Skapa

A speech writer for Mac, iPhone and iPad

Write it. Rehearse it. Give it.

Skapa Ord is for the speeches people get asked to give, like a wedding toast or the speech at your dad’s seventieth. On the night, you read it from a dark screen made for reading aloud.

Coming soon to the App Store

Try the stage
The letter ð, bent from a single strip of wood.
ð Eth, the last letter of orð, word.

A lot of speeches are written in a notes app and read from it on the night. With the whole room watching, people lose their place, scroll, pinch, and scroll again.

Skapa Ord keeps writing and performing apart. You edit in a view made for writing, and on the night you read from one made for standing up with a glass in your other hand.

I Write

The text comes first, with your plan and notes beside it.

Skapa Ord has a place for each step of a speech: what it’s for, its shape, the memories, and the words themselves. You can take them in any order.

Each paragraph is one tap. Press return wherever you want the next passage to start on the night.

Notes to yourself go in square brackets, like [look at Dad]. They show on stage in the wood tone, so you see them without reading them out.

The margin holds your rehearsal marks, in wood, and the app’s thoughts, in grey. Wave each one away once you’ve dealt with it.

A sheet of paper curling up at one end, with a wooden pencil resting on it.

Words, and nothing to fiddle with

You can’t change typefaces, sizes or colours. The only formatting is emphasis, for a word you want to stress: ⌘B on the Mac, or Emphasis in the edit menu.

Spelling mistakes are underlined, and nothing changes until you pick a correction. Apple’s Writing Tools are switched off for the speech, since they can rewrite whole paragraphs.

Until you rehearse, the length is an estimate based on a typical speaking pace for the speech’s language. After that, it uses your own times.

A strip of paper folded into three soft waves, resting on a curved wooden base.

A shape before the words

Plan the parts first, each with a feeling. If you reorder them, their paragraphs move too. Each part shows how long it takes, so you can see where the minutes go and whether anything warm comes before the end.

  1. Opening warm0:40
  2. Growing up funny2:10
  3. The workshop proud1:30
  4. Mom moving1:50
  5. The toast together0:30
Three paper cards gathered in a band of green, with a curl of wood behind them.

Somewhere for the memories

Put an idea down in seconds, on the bus or in a queue, and place it later. Each memory keeps who it came from, so Mom’s stories stay hers.

Place one into the text as a new paragraph to rework, or file it under a part to plan with. Nothing goes into the speech until you put it there.

  • The leaking boat on the lake MeIn Growing up
  • He whistles when he’s nervous. Always the same tune. KarinPlace in…
  • The drive to Bergen, 1983. The car broke down twice and he sang the whole way. Mom

II Rehearse

Practise on the same screen you’ll use on the night.

A blank paper card standing in a curved wooden holder beside a small wooden clock, circled by a green ribbon.

Mark it, and keep going

Rehearse is Perform with a few controls along the bottom: a clock, Mark, text size and Done.

When a line doesn’t work, touch Mark. Type or dictate a few words, or none at all, and carry on reading. Your marks wait in the writing view, beside their paragraphs.

Start at the top, or rehearse one part on its own. Each part keeps its latest time.

After a run-through

7 min 40 s, and Growing up took 3 of them.

  1. Opening0:45
  2. Growing up3:02
  3. The workshop1:28
  4. Mom1:51
  5. The toast0:34

Reading in your head is faster than reading aloud, so the first timings often run short. The app reminds you of that when it shows your times.

III Give it

A dark screen that never scrolls on its own.

On the night, your speech moves past one fixed reading line, a third of the way down. What you’ve said fades away above it, and what comes next waits below. A tap moves it on, so you can improvise and pick up again where you left off.

Try it

Use the screen as you would your phone. Each thing you try is ticked off.

  • Tap anywhere The next passage slides up to the reading line.
  • Drag down Back one passage. Keep dragging to go further.
  • Tap twice by accident It still moves only once.
  • Rest a thumb on the edge Nothing happens. That’s where your hand holds the phone.
  • Press and hold Leaves the stage. A single tap never can.

