Yoodli alternatives for speaking practice

Yoodli has grown from a speech coach into a platform for AI roleplays: you practise a sales call, an interview or a hard conversation with an AI, and it scores you on things like discovery questions, objection handling or clarity. For your real calls, its online meetings page says you can use it privately during a conversation, get nudges to slow down or hit your talking points, and get a report afterwards with pacing, filler words and suggestions. It lists Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Slack among its integrations.

From Yoodli's pricing page:

• Starter: start free, with 5 lifetime sessions. A roleplay longer than 30 seconds counts as one.
• Pro: $8 a month billed yearly, up to 10 roleplays a week, plus feedback on uploaded call recordings.
• Advanced: $20 a month billed yearly, unlimited roleplays, and your data kept out of AI training.
• On Starter and Pro, session data may be used to improve the platform.
• Team and Enterprise plans are priced on request.

People look elsewhere when 5 free sessions run out fast, when they don't want their practice data used for training, when they want a one-time price, or when what they need is narrower than a coaching platform: feedback on calls they take in a second language, say.

We make Koi, one of the apps below, so read this with that in mind, and read the Koi part closely: its speaking coach is much narrower than Yoodli. Facts about the others come from their own sites and help pages, checked October 21, 2026.

Koi is a Mac app that records calls, and the coach lives in a call's notes. Here is all of it:

• You record a call with Koi: tap the keys, pick Online call. Koi writes it down on your Mac as You and Them.
• When the call ends, Koi asks whether to summarize it. Only with a yes do the transcript's words (never the audio) go to Koi's AI.
• With Coach how I speak turned on, those notes add a few things you said, put more naturally, and words worth practising.
• It's built for calls you take in your second language.

What it doesn't do: no roleplays, no practice sessions with an AI, no live nudges during the call, no scores, no count of filler words, no pace in words per minute, no eye contact or video analysis, and no progress dashboard. If that's what you use Yoodli for, Koi isn't a replacement.

Poised was a coach for real calls: live feedback on Mac and Windows, with no bot. A banner on its homepage says it is shutting down on 10/8/2026, so it's no longer an option. Our Poised alternatives page covers where its users can go.

1. In Koi's Settings, open the Koi tab and find Calls and meetings.
2. Turn on Coach how I speak. To see the others in your language too, turn on Live captions in my language and pick it.
3. On your next call, tap Fn + ⌃ and pick Online call, or choose Record an Online Call in the menu bar.
4. When the call ends, say yes to Summarize this call? The coaching sits in the notes at the top of the call's page.

From each company's own pages. “Not listed” means they don't say.

Every coach here sends your speech somewhere except where noted. Yoodli says Starter and Pro session data may be used to improve the platform; Advanced keeps it out of AI training. PowerPoint and Teams send your speech to Microsoft's speech service. With Koi, the call is turned into text on your Mac and the audio stays there; only the transcript's words go to Koi's AI when you say yes to notes, and nothing of the notes is kept on Koi's server. Recording people may need their consent where you or they are, and Koi doesn't announce itself, so tell them.

Practice apps train delivery: pace, filler words, energy. If your problem is that English, or German, or Japanese, isn't your first language, the hard part is usually different: you know what you mean, you just say it stiffly, and you miss things when people talk fast. Here is how Koi fits that:

• Turn on Live captions in my language, on macOS 26, so you can follow the others in your own language as they speak.
• Record the call with Koi, so you can go back to the transcript, You and Them in turns, afterwards.
• Say yes to the notes with Coach how I speak on, and read the few lines of yours it put more naturally.
• Practise the words it lists before your next call. That's the part Koi leaves to you.

If you also want to rehearse out loud and be scored, pair that with a practice app like Orai or Yoodli itself. They solve different problems.

Yoodli's own Starter is free for 5 sessions. PowerPoint's Speaker Coach is in free preview for rehearsing slides, in English. Orai is free to download, with paid plans. Teams' Speaker Coach comes with Teams, though Microsoft's page doesn't say which license it needs. Koi isn't free: Pro starts with a 3-day trial that needs a card. See Koi's plans.

Rehearsing is safe: you can stop, retry and get a score with nothing at stake. That's where Yoodli, Orai and PowerPoint's coach shine, and why they're good before an interview or a pitch. The catch is that you speak differently when it's real: faster, with more fillers, and in a second language with more of the phrases you reach for under pressure.

Feedback on real calls catches those. Yoodli does it with nudges and a report; Teams Speaker Coach does it inside Teams; Koi does it in the notes after a call it recorded, and only on phrasing and words, not delivery. Most people who are serious about it use one tool of each kind: practice before, review after.

Yoodli runs in the browser and through its call integrations. Orai is a phone app, with a web app. PowerPoint's coach needs a Microsoft account and a connection. Teams Speaker Coach needs Teams with the app language set to English. Koi needs a Mac on macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon or Intel, for recording and the coach; the live captions that go with it need macOS 26 or later. Koi also needs Screen Recording allowed to hear the other side of a call.

• Real calls in your second language, with phrasing to learn from afterwards? Koi.
• Daily speaking practice on your phone? Orai.
• Rehearsing a slide deck, free? PowerPoint Speaker Coach.
• Private feedback inside Teams meetings? Teams Speaker Coach.
• Roleplays, live nudges and scores? Stay on Yoodli.

See Koi's plans, or our guide to recording a Zoom meeting on a Mac.