Free companion app
Before it asks you anything, it gives you a line to say.
The Speak Easy app is a free, installable companion to the books. Open it mid-conversation and the first thing it does is hand you a real line from the book, not a form. After that, it's one move a day from whichever edition you own. Works offline. No account, no cost, ever.
The first thing it does
A line to say, before a single question.
Most apps ask you to sign up, pick a plan, or answer a survey before they're useful. This one doesn't. Open it for the first time, mid-conversation gone sideways, and it asks one question: what just happened. Tap an answer and you get a real line from the book, ready to say, with the chapter it came from.
Nothing you tap here is sent anywhere. It's a book open to the right page, not a form.
What just happened?
Tap one. You'll see a line from the book. Tapping sends nothing.
“I think I lost you, let me back up.”
The book's words, Chapter 14: The Art of Adaptation
Every day after that
One move a day, five to seven minutes.
Once you've told it which edition and who it's for, the app gives you one unit a day: a quick check-in on yesterday's move, that day's idea straight from the chapter, the move itself, and something small to try. Miss a day and the streak pauses instead of breaking; there's a free pass built in every week, and nothing that reads as a scold if you skip one.
Every word you're taught is the book's own, quoted and labelled with its chapter. The app writes the questions and the buttons. It doesn't write the methods.
Today's move
Anchor it: say your name at a normal, unhurried pace. Offer something: one small, true detail. That's the whole method: no script required beyond this.
The book's words, Chapter 0: Say Your Name
Four editions, one app
It matches whichever book you have.
Tell it who it's for once, on the first screen, and everything after adjusts. Kids works differently on purpose: the book it's built from has no panic line to give, so the app doesn't pretend to have one.
Kids, 6 to 12
Opens on Peanut, a baby elephant tied to a small rope, not a Reset line. No panic button. Stars instead of XP. A grown-up sets it up, and the app never asks a child for a name or an email.
The Kids edition →Teen, 13 to 17
Reset line first, same as Adults. The daily moves come from the book's Real Talk chapters, written for school, group chats and friendships.
The Teen edition →Adults, 18+
Reset line first. Fifteen chapters plus a bonus chapter, each with its own move, practice, and a page of the book's notes on it you can save your own progress against.
The Adults edition →Pro
Reset line first, for high-stakes work conversations. Carries the book's own research sources and a six-week practice plan, both reachable from inside the chapter.
The Pro edition →What it knows about you
Four numbers leave your phone. Nothing else does.
No account, so there's nothing to sign into and nothing to leak. Four counts leave the device: one when the app is first opened, and one on each of the first three separate days you finish a unit. Each is a single number going up, with nothing attached that could point back to you. One more count fires if you send someone a line; opening that link sends nothing back.
Everything else, your progress, your notes, what you've tried, stays on the phone. It is not sent anywhere, and we cannot see it. You can export it, erase it, or move it to a new phone from Settings.
Full detail is in the app itself, under Settings → About this app, and what it knows about you.
Get it on your phone
Two taps, and it's an app.
It's a website you install, not a store download. Once it's on your home screen it works with no connection at all, which is the point: a line to say shouldn't depend on a signal.
- Open it in your phone's browser. speakeasybooks.com/companion, in Safari on iPhone or Chrome on Android.
- On iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
- On Android: open the browser menu and tap Install, or Add to Home screen.
- Open it from your home screen from then on. It loads instantly and works offline.