On a keyboard: Space → or ↓ to go on, and ← or ↑ to go back. Presentation clickers work too.

OpeningGood evening, everyone.
Seventy years ago, a boy was born in a small house by the lake. look at Dad
Growing upHe taught us to row before we could swim.
“Pull with your back,” he said, “not your arms.”
He taught us that a boat is only as good as the person bailing it, that the lake is always colder than it looks, and that you never, ever tell a fish story without making the fish a little bigger each time. We believed every word.
And every summer, the boat leaked a little more. pause
EndingSo please raise your glasses. lift glass
To Dad.
A dark green tablet on a bent wooden stand, showing three bars: the current one bright, with a small wooden mark beside it.

Made to keep you in your speech

The screen stays awake
It stays on until you leave the stage, unless you turn this off in Settings.
Interruptions keep your place
If the phone locks or rings, Perform comes back on the same passage.
Hard to leave by accident
On iPhone, even the swipe home takes two swipes while you perform, so a hug can’t throw you out.
A reminder about Do Not Disturb
As Perform opens, it reminds you to turn it on. iOS doesn’t let apps do that themselves.
No clock, no progress bar
Perform shows only the speech. It still records the timings, so afterwards you can see how long you took.
Sheets of paper in a shallow wooden tray, the top sheet curling at one corner.

Print

One Print button makes a clean copy to keep in your pocket in case the phone dies: large type, the part names, notes to yourself in italics, emphasis kept, and page numbers.

The print sheet saves it as a PDF too, on every device.

Optional, and on your device

Help that asks questions, and never writes for you.

A speech should sound like the person giving it, so Skapa Ord’s optional Thoughts never write any of it. Like a friend reading over your shoulder, they ask questions and point things out.

  • A question, in Material What did he always say when something broke?
  • The self-centred trap This part is about you, not him.
  • About the shape Three funny parts in a row, and nothing warm until the end.
  • Hard to say aloud This sentence reads well, but it’s a mouthful to say.
Never a word in your speech
It doesn’t suggest sentences or rewrite yours. Nothing it says goes into the speech unless you type it yourself.
No chat box
Thoughts appear in the margin, in grey, and you can wave them away.
On your device only
Thoughts use Apple’s on-device model, so your speech is never uploaded.
Easy to turn off
One switch in Settings turns Thoughts off completely.

Thoughts need a device with Apple Intelligence turned on, and a language its on-device model supports. Without them, everything else works just the same.

The idea

Elegance through simplicity.

Most word processors are made for every kind of writing. Skapa Ord is made for one: a speech you’ll stand up and give. Every feature helps you write it, gather what goes into it, rehearse it or give it. Anything else isn’t there, however nice it would be.

Buttons are words

Every button says in words what it does. The only icons are Apple’s standard ones, like + for add.

  • Rehearse
  • Perform
  • Shape
  • Material
  • Print
  • Done

What you won’t find

  • An account to sign up for
  • Tracking, ads, or anything collected
  • An AI that writes for you
  • Typefaces, sizes and colours to fiddle with
  • Text that scrolls on a timer
  • Folders and files to manage
  • More than three settings

Privacy

Your words stay yours.

Nothing collected
There’s no account, analytics, advertising or tracking.
In your own iCloud
Speeches live in the app on your devices, kept in step through your own iCloud. There’s no server of ours in between.
Thoughts stay on device
Thoughts run on your device with Apple’s model, so your speech is never sent anywhere to be read.

Read the privacy policy

Mac, iPhone and iPad

Start it at your desk, finish it on the bus, and give it from your phone.

Your speeches are on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, kept in step by iCloud, and everything works offline.

iPhone
iOS 26 or later
iPad
iPadOS 26 or later
Mac
macOS 26 or later
Languages
English, norsk, svenska and dansk, for the app and for your speeches

For when you’re asked to say a few words.

Coming soon to the App Store

Skapa, to shape. Orð, word.