Say the thing you keep not saying.
For anyone who freezes up around people — at work, on a date, at the thing you nearly didn’t go to. Pick the conversation you’re dreading, rehearse it out loud with a stand-in for the actual person, get straight feedback, then go have the real one.
No account · Nothing leaves your phone · Adults 18+ · English & Deutsch
Four steps. Then it gets out of your way.
A goal is a conversation you want to be able to have — counted in real ones. Practise as much as you like. Only the real thing counts. When every goal is done, the app closes and tells you to delete it.
Name it
“Talk to Tom at lunch.” “Ask her out.” “Go to the social and speak to one human.” Each goal is a number of real conversations — three to five, your call.
Describe them
Who they are to you, how they are, where you bump into them. Or a situation: a stranger at a party. The app builds a stand-in from that and makes nothing up.
Practise out loud
The stand-in answers in character — easy-going, neutral, busy or blunt. Afterwards: a score on six skills, two notes max, each a concrete thing to try. “Again, harder” is one tap.
Do it for real
Then debrief in your own words — what you feared, what happened, what you did. Never scored. That’s what counts toward the goal. Practice never does.
Six things that make talking to people easier.
Each one is a scorecard row, a two-minute lesson with its sources, and one move to try. Your weakest row is what the next practice works on. All of it is research on people talking to people — none of it is from a sales course.
Opening
The first thing you say. Its only job is to get an answer. People predict it’ll go badly, and then it goes fine — the dread is the error.
Epley & Schroeder 2014 · Sandstrom & Boothby 2021Asking questions
Questions that hand the conversation to them, and the follow-up that shows you heard. People who ask more are liked more — and never believe it.
Huang, Yeomans, Brooks, Minson & Gino 2017Listening & follow-ups
Saying back the gist of what they said, in fewer words, before you ask anything. Beats advice. Beats nodding.
Weger et al. 2014 · Miller & Rollnick 2023Sharing about yourself
One sentence about you every few turns — so it’s a conversation, not an interview. Taking turns is what does the work.
Sprecher et al. 2013 · Kardas, Kumar & Epley 2022Keeping it going
What you do with a pause, a one-word answer or a swerve. People like you more than you think; the silence is shorter than it feels.
Koudenburg et al. 2011 · Boothby et al. 2018Ending well
Leaving while it’s still good, with a next time named. Conversations almost never end when either person wants — so end it on purpose.
Mastroianni, Gilbert, Cooney & Wilson 2021Built to be deleted.
Most apps want to keep you. This one wants you out in the world, talking. Here’s what that means in practice.
Is this a chatbot friend?
No, on purpose. The stand-in answers in character and never coaches, grades, remembers other practices or chats outside a practice. The coach has no name and no face. No streak, no companion, nothing after graduation. If you kept coming back, we’d count that as a bug.
Is it therapy?
No, and it says so on the first screen. Get Speaking teaches a skill with techniques that have evidence — graded exposure, mastery experience, social-skills training — and cites them where they act. It is for adults. On day one it asks two short, validated screening questionnaires, and if the answers say you need more than a skill, it shows you where to find people who can help, before anything else.
Where do my words go?
Nowhere. Your goals, the people you describe, every practice and every debrief stay on your phone. The only thing that leaves is the model call you set up with your own key. No account, no telemetry, no crash reports. The source is open, so you don’t have to take our word for it.
What does it cost?
Nothing. You bring an AI key — EdenAI or OpenAI — and pay them for the model and voice you use; the app tells you what a practice costs before your first one and adds zero on top. Once, at graduation, it asks what the programme was worth to you. Skip weighs the same as give, and the app never finds out which you picked.
Why does it want to be deleted?
Because a feature that makes you need the app more has failed, even if it looks like engagement. A goal is a number of real conversations. When every goal is met, the programme closes, hands your words back as a file, and suggests you delete it. A new goal reopens it — your call, not a notification’s.
Free. Really. In the stores soon.
Android first, iPhone right behind. Until the listings are live, the source is the download: build it, read every prompt, or just check that nothing phones home.
- No account, no subscription, no telemetry
- You pay only your AI provider, at their rates
- English and German, interface and practice
- Export everything as one file; delete it all in one tap
- Read how it works, or build it yourself
- Changes to these files stay open — a fork can’t quietly add tracking
- Safety copy and referral tables reviewed, with dates, in the repo
- Report a bug or a safety concern in the open
Questions people actually ask.
Which phones?
Android 8.0 and newer first — it’s built to run well on a mid-range phone from a few years ago. The iPhone version follows on the same code. One app, one name, no “lite”.
Why do I need an AI key?
The stand-in is a language model, and a model needs a key. Paste one from EdenAI or OpenAI on day one; the app checks it and tells you what a practice costs at their rates. That’s how it stays free and how your words stay yours.
Does it listen to other people?
No. The mic is on only during a practice, on your phone, to hear you. It’s never on during the real conversation — there is no live mode, on purpose — and it never records anyone else.
Who is it for — and not for?
Adults who can hold a conversation but dodge the ones that matter. It is not for a crisis, not a diagnosis and not a substitute for a person trained to help; the first screen says so, and the referral card is one tap from Settings, always.
Which languages?
English and German, all the way through — the interface, the stand-in, the lessons and the safety copy. Each person you add has their own practice language, so you can rehearse the German colleague in German.
Is it really open source?
Yes: Mozilla Public License 2.0, on GitHub. Picked so the privacy-relevant code has to stay open while the app can still ship through both stores. Bundled third-party bits keep their own licences, listed in the app.