Shadowing vs TalkTime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shadowing
Practice listening and speaking skills with this language learning tool. It automatically segments audio, allows for sentence repetition, and provides subtitle support for various languages. Import your own materials and track your progress.
- Automatic audio segmentation
- Adjustable playback speed
- Subtitle import and translation
- Import local audio/video files
- Vocabulary and sentence saving
- Export learning content
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Shadowing - English Player supports listening and shadowing practice in English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean and other languages. Import your own materials and practice sentence by sentence at your own pace. LISTEN AND REPEAT • Automatically split audio into phrases. • Loop the current sentence or set the playback count for each sentence. • Adjust playback speed and switch between normal speed and a second speed. • Set pauses between sentences for dictation, speaking and shadowing. LEARN WITH SUBTITLES • Transcribe speech to check words you missed. • Translate subtitles and compare the original text with its translation. • Import SRT subtitles and match files with the same name for segmentation. • Hide text to listen first, then reveal it to check your understanding. ORGANIZE AND REVIEW • Import MP3 audio, MP4 video and other materials from Files or via WiFi transfer. • Save vocabulary and difficult sentences for review. • Export learning content as PDF, Word and SRT files. Speech recognition and translation availability depends on your device, operating system and selected language. AUTO-RENEWING SUBSCRIPTION • Duration: 1 year. See the in-app purchase screen for pricing. • Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm your purchase. • Your subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Renewal is charged within 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account subscription settings. Privacy Policy: https://github.com/BestVault/Declares/blob/master/Privacy.md Terms of Service: https://github.com/BestVault/Declares/blob/master/TermService.md
TalkTime
Enhance foreign language skills through listening and reading with custom sentence learning. Supports multiple languages and offers automatic translation, pronunciation, and grammar analysis. Includes recall tests to reinforce learning.
- Learn with custom sentences
- Automatic translation
- Generate example sentences
- Automatic pronunciation
- Recall test function
- Grammar analysis
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TalkTime is an AI-powered language learning app that improves your skills by listening to and reading real-world content: - Supports 10 languages: Chinese / Japanese / English / German / Korean / Cantonese / French / Spanish / Thai / Russian - Learn with content that interests you - Study any language using another language - Supports reverse input for bilingual learning - AI-powered sentence translation - AI-generated natural voice for every sentence and word - AI extracts and analyzes vocabulary with part-of-speech, phonetics, and definitions - iCloud sync across devices — your data stays secure and private About Subscription: The app offers a subscription to unlock unlimited use. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription in App Store Account Settings. Terms of Service: https://talktime.shu.dev/terms_of_service Privacy Policy: https://talktime.shu.dev/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Shadowing at free with in-app purchases against TalkTime's subscription. Shadowing also leads on ratings volume (245 vs 12). TalkTime's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Shadowing sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year and TalkTime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Shadowing against 4.7 for TalkTime. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shadowing has 245 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Shadowing's written reviews are positive against 100% of TalkTime's.
Shadowing ships an update every 5 weeks, TalkTime every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shadowing | TalkTime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (245 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 245 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 秀平 罗 | Shumin Yu |
Customer experience
Shadowing
TalkTime
Bugs and requests
Shadowing
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
TalkTime
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shadowing
- Premium for Annual$2.991 Year
- Premium Member$14.99
TalkTime
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$29.991 Year









