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A practice and prep tool for debate.

The Debate Prep is a practice, prep, and judging companion — build cases with AI feedback, drill speeches, flow rounds, and run practice rounds against an AI opponent.

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Contention 1Public Forum · Pro
Strong impact — quantify it. Three vague goods lose to one measured one.

An example argument — tap any part to see the kind of note the AI leaves on it.

25+Debate formats
12Prep & judging tools
10Judge training modules
$0For the core app, forever
01Everything in one app

Tools for practice, prep, and judging

Cases, speeches, flows, evidence, and practice rounds — kept in one place instead of scattered across docs and apps.

AREI & Case Builder

Build assertions, reasoning, evidence, and impact — with AI feedback that flags arguments that read as vague or underdeveloped.

Speech Feedback

Dictate or paste a speech and get an AI-annotated transcript, scored for your grade level and format.

Debate the AI

Practice a full round against an AI opponent: speak your speeches aloud or type them, and it reads its replies back to you. Turn by turn, at your own pace.

Flow Sheets & Round Recording

Track arguments live through a round, then record it and get a rundown of what might not have made it into your flow.

Refute Tables

Generate contentions and possible refutations for both sides of a resolution, so you have a starting point before a round.

Evidence Library

Save, tag, and link your research directly into the cases and arguments that use it.

Opponents & Pairings

Paste in pairing text and see who you're up against, without retyping it by hand.

Every Format, Timed Right

Speech and prep timers matched to 25+ formats — or your own custom league rules.

02Judge mode

Built for the judge's seat too

Switch to Judge Mode and the toolset changes to match — training, ballots, a timer, and flow sheets.

Structured Judge Training

10 focused modules plus a full review quiz — flowing, definitions and plans, weighing impacts, writing an RFD, and more.

Ballots, Made Simple

Record the winner, speaker points, and your reason for decision — with pairing import from tab sites.

Flow Sheets

The same flowing tool students use, ready for tracking a round from the judge’s seat.

Format-Aware Timer

Times speeches and prep to the exact limits of whatever format you’re judging that day.

03The honest comparison

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Fair question — and for brainstorming arguments or explaining a concept, you should. The Debate Prep runs on the same kind of AI. What's different is how it coaches: it asks when it's unsure instead of guessing, points at the exact sentence that needs to change, and checks each part of an argument while you're still writing it — on top of your format's real rules and your league's rubric.

It asks instead of guessing

In a chat window

Paste a rebuttal with a blank line where a response should go, and it'll grade around the gap — or confidently invent what you meant.

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When it genuinely can't tell whether something was intentional, it stops and asks you directly, then re-grades with your answer folded in. It never guesses on your behalf.

Feedback anchored to your exact words

In a chat window

"Strengthen your evidence" — true of almost any speech, and it tells you nothing about which sentence to actually change.

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Every note is pinned to the exact phrase in your speech it's about, with a before-and-after rewrite of that specific sentence — not a rewrite, a real one you could swap in.

Coaches while you write, not just after

In a chat window

You paste a finished draft and get one review. Whatever's weak survived every earlier version unnoticed.

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Each part of an argument — assertion, reasoning, evidence, impact — gets its own live check as you write it, so a weak warrant gets caught before you build the rest of the argument on top of it.

Graded on your league's rubric

In a chat window

It gives good general advice, because generic is all it has to work from.

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Upload your rubric once, and every AI grade after that — cases, speeches, weighing — scores against those exact criteria instead of a generic standard.

It hears how you actually speak

In a chat window

It reads the text you paste. It has no idea how fast you said it, or how many times you said 'um'.

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Dictate your speech and it measures your real pace, filler words, and pauses — then grades delivery alongside the argument, not just the transcript.

It knows which speech this is

In a chat window

Every block of text is just text, so a half-finished rebuttal reads as a weak speech.

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Tell it you're prepping a rebuttal and it grades a rebuttal — it won't mark you down for the gaps where the live material goes.

Your format's real rules

In a chat window

Ask how long an MSPDP rebuttal runs and you'll get a confident answer. It may be out of date, or simply wrong.

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Speech order, timings, prep, and interruption windows for 25+ formats — checked against the official rulebooks, not recalled from memory.

It runs the round with you

In a chat window

It can explain what protected time is. It cannot tell you when yours is about to run out.

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A timer set to your format's exact limits, a flow sheet built from its real speech order, and round recording that flags what you might have missed.

A general chatbot can absolutely help you think through an argument. It won't stop to ask when something's ambiguous, point at the exact sentence to fix, or catch a weak warrant while you're still building it — and it won't time your round, hear how you spoke, or remember your rubric tomorrow. This is built to do both.

04How it works

Get started in 3 steps

1

Create your free account

Sign up in seconds with Google, Microsoft, or email. Everything you make syncs across your devices.

2

Pick your format

Choose from 25+ formats — Policy, LD, Public Forum, Congress, Parli, and more — or describe your own custom league rules.

