Does sayit work on Android?

No — there is no native sayit app for Android, and this article isn't going to pretend otherwise. What does work today, honestly and fully, is the web app in your Android phone's browser: open it in Chrome or another modern browser, allow microphone access, and you get the same recording, the same three-pass scoring, and the same per-word IPA feedback as on a laptop. Nothing to install, no app store, no separate account.

30-second version: No Android app exists. sayit's own iOS page states this directly when asked about Android, and recommends the mobile browser as the honest option in the meantime — which is exactly what it is: the full product, not a stripped-down mobile version, running in whatever browser you already have.

What this actually means day to day

sayit's engine doesn't run on your phone at all, on any platform — recording happens locally and the analysis runs on sayit's servers, so the "app" question is really a question about the interface, not the scoring quality. On Android, that interface is a browser tab. It has the same recorder, the same verdict states (clear, unclear, check), the same target-IPA-versus-your-sound comparison, and the same progress history tied to your account — because it's literally the same product, not a cut-down mobile build.

Where this is genuinely fine

• Full scoring engine, full drills, full feedback — nothing is disabled because you're on a phone.
• Works in any modern Android browser with microphone access — no download, no storage taken up, no update to manage.
• Your account, streak and recordings are the same ones you'd see on a laptop; there's no separate "mobile" data silo.

Where it genuinely falls short

• No home-screen app icon, no push notifications, no offline recording queue, no widget — the things a native app gives you that a browser tab can't.
• You have to open a browser and navigate to the site each time, rather than tapping an icon.
• There's currently no committed date for a native Android build, and this page won't invent one.

A practical tip for daily use on Android

Most Android browsers let you add a site to your home screen as a shortcut, which narrows the gap with a native app noticeably — you get a tappable icon without an actual install, even though it's still fundamentally a browser tab under the hood, without push notifications or a widget. It's a small thing, but for a habit you want to build daily, removing the "open the browser, then navigate to the site" friction each time genuinely helps.

Who this is for

If you mainly practise in short sessions and don't mind a browser tab, the Android experience today is not a compromise on scoring quality — it's the identical engine iOS users get in Safari and desktop users get in Chrome. If having a dedicated app icon and notifications matters to you specifically, that's the honest gap; sayit is currently focused on an iOS app first — see does sayit work on iPhone? for where that stands, and check back for Android news since no committed timeline exists yet for either platform beyond what's already shipping.

Try it

Open the app in your Android browser right now — no card needed for the first take.