The app scores an answer the way the published criteria do, and shows the measurements it used. This page explains what those measurements are, how to record an answer that gets a fair reading, and what to do with the result.
No, and no app can give you one - only a test centre can. What you get is an estimate produced on your device against the published criteria, with the measurements it used shown alongside. Treat it as practice feedback and as a way to see movement over time, not as a prediction of your certificate.
A quiet room, the phone at normal speaking distance, and your ordinary voice. Background noise degrades the transcription first, and everything downstream is built on that text. Do not slow down artificially to be understood - speech rate is one of the things being measured, so speaking unnaturally will move your score in ways that will not transfer to the exam.
Speech rate, words per run between pauses, how many hesitation pauses there are and how long they run, filler count, self-repairs, and total talking time. A short answer with no pauses and a long answer full of restarts can end up in the same band for different reasons, which is why the numbers are shown rather than just the band.
Lexical Resource rewards range rather than difficulty. The measurements include lexical diversity, the share of words outside the everyday core, collocations and idioms, and how much you recycle the same word. Using one impressive word five times scores worse than using five ordinary ones precisely. Vocabulary Coach shows band 7 alternatives by topic if you want the upgrade to hand.
Your answer word by word, with fillers, long pauses, self-repairs, grammar slips, strong vocabulary and linking words marked where they occurred. Tap a highlight to read why it was flagged. Play the recording back alongside it - hearing a pause you did not notice is the part that changes behaviour.
Choose the mock test rather than a single question. For IELTS you get Part 1, then the Part 2 long turn with a minute of silent preparation, then the Part 3 discussion that belongs to that cue card. For TOEFL you get the 2026 format in full: seven Listen and Repeat sentences from one campus scenario with 8, 10 and 12 second windows, then four Take an Interview questions at 45 seconds each with no preparation.
Whichever you are most likely to face, or the one you find hardest to follow. British, American, Australian, Indian and Irish are available. Practising against an accent you struggle with is worth more than practising against a comfortable one, since comprehension failure in Part 3 costs you answers rather than marks for pronunciation.
A phrase you got wrong comes back after 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days. It is spaced repetition applied to your own recorded errors rather than to a generic word list, which is why it tends to stick better than a vocabulary deck.
Yes. Paste the text, or point the camera at the question on the page. The timing and the scoring work the same way as for the built-in bank.
No. Speech becomes text on the device and the scoring runs there too, so the whole thing works with the network off - which is the simplest way to check the claim rather than take it. History syncs through your own private iCloud, so it moves to a new phone without passing through anyone else's servers.
You carry on with the time that was left rather than starting the question again. It is a small thing that matters a lot when the interruption lands twenty seconds into a two-minute long turn.
Free gives you three scored answers a day and one full mock test a week. The question bank, recording, playback, transcript markup, progress tracking, study plan and PDF export have no limit at all. Pro removes the cap on scored answers and mock tests, and adds the Pronunciation Lab, the larger Examiner Pro and Max engines for strongly accented speech, and band 8 model answers written on the device for the exact question you attempted - that last one needs a device with Apple Intelligence.
Practise IELTS and TOEFL Speaking, get a band score with the measurements behind it, and see your own words marked up - all on the device.
Twenty minutes done this way beats an hour of answering questions and glancing at the band.
Trying to fix fluency, grammar and vocabulary in one answer usually moves none of them, because attention is the constraint.
Try this in IELTS Speaking Test: AI Score →The long turn is where most candidates lose fluency marks, and the minute of preparation is the reason.
A common pattern is a strong first thirty seconds and a collapse afterwards. The transcript makes that visible as a cluster of pauses in the second half.
Try this in IELTS Speaking Test: AI Score →Range, precision and collocation - in that order of payoff.
Idioms are the most over-reached-for item on the list. One used correctly helps; two forced in are noticed as forced, in the exam as well as here.
Try this in IELTS Speaking Test: AI Score →The last fortnight should look different from the two months before it.
Doing the mock at your exam time of day is not superstition - speaking performance varies with how long you have been awake and how much you have already talked that day.
Try this in IELTS Speaking Test: AI Score →Our support team usually replies within one business day.
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