We built the tutor we couldn't afford.
Sprechify exists because a private IELTS coach in Karachi costs ₨7,000 an hour. A visa to Toronto does not wait for you to save up for fifty of them.
Our founders sat IELTS four times between them. They paid for tutors. They watched friends fail by 0.5 bands and lose visa offers worth years of work. They built the system that would have got them — and you — through the first time.
Today, fifty-two thousand learners in eighty countries use Sprechify to prepare for the conversation that changes their life.
We don't believe in streaks, owls, or gamified anything. We don't believe in “AI-powered” as a value proposition. We don't believe in language as a hobby for the privileged.
The first three years.
Three friends, four failed IELTS attempts.
A WhatsApp group thread becomes a notebook of every IELTS examiner trick that actually worked. Then a rubric. Then a small model fine-tuned on it.
First 200 beta learners in Lahore.
Average IELTS Speaking band gain: 0.7 in six weeks. Two visas issued. The product has a name.
10,000 IELTS Speaking sessions scored.
The dataset hits 10,000+ scored examiner sessions. Aria, Marcus, and Imani — the three IELTS examiner voices — go live. Used in 41 countries.
52,400 learners. ±0.3 band prediction accuracy.
Independently audited IELTS Speaking band predictions land within ±0.3 of real test results. TOEFL and German tracks retired — we double down on what works. The team is now twenty-two people across Berlin and Karachi.
Twenty-two people, nine time zones.
Four things we won't negotiate on.
Outcome over engagement
We do not optimise for time-on-platform. We optimise for the band score. Many of our best learners 'graduate' Sprechify in eight weeks. That is the goal, not a leak.
No dark patterns
No credit cards needed for diagnostic tests. No 'are you sure?' dialogs on cancellation. No streak shame. Two clicks to leave, always.
Pricing for where you live
Karachi pays Karachi prices. Toronto pays Toronto prices. The same product, calibrated to local purchasing power.
Tell people what we don't do
Sprechify does not teach grammar from scratch, or build vocabulary for casual travel. We are an exam tutor and a conversation tutor. We say so on the homepage.