Speech Speed SDND vs Dictalus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speech Speed SDND
Measure your real-time speaking pace for presentations, interviews, or personal awareness. It tracks your live speech, saves a profile, and compares your pace to your own baselines. Optional AI analysis provides feedback on speaking speed.
- Live speech speed tracking
- Current WPM display
- Session average WPM
- Personal speech calibration
- Speed trend detection
- Optional AI analysis
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Speech Speed Meter helps you measure how fast you speak in real time. Use it for presentations, teaching, interview prep, communication practice, and personal awareness. The app tracks your live speaking pace, saves a personal profile, and compares your speech to your own slow, normal, and fast baseline. Features • Live speech speed tracking • Current WPM display • Full session average WPM • Personal calibration for Slow, Normal, and Fast speech • Manual speed profile settings • Speed trend detection • Optional AI analysis for speaking pace feedback • iPhone and iPad support AI Analysis AI analysis is optional. When enabled, recent speech analysis may use Grok/xAI cloud services depending on your selected AI provider settings. Privacy Speech Speed Meter uses microphone and speech recognition to measure speaking pace. Core speech speed measurement runs locally in the app. Optional AI analysis may send recent transcript data and pace metrics to a configured AI provider.
Dictalus
Practice your speaking skills in a private environment. Get scored on pace, filler words, and pauses to improve your delivery. Offers guided modules and drills for real-life scenarios like interviews and presentations.
- Private speaking practice gym
- Scored feedback on pace, fillers, pauses
- Guided curriculum with 7 modules
- Rehearse specific moments like interviews
- Industry-specific examples (Pro)
- Offline practice capability
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The perfect answer always shows up — five minutes late. The opening you let slip by. The question you knew was coming and still fumbled. Speaking under pressure is a skill, and skills need reps — so Dictalus gives you a private gym for them. You get a prompt, you record a short take, and you get scored on how you actually sounded: pace, filler words, pauses. Then you do it again, better. Dictalus turns vague advice like "sound more confident" into numbers you can move. Each drill is one prompt. You speak for a few seconds, we transcribe it, and you see exactly where the "ums" landed, whether you rushed, and where you trailed off. One concrete fix per rep, not a lecture — and a trend line that goes the right way. A CURRICULUM, NOT A BLANK PAGE Seven guided modules, 32 drills, all tuned to real moments: introductions, meetings, small talk, storytelling, tough questions — even joining a conversation mid-stream, recovering after an interruption, and disagreeing without heat. PRE-GAME: REHEARSE THE MOMENT BEFORE IT HAPPENS Got a real meeting, interview, or pitch coming up? Name the moment, write your headline, back it with up to three points, land the ask — then rehearse it out loud as a scored rep, with your plan on screen while you record. PRACTICE IN YOUR WORLD (PRO) Switch every lesson's examples to your field — sales, healthcare, consulting and finance, academia, engineering, R&D — or request your industry and we'll build it. Pro also unlocks Fast scoring: results in seconds, filler words caught more reliably, and practice in 90+ languages. YOUR VOICE STAYS YOURS Recording is opt-in and explained in plain language before your first take. By default your audio is deleted the moment scoring finishes; Pro members can choose to keep recordings for listen-back. We keep only the transcript and scores — and you can delete those too, per rep or entirely, any time. No ads, and we never sell your data. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a drill and read the prompt 2. Record a short take — a few seconds is enough 3. Read your score: pace, fillers, pauses, and one fix 4. Run it back and beat your last number Works offline — reps sync and score when you're back. Streaks and trends keep you honest. WHO IT'S FOR - Anyone who presents, pitches, interviews, or teaches - Non-native speakers polishing delivery and pace - People who hate the sound of their own "um" - Anyone who'd rather practice in private than bomb live The app can hear your delivery now — and read your drafts. - Two new scorecard metrics straight from your audio: Pitch variation (goodbye, unfalsifiable "you sound monotone") and Energy (your loudness dynamics) — both measured against your own recent reps - The Language arc: see how your wording evolved across a rep — where you were committed, where you hedged, and how the tone moved. Tap any block to see the exact words - New: Analyze a script — paste a talk or memo for the tone arc, the hedge map, and speaking time at your real pace. Nothing you paste is saved to your account - New: Live meter — live in-meeting awareness, fully on-device: energy and pitch traces, speech share, a pace gauge, pause quality, and endings that fade or rise like questions. No audio recorded, nothing leaves your phone Say it out loud and hear yourself improve. FREE EVERY DAY, PRO WHEN YOU WANT MORE Free gives you 5 scored reps every day, forever. Dictalus Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription — $8.99/month or $59.99/year (prices may vary by region) — with unlimited reps, industry lenses, fast scoring, and audio retention. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at purchase confirmation; the subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://dictalus.com/terms Privacy: https://dictalus.com/privacy Download Dictalus and hear yourself get better. Brought to you by Varsalus, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Dictalus at 3 against Speech Speed SDND's —. Dictalus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Speech Speed SDND against 5.0 for Dictalus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Speech Speed SDND | Dictalus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 months |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nilay Patel | Varsalus, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Speech Speed SDND
No in-app purchases
Dictalus
No in-app purchases
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