For speech therapists

Home practice you can actually see

Vocal Companion is a voice practice app for people in voice therapy. Your client does their exercises with a timer and spoken steps, writes down how their voice feels, and brings you a clear summary of the weeks between appointments.

I built it because I have muscle tension dysphonia. After my first appointment I had a sheet of exercises and no good way to show my therapist what happened at home. — Mark Jidon, Founder

What your client records

• A daily check-in: does their voice feel tight, okay or free today?
• Where it feels tight, on a simple body map: jaw, throat, neck and breath.
• How easy each exercise felt, rated straight after doing it.
• Short journal notes and voice memos, in their own words.

What you get to see

• A voice practice summary as a PDF, for the last 7 or 30 days: practice days, check-ins, which areas kept coming up, and whether exercises felt easier or more effortful over time, comparing the same exercises.
• Things worth a closer look, such as repeated throat discomfort, flagged with a suggestion to check with a doctor.
• A full export as a spreadsheet (CSV), or a single session shared as text.

Your client chooses what to share and sends it themselves, by email, AirDrop or whatever they use.

Your exercises, in the app

Your client can add the exercises you give them, with their own steps and timing, and the app reads each step aloud. It also comes with 14 suggested exercises, such as straw phonation, lip trills, humming, resonant voice, easy onset and laryngeal massage, each taken from published voice research or NHS speech and language therapy guides. The sources are listed at vocalcompanion.com/sources.

Private by design

Everything stays on your client's phone. There is no account and no sign-in, and we don't receive any health information, so nothing is sent to us or to anyone else unless your client shares it. The app has no analytics, no ads and no AI reading their notes.

Who it's for

It was built around muscle tension dysphonia, and it suits anyone doing voice exercises at home with a therapist's guidance, for example with vocal nodules or polyps, after voice surgery, with spasmodic dysphonia, or for singers and teachers keeping their voice healthy.

Vocal Companion guides practice. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything, and it doesn't replace your care.

Get in touch

Vocal Companion is launching soon on iPhone and Android. If you'd like to try it with clients, or tell me what would make it more useful in your clinic, email hello@vocalcompanion.com. I read every message.