence before choosing the correct word from the options. At the end of each test, your score will be evaluated, giving you the opportunity to track your progress and strive for improvement.
Fast Speak
Improve your English speaking skills with this ad-free application. It offers hundreds of engaging conversations on various topics, all read by native American English speakers and professionally recorded with high-quality audio.
- Hundreds of conversation topics
- Native American English audio
- Professional recording quality
- Ad-free experience
- Improve speaking skills
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ESL Fast Speak is an ads-free app for people to improve their English speaking skills. In this app, there are hundreds of interesting, easy conversations of different topics for you to choose from. All the dialogues were read by native speakers of American English, and recorded by professionals, The dialogues are interesting, and the quality of the audio is high.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skill Levels at 4.7 against Fast Speak's 3.5. Skill Levels also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 25 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). Fast Speak's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Skill Levels sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Fast Speak asks for nothing beyond the download.
Skill Levels holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skill Levels has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Skill Levels ships an update every 3 months, Fast Speak every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skill Levels | Fast Speak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thanh Vu Truong | Ron Lee |
Customer experience
Skill Levels
Fast Speak
In-app purchases
Skill Levels
- Elementary Level Package #2$0.99
- English Synonyms Intermediate Level$0.99
- Advanced Level Package #1$0.99
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- English Synonyms Tests$1.99
- English Idioms Tests$1.99
- English Errors Tests$1.99
- Grammar Elementary Level$3.99
- Remove iAds$3.99
- Grammar Advanced Level$5.99
- Business English Tests$7.99
- Grammar Intermediate Level$9.99
Fast Speak
No in-app purchases
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