# Astound – Voice & Speech Coach

> Public speaking & breathing

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1253443132](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1253443132)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1253443132`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Astound Inc
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,326 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2017-08-02
- **Size:** 51 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astound-voice-speech-coach/id1253443132)
- **Website:** [https://www.astoundthem.com/](https://www.astoundthem.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://astoundthem.com/privacy-policy](https://astoundthem.com/privacy-policy)

## Description

Astound helps you find your voice with confidence. With 100+ bite-sized video tutorials, a 30‑Day Challenge, and practice packs for interviews, presentations, and podcasts, you can steadily improve in just a few minutes a day.

Features include an audio voice recorder, analytics on tempo, pitch, and volume, favorite exercises, and daily reminders to build a lasting habit. Astound focuses on how your voice makes listeners feel, turning nerves into calm energy and authentic presence.

## Rankings

- #48,338 — Overall
- #3 — speech

## Review summary

Users praise Astound for its promising concept, daily recording/tracking, and evidence of speech improvement when features load. However, widespread crashes, heavy gating behind premium, billing confusion, poor support, and playback issues severely limit usability. Stability and transparent, fair pricing are crucial to unlock the app’s potential.

### Pros

- Noticeable improvement from warm-up exercises and overall helpful content when accessible.
- Daily recording and progress tracking feature is awesome and adds value.
- Interesting concept with real potential and observable effectiveness in improving speech.
- User-friendly design and interface that makes the app approachable when it works properly.

### Cons

- Frequent crashes, instability, and unresponsive features across the app.
- Core features and most content are locked behind premium subscriptions, making it hard to test the app before paying.
- Billing and renewal issues, including reports of unexpected yearly charges and unclear trials.
- Poor or difficult customer support and contact options, leading to unresolved issues.
- Video playback and content loading problems (buffering, not loading, blank screens) hamper usability.

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