# Shadowing - English Player — user reviews

> 110 indexed App Store user reviews of Shadowing by 秀平 罗, rated 4.60/5 from 244 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowing-english-player/id1565721779/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowing-english-player/id1565721779.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 200 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 9

## Is Shadowing safe?

Shadowing - English Player appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Shadowing is 90 out of 100. This assessment is based on 244 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6 out of 5. Of 244 App Store ratings, 90.2% point to a safe experience, 4.1% suggest some concerns, and 5.7% point to a risky experience.

## Is Shadowing legit?

Shadowing - English Player appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shadowing is 95 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

## What do users think of Shadowing?

Reviews of Shadowing are mostly positive: the Education app is rated 4.6/5 from 244 App Store ratings. What users like most: automatic sentence segmentation and subtitle generation, support for local audio/video files with auto-matching subtitles. Top complaints: frequent forced rating prompts that cannot be dismissed, high battery consumption and device heating issues. Summarized from real user reviews.

**Pros**

- 🎯 Automatic sentence segmentation and subtitle generation
- 📚 Support for local audio/video files with auto-matching subtitles
- 🔄 Sentence revision and remark functionality
- 💰 Affordable premium pricing
- 🎓 Excellent for intensive listening practice and language learning
- ⚡ Intuitive and user-friendly interface design
- 🌐 Multi-language support (English, Japanese, etc.)
- 📝 Glossary and vocabulary collection features
- 🎵 Flexible playback controls and repeat functionality
- ✨ Automatic audio-to-text transcription capability

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent forced rating prompts that cannot be dismissed
- 🔋 High battery consumption and device heating issues
- ❌ Poor subtitle accuracy and recognition errors
- ⚠️ Automatic sentence segmentation often inaccurate
- 🔌 Crashes when importing certain audio formats (m4a, m4b)
- 📱 No cross-device synchronization (phone/tablet)
- 🎬 No fullscreen mode for video playback
- 🔊 Limited playback speed options
- 💾 Membership issues after app updates
- 🖥️ macOS version has stability issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Continuous playback interval adjustment not working
- macOS app crashes on audio import
- Crashes when selecting subtitle files
- M4a/M4b file import causes high-probability crashes
- Membership lost after app updates
- Rating window submission fails on macOS
- Sequential playlist doesn't resume from beginning for listened items
- Landscape mode not functioning
- URL import functionality not working
- Subscription unavailable error messages

**Most requested features**

- Fullscreen mode for video with subtitle toggle
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigation (arrow keys for previous/next sentence)
- Bluetooth headphone controls for sentence navigation
- Background playback functionality
- iCloud synchronization across devices
- URL import directly from YouTube
- Single-sentence subtitle toggle mode
- Highlight current playing sentence with special color
- Multi-color sentence marking capability
- Manual sentence segmentation/editing tools
- Share sentence segmentation with other users
- Recording/shadowing functionality
- A-B repeat feature
- More playback speed options (beyond 1x, 1.2x)
- Auto-scroll toggle for text positioning
- Glossary search functionality for marked words
- Text-to-audio generation from imported text
- Landscape mode support
- macOS desktop version
- Skip checkbox for unfamiliar content during review
- Silence-based automatic sentence splitting
- Word-level clickable dictionary
- Customizable resource naming
- Playback control bar hide option

## Newest reviews (19 of 110)

### 4/5 — 连续播放间隔调整有问题

*2025-10-11*

开启连续播放功能后，想延长听写间隔，调整间隔时间无法生效，希望能够修复bug

### 4/5 — awesome！

*2025-08-22, version 2.3.0*

太久沒更新，播放音頻文件手機會特別熱

### 5/5 — 精聽神器

*2025-03-03, version 2.3.0*

很容易導入想練習的聽力材料，然後會自動生成字幕。超級好用

### 4/5 — Good

*2025-02-12, version 2.3.0*

Very useful for practicing listening.

### 5/5 — 영어 딕테이션

*2025-02-08*

연습하는데 광명 찾음 미친

### 5/5 — 好用實用

*2024-12-09, version 2.3.0*

買了會員不後悔、真的很好用很實用每天都會用到！
小建議： 如果能直接URL導入YouTube 影片那就更好了！ 
還是非常推薦

### 5/5 — 神器

*2024-12-09, version 2.3.0*

练口语神器 
谢谢！

### 5/5 — 很好用的软件

*2024-12-07, version 2.3.0*

就是某些地方自动断句有点不准 但我找到的好像只有两个橘子合并的功能 能不能增加手动断句 或者说是 在两句之间增加新的一个句子的功能呢🥹 （要是有这个功能的话当我没说）

