Comparison

ShadowTuber vs Shadow

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

Head to head
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

Shadow

Features
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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” answered out loud or typed, and marked one answer at a time with your own words next to the correction. SHADOWING, PROPERLY โ€ข Phrase-by-phrase looping with the pauses you choose โ€ข Record yourself over the original and compare, line by line โ€ข Pitch and rhythm shown side by side, so you can hear what's different โ€ข Phonetic transcription under any line โ€ข Fold away an ad, a laugh or a line you'd never say, and the drill walks past it โ€ข Save any phrase and drill it later, in collections you make MAKE YOUR OWN MATERIAL โ€ข Turn any phrase into voiced examples in different situations โ€ข Generate dialogues and monologues to shadow, in the accent and voice you pick โ€ข Film yourself next to the original and export it BUILT FOR REAL LIFE โ€ข Light and dark, following your phone or pinned to one โ€ข Works offline once a clip is in โ€ข 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 โ€” Shadow is the practice that gets you there.

Screenshots

ShadowTuber4 screens
Shadow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ShadowTuber at none against Shadow's 3. On price, update cadence, 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. Shadow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month. ShadowTuber asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowTuber ships an update every 3 days, Shadow every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
ShadowTuber versus Shadow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowTuberShadow
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationFreemiumโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB275 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXiangqian LiuNatalia Kosianova

In-app purchases

None

ShadowTuber

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Shadow

Subscriptions1
  • Shadow Premium$24.991 Month
One-time2
  • 30 generations$4.99
  • 100 generations$12.99

Questions

Is ShadowTuber free?
ShadowTuber is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shadow free?
Shadow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShadowTuber or Shadow have ads?
Neither ShadowTuber nor Shadow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowTuber or Shadow?
ShadowTuber ships an update every 3 days, and Shadow every 4 days. Most recently, ShadowTuber was updated on October 31, 2026 and Shadow on October 29, 2026.

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