# Android app and Chrome extension

Besides the web studio there are two more ways to practice. Use the Chrome extension to practice right while you watch YouTube on a computer, and the Android app to carry on from your phone. Sign in with the same SHADOWENG account and both connect to your library.

## Chrome extension: repeat sentences right on YouTube

Open a YouTube video in Chrome on a computer and a list of the caption sentences appears beside it. You practice the video you are already watching, without importing it first.

- Repeat one sentence (shortcut R), repeat a range from A to B (Q and W), or shadow (S). Shadowing pauses after each sentence for as long as it takes to say it back.
- Choose how many times to repeat (endlessly, or a set number before moving on) and the playback speed.
- Blind listening (H) hides the panel captions so you listen by ear alone.
- Click a sentence to jump to it, double-click to fix a typo. For finer editing, such as splitting and merging sentences, one button opens the caption editor of the web studio.
- If you are signed in at shadoweng.com, your caption fixes are saved to your account and the videos you practice are added to your library.
- "Continue on phone" shows a QR code. Point the camera of a phone with the Android app at it and you continue from the same sentence.

- [Install from the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lmajnmpfgmfcbdaooejnildglmbpbclg)

### Installation and permissions

- It works in Chrome on a computer. It cannot be installed in a phone browser.
- It is free. You can practice with YouTube captions without signing in; connecting to your library needs a sign-in.
- The only sites it can read are youtube.com and shadoweng.com, and its only other permission is browser storage.

## Android app: carry on from your phone

Sign in with the same account as on the web and pick up the videos and progress from your library on your phone.

- Repeat listening, speaking along with recordings you can compare to the original, and A-B range repeat, built so you can pick both points precisely with a finger.
- Song practice that repeats lyrics line by line.
- Dictation made for a phone screen, AI practice you answer by speaking, and expression card review with reminders.
- Browse the videos other members have shared and start studying them straight away.
- The app can be shown in 10 languages.
- Recordings stay on the phone and are sent only when you ask for a pronunciation assessment or a transcription.

- [Get it on Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=www.shadoweng.com)

### What the app leaves to the web

- Caption timing, typo fixes, and splitting or merging sentences are done on the web. On a phone the app only lets you report a caption problem; on a tablet the editing tools appear when the screen is large enough.
- Payments and subscriptions are managed on the web.
- There is no iPhone app yet.

## Using them together

- Computer: practice with the extension while you watch YouTube. Videos you practice while signed in collect in your library.
- Phone: keep listening and speaking along with the app on the go.
- Web studio (https://shadoweng.com): polish captions, do AI practice and look at your learning record.

Source: https://shadoweng.com/en/apps · Updated 2026-11-11