English Listening with RedKiwi vs English Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
English Listening with RedKiwi
Learn English through fun, engaging video content from YouTube. Practice listening, shadowing, and vocabulary acquisition with interactive quizzes and native speaker commentary. Build a personalized "Word Map" to track your progress and master real-life English expressions.
- Study from thousands of YouTube videos
- Practice listening and shadowing
- Interactive listening quizzes
- Personalized Word Map for vocabulary
- Learn real English from native speaker commentary
- Request new video content
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“Don’t take expensive English classes. With RedKiwi, I’ve made studying English into a fun habit.” - Y*** “This app reminds me of how I studied English when I studied abroad.” - M*** “You can practice listening, shadowing, learn from commentary and check the dictionary all in one app!” - I*** Practice listening, shadowing, and even expressions, all in one app. Want to start studying English? You won't regret downloading RedKiwi! # Study from thousands of YouTube videos You don't need to give up. Just have fun! Choose from TV shows, movies, animations, BBC News, celebrity interviews, and more. We've got everything ready for you to study. Learn English without even realizing it by watching your favorite videos. Is a video you want to study unavailable? Request it to the RedKiwi Team! (Caution! You might stay up all night studying) # Specialized in Listening. Start understanding English Have you ever tried watching a TV show without subtitles, but ended up spacing out? Not on RedKiwi! Repeat listening and complete the expression by choosing the right words. Have fun practicing and improve your listening skills! You'll need to understand first if you want to communicate in English! # Know the words, know the expression! Learn with our Word Map Solve the listening quizzes, study mission words and collect them in your Word Map. Have fun studying and collecting vocabulary for your Word Map! See your Word Map fill up with words and stay motivated~ Study how words you've collected in the Word Map are used in actual expressions. You don't need to look up for examples, review vocabulary using the Word Map! # Learn 'real' English from the Commentary of native speakers 'What's the difference of everyone and everybody?' Nobody in school teaches you about tricky expressions or how natives speak English. The native speaker teachers in the RedKiwi Team are here to help. Their commentary will help you learn English used in 'real-life'! It's the cheat code for RedKiwi users who have questions while studying. # Get RedKiwi now if you... - Tried almost every English app, but always get bored in 3 days - Think that you need to 'study' to learn English - Want to study from TV shows, movies, songs but tired of searching - Want to study English on the bus, subway, or before going to bed - Dreamed of understanding BBC or TED without subtitles - Don't want to take expensive English classes Always feel free to contact us by leaving a 1:1 inquiry if you'd like to request a new feature, or ask for help. RedKiwi strives to communicate with our users. ================================== Privacy Policy: https://goo.gl/c2BNx6 Terms of Service: https://goo.gl/v9FPgB
English Player
Enhance your English listening skills with this app designed for language learners. It automatically generates sentence breaks and subtitles from audio files, aiding in preparation for standardized tests like IELTS and TOEFL. Users can also create vocabulary lists from challenging sentences.
- Automatic sentence recognition and breaking
- Multi-language subtitle generation
- Vocabulary book for difficult sentences
- Manual subtitle file import (SRT)
- Looping single sentence playback
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English Listening Player is a foreign language repeat reading software, which has helped countless test takers successfully pass the IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, and other foreign language listening tests. It supports playing mp3 and mp4 format files, and automatically generates sentence breaks and subtitles, and users can easily train foreign language listening. - Automatically recognize sentences in audio, suitable for looping single sentences. - Automatically translate audio messages into subtitles in multiple languages. - Support adding long and difficult sentences to the vocabulary book, which is convenient for future consolidation review. - Support manual import of subtitle files (srt), automatically match subtitle files with the same name in the directory for sentence breaking. Welcome everyone to give us feedback and suggestions during use! 【Auto-Renewal Pro Package Description】 -- Subscription period: 1 year (continuous monthly subscription product) -- Payment: The user confirms the purchase and payment is credited to the iTunes account. -- Cancel Renewal: To cancel a renewal, manually turn off auto-renewal in iTunes/Apple ID Settings Management 24 hours before the current subscription period expires. -- Renewal: Apple iTunes account will be charged within 24 hours before expiration, and the subscription cycle will be extended by one subscription cycle after the deduction is successful. -- Privacy Policy: https://github.com/BestVault/Declares/blob/master/Privacy.md -- Auto-Renewal Membership Service Agreement: https://github.com/BestVault/Declares/blob/master/TermService.md
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: English Player at none against English Listening with RedKiwi's shown. English Player also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. English Listening with RedKiwi sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and English Player sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for English Listening with RedKiwi against 4.6 for English Player. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 400 and 241 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of English Listening with RedKiwi's written reviews are positive against 83% of English Player's.
