ReadEase vs Shadow

ReadEase helps you read, listen, and write with less friction. Scan printed text, import a photo, choose pages from a text-based PDF, paste text, or start a draft. READ WITH EASE • Simplify complex passages and see summaries and key points • Tap a sentence for an explanation and compare it with the original • Focus with a reading ruler and adjust text size, line height, and spacing LISTEN AND FOLLOW • Read aloud with word-by-word highlighting • Set playback from 0.5× to 1.5×, repeat a sentence, or skip ahead WRITE WITH CONFIDENCE • Check spelling, polish your wording, and compare changes • Choose a formal, friendly, or concise tone • Keep a draft on your device; protect it when opening a history item FREE AI ASSISTS AND PRO Text recognition, text-based PDF extraction, read aloud, and basic reading tools work without an AI request. You get five free AI assists per day. Simplification, summaries, explanations, sentence translation, spelling checks, and polishing use this allowance and require an internet connection. Optional Pro provides more AI access. Restore purchases in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://flipior.com/readease/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Shadow is how people actually learn to speak a language: by listening to a native speaker, saying it back, recording yourself and hearing the difference. Bring in anything you want to sound like — a YouTube video, a podcast, a voice note, a song, a scene from a movie. Shadow transcribes it, splits it into phrases you can repeat, and loops them until the words come out without thinking. ASK SHADOW — YOUR COACH, IN THE APP Stuck on how to say something? Ask in your own language and get the English a native would really use, with two or three ways to say it and what each one brings with it. Paste a sentence you wrote and see it rewritten the way people actually speak. Hear every answer in a British, American or Australian voice, see the phonetics under the words, and save the good ones straight into your practice. Then practice them. A ten-round daily session is built from your own saved phrases and the mistakes that keep coming back — answered out loud or typed, and marked one answer at a time with your own words next to the correction. SHADOWING, PROPERLY • Phrase-by-phrase looping with the pauses you choose • Record yourself over the original and compare, line by line • Pitch and rhythm shown side by side, so you can hear what's different • Phonetic transcription under any line • Fold away an ad, a laugh or a line you'd never say, and the drill walks past it • Save any phrase and drill it later, in collections you make MAKE YOUR OWN MATERIAL • Turn any phrase into voiced examples in different situations • Generate dialogues and monologues to shadow, in the accent and voice you pick • Film yourself next to the original and export it BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Light and dark, following your phone or pinned to one • Works offline once a clip is in • Apple Watch remote for your phrase drills Whether you're preparing for a meeting, moving countries, or just tired of being understood but not sounding like yourself — Shadow is the practice that gets you there.