PresenCoach

Rehearse a conference talk with nothing but your iPhone. See the time on each slide, how fast you are speaking, and where you fell silent. Nothing leaves the device.

PresenCoach records and analyses a rehearsal entirely on your iPhone. After every run you can see, in numbers, whether you will finish in time and which slide took too long.

WHILE YOU REHEARSE

• Elapsed time and how much of your limit is left
• The target time for the slide you are on, and how far ahead or behind you are
• Your speaking pace: words per minute in English, characters per minute in Japanese

CONFERENCE BELLS Set the times for the first, second and third bell and they ring on their own. The Lock Screen keeps showing the elapsed time and the time to the next bell.

SLIDES AND SCRIPT Import a PDF exported from PowerPoint or Keynote and rehearse while you swipe through it. Import the .pptx as well and the speaker notes become your script on screen. The part you have already said turns green, and the script scrolls to keep your place in the middle. Target times for each slide are worked out from the length of the script, and you can change any of them.

AFTER THE RUN

• Time spent on each slide against its target
• How your pace changed from start to finish
• The transcript in 30-second pieces; tap one to listen from there
• How many pauses ran longer than two seconds
• A read-along that shows which sentences you skipped or reworded
• Your history, so you can compare any two rehearsals

EVERYTHING STAYS ON THE DEVICE The recording, the transcript, your slides and your script are stored only on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account to create, and it all works in airplane mode.

PRESENCOACH PRO One purchase, no subscription. Pro adds the full transcript, the pace over time, the read-along, your practice history with comparisons, exporting to PDF or text, and unlimited saved rehearsals. Everything is free to try for the first seven days.

FOR

• Students and researchers with a conference talk coming up
• Anyone who has to finish within a fixed time
• Anyone who speeds up when nervous

Talks can be in English or Japanese.