What does the free take include on sayit?
One guest take, no signup, gets you a real score with no card. Create a free account afterward for real per-sound feedback, IPA, and ~30 minutes a month.
Your first take on sayit — as a guest, with no account at all — gets you a real, full result: record a sentence, and see a genuine per-sound score, not a preview or a blurred teaser waiting for a card. That's one scored guest take per device. After that, creating a free account is what unlocks ongoing use: real feedback on every sound, IPA on every word, and roughly 30 minutes of analysed speech a month, resetting at the start of each calendar month, with no card required at any point.
30-second version: Guest take = try it once, no signup, full result. Free account = ongoing access, about 30 min/month, real per-sound feedback, IPA on every word, plus every core drill (pacing, vowels, minimal pairs) unlocked. What a free account doesn't include: generating a custom passage, importing your own book, AI conversation practice, or full IELTS/TOEFL exam mode — those need Pro or Max.
What's in the free tier, concretely
| Included on free | Not included on free |
|---|---|
| Read-aloud practice + instant scoring | Custom passage generation |
| Real per-sound feedback, target IPA | Importing your own books/articles |
| Pronunciation drills — pacing, vowels, minimal pairs | AI conversation practice |
| ~30 minutes of analysed speech per month | Full IELTS/TOEFL exam mode |
| Progress tracking tied to your account | — |
Why the guest take matters before you commit
Most tools that gate their score behind a signup wall are asking you to trust them before you've seen anything. sayit's guest take flips that: you see the real mechanism — the per-word verdict, the phoneme-level feedback — before creating an account or handing over any information at all. Signing up afterward is about continuity (saved history, streaks, a monthly allowance), not about "unlocking" a result that was already withheld.
Where the free plan is genuinely solid
- No card, no expiring trial clock — the free plan renews every month for as long as you stay on it.
- The feedback depth is the same mechanism paid users get; free isn't a watered-down version of the scoring itself.
- All four core drills are open, not partially gated.
Where it's limited
- 30 minutes a month suits regular practice, not daily intensive prep.
- The features that need real computation beyond basic scoring — passage generation, book import, conversation practice, full exam mode — are reserved for paid tiers.
Why the guest take and the free account are two separate steps, not one
It would be simpler, in one sense, to just require an account from the very first take — but that would mean asking for a commitment before showing any evidence the product is worth it. Splitting it into a no-account guest take followed by an account-based free tier lets you evaluate the actual scoring mechanism on your own terms first, and only decide to create an account once you already know what you're signing up to keep using. It's a small sequencing choice, but it changes who's actually deciding what to trust, and when.
Who should upgrade, and when
If you're consistently running out of monthly minutes, or you want to practise your own material rather than sayit's passages, that's the practical signal to look at Pro or Max — see how much practice per month does the free plan allow? for the exact numbers across tiers.
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