Frequently asked questions

Yes. Sign in with a free account — no payment needed — to practice speaking and get AI feedback, with fair-use daily limits. The Learn English phrase library is free to browse without any account.

Not to start: on the homepage you can answer three real IELTS Speaking Part 1 questions out loud with no account. Your answers stay on this device until you sign in free to get them scored. The phrase library and speaking question library are free to browse without an account.

heytardy focuses on fluency, vocabulary, and grammar from your spoken answer. It does not provide phoneme-level pronunciation scoring.

Your first-minute answers stay on this device until you choose to sign in and score them. After sign-in, recordings are transcribed for feedback and then discarded; heytardy does not store your audio.

Yes. Use IELTS Speaking practice for Part 1, 2, and 3 with band-style feedback, or follow the Fluency Journey to build everyday fluency.

Missions are spoken role-plays of real situations: asking a hotel for a later checkout, getting a wrong bill fixed, asking your neighbour to turn the music down. A character who isn't on your side yet answers what you actually say, and their mood moves with it. Afterwards you see how a local would have said each of your lines. Missions need a free account, which includes 7 conversations a week.

You can do everything you need on the free plan — a free account gives you 15 AI evaluations a day, saved reports, and band 7–9 model answers, with no credit card. There's no paywall to start; higher daily limits may come later.