Shadowing Player Plus vs Kotoren
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadowing Player Plus
Practice pronunciation and improve your English speaking skills by repeating and shadowing audio. Focus on specific phrases from songs, TOEIC materials, or conversations for efficient learning.
- Repeat and shadow audio
- Practice favorite songs
- TOEIC practice
- English conversation practice
- Record and play specific phrases
- Efficient learning
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Equipped with a function to support repeating and shadowing! This app is the best app for practicing your favorite songs such as TOEIC, karaoke, and English conversation. You can practice efficiently because you can play and record only the phrases you want to hear.
Kotoren
This audio player is designed for language learning and music practice, allowing users to easily repeat specific sections of audio. It visualizes audio as a graph for precise selection and offers adjustable playback speeds and repeat modes.
- Graph visualization of audio
- Phrase splitting and interval setting
- A-B repeat functionality
- Adjustable playback speed
- Playback mode customization
- Silence skipping
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Kotoren is an audio/podcast player. It is designed for language learning and music practice, but it can also be used to listen to music. Audio is displayed as a graph, so you can touch or swipe to select and listen to any point. This makes it easy to repeatedly listen to parts of the audio. ■ Main Features - Automatically split audio into phrases and display as a graph - Set an interval after the playback of a phrase. It can be set in seconds or as a ratio to the phrase’s playback time. - Skip silence between phrases (manually or automatically) - Support A-B repeat - Change playback speed from 0.2x to 2.0x - Change playback mode: Normal, Repeat one, Repeat all, Pause (Pause at the end of the current track. This is useful for listening to the last part repeatedly) - Rewind or Fast Forward 1/2/3/4/5 seconds - Text input field for dictation - Learning record: Title, Playback time, Learning days, etc. ■ Notes - This app does not include language teaching materials. - If there is no silence between phrases, silence/phrase skip and related features are not available. - Some files cannot be played (ex. Apple Music, iCloud, DRM protected files).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kotoren at 5.0 against Shadowing Player Plus's 4.0. Kotoren also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 82%). Shadowing Player Plus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Kotoren sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shadowing Player Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kotoren holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Shadowing Player Plus's written reviews are positive against 95% of Kotoren's.
Shadowing Player Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, Kotoren every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Shadowing Player Plus | Kotoren |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 94.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hirokazu Tanaka | Masato Murata |
Customer experience
Shadowing Player Plus
Kotoren
In-app purchases
Shadowing Player Plus
No in-app purchases
Kotoren
- Remove Ads$3.99
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