Speak Today vs TCWP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speak Today
This app provides an audio summary of your scheduled calendar events for a selected day. Easily navigate through your calendar to hear about upcoming appointments and tasks.
- Voice overview of calendar events
- Summarizes events for the displayed date
- Navigate between days to hear upcoming events
- Designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch
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The Speak Today App allows users to easily output a voice overview of their calendar events. When the app is launched it will speak a brief summary of all the events that are scheduled for the displayed date. The user can select the day displayed by using the buttons on the bottom and hear about upcoming events. *** WHO IS IT FOR? *** Speak Today is for people who need an easy way to hear about what is scheduled in their calendars. *** KEY FEATURES *** -- Designed for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch -- Speaks a summary of events listed in the users calendar *** SUPPORT *** To report a problem with the app, please email appsupport@canassist.ca *** CANASSIST at the UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA *** CanAssist at the University of Victoria is dedicated to developing customized technologies and services for people with disabilities, with a focus on clients in British Columbia, Canada.
TCWP
This scheduling tool offers a unique way to manage your events with a voice-reading function. Listen to your schedule manually, at set times, or through quick actions, making it easy to stay organized on the go.
- Add, change, and delete events
- Voice reading of event lists
- Scheduled event readout
- Quick action event readout
- Customizable week start
- 54 color themes
- iCloud backup and recovery
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TCWP - Talking Calendar With Parrot is primarily a scheduling tool. You can add/change/delete events. We provide a differentiated schedule management experience by adding a special event reading function. We offer event reading in three ways: 1. Read events manually 2. Read events according to schedule 3. Read events through quick actions During busy commute times, you can listen to the schedule read by TCWP while getting ready for work. You can listen to today's schedule through earphones on the subway to work. You can use the schedule readout function through an alarm at a set time. main function 1. Add/Change/Delete Event 2. Read events list by voice 3. Read today’s schedule at a set time 4. Read today’s schedule through quick actions 5. Set the start of the week (Sunday, Monday, Saturday) 6. Set a event font size 7. Supports 54 color themes 8. Forced 24-hour format setting function 9. Set event defaults (default calendar, default alarm value, all-day alarm time) 10. Event Reading settings (earphones only, excluding past events, reading schedule) 11. Backup/Recovery - Calendar database backup and recovery via iCloud 12. Use a local original database Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/cwppp
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Speak Today at Free against TCWP's $4.99. Speak Today also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.0) and review sentiment (33% vs 0%). TCWP's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Speak Today is free to download; TCWP costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Speak Today holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Speak Today's written reviews are positive against 0% of TCWP's.
Speak Today ships an update every 15 months, TCWP every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speak Today | TCWP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Victoria | JIN SOOK PARK |
Customer experience
Speak Today
TCWP
In-app purchases
Speak Today
No in-app purchases
TCWP
No in-app purchases
