What's new

Every release, newest first. Short list, real changes — the same rule as the reps.

October 22, 2026 — Dictalus 1.5: Rehearse a script, and a prompter that waits for you

Scripts. Keep the talks, toasts, board updates and statements you have to deliver. Paste one in and Dictalus splits it into sections short enough to actually get feedback on, with the time each takes at your own measured pace.
See what you actually said. Rehearse a section and the scorecard shows it against what was written — words you skipped struck through, words you added marked, and a tick wherever you stalled mid-sentence. A stall usually means the words are hard to say, not that you were unprepared.
Make it easier to say. Rewrites a script for the mouth instead of the page: shorter sentences, numbers said the way you'd say them, and marks for where to breathe and what to stress. It never changes your script until you press Use this.
Teleprompter. Your script full screen, with mirror mode and a pace that defaults to your own words per minute. It follows your voice — advancing while you speak, holding when you stop — so it can't run away from you when you pause for a question. Detection is entirely on-device; nothing is recorded, stored or sent anywhere.

Dictalus is on Google Play. Download it for Android — same account, same reps, same streak on both phones.
Scoring under load. When the free scoring queue is backed up, the processing screen says so and shows your place instead of a vague spinner. Pro reps skip the line.
Under the hood: a new app runtime on both platforms. The iPhone app now requires iOS 15 or later.

The iPhone app is live. The full rep room — recording, scoring, curriculum, Pre-Game, the live meter — now installs like it always should have: download Dictalus on the App Store. Same account, same 5 free reps a day; your web history comes with you.

Two new delivery metrics, read straight from your audio: Pitch variation (how monotone or lively you actually sounded, in semitones) and Energy (your loudness dynamics). Both compare you to your own recent reps — voices differ, so there is no universal chart.
The Language arc: longer reps get a colored strip showing how your wording evolved — certainty (committed vs hedging) and tone (positive to negative), segment by segment. Tap any block to see the exact words behind it.
New tool — Analyze a script: paste any talk, memo, or speaking notes and get the tone arc, the hedge map, written-in filler words, and speaking time at your measured pace. Nothing you paste is saved to your account. Pre-Game gains an "Analyze my plan" button.
New tool — Live meter: run it during a real meeting for fully on-device awareness: live energy and pitch traces, speech share, a slow/steady/fast pace gauge, pause quality, and ending analysis — it counts endings that fade out or rise like questions, and nudges you in the moment. No audio is recorded or leaves your phone, ever.
Smarter content feedback: the coach now judges your answer against the actual prompt — leading with your greatest strength when asked for it counts as leading with the point.
See your path: drills are numbered, completed ones get a checkmark, modules show progress and a Complete ✓ state — and the suggested drill advances through the sequence instead of always starting at drill 1.

Eight new drills: joining a group conversation, sharing a 30-second personal anecdote, bridging between topics, breaking into a discussion politely, recovering the floor after an interruption, disagreeing without heat, using names naturally, and giving compliments specific enough to land.
Four new industry lenses (Pro): Sales & customer-facing, Healthcare / clinical, Consulting & finance, and Academia & research — every lesson's examples rewritten for your field. Industry lenses are now a Pro feature; the full Business & tech lessons stay free for everyone.
Fast scoring (Pro): turn it on in Settings → Privacy and your reps are transcribed by ElevenLabs Scribe — scores land in seconds, and filler words are caught more reliably because it hears you verbatim.
Practice in your language: with Fast scoring on, reps in Spanish, German, Mandarin, and 90+ other languages are transcribed and scored for pace and pauses (filler-word detection is English-first for now).
Off by default. Leave it off and transcription stays entirely on our servers, exactly as before.

Pre-Game: got a real moment coming up? Name it, write your headline, back it with up to three points, land the ask — then rehearse it out loud as a scored rep. Your game plan stays on screen while you record.
New Presence lesson sections: letting "yes" be a complete answer, and calibrating technical enthusiasm to the room.
Pro: request custom industries and themes right from any lesson — tell us your field and we build the examples for it.
Your audio, your call: Pro members can keep their recordings to listen back to any rep (Settings → Privacy). The default stays delete-after-scoring.

Twelve practical guides on filler words, pace, pauses, interviews, small talk, and sounding confident — each one ends with something to say out loud.
A free speech pace calculator: paste a script, get words per minute, or time a talk at three paces.
The cat got teammates: mic, headphones, and chart variants now close out every guide.

The full rep loop, live at app.dictalus.com: record a 30–90 second take, get scored on pace, fillers, and pauses, fix one thing, run it back. 5 free reps a day.
Guided curriculum — 7 modules from Delivery to Presence, with lesson examples you can switch to your industry.
Trends, streaks, offline reps that sync later, and you decide what happens to your audio (deleted after scoring by default).
iOS app submitted to the App Store.

Pre-Game is live in the app now — build the plan for your next big moment and rehearse it before the room does.

The Dictalus cat watching a rising trend line