IELTS Speaking
An IELTS Speaking tutor that scores on the four criteria and coaches like a bilingual teacher.
NOVA listens to you speak, scores you on the four official criteria, and explains what to fix in your own language. Five minutes a day, on any phone, no installation.
How a session works
Speak, get scored, improve.
A practice scenario runs two or five minutes. You practise one part of the test at a time, under the same timing as the real exam.
Speak
Short daily sessions on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 questions, practised separately. Exam-style timing, so the pace of the real test is nothing new on the day.
Get scored
You get a transcript and band estimates on the four official criteria: Fluency and coherence, Lexical resource, Grammatical range and accuracy, Pronunciation. Every number is a practice estimate, not an official IELTS result.
Improve
NOVA works through five stages, from S1 Ideas to S5 Independent talk. Spaced review brings back what you got wrong, and NOVA memory keeps track of what you struggled with.
The real screens
Three moments from the app, unedited.
Captured from the product on a phone. The report carries its label next to the band, and pronunciation says not assessed when there is no audio.
Screens from the YNova Demo School, a synthetic fixture with made-up learners. The interface is the real product. See every screen.
Inside a Part 2 session
A cue card, a timer, and a score you can read.
One minute to prepare, up to two minutes to speak, then a band snapshot for the four criteria. What you see below is the shape of the screen, not a screenshot.
Cue card
Describe a skill you would like to learn.
- You should say: what the skill is
- why you want to learn it
- and explain how you would learn it
Band snapshot
7.0- Fluency and coherence
- Lexical resource
- Grammatical range and accuracy
- PronunciationAI estimate
Practice estimate. Not an official IELTS result.
Bilingual scaffolding
Think in your language. Speak in English.
Ask NOVA a question in your own language and get the explanation in it. Work out the idea first, then build the English around it. Vocabulary is glossed in your language so the meaning lands before the word does.
The support is there to be outgrown, and you hold the dial. A slider sets how much first-language help you want, from minimal to heavy, and Immersive mode is English only. The first language is a scaffold, not the destination.
Vocabulary card
a rare opportunity
Lexical resource · S2 Vocabulary
- Thai
- โอกาสที่หายาก
- French
- une occasion rare
Glosses appear in your own language. Answers and model sentences stay in English.
Built to be honest
Rules NOVA follows on every screen.
A practice tool is only useful if you can trust what it tells you. These are not settings. They are how the product works.
- Every score is labelled as a practice estimate, not an official IELTS result.
- No overall band is shown until there is enough evidence to support one.
- Pronunciation is labelled as an AI estimate wherever it appears.
- NOVA never invents your answer. Drafts and sample answers are built only from the ideas you gave it, and the recording that counts is your own English.
- You set how much first-language support you want, from minimal to heavy. Immersive mode is English only.
What's next
Speaking first. The other skills follow.
Writing scaffold
A six-stage scaffold for IELTS Writing, coached by NOVA.
Four-skill mock test
A full mock test across all four skills, starting with Reading.
YNova is not affiliated with IDP, the British Council or Cambridge.
Meet NOVA
A tutor with a face, not a chat box.
NOVA listens, thinks, points things out and cheers you on. Small moments, every session, so practice feels like company rather than a test.
Says hello
Listens
Thinks with you
Points it out
Reads along
Cheers you on
Start speaking today.
Open the app in your phone browser and do a Part 1 session now. No installation.
Free plan, no card required. Pro has a 7-day trial.