PalmCards vs SpeechDraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PalmCards
Craft, practice, and deliver speeches or presentations with ease. This app helps you write content, time your delivery, and provides visual cues to keep you on track. Prepare for any occasion, from weddings to professional talks.
- AI-powered speech writing and editing
- Timed card-by-card rehearsal
- Q&A preparation with likely questions
- Large, glanceable cue cards
- Quiet pacing and volume-button advance
- Text resizing and screen awake mode
- PDF export for backup
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Write it. Rehearse it. Deliver it. PalmCards is the whole job, not just the cards. Getting the words down, practising them against the clock, and standing up on the day without losing your place. The best man speech, the eulogy, the wedding toast, the big pitch, the lesson, the conference talk. WRITE IT Start from a rough idea and get a first draft to react to, in your own words. Already written it? Paste the whole speech in, or import a Word document, and it comes back as clean cards with cue lines. Templates for the occasion: a wedding toast for the best man or maid of honour, a eulogy, a birthday, a graduation, a retirement, plus sales pitches, lessons and conference talks. Tighten a line that rambles, without rewriting the card around it. Or just ask. Tell the AI what you want changed on a card, in your own words, and it rewrites the cue lines. Undo if you preferred them as they were. REHEARSE IT Run it as often as you like. PalmCards times every card, not just the whole talk. See exactly which section ran long, so you know what to trim before the day. Every run is kept, so you can watch the timing settle. Prepare the Q&A too: Likely questions reads your deck and gives you the questions it invites, hardest first, each one a card with cues for the answer. DELIVER IT One card at a time, large and easy to glance at, so your eyes stay on the room and not on a wall of text. Quiet pacing shows you when you are running over, without a loud timer dragging your attention off the room. Swipe or tap to move. Turn on volume-button advance in Settings and a clicker that works as volume keys will move the cards too. The screen stays awake and nothing breaks your flow. Pinch to size the text mid-talk if the light is bad or the lectern is low. Export to PDF for a paper backup, or to print your cards for the day. Yours, on your device. No account needed. Your speeches stay private. PALMCARDS PRO Go further with unlimited AI, Likely questions, every template, and a clean PDF with no PalmCards footer. The annual plan starts with a 7-day free trial, then AU$39.99/year. Or go monthly at AU$6.99. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://palmcards.app/terms Privacy: https://palmcards.app/privacy Whether it is the speech of your life or just Monday's presentation, PalmCards keeps it calm, clear, and right where your thumb expects it.
SpeechDraft
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Made for iPhone Duo: half-open on the lectern, the phone is its own teleprompter stand. You have a speech to give — a wedding toast, a keynote, a eulogy, a pitch. SpeechDraft is the whole job in one app: plan the speech block by block (opening, story, point, toast), write every word right inside the blocks, rehearse it against the clock, and stand up with full-screen cue cards or a teleprompter that follows your plan. From first idea to public speaking — plan it, write it, say it on time. PLAN IT BLOCK BY BLOCK • Over 25 templates shaped by how great speeches actually work — wedding speeches, best man, maid of honor, father or mother of the bride, keynotes, investor pitches, stand-up sets, storytelling nights, eulogies, the 90-second job-interview answer, master of ceremonies, panel moderating and more • Every block carries a coaching hint: what belongs there and why — shown on the part you are about to write • Set a target length and watch the total build as you plan • Set the date you speak, and the home screen counts down to it WRITE IT IN PLACE • Speech writing where the structure is: every word lives inside its block — no separate document to lose • Add photos or illustrations to your cue cards • Reorder with a drag when the story wants a different shape DELIVER IT WITH CONFIDENCE • Full-screen cue cards with a pace line per card: it fills as you speak, turns amber when it's time to land, red if you've gone over • A teleprompter that takes its pace from the timings you set — "Match my plan" solves the scroll rate that lands the speech exactly on time, and a pace chip flags the moment you drift • One big total clock — so you always know if the speech fits the slot • Dark stage mode, adjustable text size, and the screen stays awake • Tap either side or swipe to move — works with a thumb, from a podium • Finish inside your plan and the closing check turns green WHEN YOU NEED PAPER OR WANT TO SHARE • Export a clean PDF, Word or Excel rundown of the whole speech • Preview matches the export exactly PRICING SpeechDraft is free to try: build and write your first two speeches in full, take the first three cards on stage — on the cue cards and the teleprompter alike — and export a PDF with a small SpeechDraft mark. One purchase — no subscription — unlocks unlimited speeches, the whole speech on stage, and clean PDF, Word & Excel exports. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac (Apple Silicon) — start on one device and finish on another. Made by Vardnir — in Norway.
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Verdict
PalmCards and SpeechDraft are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. PalmCards sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and SpeechDraft sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PalmCards ships an update every 4 days, SpeechDraft every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PalmCards | SpeechDraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Gawman | TOR ERIK HUMLEN |
In-app purchases
PalmCards
- PalmCards Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- PalmCards Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
SpeechDraft
- SpeechDraft Pro$9.99









