In Your Own Words
Rehearse hard conversations
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
The app for practising difficult conversations out loud.
Some conversations you only get one shot at. Telling your manager you're taking the other offer. Raising the thing your sister said at Christmas. Asking for the pay rise you should have asked for a year ago. Go in cold and you come out having said about a third of it, agreed to something you didn't mean to agree to, and spent the next week composing the version you should have said.
In Your Own Words is a practice ground for those sixty seconds.
Pick the scenario closest to yours. You get a card with the situation, what makes it awkward, and what tends to go wrong. Then you speak your opening, once, for up to a minute. The app listens to how you said it and shows you four things: your pace, the filler words you used and where, the longest run you got through without stumbling, and where you hesitated.
Then you do it again. And again the next evening. The runs stack up under the conversation you're preparing for, so you can watch the hesitations thin out before the real thing.
Here's what it doesn't do. It never tells you whether what you said was any good. There's no AI grading your answer, no model script to copy, no scoring of your tone or your confidence. That's deliberate. Words per minute is a fact. "You sounded defensive" is a guess, and a guess is a bad thing to hand someone the night before a hard conversation. What goes wrong in these moments is rarely word choice. You trail off, you over-soften, you race through the sentence that matters, you bury the point under hedges. All of that is measurable, and all of it changes within about three tries.
The recordings never leave your phone. All the speech recognition runs on the device itself, so there's no upload, no account, no cloud, nothing to sign into and nothing to delete later. Turn on Airplane Mode and it still works.
118 scenarios across four decks:
- Difficult Conversations at Work - 48 scenarios for anyone managing people for the first time. Giving critical feedback, saying no, missed deadlines, managing up, the ones nobody warns you about in your first year
- Interviews - 24 scenarios from the opening question through to negotiating the offer
- Speaking Up for Yourself - 24 scenarios for when you need something, you're entitled to it, and asking still feels enormous
- Hard Things with People You Love - 22 scenarios for the conversations that matter most and that nobody ever rehearses, because rehearsing them feels cold
Free to try with three scenarios and three recordings a day. Decks are a one-off purchase, or Rehearsal Pro unlocks everything monthly, yearly, or once and for good. Buy the deck you need and never hear from us again, that's a perfectly good way to use this.
No streaks. No notifications nagging you to practice. You've got a thing on Thursday, and this is for getting ready for it.
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Information
- Seller
- Natasha Wilson
- Size
- 14.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro Lifetime $39.99
- Deck - Loved Ones $2.99
- Speaking Up for Yourself $2.99
- Interview Practice $2.99
- Difficult Conversations $2.99
- Rehearsal Pro $24.99
- Rehearsal Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- © Copyright (c) 2026 Natasha Wilson