Reframit

You already know the words. You need the reps.

Reframit gives you a question, a shape to answer in, and a clock. Then it gives you another one. That is the whole product.

Android — coming to Google Play

Built for OPIc AL, IELTS 7.0 and TOEFL Speaking 26+ — the level where nobody is short of vocabulary, only of practice.

The Reframit home screen: topic packs shown as circular tiles, each ringed by its progress across four answer lengths.

Pick a length, or take whatever it gives you.

Why another speaking app

Most of them talk back. This one does not, on purpose. A conversation partner — human or otherwise — halves your speaking time and decides what comes next. A drill hands you the next question the second you stop, and the only voice in the room is yours.

What it measures, and how honestly

Two lineages, kept apart. The timer never fails: every session has the same score whether or not speech recognition heard a word. Recognition is a bonus — when it works you also get a transcript, your words per minute, and how varied your vocabulary was over a sliding window. When it does not, the figure is absent rather than guessed.

That second measure is worth reading about if you have ever wondered what a "good" speaking pace actually is.

Free

All of it. Every prompt, every structure, the timer, your whole history and the report that reads it back to you: free, with no session limits, nothing locked and no ads. There is nothing to buy, and no part of the app is waiting for you to.

That will not always be true — new content has to be paid for somehow, and a subscription for packs published after launch is the likely shape. Whatever happens, everything that ships in the app stays free. Taking away what someone already practices is not something a price change may do.

Follow along

The app is not on Google Play yet. In the meantime there is the blog, where the design decisions get written down as they are made.