Comparison

ShadowTuber vs Fluentish

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

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About

ShadowTuber

This app helps serious English learners improve their speaking skills through a shadowing technique. Import your own audio or video, and it transcribes and segments the content into bite-sized lessons for practice. It offers various playback and recording modes, with advanced pronunciation scoring available in the Pro version.

Highlights
  • Import custom audio/video
  • On-device transcription & segmentation
  • Sentence-by-sentence shadowing
  • Manual & auto playback modes
  • A/B recording comparison
  • Word-by-word pronunciation scoring (Pro)
  • Adjustable playback speed
Features
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**Shadower is a shadowing trainer for serious English speakers.** Stop hunting for subtitled material. Import your own English video or audio and Shadower transcribes it on-device, splits it into sentences, and turns it into a lesson you can shadow line by line. **Why Shadower** โ€ข Use your own material โ€” podcasts, movie clips, news, lecture recordings. Anything goes. โ€ข Sentence-by-sentence shadowing โ€” tap a line, hear it, repeat. Pauses scale to each sentence's length. โ€ข Manual & Auto modes โ€” loop a single sentence to drill, or play continuously with N repeats each. โ€ข A/B recording โ€” record yourself and switch between your take and the original instantly. โ€ข Word-by-word scoring (Pro) โ€” on-device speech recognition compares your recording with the original and flags every miss. โ€ข 0.5ร—โ€“1ร— speed โ€” slow down to nail sounds, full speed to lock them in. **Fully on-device. Private by design.** Transcription, segmentation and scoring all run on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded or collected โ€” your media and recordings never leave the device. **Weekly updates + your own media** Curated shadowing material is delivered weekly over the air; or import your own audio or video and start instantly. **Trilingual UI** โ€” English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, switchable in Settings. **Pro** unlocks unlimited imports, any length, word-by-word pronunciation scoring, and the full lesson library. Subscriptions auto-renew; cancel anytime in system Settings. Turn "I understand it" into "I can say it." Start shadowing today. Privacy Policy: https://charlesxiangqianliu.github.io/shadower-site/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fluentish

Features
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Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian or Arabic by scrolling. Fluentish is a language learning app built like a feed: an endless scroll of tiny exercises, with flashcard-style spaced repetition underneath, that adapts to your level. Swap an hour of doomscrolling for real vocabulary. The app is in English, Spanish and French. Spanish and French speakers learn English. NO LONG LESSONS. JUST A FEED. There is no track to complete and no end screens. Exercises arrive continuously: match words, complete sentences, pick what you heard, read tiny stories. More than a dozen card types, mixed so it never feels like a worksheet. Answer by tapping, silent and one-handed, or with typing and speech practice on Plus. IT MEASURES, IT NEVER ASKS Fluentish times your answers. Fast and correct means you know the word; slow means it's shaky; wrong means not yet. Your vocabulary is tracked word by word, and difficulty adapts immediately, with no quiz asking what you already know. SPACED REPETITION, BUILT IN Words you've learned retire into a spaced repetition queue (FSRS) and resurface right before you'd forget them, like flashcards without maintaining a deck. Export your dictionary to CSV or Anki flashcards with Plus. A LESSONS TAB TO BROWSE, NOT A COURSE TO FINISH What sits behind the cards, in one place and free: the alphabet or sound system, grammar notes one idea at a time, conjugation and declension tables with a play button on every form, greetings and politeness formulas, and short true notes about the language itself. FIVE LANGUAGES FOR ENGLISH SPEAKERS โ€ข Spanish: vocabulary by frequency, listening practice, and Spanish conjugation tables with audio on every form. โ€ข French: vocabulary in context, and French verbs conjugated form by form. โ€ข German: vocabulary, conjugation tables, and German declension shown case by case. โ€ข Italian: vocabulary, verbs, and short stories once the words are yours. โ€ข Arabic: from the alphabet up, described below. LEARN ARABIC FROM ZERO Arabic is taught as Modern Standard Arabic across all ten levels, starting with the alphabet itself. Early cards carry the harakat, the short-vowel marks, and shed them as you climb, which is how real Arabic text works. Arabic is laid out right to left and set at a size it can actually be read at. FIND YOUR LEVEL IN 2 MINUTES A short placement test starts you at your real level, from beginner to advanced (levels 1โ€“10). Beginners start with the 500 most useful words in the language; intermediate learners skip what they already know. FREE VS PLUS Free: unlimited scrolling, forever. No daily limit, no hearts. Free covers every level up to your placement level (minimum levels 1โ€“3). Fluentish Plus: advance through all 10 levels, typing and speaking cards, dictionary export, streak repair, and a streak pause of up to 14 days. $7.99/month or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial on annual. And if you break a streak without Plus, saving it once costs $0.99. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Speaking practice is graded from recognized text, never from audio: your recordings never reach Fluentish. Your phone does the recognizing, on device where it supports the language and otherwise through Apple's own speech service, the same one behind your keyboard's dictation key. Fluentish has seven language pairs: Spanish, Italian, French, German and Arabic for English speakers, plus English for Spanish and French speakers. Each direction is its own course, generated and checked separately rather than mirrored from another language. The app interface is available in English, Spanish and French. More pairs are on the way; we'd rather do these properly than ship ten badly. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. Manage or cancel in Settings โ†’ [your name] โ†’ Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://fluentish.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://fluentish.co/privacy

Screenshots

ShadowTuber4 screens
Fluentish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShadowTuber at none against Fluentish's 2. ShadowTuber also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). Fluentish's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Fluentish sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. ShadowTuber asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowTuber ships an update every 3 days, Fluentish every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
ShadowTuber versus Fluentish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowTuberFluentish
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXiangqian LiuYuval Fatal

In-app purchases

None

ShadowTuber

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Fluentish

Subscriptions2
  • Fluentish Plus$7.991 Month
  • Fluentish Plus (Annual)7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is ShadowTuber free?
ShadowTuber is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fluentish free?
Fluentish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShadowTuber or Fluentish have ads?
Neither ShadowTuber nor Fluentish shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowTuber or Fluentish?
ShadowTuber ships an update every 3 days, and Fluentish every 9 days. Most recently, ShadowTuber was updated on October 31, 2026 and Fluentish on October 31, 2026.

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