### 4/5 — app很好，反馈个问题

*2024-11-28, version 2.3.0*

使用app过程中手机发热严重。耗电快。
16plus，18.1.1
辛苦排查修复

### 4/5 — 希望倍速的选项

*2024-11-20, version 2.3.0*

可以有更多更丰富。目前只有1，1.2 望采纳

### 4/5 — 怎麼自動定位播放段落？

*2024-11-18, version 2.3.0*

更新之後，只要移動文本就必須手動點一個按鈕才會回歸到當前播放的句子位置，可以新增開關讓用戶自己選擇是要自動定位還是手動回歸嗎？ 以及當前播放的句子可否以特殊顏色顯示？而不只是一個小喇叭在句子左側，這樣很難找 再來，句子能否不止標記一種顏色？ 謝謝

### 5/5 — good ，

*2024-11-13, version 2.3.0*

最好用的字幕speak，希望有电脑版的

### 3/5 — 字幕错误率高

*2024-11-04, version 2.3.0*

自动生成的字幕错误太多，比其它软件差，需要找一个更好的AI工具。app的功能还是不错的

### 3/5 — 可以

*2024-10-23*

简单好用的工具, 就是还有点bug

### 5/5 — Improvement

*2024-10-13, version 2.3.0*

句子revise and REMARK 功能非常好，如果能提供这个新功能将非常感谢：在Glossary里面，可以搜索这些自己已经存储的好句子，可以考虑去拿Revise and remark的词去做检索，那么这些标记就变的非常的实用了。

### 2/5 — 字幕错误率高

*2024-09-25*

自动生成的字幕错误太多，比其它软件差，需要升级软件。

### 5/5 — Good app

*2024-09-21, version 2.3.0*

It is really good app for study English

### 5/5 — Good APP

*2024-09-18*

I must say it is the best app for leaning

### 5/5 — Wonderful

*2024-09-17*

Wonderful App

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — 总是

*2025-03-21, version 2.3.0*

总是强制评分，第一次看见有这么不要脸的，后悔了

### 1/5 — 建议增加iCloud同步

*2024-09-16, version 2.3.0*

一次性购买再无多余销费，使用一年多，非常实用。建议添加iCloud同步功能。

### 1/5 — MAC导入闪退

*2024-08-05, version 2.1.0*

macbook导入音频就闪退,我还买了这软件,什么时候修复一下?

### 1/5 — 评价

*2024-02-29, version 2.0.2*

非常难用，自动断句一塌糊涂，字幕识别也一塌糊涂

### 1/5 — 没有客服

*2024-02-14, version 2.0.2*

URL下载功能是摆设，找不到客服

### 1/5 — Enjoy Player?

*2024-01-06, version 2.0.2*

在macOS上每次打开app，都会强制弹出这个评分窗口，真是头一次见到。

### 1/5 — 购买了软件，升级后被取消了会员，恢复不了，写信也不回

*2023-09-21, version 1.9.6*

购买了软件，但是升级后被取消了会员，恢复不了，写信也不回。
大家购买的时候要慎重！！！

### 1/5 — Want review?

*2022-12-05*

How about now?

### 1/5 — 可不可以不要一直討評論

*2022-10-19, version 1.7.1*

一直跳出提示要評論，很煩

### 1/5 — 能给个一次性订阅不大哥

*2021-12-25, version 1.4.9*

谢谢大哥，而且订阅一直提示不可用为啥

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — 非常好用

*2026-08-26*

本当に素敵ですね

### 5/5 — 非常好

*2025-11-04*

好用

### 5/5 — Fullscreen mode

*2025-09-20*

Please add a Fullscreen mode for video with subtitle(showing subtitle can be enabled or disabled).

### 5/5 — Fullscreen mode

*2025-09-18*

Please add a Fullscreen mode for vides with subtitle.

### 5/5 — 好像是为我量身定做一款应用

*2025-08-25, version 2.3.0*

一直在找这种可以利用本地文件的英语学习应用，而且这厮居然可以自动匹配字幕，总的来说使用体验妙不可言，对于这种优秀应用，我是不会吝啬给五颗星的，并且向大家极力推荐。

### 5/5 — 棒

*2025-07-29*

很好的软件，会员不贵。非常好用，精听党福音！是英语学习的好助手，希望稍微改进一下断句的算法就更好了！现在动不动就长难句起手，手动断句有点麻烦。总体非常不错！

### 5/5 — 正是我想要的

*2025-05-28, version 2.3.0*

好不容易找到这个能满足我需求的app，感谢作者。🙏

### 5/5 — 挺好用

*2025-05-18, version 2.3.0*

试一试

### 5/5 — 非常使用

*2025-05-04*

学习语言的好帮手，秘诀就是重复，他做的非常棒

### 5/5 — Fantastic tool for intensive listening practice

*2025-03-20, version 2.3.0*

Intuitive design with all the features you could possibly ask for. Premium plan costs less than a cup of coffee. Whoever made this did a fantastic job and saved users hundreds of hours of mundane work

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*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 2026-11-03.*