Fast Speak vs Developing for Listening
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fast Speak
Improve your English speaking skills with this ad-free application. It offers hundreds of engaging conversations on various topics, all read by native American English speakers and professionally recorded with high-quality audio.
- Hundreds of conversation topics
- Native American English audio
- Professional recording quality
- Ad-free experience
- Improve speaking skills
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ESL Fast Speak is an ads-free app for people to improve their English speaking skills. In this app, there are hundreds of interesting, easy conversations of different topics for you to choose from. All the dialogues were read by native speakers of American English, and recorded by professionals, The dialogues are interesting, and the quality of the audio is high.
Developing for Listening
This app offers an activity-rich course designed to build listening and conversation skills. It includes practice for testing and exam techniques, aiming to boost student confidence and exam success through short, practical activities.
- Listening skills development
- Conversation practice
- Exam techniques training
- Activity-rich course
- Short, practical activities
- Progress tracking
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Tactics for Listening Third Edition is an activity-rich listening course with proven success in building skills in listening and conversation. Now with Tactics for Testing, it provides plenty of practice in testing and exam techniques. The result is confident listeners - and exam success. This three-level American English listening course uses short chunks and practical, relevant activities to engage and motivate students.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Developing for Listening at 100% against Fast Speak's 0%. Developing for Listening also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). Fast Speak's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Developing for Listening holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Fast Speak's written reviews are positive against 100% of Developing for Listening's.
Fast Speak ships an update every 25 months, Developing for Listening every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fast Speak | Developing for Listening |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 25 months | Every 16 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ron Lee | Le Bin |
Customer experience
Fast Speak
Developing for Listening
In-app purchases
Fast Speak
No in-app purchases
Developing for Listening
No in-app purchases
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