The audio, video and YouTube players now share one layout, and you can practise YouTube videos sentence by sentence with caption cards. • YouTube caption cards (Premium) — bring a YouTube video's captions in as sentence cards, then tap a card to repeat that sentence. Translate a card or add it to your Wordbook, and see the caption text in Dictation and Shadowing. • One player layout — Bookmarks and My Recordings are in the tabs at the top; subtitle settings are under ⋯ at the bottom right of the subtitle list. Pick a repeat count from chips, just like playback speed. • Bilingual subtitles — import a video subtitle file that holds two languages, split into the original and its translation. • In full screen, video and YouTube show subtitle cards on the right, and you can swipe from the left edge to close the player. • Pinching the audio waveform now zooms smoothly as your fingers move. • Fixed the first word of the next sentence being heard at the end of a YouTube A-B loop. • Button text is easier to read in Dark Mode.

Sort your library the way you want. And everyone gets 72 hours of Premium, free. • Sorting — from the ⋯ menu, sort your library by name, date added and more. • 72 hours of Premium, free — from your first launch after this update, every Premium feature (automatic subtitles, dictation, shadowing recordings and more) is yours for 72 hours. Nothing is charged automatically. • The free version now shows a banner ad in the audio, video and YouTube players. Premium has no ads, and nothing changes if you've already bought it. • The Premium screen now lists every Premium feature and shows the real App Store price. • You can report an inappropriate ad from Settings.

Hide the subtitles and listen by ear. You can also set a sentence's timing yourself, right on the waveform. • Hide subtitles — the whole file, the sentences you pick, or just the A/B range. Tap a hidden sentence to loop it. (Audio files) • Sentence timing — in a subtitle card's ⋯ > Edit, drag the start and end on the waveform. Neighboring sentences follow the boundary, and Restore original range takes it back any time. (Audio files) • Select All in the library — pick everything in a folder, or every search result, and move it to another folder in one go. • Search in folders and All Items is no longer hidden behind the tab bar (iPhone, iOS 26 and later). In the library and the wordbook, the search field now sits right under the title. • When speech recognition comes back empty, Phrabbit tries once more with another engine. If it still can't make subtitles, it tells you what to check. • Opening Phrabbit no longer stops the music another app is playing — only pressing play does. • After shadowing or dictation on a video or YouTube, playing on no longer runs past the end of the A/B range. • Dictation — on iOS 27, the buttons just above the keyboard (such as Check answer) now respond reliably, and on small screens Save no longer hides while you correct an answer with the keyboard up. The YouTube answer screen can now put the keyboard away. • On iPad (iOS 27), the enlarged handwriting view now fills the screen when you turn it sideways. • Tap anywhere on a library row to open it, not just the title.

Dictation is here. Listen to your A/B range one sentence at a time, write it down, and compare it with the original. • Dictation — on audio, video and YouTube. With subtitles, the differences are marked right away; without them, check against the video yourself. • On iPad you can write by hand, and your handwriting is saved to look back at later. • Dictation attempts are kept, so you can practice the same range again. • Subtitle cards light up word by word as the speech goes, karaoke-style. (Files transcribed from now on.) • Speech recognition finds sentence ends more accurately. Sentences that used to stop before their last word no longer do. (Files transcribed from now on.) • Pick a playback speed directly, from 0.5x to 2x.

Bug fixes. • Fixed full-screen practice on a YouTube video opening black, with sound but no picture, when the iPad was held in landscape. Rotating the device while in full screen now keeps the video on screen too. • Fixed the preview thumbnail staying on the previous video when you paste one YouTube link and then another before tapping Add. • Fixed the Translate button in the transcript header being cut off in the English interface on narrow screens, including Display Zoom.

