Unscript · English speaking practice for iPhone
You can know a thousand words and still freeze mid-sentence. Unscript has you run one real conversation four times, with less of the script each time. By the fourth, you don’t need it.
Free to download · Pro from $0.99 a month
The same dialogue, four times. What changes is how much of your own line you can see.
Read your full line aloud. Get the sentence flowing before you have to think about it.
Half the key words are blanked out. You supply the ones that matter.
Only first letters remain. The hint is there, but you can’t read off it.
Your line is hidden. You see what you mean and say it in English. That is a real conversation.
One rule for passing: at most one wrong word per line. Every line right, and the level is cleared.
Everything below happens on the phone, in the moment after you stop talking.
The moment you stop, every word you didn’t say is marked. Homophones count as right: “Li” and “Lee” sound the same, and this is speaking practice, not spelling.
Every line you say is recorded, so you can play it back right next to the model reading. Where you differ, you hear it in one listen.
Every word in every dialogue has a definition and a pronunciation. The whole 2582-entry glossary ships inside the app.
Finished dialogues return at 1, 3, 7 and 14 days. Going script-free isn’t a one-off; it is remembering.
Not “daily life / travel / work”; that is how content writers think. Buying a coffee isn’t one conversation, it’s twenty: the normal order, the wrong drink, the card that won’t read, asking for the Wi-Fi. Different words every time.
The first two dialogues of one situation in each of the 22 domains, all four levels: 44 dialogues you can finish. Pro opens the rest.
Free, forever
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Price
Prices in other regions are set by the App Store. Subscriptions renew through Apple and can be cancelled in Settings at any time. The lifetime purchase never renews.
No. Dialogues, the glossary and speech recognition are all on the phone; airplane mode works. Only feedback and purchases need a connection.
Check that Microphone and Speech Recognition are allowed in Settings. If your device doesn’t support on-device English recognition, the app switches to keyboard input: type the line, and scoring works exactly the same.
At most one wrong word per line, on every line. That is the only rule; there is no percentage to remember.
The dialogues are English, and so is the interface if you choose it. Word definitions and line translations are in Chinese, so it fits best if Chinese is your first language.
Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Unscript. Apple manages the subscription; the lifetime purchase never renews.
Free on the App Store for iPhone, iOS 17 or later.