Talksim vs Steady
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Talksim
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Find your words before the real conversation. An interview tomorrow. A difficult conversation at work. A first hello that feels harder than it should. Talksim gives you a place to rehearse with an AI partner, get specific feedback, and try again at your own pace. 62 REAL-LIFE SCENARIOS Practice small talk, workplace discussions, interviews, service encounters, friendships, dating, family conversations, and complaints. Every built-in scenario is available in English and Japanese. Each gives you a situation, an AI conversation partner, and a clear goal. Try situations such as: โข Breaking the ice with a new coworker โข Telling your manager a task is behind schedule โข Saying no when you already have too much work โข Asking your own questions in an interview FIVE SKILLS. SPECIFIC FEEDBACK. See your overall score and feedback on clarity, empathy, listening, topic development, and politeness. Review what worked, what to improve, and examples of stronger wording. Compare with your personal best, then try the conversation again. A NEW CHALLENGE EVERY DAY The weekly league gives everyone in each language the same daily challenge. Your best score each day counts; your five highest daily scores form up to 500 League Points. English and Japanese have separate rankings. Anyone can view the league. Submitting ranked scores requires a Lite or Studio subscription, Sign in with Apple, AI-processing consent, and enough AI Credits. You can complete up to three ranked evaluations per UTC day. Scores are shown with an anonymous player code, not your conversation. SEE YOUR PRACTICE OVER TIME Revisit past conversations, follow your score history, and see how your five skills compare. Practice again whenever you want to prepare for a similar situation. PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE PRACTICE On compatible devices with Apple Intelligence enabled and available, regular on-device practice is free. Conversation text stays on your device in this mode. AI availability depends on your device, language, and system settings. OPTIONAL CLOUD AI Studio Uchu AI is optional and requires a membership and consent to cloud processing. Lite includes 800 AI Credits and Studio includes 4,500 AI Credits per subscription period. Credits are consumed according to the actual AI processing cost, so usage varies by conversation and evaluation. Credits are shared across supported Studio Uchu apps; use the same Sign in with Apple account to access your shared membership. When you choose cloud AI, the necessary conversation content is sent for processing. The weekly league stores an anonymous display code, scores, challenge information, and submission times; it does not publish your conversation text. See the Privacy Policy for processing details. AI replies and scores can be inaccurate. Scores are practice feedback, not a professional assessment. Talksim is not a therapy or medical service. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Studio Uchu AI: https://studiouchu.com/studio-uchu-ai/ Privacy Policy: https://studiouchu.com/talksim-app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://studiouchu.com/talksim-app/terms/
Steady
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No script to memorise. Practice for whatever they say. Steady is a flight school for hard conversations. You speak out loud. Someone answers back, in a real voice, in real time. They have a position and they hold it. And you watch what your words cost while you are still saying them. START WITH A BASELINE Eight questions about how these conversations actually feel, then five minutes in a room picked for the seat you are in. The read-out puts what you said about yourself next to what the run showed: what is working, what you might not be seeing, and where to start. A STRUCTURE TO LEAN ON Five phases - pre-flight, take-off, cruise, turbulence, landing - and every run is marked against them in words, never a score. Marks read what you did. There is no script to memorise. A PLAN FOR YOUR SEAT Six weeks, built from your baseline and the conversations your seat finds riskiest. Two sessions a week on the days you choose, five to eight minutes each, ending in a proficiency check. THE ROOM You talk. She answers. She interrupts, goes quiet, gets defensive, softens. Her state is drawn above her and it moves while you speak, so you see how she takes each sentence as you say it. Choose how hard it goes and the room draws its own curveballs, hidden until they happen. If you are somewhere you cannot speak, type instead: same room, same instruments. TAKE IT BACK Pull back one beat and say it differently. The two attempts run side by side. THE FLIGHT LOG Not a grade. What worked, the moment it turned, and the sentence it turned on - scrub back and hear yourself say it. Then what they walked away thinking, in their words. PROGRESS Since your baseline: how long you take to get to the point, how often you hedge, how long you can sit inside a silence, and the blind spots closing. LEARN Eleven short courses on the conversations new managers find hardest, each with articles, talks and books picked for them. Read one, then practise it. Pass a checkride to earn the rating. OVER A HUNDRED ROOMS Feedback - the friend who was your peer last month. The one who was passed over for your job. Your strongest performer, who talks over everyone. Boundaries - 11pm Slack. A report who goes around you. Friday at five, again. Saying no - no to your boss. No promotion this cycle. Carrying a decision you did not make. More for your line of work. Or bring your own: describe the conversation you are dreading and Steady builds that room. A REAL ONE COMING UP Prepare for it, practise it, then say how it went. Steady checks in when you asked it to. PRIVACY, BECAUSE YOU ARE NAMING REAL PEOPLE Your audio is never saved. It is processed as you speak and then it is gone. Your transcripts stay on this phone, encrypted. Real names never leave it. When you name a colleague, that name is replaced with a placeholder before anything is sent. There is no account, so there is nothing of yours on a server to lose. The counterpart is played by a language model, in character, and the debrief is written the same way. What you say in a run is sent as text - names already replaced - so they have something to answer. It is not used to train anyone's model. WHAT THIS IS NOT Not therapy, not HR advice, and not a script to memorise. If what you describe needs reporting rather than practice, Steady stops and says so. STEADY PRO The baseline flight, every room, an hour of practice a week, phase marks, your plan, Progress, proficiency checks, Take It Back, Compare Runs and Drills. The self-check and the whole library are free. $59.99 a year, with the first 7 days free, or $9.99 a month. Prices in your local currency are shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms: https://steadyyy.com/terms Privacy: https://steadyyy.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Steady at every 6 days against Talksim's every 3 months. Talksim's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Talksim sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Steady sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Talksim ships an update every 3 months, Steady every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Talksim | Steady |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 115 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mikoto Perut | simbarashe Kowo |
In-app purchases
Talksim
- Studio Uchu AI Lite$2.991 Month
- Studio Uchu AI Studio$12.991 Month
Steady
- Steady Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Steady Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year









