# Chunkly: Read English Aloud — Pronunciation, shadowing, IPA

> Pronunciation, shadowing, IPA (iPhone/iPad app by YI LIU.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chunkly-read-english-aloud/id6797043490 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YI LIU](https://appshunter.io/developer/6777746488)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-09-25
- Data updated: 2026-10-15

## What is Chunkly?

Chunkly takes an English sentence all the way from "I can't even parse this" to "I can say it."

See the structure. Break it into thought groups. Read it out loud. Get scored word by word. Most apps do one of those four; Chunkly does the whole chain — and all of it runs on your iPhone.

WHAT YOU GET

• Shadowing with real feedback
Listen to a model reading, record yourself, and get accuracy, completeness and fluency scores. Every word is color-coded, and problem sounds are pinpointed down to the phoneme.

• Long-sentence breakdown — 90 sentences, 9 grammar topics
Relative clauses, subjunctives, inversion, ellipsis. Each sentence is split into thought groups with its role labelled and the bare skeleton one tap away — then it feeds straight into shadowing, so the structure you just understood is the structure you read.

• 39 phoneme lessons
Each American English sound with articulation tips, example words, and the mistakes speakers of your language typically make.

• Phonics — 67 rules
Learn how spelling maps to sound, from short vowels and magic-e to vowel teams and r-controlled vowels. Once you know the rules, most new words become readable on sight.

• Minimal pair training
think or sink? light or right? Hear the difference, then prove you can produce it.

• 3,000 high-frequency words and 1,200+ sentences
Grouped into 20 everyday themes — food, travel, work, health — so you can practise the words you actually need next. Months of material, not the same ten sentences on repeat.

BUILT FOR YOUR LANGUAGE
The interface and all pronunciation guidance adapt to Chinese, Japanese or Korean — including the specific sounds each group finds hardest.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No analytics. No ads. Recording and scoring happen entirely on your device using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Your voice never leaves your iPhone.

FREE AND FULL VERSION
The free version is the complete app, not a demo: every feature works end to end, with the opening part of each section unlocked — 10 phoneme lessons, 2 phonics groups, and a few sentence sets, word themes and minimal pairs. One purchase unlocks everything else, forever. No subscription, no renewal, no ads.

A note on scoring: scores come from on-device speech recognition and are a guide, not a verdict. The long-term trend matters more than any single attempt.

Privacy Policy: https://local4a.com/products/chunkly-privacy.html
Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chunkly Full Version | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Chunkly safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Chunkly.

## Is Chunkly legit?

Chunkly: Read English Aloud appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Chunkly is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-10-13

Minor improvements and stability fixes.

### 1.2 — 2026-10-10

• New "My Sentences": snap a page or screenshot, and Chunkly picks out the English sentences for you to shadow and score
• Select English text in Safari, Kindle and other apps and add it to Chunkly from the Share sheet
• Images are read on your iPhone and never uploaded
• New for full version: Compare. See the model and your recording side by side as spectrograms and intonation curves, with tips like "th sounds like s" or "the sentence should fall at the end"

### 1.1 — 2026-10-05

• Phoneme lessons now use real recordings by a native American speaker: hear each vowel on its own, and every example word at normal and slow speed
• Phonemes are now ordered vowels first, then consonants
• Long-sentence breakdown is now the first thing on the home screen
• First launch walks you through adding a high-quality American voice
• Fixed an issue where some devices used a robotic-sounding voice for model readings

### 1.0 — 2026-09-25

No release notes.

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