Frequently Asked Questions

A scroop is a single practice conversation. You describe who you're talking to, pick a setting, and have a live voice conversation with an AI playing them. Afterwards you get graded and a coaching report.

It started there, but Scroops covers work and social scenarios too. Networking is available on every plan; job interviews unlock with Pro; salary negotiations, coworker friction, sales meetings, and other high-stakes conversations require Coach. Same engine, different counterpart.

Free plan caps each scroop at 5 minutes. Starter goes to 8 min, Pro to 10, Coach to 15. You can always end it earlier.

It's a made-up word. We needed something short, brandable, and content-neutral — because a practice conversation isn't just a date and we didn't want the name to box us in.

Yes, instantly. From your dashboard. Cancel and you keep your access until the end of the current billing period.

Yes — Scroops is a live voice experience, so a working microphone is required. It works in current Chrome, Edge, and Safari on phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops; there is no app to download. A reasonably quiet space helps, but the AI handles light background noise fine.

Each location sets the scene and plays ambient background audio during your scroop — coffee shop chatter, ocean waves, cocktail lounge noise. Five locations are available on all plans (coffee shop, park bench, wine bar, office, video call). Four more unlock with Starter and above.

Yes — all paid plans offer annual billing at roughly 17% off the monthly rate. Starter is $90/year (vs $108 monthly), Pro is $190/year (vs $228), and Coach is $490/year (vs $588). You can choose annual billing when you sign up or switch from your subscription settings.

Upgrades take effect immediately with a prorated charge, so you get instant access to the higher tier. Downgrades and cancellations take effect at the end of your current billing period — you keep your existing access until then. If a payment fails, you get a 7-day grace period before anything changes, and after 30 days of non-payment your account automatically moves to the free plan.

Yes. The homepage has a free one-minute trial — no account needed. A friendly stranger at a coffee shop opens the conversation and you just talk. Afterwards you get a quick score. One trial per IP address per day.

Yes. The AI mock interview practice page has a free 60-second trial — no account needed. An AI hiring manager opens the interview, asks questions, and you answer out loud. You get a quick score at the end. One trial per IP address per day, shared with the conversation trial on the homepage.

There are 16 scenarios across four categories: dating and relationships (first date, second date, meet the parents, breakup), hard conversations (hard talk, apologizing, saying no, aging parent, roommate conflict), work and business (job interview, salary negotiation, coworker friction, sales meeting, customer complaint), and social (networking, self-advocacy). Free and Starter accounts cover most dating, hard-talk, and social scenarios. Job interview unlocks at Pro. Salary negotiation, coworker friction, sales meeting, customer complaint, breakup, aging parent, roommate conflict, and self-advocacy require Coach.

A persona is the description of the person the AI will play — their gender, age, occupation, conversation style, hobbies, deal-breakers, and anything else you want the AI to know. Pro and Coach subscribers can save personas to their library and reuse them for follow-up scroops with the same counterpart.

Yes — the new-scroop form auto-fills with the persona details (age, occupation, style, and so on) you used last time, so repeat setup is faster. This is separate from the persona library: auto-fill works on every plan, while saving named personas to reuse later is a Pro and Coach feature.

Yes — when setting up a scroop, you can preview and pick from 16 available voices (8 female and 8 male), each with a distinct style and personality. The voice you choose applies to that persona for the session.

Reciprocity, active listening, self-disclosure pacing, curiosity, warmth, authenticity, respect, conversational repair, boundary awareness, and spark. Each axis gets a score from 1 to 10, a quote from your transcript, and a one-sentence justification. Spark is marked not applicable for non-romantic scenarios like job interviews.

Yes — there is a Run it back button on the results page that spins up a new session with the same persona and location. On Pro and Coach the replay is free; on Starter it counts against your monthly quota.

Coach subscribers can tap a Listen button on the results page to get an audio version of their coaching report, read aloud by a warm AI voice. The audio is generated on demand and stays attached to that session.

One scroop per month, capped at five minutes, with a basic score after the conversation. You do not get the written coaching report, saved personas, or access to high-stakes scenarios on the free plan. No credit card is required to sign up.

Pro subscribers see a score history across all their scroops on the dashboard, making it easy to spot patterns. Coach subscribers also receive a monthly written progress report that compares scores over time and highlights what is changing.

Yes. Once your scroop is graded and the coaching notes are written, you will receive an email with a direct link to your results page. Grading usually completes within a minute or two of ending the conversation, so the email arrives shortly after.

Yes. After your scroop is graded, a collapsible "View full transcript" section appears on your results page, so you can review exactly what was said alongside the scoring breakdown and coaching notes.

Yes. Scroops has an affiliate program through Archieboy. Click the Affiliates link in the site navigation to get your referral link and see commission details.

Yes. After your one-minute trial ends and your score appears, there is a box on the results screen where you can enter your email address. We will send you the score, a short written summary, and a practice plan — no account required.

Yes — you must be 18 or older to use Scroops. This applies across every scenario, not just the dating ones, since the platform involves live AI voice conversations.

Yes — the Team plan ($99/month) gives up to 10 people everything in Coach, plus a shared workspace. Owners and managers can invite members and assign specific rehearsals with a due date, then see a completion and overall-score dashboard. Individual transcripts and coaching reports stay private; managers only see that a rehearsal was completed and the overall score.

Yes — the Privacy Center in your dashboard lets you download all of your account, persona, and scroop data as a file, delete an individual scroop, or permanently delete your entire account. Account deletion requires typing DELETE to confirm and canceling any active subscription first.

Yes — on the sign-up or login page you can choose "Sign in with Google" instead of setting a password. It uses the same account and access level as email sign-up, so you can switch between the two anytime with the same email address.

After your scroop ends, an AI scores you on ten axes drawn from social-psychology research — things like reciprocity, active listening, warmth, and conversational repair. On Starter and above, a second pass writes a coaching report in the voice of Bo Bennett, PhD. Free plan users get the overall score but not the written report.

Your raw audio is streamed through Google's Gemini Live API and not stored on Scroops servers. We retain only the text transcript of your conversation, attached to your account. We never sell your data.

No. Scroops is for practicing with a fictionalised counterpart based on the traits you describe. Don't use real names — both because it's in our Terms and because you'll get better feedback when the AI plays a person, not a specific individual.

It usually doesn't, but if it does — just keep going, the way you would with a real person. The grading rubric specifically scores how you handle awkward moments, so awkward is useful.