PresenceWhat 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
82142 words per minute, inside the 130-160 range that reads as comfortable, charted against where you sped up or slowed down.
Pauses
74How much of your speaking time was silence, scored against a comfortable 10 to 35 percent, and exactly where the longest ones fell.
Sentence Length
79How many sentences ran past twenty words for a listener to hold, weighed against sentences so short they feel choppy.
Voice
Intonation
38How much your pitch actually moves. Flat delivery is the fastest way to lose a room.
Vocal Range
68How much of your full pitch range you use across the whole take, not just one or two highlight lines.
Volume Consistency
70Consistency from first word to last, including the sentences that trail off into nothing.
Tone
52The sentiment of your words, not the warmth of your voice, so matter-of-fact delivery scores just as well as upbeat.
Opening Energy
44How much stronger your first few seconds land than the rest of the take, before people decide whether to keep listening.
Words
Fillers
61Every um, uh and hmm, the sounds you make instead of words, counted and pinned to the exact second in the transcript.
Hedging
66Phrases that soften a point before you’ve made it, "I think", "sort of", "you know", so it never quite lands.
Emphasis
77Whether the words that mattered most actually landed harder than the ones around them.
Absolute Language
91Overuse of "always", "never", and "everyone", the kind of certainty that invites pushback.
Word Variety
58How much you repeat the same words instead of reaching for a different one.
Confidence
88Whether your statements land firmly, or fade out before the point is finished.
Body language
Eye Contact
90How much of the take your head stayed pointed at the camera, not literally your eyes, with any clear break away flagged.
Blink Rate
72How often you blinked, aiming for a natural rate, since a nervous flurry and a frozen stare both read as off.
Expressiveness
65How much your face actually moved, not just whether you smiled once.
Fidgeting
80How often a hand settled at your face, hair, chin, lips, and lingered there, the habit that reads as nerves.
Gestures
55How often your hands moved, aiming for a natural rate, since frozen stillness and constant motion both read as off.
Posture
84How much your shoulder line drifted from where you started, not whether you stood perfectly straight.
Stability
92How often you rocked side to side, measured against your own frame size so it’s fair at any distance from the camera.
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.
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.
Availability
iPhone and iPad, in 21 languages.
Presence requires iOS 26.0 or later and is 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.