Shadowing Player Plus vs Sailer
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.
Sailer
This audio player features an interactive waveform for precise seeking and playback control. It allows users to set markers, adjust playback speed, and loop specific sections, ideal for learning, practice, or transcription.
- Interactive waveform seeking
- Marker creation for repeating sections
- Adjustable playback speed (0.25x to 4.0x)
- Looping of selected regions
- Spectrogram display
- Add notes to audio files
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Sailer is a simple audio file player with a waveform display. Just scroll the waveform and go straight to the moment you’re looking for — more intuitive and precise than dragging a tiny seek bar. The marker feature makes it easy to repeat specific parts, perfect for language learning, transcription, music practice, and more. Supports MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, MP4, and other common formats. Features: • Seek by scrolling the waveform. • Pinch-to-zoom for more precision. • Use markers to bookmark specific positions*. • Double-tap (or two-finger tap) between markers to play only that region (loop supported). • Adjust playback speed from 0.25× to 4.0×. • Adjust the pitch and apply audio effects. • Add notes for future reference. *Markers and notes are saved as a sidecar file, so your original audio file remains unmodified. Pro Features (one-time purchase): • Display a spectrogram. • Export the selected region. • Export markers as TXT, CSV, or JSON. • Transcribe the selected region.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shadowing Player Plus at 82% against Sailer's 0%. Shadowing Player Plus also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Sailer's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sailer holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Shadowing Player Plus's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sailer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Shadowing Player Plus ships an update every 2 weeks, Sailer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shadowing Player Plus | Sailer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hirokazu Tanaka | Shu Kyogoku |
Customer experience
Shadowing Player Plus
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In-app purchases
Shadowing Player Plus
No in-app purchases
Sailer
No in-app purchases
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