What it measures

20+ honest numbers after every take.

Presence scores 21 measures of a recording, in four groups: timing, voice, words and body language. Each score comes with the sentence that explains it and one thing to try next time. The numbers below are from one example recording, to show what a result looks like.

Timing

Pace

90

Words per minute, scored against a comfortable 130 to 185. When pauses, not your speaking speed, pull the overall number down, it counts as pausing, not slow pace.

Pauses

96

How much of your speaking time was silence, scored against a comfortable 10 to 35 percent, and exactly where the longest ones fell.

Sentence Length

79

How many sentences ran past twenty words for a listener to hold, weighed against sentences so short they feel choppy.

Voice

Intonation

86

How much your pitch actually moves. Flat delivery is the fastest way to lose a room.

Vocal Range

68

How much of your full pitch range you use across the whole take, not just one or two highlight lines.

Volume Consistency

70

Consistency from first word to last, including the sentences that trail off into nothing.

Tone

52

The sentiment of your words, not the warmth of your voice, so matter-of-fact delivery scores just as well as upbeat.

Opening Energy

44

How much stronger your first few seconds land than the rest of the take, before people decide whether to keep listening.

Words

Fillers

84

Every um, uh and hmm, the sounds you make instead of words, counted and pinned to the exact second in the transcript.

Hedging

66

Phrases that soften a point before you’ve made it, "I think", "sort of", "you know", so it never quite lands.

Emphasis

77

Whether the words that mattered most actually landed harder than the ones around them.

Absolute Language

91

Overuse of "always", "never", and "everyone", the kind of certainty that invites pushback.

Word Variety

58

How much you repeat the same words instead of reaching for a different one.

Confidence

82

Whether your statements land firmly, or fade out before the point is finished.

Body language

Eye Contact

90

How much of the take your head stayed pointed at the camera, not literally your eyes, with any clear break away flagged.

Blink Rate

72

How often you blinked, aiming for a natural rate, since a nervous flurry and a frozen stare both read as off.

Expressiveness

65

How much your face actually moved, not just whether you smiled once.

Fidgeting

80

How often a hand settled at your face, hair, chin, lips, and lingered there, the habit that reads as nerves.

Gestures

55

How often your hands moved, aiming for a natural rate, since frozen stillness and constant motion both read as off.

Posture

84

How much your shoulder line drifted from where you started, not whether you stood perfectly straight.

Stability

92

How often you rocked side to side, measured against your own frame size so it’s fair at any distance from the camera.

Open any score

Every number explains itself.

Tap a measure and Presence shows where it came from: the moments on a timeline, the words in your transcript, and one thing to try next time.

Three taps, ninety seconds

How it works.

That's the whole loop, start to finish: hit record, do a short take, and read your score before you've had time to overthink it.

1. Hit record

Rehearse out loud, with your notes on screen if you want them. Nothing else to set up.

2. Name it, file it

Give the take a name and drop it in a folder, mock interviews, toasts, whatever you're working on.

3. Read the room

Scores, transcript and the one habit worth fixing before your next take. Then do it again.

Already have a take? Import an audio or video file from the Record screen instead of recording it again, and Presence scores it the same way.

Nothing to practice with?

186 scripts and 150 questions to record against.

A script is a full example, already written out, so a rehearsal starts with reading it aloud instead of staring at a blank screen. A curated question works the other way: 15 sets of real questions to answer on the spot, in your own words, closer to how an actual conversation would put it to you. Both are grouped by what you're actually preparing for.

Job InterviewsToasts & SpeechesDifficult ConversationsPresentationsSales PitchesSmall TalkDatingNetworkingLeadershipNegotiationStorytellingSchool & AcademiaPodcasts & MediaPhone Calls
Presence's Select a Script screen: create from Generated Scripts, Generated Questions, Import from Files, Write a Script, Add Questions or From a Recording.
Presence's Learn tab searching PREP: frameworks such as PREP, 3-2-1, 1-2-3-R, ABC and 3A, filterable by frameworks, principles and techniques.

The Learn tab

And the part that teaches you.

A built-in library of more than 200 frameworks, principles, techniques and exercises for speaking, with new ones added regularly. After every recording, Presence recommends the ones that match what actually needs work.

Progress

Watch it actually work.

Every recording feeds your trend: your streak, your total practice time, the measures you've improved most since you started, and the ones still worth your attention.

Presence's Progress screen: an average score of 84, up 19 points since the first recording, a rising trend line, and Confidence, Fillers and Eye Contact as the most improved measures.

Availability

iPhone and iPad, in 21 languages.

Presence requires iOS 26.0 or later. The interface and Learn library are available in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese; recording analysis currently works with English speech.

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