# earo -English Listening — Known words, missed sounds > Known words, missed sounds (iPhone/iPad app by Pracsol Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earo-english-listening/id6794552975 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Pracsol Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1684893377) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.0 · 36 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-17 - Data updated: 2026-08-30 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/earo-english-listening/id6794552975/reviews.md ## What is earo? You know the words. But you can't hear them. Bingeing shows or grinding dictation rarely moves the needle, and there is a reason. You keep listening without knowing where you lost it. If you can't tell where the sound slipped past, a hundred plays slip past a hundred times. In real speech, words run together and sounds vanish. "What do you" arrives as one blurred shape. Working that shape out takes all the room in your head, so there is none left for meaning. Note — earo is built for Korean speakers learning English. Hints and translations are in Korean. earo does not ask you to listen more. It points at the spot you missed, then widens it a step at a time until you can hear it. ■ You see exactly where it slipped past Listen and fill the blank. Get it wrong and that stretch plays again, with what you wrote set beside what was said. "I just couldn't hear it" becomes "I lost it right here." ■ You start where you actually are A short situational check places you, and playback speed and blank size follow from it. Nothing is too fast to survive or too easy to be worth your time. There is a very slow starting tier. ■ You can see whether you are getting better Come back to a sentence you solved and the blank widens by one step: a word, then a phrase, then the whole line. A sentence you barely caught yesterday — you find out today whether you hear it. ■ You keep the audio you already listen to Pick an mp3, m4a, mp4 or wav file and it becomes dictation. The podcast or lecture you already follow stops being background noise. ■ You get ready for speech that does not pause Any clip you have worked on can be played end to end, any time. Filling blanks stops at every sentence; real conversation doesn't. Hearing it joined up is where you learn how the seams work. ■ You move from understanding to speaking Talk with an AI partner in English. Stuck? Say it in Korean, and you'll be shown how it would have gone in English, then get another try. ■ What you missed comes back before you forget it Missed sentences are collected for you and return at spaced intervals. Sounds you keep missing are gathered on their own. Nothing for you to organize. ■ No subtitles. On purpose With subtitles you are reading, not listening. Ten minutes a day of short exchanges — cafés, clinics, airports — is enough. ■ This is for you if · Films are out of reach without subtitles · You know the words and the grammar, but your ears won't open · You care about actually following speech, not a test score · You have tried several methods and still can't tell what is wrong ■ Tell us anything Settings has a "Send feedback" line. One sentence is enough. We do not ask for your name or your email. ■ Permissions · Microphone — used only to recognize your English during conversation practice · Notifications — tells you when reviews are due (can be turned off in settings) ■ Subscription · Titles — earo Monthly / earo Yearly · Length and price — KRW 11,900 per month / KRW 79,000 per year (VAT included) · You can try earo for free after installing. Continuing beyond the trial requires a subscription. · Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled, and the same amount is charged again. · Cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings; access continues through the end of the period you have already paid for. · Terms of Use (EULA) — https://earo.co.kr/legal/terms.html · Privacy Policy — https://earo.co.kr/legal/privacy.html ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | earo Yearly | $49.99 | per year | | earo Monthly | $6.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.4 — 2026-08-30 This build replaces build 32 and 33. It contains the same two new screens as build 32, plus two fixes. Sign-in, subscriptions, in-app purchases, permissions, and data handling are unchanged. No new permissions are requested. 1) Feedback (free-text, one line) Where: Settings > "Send feedback". It also appears once in a while after a dictation result screen, with a Skip button of equal weight. What it does: sends one short text note to the developer's own database. The text is NEVER shown to any other user, is not published anywhere in the app, and there is no feed, profile, or messaging. It is write-only: the app cannot read back any note, including the user's own. We do not ask for a name, an email address, or any contact detail. Notes are deleted with the account. 2) Listen again to a finished clip Where: Home > pick a topic > tap a clip you have already worked on. Under that row there is a "Listen straight through" button. What it does: plays the clip audio end to end. It does not open the dictation exercise and does not consume a trial episode. Fixed in this build • Clip list: the highlight colour and the tap ripple of rows you have already worked on were painted by a container placed above the row, which covered them. The colour is now painted on the row itself. • Conversation audio: when the storage gateway timed out, the audio attached to a saved phrase card was dropped silently, so the card appeared in review without sound. That upload is idempotent, so it is now retried once. How to try it • Settings > "Send feedback" > type anything > Send. A thank-you toast appears. Nothing is displayed back. • Home > any topic > finish one clip > return to the topic list. The row for that clip is tinted, taps show a ripple, and a "Listen straight through" button sits under it. Also in this build: spelling variants such as "alright" / "all right" are no longer graded as wrong, and internal analytics fields were added. Neither is visible as a new screen. ### 1.1.3 — 2026-08-30 Two new screens in this build. Sign-in, subscriptions, in-app purchases, permissions, and data handling are unchanged from the previous build. No new permissions are requested. 