Comparison

SpeakGym vs Critical Thinking

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SpeakGym

This app helps you practice expressing your thoughts clearly and concisely. It provides prompts for speaking practice, allows you to record and review your delivery, and offers focused feedback for improvement. Track your progress and build confidence in impromptu speaking.

Highlights
  • Practical speaking prompts
  • Short speaking rounds
  • Listen-back analysis with transcripts
  • Second take for improvement
  • Focus on one improvement area
  • Progress tracking and streaks
  • On-device speech analysis
Features
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Speak your thoughts clearly. SpeakGym helps you build everyday speaking skill. You get practical prompts, short speaking rounds, listen-back analysis, and a second take so you can practice organizing thoughts, improving delivery, and speaking with more clarity. HOW IT WORKS 1. Practice with real prompts Use prompts about daily life, work, school, relationships, decisions, and ideas. Each prompt gives you something concrete to speak about while you train clarity, structure, pace, and delivery. 2. Say the thought out loud Practice moving from an idea in your head to words you can say. Choose what matters, organize your point, and express it out loud, building a habit you can use anywhere. 3. Review what came through Listen back with a transcript plus highlights for fillers, pace, and pauses. You can replay the moments that mattered and see exactly what your delivery sounded like and where it slowed, sped up, or got stuck. 4. Focus on one useful improvement SpeakGym does not grade you or give vague scores. Each take highlights one concrete thing to work on, such as reducing fillers, improving pacing, strengthening structure, or making pauses more intentional. 5. Try a clearer second take Repeat the same prompt and apply what you noticed. Aim for sharper wording, a clearer structure, steadier delivery, or a cleaner ending, then compare how it changes. 6. Track steady practice Keep momentum with sessions, streaks, progress, and past takes. Speaking practice becomes something you can repeat and build on, not a one-time exercise. PRIVACY THAT STAYS WITH YOU Speech analysis happens on your device. Transcripts, progress, and recordings sync privately through iCloud. NOT A LANGUAGE COURSE SpeakGym is not a language course or a generic voice recorder. It is a focused practice space for saying your thoughts out loud, hearing what came through, and trying again with more clarity. ______ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Critical Thinking

Features
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Most bad arguments are not stupid. They are convincing — that is exactly why they work. This is a practice app, not a lecture hall. Every morning you get three questions built on a real case: a report that quietly leaves out the bad weeks, a headline that implies more than it says, an argument that almost holds. You answer, you see why the wrong options feel right, and you keep the move that defuses that trick next time. WHAT'S INSIDE Daily practice Three questions a day, each with a full breakdown. Three minutes, and the reasoning stays with you. Three courses, 66 lessons • Critical Thinking — 21 lessons with video and notes: testing arguments and sources, spotting manipulation, making better-balanced decisions. • Critical Thinking and Health — 21 lessons on telling evidence from persuasive stories, checking health claims and deciding without panic. • Cognitive Biases — 24 lessons on the most common thinking traps: how each one works, where it catches you in money, work and the news, and the move that defuses it. 50 quizzes Five topics — logic, biases, media, data and sources. Ten questions each, about five minutes. AI analysis Paste a news story, a claim or a situation you are stuck on. You get it taken apart: what is actually being claimed, what the facts support, where the weak points are, what is worth checking, and a balanced conclusion — plus one question to ask yourself. Progress you can read XP, a streak and skill bars by topic, so you can see which kind of reasoning keeps catching you out. FREE AND PREMIUM Free: the daily practice, the first two lessons of every course, five quizzes and five AI analyses. Premium: all 66 lessons, all 50 quizzes, the random quiz mix and unlimited AI analyses. SUBSCRIPTION Premium is available as a monthly or an annual auto-renewable subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase with no renewal. Prices are shown in the app before you confirm, and payment is charged to your Apple Account. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://appbysnap.tilda.ws/privacypolice

Screenshots

SpeakGym4 screens
Critical Thinking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Critical Thinking at none against SpeakGym's 2. SpeakGym's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SpeakGym sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Critical Thinking asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpeakGym ships an update every 11 days, Critical Thinking monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SpeakGym versus Critical Thinking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeakGymCritical Thinking
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB775 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSeungwoo ChoeAlexander Senin

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SpeakGym

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Membership$2.991 Month
  • Annual Membership7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Critical Thinking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpeakGym free?
SpeakGym is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Critical Thinking free?
Critical Thinking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpeakGym or Critical Thinking have ads?
Neither SpeakGym nor Critical Thinking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpeakGym or Critical Thinking?
SpeakGym ships an update every 11 days, and Critical Thinking monthly. Most recently, SpeakGym was updated on October 31, 2026 and Critical Thinking on November 3, 2026.

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