English Listening with RedKiwi ships an update every 3 weeks, English Player every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and August 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | English Listening with RedKiwi | English Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (400 ratings) — better | 4.6 (241 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.3% of reviews — better | 83.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 400 — better | 241 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HayanMind Inc. | 秀平 罗 |
Customer experience
English Listening with RedKiwi
English Player
User reviews
English Listening with RedKiwi
From 400 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Effective for listening practice
- 👍 Good for shadowing and dictation
- 👍 Diverse video content (movies, anime, news)
- 👍 Short video lengths suitable for short sessions
- 👍 Ability to change playback speed
Room to improve
- 😞 Limited variety of videos (especially older dramas)
- 😞 Video content can be outdated
- 😞 Free version is very limited
- 😞 Annual plan only for subscription
- 😞 Some free content is not engaging
English Player
From 241 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎯 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
Room to improve
- 🐛 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)
Bugs and requests
English Listening with RedKiwi
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes on initial launch after update
- App overheats iPhone 15 Pro
- Continuous learning streak interrupted by time zone changes
- Videos sometimes cut off at the beginning making them hard to understand
- App sometimes switches to ads during word search, consuming time
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- Incorrect grammar explanations provided
- App not working after installation (reported by one user)
Requested features
29 requests- More variety in video content (news, documentaries, current events)
- Update older drama content
- More advanced difficulty levels or finer segmentation
- Improved search functionality and persistent search filters
- Ability to view all available content at a glance
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- Dark mode implementation
- Direct AI chat button from home screen
- More robust random selection/review features
- Background playback for paid users
- Option to choose date change time for streak continuity
- Display of Japanese phonetic transcriptions (katakana) for pronunciation
- Ability to save idioms as a group
- iPad landscape mode support
- Option to view video without automatic scrolling to dictation section
- Space repetition feature
- Unlimited AI coach word count
- Add more languages (Spanish, French, etc.)
- Add Arabic subtitle option
- Add Chinese subtitle option
- Add Japanese language learning content
- Add Star Wars content
- Add more speech content from historical figures
- Option to replay previous sentences without restarting the whole video
- Ability to view learning history with accuracy rates
- Functionality to listen and repeat without clicking/operations
- Add a feature to see the full video without sentence breaks
- Enable shadowing with earphones and microphone with transcription comparison
- Add a '1-second rewind' feature
- Reduce the number of English song videos
English Player
Reported bugs
10 issues- 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
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- 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
Requested features
24 requests- 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
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- 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
In-app purchases
English Listening with RedKiwi
- Basic Membership (1 month)3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Basic Membership (1 month)3 Days trial$7.491 Month
- Membership (1 month)7 Days trial$17.991 Month
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- Membership + AI Coach(1 month)3 Days trial$22.991 Month
- Basic Membership (1 year)3 Days trial$23.991 Year
- Membership+AI coach (12 month)$23.991 Year
- Membership+AI coach (12 month)$31.991 Year
- Membership+AI coach (12 month)2 variants$39.991 Year
- Membership (1 year)7 Days trial$41.991 Year
- Membership (1 year)3 Days trial$41.991 Year
- Membership+AI coach (12 month)3 Days trial$55.991 Year
- Membership (1 year)3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Membership + AI Coach(1 year)3 Days trial$79.991 Year
- 1 month RedKiwi Premium$5.99
- 12 month RedKiwi Premium$22.99
English Player
- Premium for Annual$2.991 Year
- Premium Member$7.99
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