Talk Balance

Put your phone on the table. See who's really doing the talking โ€” measured entirely on your phone.

Early access ยท open source ยท v0.1.1

What it does

โฑ๏ธ Talk share

How the conversation actually split โ€” who held the floor, who barely got a word in.

๐Ÿ” Turns & monologues

Turns taken and the single longest monologue of the night. The stat everyone recognises instantly.

๐Ÿ“Š A report to share

An end-of-conversation summary you can laugh over โ€” or quietly take to heart.

How it works

1

Enrol each person once. A short voice sample, stored only on the phone.

2

Run a session. The phone listens, matches each utterance to a speaker on-device, and fills a live bar per person.

3

Read the report. Talk share, turns, longest monologue โ€” then start an argument about it. ๐Ÿ™‚

Talk Balance setup screen: Who is at the table?

It can't spy on you โ€” and you don't have to trust me

An app that listens at dinner is exactly the kind that should worry you. So it's built so the worry can't hold:

  • No internet permission. The app declares none. Check it yourself under Android Settings โ†’ Apps โ†’ Talk Balance โ†’ Permissions. It cannot upload anything.
  • No audio is ever stored. Speech is processed on the phone in memory and written nowhere โ€” no recording file, verified on-device. No cloud, no account.
  • Open source. Read exactly what it does: GPL-3.0.

Install

Add the F-Droid repository for one-tap install and automatic updates:

https://fdroid.joanmarcriera.es/repo

Requires Android 10+. Prefer Obtainium? Point it at the repo URL above.

Built in the open, fast

This went from an idea to a signed, installable, open-source Android app in under 24 hours โ€” research, on-device architecture, a self-hosted F-Droid release channel, and app-signing plumbing I'd never touched before.

It's an honest early release: enrolment, the live session (coloured bars, current speaker, running leader) and the report all work on-device, with no audio ever written to disk. It's young and still being tuned โ€” in public, at the repo.