VOA Learning English (+Tests) vs Bruce Speech
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VOA Learning English (+Tests)
Master English with daily updated audio and video lessons, grammar tips, pronunciation guides, and vocabulary builders. Track your progress with quizzes and worksheets. Designed for all learning levels.
- Daily updated lessons
- Audio and video lessons
- Everyday grammar tips
- Pronunciation guidance
- News vocabulary
- Lesson worksheets
- Vocabulary quizzes
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VOA Learning English (+Tests): Master English Daily! Unlock your full potential in learning English with the "VOA Learning English (+Tests)" app! Designed for learners of all levels, our app offers a comprehensive and interactive approach to mastering English through engaging audio and video lessons. Here’s why VOA Learning English (+Tests) stands out from the crowd: KEY FEATURES: • Daily Updated Lessons: Stay ahead with fresh, up-to-date content every day. Our lessons cover a wide range of topics to keep your learning journey exciting and relevant. • Free access to all VOA English learning lessons (Lesson for Today, English in a Minute, Everyday Grammar, News Words, How to Pronounce, etc.). The lessons list are updated frequently. • Audio and Video Lessons: Enhance your listening and comprehension skills with high-quality audio and video lessons. Learn at your own pace with content that suits your learning style. • Everyday Grammar: Improve your grammar skills with daily tips and practice exercises that make learning grammar fun and easy. • How to Pronounce: Perfect your pronunciation with guided lessons. Clear and concise instructions help you speak English confidently and correctly. • News Words: Expand your vocabulary with words from the latest news. Understand their meanings, usage, and context to use them effectively in conversations. • Lesson by Level: The lessons are classified by level from Beginning, Intermediate to Advanced in order that you easily find the lessons matching your level to learn. • Record your speaking English & listen your recordings again to identify wrong pronunciation to correct. • Learn Time Reminder: Stay consistent in your learning with customizable reminders. Set your preferred learning times and never miss a lesson again. EXCLUSIVE FEATURES: • Lesson Worksheets: Reinforce your learning with comprehensive worksheets for each lesson. Practice makes perfect, and our worksheets provide the extra practice you need. • Vocabulary Quiz: Test your knowledge and track your progress with interactive quizzes. Challenge yourself and see how much you’ve learned with fun and engaging quizzes. • Play games like Crossword Puzzle, Hunger Game, Word Search, Word Hunt, Flashcard, etc. to learn English with fun, improve memory, and strengthen vocabulary • Pretty UI, simple and user-friendly Join millions of learners around the world who trust VOA Learning English (+Tests) to help them achieve their language goals. Download the app now and start your journey towards English fluency today!
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.
- Event-specific formats
- Judge-like timers with haptics
- Speech case builders
- Offline functionality
- 300+ timeless topics
- Multilingual support (EN, ZH, ES)
- Integrated learning guide
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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."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: VOA Learning English (+Tests) at 4.7 against Bruce Speech's 4.0. VOA Learning English (+Tests) also leads on ratings volume (187 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Bruce Speech's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
VOA Learning English (+Tests) holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VOA Learning English (+Tests) has 187 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | VOA Learning English (+Tests) | Bruce Speech |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (187 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 187 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lien Khanh | 伟 高 |
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VOA Learning English (+Tests)
Bruce Speech
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VOA Learning English (+Tests)
No in-app purchases
Bruce Speech
No in-app purchases
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