Say your manager writes: "The report was due yesterday and I still don't have it. I had to tell the client we'd be late. What happened?" You type a reply, delete it, type another. lets-talk is a place to work out that reply before you send it.
Years of learning to read between the lines
I was socially awkward when I was young. It took me many years to understand what people actually meant, to read between the lines, and I am still learning.
Meeting people from other countries opened my eyes. People communicate in very different ways, in different languages and styles. Connecting with people is something you never finish learning: getting through to someone without hurting them. I built lets-talk as a place to practise that.
Paste the line, see their side, pick a reply
When a message freezes you, paste it into Advise. lets-talk reads how things might look from the other person's side, lists what to avoid, and gives you a few replies you could actually send, each with a note on why it works.
Write works the other way round. You pick an awkward moment, write what you would say, and the coach scores it on four plain parts: what happened, how you feel, what you need, and a request the other person can say yes or no to. Each part is out of 25. Below the score sits a calmer rewrite you can compare with your own.
Role-play is the rehearsal. An AI plays the other person, and it doesn't give in on the first try. A vibe meter shows the heat rising or cooling with each message, and a coach note follows every turn. At the end, a session review shows where it turned. There are 12 scenes with friends, family, coworkers and partners.
Each character also has a background setting: someone who says the hard thing and then softens it, someone who skips the cushioning, someone for whom implication counts for more than volume. You choose from 13 country presets or tune your own, and the screen says it plainly: tendencies, not boxes. That setting comes straight from what I learned meeting people from other countries.
Notes are two-minute reads on naming a feeling, calming down, apologies that land and saying no kindly. Notes and Easy Write, where you pick a reply instead of writing one, work without AI. lets-talk runs on iPhone, Android and in the browser.
What's free and what costs money
The app is free to download and needs no account. Each device includes about $0.50 of AI coaching, up to 40 requests. When that runs out, a free sign-in adds 75 credits. After that you can buy one-off credit packs of 500, 1,100 or 3,000 credits; the price is shown when you buy. There is no subscription. You can also paste your own Anthropic API key in Settings, and it stays on your device.
The AI replies come from Claude, made by Anthropic. Before anything you type is sent, lets-talk shows what goes where and asks for your OK. The only AI text we keep is a reply someone chooses to report.
lets-talk is a practice tool for communication. It is not therapy or crisis support.