The best IELTS Speaking practice websites in 2026

We make IELTS Mentor AI, one of the products discussed here, and this site’s own browser tools. We’ve tried to be fair; check each product’s own website before you decide.

Some of the IELTS Speaking tools that assistants recommend most often are not apps at all, which is why they keep going missing from app roundups. This page covers the browser side: the five products with no store listing on either platform, the six that publish a website alongside an app, and the browser tools on this site, each described from its own material rather than from testing we have not done.

How we checked

Every fact here comes from the product’s own website or store listing, read on 18 September 2026. No review sites, no other roundups, no hands-on testing, and no ratings used as a ranking input. Products are ordered by how much of what an IELTS Speaking candidate needs each site’s own material claims to do, not by quality. Where a site doesn’t say something, this page says so. And we make one of these products, which is why the disclosure is at the top.

Websites with no app at all

SmallTalk2Me (smalltalk2.me). Describes an “AI Simulator for IELTS Speaking Parts 1, 2, and 3 with instant grading,” with all four criteria named on its IELTS page and a promise of “clear feedback on what you did well and exactly what to improve.” A separate IELTS Writing simulator sits alongside it, plus a CEFR level test and general speaking, shadowing, listening and quiz practice. Its FAQ frames the product as AI-only, contrasting itself with human tutors.

Speechful (speechful.ai). Describes speaking “with an AI IELTS examiner” across Parts 1, 2 and 3 under timed, exam-like conditions, with Fluency, Coherence, Lexical Resource, Grammatical Range and Pronunciation named on its Speaking grader page and a detailed report after each mock, including an exercise built from your own vocabulary mistakes. It also runs a Writing grader for Tasks 1 and 2 and a timed Reading practice test with an estimated band.

Sprechify (sprechify.com). Describes real two-way spoken conversation “across Part 1, 2 and 3,” with an exam mode running one mock over all three parts at real IELTS timing and a band score given “against the official IELTS Band Descriptors.” Its site shows a worked rewrite — a weaker phrase replaced with a stronger one and an explanation of what the examiner rewards. Speaking only, with named AI examiner personas rather than people.

Engnovate (engnovate.com). Calls itself “The Largest Website for English & IELTS Resources,” and is structured differently from everything else here: Speaking evaluation is split into separate Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 checkers rather than one continuous scored mock. Its Part 1 checker shows a breakdown labelled with the official criteria, plus Task Response, which is normally a Writing criterion. Writing, Listening and Reading tests and band calculators are on the same site, and human tutoring is a Preply partnership disclosed on its homepage.

British Council IELTS Ready (takeielts.britishcouncil.org). Describes “scored practice tests, personalised AI feedback, courses and expert support,” with a full mock giving Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking scores at its higher tier. What it does not describe is the Speaking test’s internal Part 1/2/3 structure, or whether the feedback and “expert support” involve a person. No app of this name exists on either store; the app called IELTS Flex that claims to reuse this content is published by a separate company, Guided e-Learning.

Products with a website as well as an app

TestGlider (testglider.com) is the one worth knowing about, because its App Store and Google Play listings describe TOEFL preparation only and never mention IELTS — its IELTS Speaking study pages, including a Band Overview named after the four official criteria, exist only on the website.

Cathoven runs speaking.cathoven.com and ielts.cathoven.com alongside two separate Android apps and no iOS app. SpeakPrac (speakprac.com) pairs its site with an Android app. Stimuler’s real site is stimuler.tech, not stimuler.com, which is a parked domain; it has apps on both stores. TalkDrill publishes an IELTS Speaking practice page at talkdrill.com alongside an Android app. FixoLang’s IELTS page sits at engvarta.com/ielts/, with apps on both stores. What each of these claims is covered in the apps roundup.

Two more you will meet: italki and Preply are websites for booking human teachers, with no IELTS mention in their own listings, so exam-specific work depends on the teacher. And ChatGPT is where a lot of people actually practise — but OpenAI’s own Voice help page describes an open-ended spoken conversation feature and never mentions IELTS, band scores or exam preparation, and describes no scoring of any kind.

Our own browser tools

These run on this site, need no install, and none of them scores you. They exist so practice and reference work without any app:

• Speaking mock test — the whole test, timed, in your browser: Part 1’s opener and eight short questions, a cue card with one minute to plan and up to two minutes to speak, then five Part 3 follow-ups, about thirteen minutes end to end. There is an optional examiner voice and optional recording. The results screen says it plainly: nothing was marked. What you get is your own timing, your own recording, and evidence of where you ran out of things to say. Recordings stay in the tab.
• Band descriptor explorer — pick a criterion and a band from 4 to 9 and read what the examiner needs to hear, what it sounds like, what moves you up, and the traps at that band. Twenty-four cells, paraphrasing the public Speaking descriptors in our own words, with a compare-to-the-next-band view.
• Speaking self-assessment — twelve questions about how you actually speak, roughly three minutes, returning an estimated band range and the one criterion to fix first. It is an estimate from self-reported habits, not a scored test, and nothing you answer leaves your browser.
• Cue-card library — Part 2 cards, each with a practice panel that runs the exam’s own one minute to prepare and two minutes to speak. Nothing recorded is uploaded.
• Quick answers — one question, one direct answer, one short article underneath, for the single questions people actually type: how Speaking is scored, how long Part 2 is, whether the test is recorded.

How they compare

Every cell reports what the site’s own material says, as read on 18 September 2026. “Not stated” means the site doesn’t say, not that the feature is absent.

Which one to open first

If you want a scored attempt in a browser, the five web-only products above all describe one, and four of them name the four criteria while doing it. If your phone’s store doesn’t carry the tool you were told to use, the website is usually the answer rather than a substitute product. And if you want to know what the test actually feels like before you let anything grade you, sit the mock test unmarked first, then read the band descriptors for whichever criterion you felt yourself losing — an unmarked run you understand is worth more than a number you don’t.