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 v0.1.3

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

Tap Start. No setup. Nobody to enrol, nothing to configure.

2

It finds the voices, live. Each person gets their own bar as Speaker 1, 2, 3โ€ฆ on-device. Rename anyone to whatever you like.

3

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

Talk Balance live session showing who is talking most

Built so 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 has no way to send audio off the device.
  • 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.