apps most helpful for speaking and writing practice

Basically I was wondering if anyone had any app recommendations that focus more on speaking and writing? Or if there’s an app that has helped your fluency if you’re starting with a decent understanding of Japanese?

I’m half Japanese and have always had a goal of being able to have a proper conversation with my family. I can only fully understand conversations that would be common in a household and am able to ask very basic questions, but as someone who hates small talk, I want to have more meaningful conversations and have my personality shine through when I speak.

I never formally learned Japanese so there’s a lot of gaps in my understanding of grammar and the proper spelling of words. Like I didn’t know that there was a difference in i- and na-adjectives, I just conjugated them based on whichever way sounded better in my head. I probably said さっしん instead of しゃしん up until a few years ago. Apps have definitely been good for clarifying these things for me, but they tend to be too focused on listening and reading when I want more practice with forming my own thoughts. I tend to sound really stiff when I speak Japanese because I translate word for word, but I want to have a more natural flow to my sentences. Especially when I am explaining a story and want to sound entertaining.

So far I like Busuu the best out of the apps I’ve tried – and I still use it since I paid for a year long subscription – but I came on here to see if anyone had better suggestions. The sentences are just very repetitive, speaking practice is very limited, and I rarely ever get people correcting my sentences – which is one of the main reasons why I bought the subscription.