1) Feedback (free-text, one line) Where: Settings > "Send feedback". It also appears once in a while after a dictation result screen, with a Skip button of equal weight. What it does: sends one short text note to the developer's own database. The text is NEVER shown to any other user, is not published anywhere in the app, and there is no feed, profile, or messaging. It is write-only: the app cannot read back any note, including the user's own. We do not ask for a name, an email address, or any contact detail. Notes are deleted with the account. 2) Listen again to a finished clip Where: Home > pick a topic > tap a clip you have already worked on. Under that row there is a "Listen straight through" button. What it does: plays the clip audio end to end. It does not open the dictation exercise and does not consume a trial episode. How to try it - Settings > "Send feedback" > type anything > Send. A thank-you toast appears. Nothing is displayed back. - Home > any topic > finish one clip > return to the topic list > tap "Listen straight through" on that clip. Also in this build: spelling variants such as "alright" / "all right" are no longer graded as wrong, and internal analytics fields were added. Neither is visible as a new screen. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-28 This is a bug-fix update. No screens, flows, or features were added or changed. Sign-in, subscriptions, in-app purchases, permissions, and data handling are unchanged from the previous build. What was fixed • Review screen: moving quickly from one card to the next cancelled the audio that was still loading, and the app showed a "couldn't play the audio" message even though the new card was playing correctly. The cancelled load is no longer treated as an error. • Network hiccups: a few read requests now retry once before showing an error, so a brief interruption no longer surfaces to the learner. Writes and paid operations are deliberately not retried. • Saved conversations: uploading the conversation audio now retries once, so fewer turns are missing when replaying a past conversation. Nothing to test differently from the previous build. ### 1.0.9 — 2026-08-27 This update changes how imported audio is cut into sentences and chunks, and adds a few controls. Sign-in, subscriptions, in-app purchases, permissions, and data handling are unchanged. Imported audio ("Dictation with my file") • Transcripts used to be cut at the boundaries the speech-to-text service returned, which often fell mid-phrase. They are now cut at sentence punctuation, and a long sentence is split where the speaker actually pauses, or at a clause boundary if there is no pause. • A blank now covers a whole chunk of a few words instead of a single word. • The full-text view shows chunk boundaries as wider spacing between words. No characters are added to the text. • The editing screen was reorganised around chunks and renamed. Tapping between two words merges or splits a chunk. Tap targets were enlarged. • A short how-to page for this screen was added under Settings. Settings • Pause length between clauses is now a user choice (four steps). It multiplies the automatic value; it does not replace it. • A how-to page for conversation practice was added. • Retaking the level test now draws different questions each time. It previously always showed the same first questions. Reviewing the imported-audio feature • It requires a signed-in account, and on the free tier one import is allowed in total. This limit is unchanged from the shipped version; it is mentioned only because this update is mostly about that screen. • Existing content (the built-in clips) needs no account to try. The cutting described above runs on our backend and is already live, so a transcript imported today is already cut the new way. The chunk display, the editing screen, the pause-length control, and the level-test change are in the app and ship with this build. ### 1.0.8 — 2026-08-23 This update changes audio timing and how a missed answer is replayed. Audio timing • Pauses between speakers were rebalanced so a change of speaker is easier to hear. • Speech rate between difficulty levels was corrected — level 2 audio was slower than level 1 by mistake and is now faster, as intended. • Long sentences now pause once mid-sentence. The speech itself is not slowed down; the learner is simply given time before the next clause. Replaying a missed answer (dictation) • When an answer is wrong, the app now replays the whole sentence once. On the next wrong attempt it replays only the blanked part. • A new text button, "Just that part", replays only the blanked part at any time. It is a playback control. It does not reveal the answer. • The replayed range is now taken from stored word timings instead of being estimated from character positions, so it no longer cuts off the target word or runs far past it. • After a wrong answer, words in the learner's own typed answer that did not match are struck through. Only what the learner typed is shown; the correct answer stays behind the existing "Show answer" button. The audio files are served from our backend, so the timing changes above are already live for the current App Store version. The pause and the replay behaviour are in the app and ship with this build. No changes to sign-in, subscriptions, in-app purchases, permissions, or data handling. ## More apps by Pracsol Inc. - [TOPIK Korean words - beginners](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topik-korean-words-beginners/id6503602549) - [TOPIK Korean words 1](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topik-korean-words-1/id6503678699) - [TOPIK Korean words 2](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/topik-korean-words-2/id6503679450) - [K-Word Booster](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/k-word-booster/id6590616156) - [K-Word Starter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/k-word-starter/id6746167162) - [Voice Card - Pracsol](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voice-card-pracsol/id6758224645) All apps by Pracsol Inc.: https://appshunter.io/developer/1684893377 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*