Communication Mirror vs Readholic

Communication Mirror turns your iPhone into a private practice room for speaking. Record yourself talking, then review the playback the way an audience actually experiences you — what you said, how you sounded, and how you moved — so you can fix one habit at a time and watch it stick. WHY IT MATTERS You rarely get to see yourself the way other people do. Communication Mirror gives you that mirror. Instead of guessing whether you rambled, slouched, or filled the silence with "um," you watch the evidence and decide for yourself what to keep and what to change. Reading your own words back is often the moment it clicks: the pause you did not notice, the point you made twice, the sentence that landed. Most speaking advice is vague and overwhelming — work on everything at once and you change nothing. Communication Mirror flips that. You choose one focus, practice it across a few takes, and watch a single habit actually move. Whether you are getting ready for a presentation, an interview, a difficult conversation, or just want to sound more like yourself, the loop is the same: record, review, refine. HOW IT WORKS Record a short video of yourself speaking. While you record, on-device body-pose detection follows your posture and gestures, and a thumbs up gesture lets you flag a moment in real time so you can jump straight back to it later. Your speech is transcribed on device, so you can read back exactly what you said, word for word. Then you run a structured self-review across three lenses. Listen to how you sounded. Watch how you looked. Read the transcript of what you actually said. As you go, you tag the points you want to work on — the rushed opening, the fidget, the filler word — and turn them into something you can practice. Pick one focus to improve at a time, record again, and let your streak and progress stats keep you honest. Set a gentle reminder and practice becomes a habit instead of a someday. WHAT YOU GET • Video recordings you can replay and review whenever you want • On-device pose tracking and a thumbs-up gesture to mark key moments • On-device transcription so you can read back every word • A guided self-review for auditory, visual, and transcript feedback • One focus at a time, with streaks, progress stats, and reminder notifications PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your practice is nobody else's business. Recording, pose detection, gesture detection, and transcription all run on your device. There is no account to create and no sign-in. Your videos, transcripts, notes, and progress are stored locally on your iPhone and are never uploaded to a server. PRICING Communication Mirror starts with a 7-day free trial. After the trial, you can continue with a subscription at $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year. Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled; you can manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. LANGUAGES English. PRIVACY All recording, analysis, and transcription happen on your device. Your data stays on your iPhone in local storage and is not sent to any server, and there is no account or login. You can read our full privacy policy at https://github.com/bibait/Speak-Mirror-Privacy-Policy TERMS We follow the Apples EULA-Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions: bas.bilal@icloud.com

Read difficult material without breaking your reading flow. Readholic is a PDF and EPUB reader built to help you understand and retain what you read — textbooks, research papers, technical books, classics. When a passage is unclear, select it and tap Explain. Ask follow-up questions, turn the same material into flashcards or quizzes, and review it with spaced repetition until it sticks. NEW IN 1.1 • Your own AI key: a one-time purchase lets you use your own API key from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini (where available) or DeepSeek for AI explanations, follow-ups and flashcards. No AI service is included; your provider bills you for its use. Your key is stored only on your device, and these requests don't count toward Readholic's plan limits (fair-use limits apply). • Nine reading themes: White, Linen, Sepia, Sage, Mist, Contrast, Dusk, Dark and Midnight. Figures and images adapt to the theme. • New reading fonts: Literata, EB Garamond, IM Fell English, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Lexend and OpenDyslexic. OpenDyslexic and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next can help readers with dyslexia or low vision. • Choose the highlight color that marks the passages AI has explained for you. • A redesigned AI Explanation sheet with a cleaner, margin-note look. READ AND UNDERSTAND • Read your PDF and EPUB books and documents in one place. • Select a difficult passage and get an AI explanation without leaving the page. • Ask follow-up questions while the original text stays in front of you. • Every explanation is saved with its highlight, right where you found it. • Works with real academic material, including mathematical notation. FIND SOMETHING TO READ • Import your own files, or download public-domain classics from Project Gutenberg. • Get free open textbooks from OpenStax, converted for comfortable reading. • Read research papers from arXiv as clean, reflowable text. TURN READING INTO STUDY • Generate flashcards from a selected passage or a whole chapter. • Quiz yourself with multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and written answers graded by AI. • Review with spaced repetition — due cards wait for you in the Study tab. LEARNING MEMORY Readholic keeps a short summary of the concepts you have studied so future explanations can build on what you already know instead of starting from zero. You stay in control: view, disable, or reset it in Settings at any time. LEARN WITH THE COMMUNITY • Discover flashcard decks shared by other learners. • Search by book, subject, or topic, and filter by language. • Download decks to study in Readholic, rate the useful ones, and thank their creators. • Share your own decks. Only the cards you publish become public — never your books, notes, or reading history. YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR CHOICE • The app speaks English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, Korean, and Arabic. • Choose the language of explanations and flashcards independently of the book: read an English textbook, learn in Spanish, Japanese, or Arabic. Readholic is for students, professionals, researchers, and lifelong learners who want more than summaries. Read → Explain → Understand → Flashcards → Quiz → Review → Remember You can start free. Some AI and study features require Readholic Pro (auto-renewing subscription). Using your own AI key requires a separate one-time purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://paroaria.ai/readholic/privacy/