3

Prep and practice

Build your case with AI feedback, drill your speeches, and flow practice rounds before the real thing.

05Pricing

Free to build. Upgrade for more AI.

The whole app — case builder, flows, timer, evidence, and every Judge Mode tool — is unlimited on Free. Only the AI coaching runs on a credit allowance.

Free

Everything you need to build a case, flow a round, and train as a judge.

$0 forever
  • Case Builder, flow sheets, timer & evidence — unlimited
  • All of Judge Mode: training, quizzes, ballots
  • 300 AI credits for your first 14 days, then 40/month

Premium

Most popular

For debaters who want AI coaching on tap — every case, every practice round.

$9.99 /month

or $79/year

  • Everything in Free
  • 1,000 AI credits/month
  • Priority for new AI tools

Sign up free, then upgrade anytime from Settings — no credit card needed to get started.

What do those credits actually get you?

Three jobs a debater actually does, priced end to end — and how many times each allowance covers them.

Prepping a new resolution

Everything it takes to go from a fresh topic to a case you trust.

  • 1× Refute table for both sides7
  • 10× Point checks across your contentions10
  • 2× Intro and conclusion checks2
  • 1× Evidence search8
Whole job27 credits
300 to start
11×
40/month on Free
1,000/month on Premium
37×

A full practice round vs. the AI

A complete round — every AI speech, plus points of information both ways.

  • 6× AI speech turns18
  • 3× Points of information you give the AI3
  • 3× POIs the AI asks you, scored3
Whole job24 credits
300 to start
12×
40/month on Free
1,000/month on Premium
41×

A tournament weekend

Pairings in, rounds flowed, and feedback on how you actually spoke.

  • 4× Pairing imports4
  • 3× Flow imports from photos12
  • 2× Flow gap checks8
  • 3× Speech feedback on your rounds15
Whole job39 credits
300 to start
40/month on Free
1,000/month on Premium
25×

The 300 starter credits cover your first 14 days of AI use, then the free allowance settles at 40 a month — enough for any one of these jobs every month, on top of a case builder, flow sheets, timer, evidence library, and all of Judge Mode that never cost credits at all.

What does each AI action cost?

Full transparency — here's exactly how many credits every AI feature spends.

ActionCredits
Speech & argument feedback
Speech Feedback (annotated transcript + score)5
Point check (claim, warrant, evidence, or impact)1
Case framing check (intro, conclusion, definition, or plan)1
Weighing check1
Case prep generators
Refute Table generation7
Evidence search8
Custom format builder3
Debate the AI
AI's next speech turn3
Give the AI a Point of Information1
Heckle the AI (fallacy call-out)1
AI asks you a Point of Information1
AI scores your Point of Information answer1
AI decides whether to heckle your speech1
Flow & round tools
Import a flow (photo or document)4
Flow gap check (round recording review)4
Import pairing or judging assignment text1
POI & Heckle Trainer
Generate a practice speech3
Score a Point of Information1
Topic-specific POI & heckle suggestions1
Free — no credit cost
Import from a Google Doc or Sheet link0

Credits are only spent when an AI call succeeds — a failed request never costs you anything.

06Guides

Free guides, no account needed

How to prep, how to flow, how judges actually decide — plus speech order and timings for every format we support.

07FAQ

Questions, answered

Is The Debate Prep free?

The core app — Case Builder, flow sheets, timer, evidence library, and all of Judge Mode — is free forever, unlimited. AI coaching (speech feedback, refute tables, Debate the AI, and more) runs on a credit allowance: free accounts get 300 credits covering their first 14 days of AI use, then 40 a month after that. Premium ($9.99/mo or $79/yr) raises it to 1,000 a month. The pricing section shows exactly what those allowances buy.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

For brainstorming arguments or explaining a concept, honestly, you should — and The Debate Prep runs on the same kind of AI. What a chat window can't do is stop and ask when it genuinely can't tell if something was intentional, point at the exact sentence in your speech that needs to change, or check your reasoning and evidence separately while you're still building the argument instead of grading the whole thing at once. It also won't time your speech to your format's exact limits, hear how fast you actually spoke, or grade you against your own league's rubric. That's the part this is for.

Do I need to create an account?

Yes. A free account keeps your cases, flows, speeches, and everything else synced securely across every device you sign in on.

Is my information private?

Your account only stores your own prep — nobody else can see your cases, speeches, or flows. AI features send just the text you're actively working on to generate feedback, and nothing more.

What debate formats does it support?

25+ formats out of the box, across elementary through university levels. Don't see yours? Describe it as a custom format and every tool in the app adapts to it.

I judge, but don't compete — is there anything here for me?

Yes — Judge Mode gives you a judging-specific toolkit: training modules with quizzes, format-specific judging notes, ballots, a timer, and flow sheets.

Can I use this on my phone?

Yes — the whole app is responsive and built to work in a mobile browser, dictation and all.

Ready to start prepping?

Create a free account and get access to every tool — cases, speeches, flows, and more.