Video with subtitles can now be practiced one sentence at a time. • Subtitle sentence practice — open the sentence cards for a video that has subtitles, and tapping a card turns that sentence into the A/B loop. No marking a range by hand for every sentence. The sentence playing now is marked in the list, and Current Subtitle brings you back to it once you have scrolled away. • Tapping the subtitle on the video does the same thing. When one sentence is split across several short subtitle lines, the whole sentence is still what repeats. • The sentence cards can sit beside the video in full screen. They do not cover the picture — the video moves aside to make room. • On iPad and other wide screens, the video is on the left with subtitles, bookmarks, and your recordings on the right. • Tap the picture to play or pause. In full screen, that same tap still brings the controls back. • Landscape full screen now fills the screen. Fixed the black margin left on one side, and the top buttons being cut off on narrow screens using Display Zoom. • Sentence ends are found more accurately, in speech-recognition transcripts and video sentence cards alike. A period in "Mr.", "J. R. Smith", "4.9", or "e.g." is no longer read as the end of a sentence. • Podcast covers now appear with no connection, and load more lightly as you scroll.

Bug fixes. • New episodes are there as soon as you open a podcast. A show you had opened before could hand back a list saved up to several hours earlier, with anything published since simply missing and nothing to say so. • Opening a podcast is much faster too. The more episodes a show has, the bigger the difference. • When there is no connection, or the podcast's own server does not answer, the last episode list you received is shown, with a note above it: "Saved list · may be out of date". Shows brought in from Apple Podcasts now open in that state too. • Fixed the "translation finished" notice staying on screen after a transcript translation instead of going away.

Two things changed together: how you find something to practice with, and how you read it. • Find a podcast — pick the language you are learning and you get shows curated for it, sorted by topic. Sixty shows across Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and French, each one chosen by hand. Narrow them with the chips at the top, search by name, or add any show by its RSS address. If you use Apple Podcasts, your subscriptions come straight across. • When a show provides its own transcript — it is used as-is, with no speech recognition needed. It is only used when it carries timings and actually matches the audio, so a transcript that does not line up is left out rather than shown wrong. • Apple Intelligence subtitle translation — translate a whole transcript at once, on your device, and read it beside the original. The translation is saved, so the next time you open the file it is simply there, and you can stop partway and continue later. Nothing is sent anywhere: the translation happens on your device. It is machine translation, so proper nouns and cultural terms can be wrong — the app points out where that is most likely. (Premium. Requires iOS 26.4 and an Apple Intelligence capable device.) • One way to act on a row — in your library, folders, subtitle cards, bookmarks, recordings, and wordbook, the ⋯ button on a row and a touch-and-hold both open the same menu. Nothing to memorize about which swipe does what. • Subtitle cards are half as tall — the translate, wordbook, edit and delete buttons that sat on every card move into its ⋯ menu, and the timestamp joins the first line of the phrase. Close to twice as many sentences fit on a screen. • Fixed the screen being cut off on the right once an A/B range was set. It showed up on narrow screens using Display Zoom or larger text. • Info — the menu's Info shows the details behind a file, a bookmark, or one of your recordings. • Making subtitles for a range — speech recognition now shows you the result first, and you decide afterwards whether to keep it. • Fixed subtitles appearing out of sync after seeking in certain MP3 files. • Recent items now show up to ten, and a podcast download in progress can be stopped. Plus a number of smaller fixes.

Phrabbit has a new look, and a way to keep your library in order. • A new design — every screen has been rebuilt around the colors from the app icon. A warm background that is easy on the eyes over long sessions, A and B markers you can actually pick out, and a proper pass over both light and dark mode. • Folders — group your material into folders, and put folders inside folders. Files themselves never move; a folder is just a label, so your play position, subtitles, recordings, and bookmarks all follow along. Search finds what is tucked inside a folder and shows you where it lives. • Favorites — mark what you open most and reach it straight from Home. • Sentence steps from your earphones — the previous/next buttons on Bluetooth earphones now move sentence by sentence. On a file with no transcript they jump 5 seconds instead. Made for practicing on a walk, with the screen in your pocket. • Faster bookmarks — a tap saves the range immediately, and you name it afterwards, or rename it from the list whenever you like. • Saved bookmarks and your recordings in one place — switch between them with a tap in the player. • Tidier video and YouTube controls — the controls are now split into two layers, so nothing gets clipped on a small screen or at large text sizes. • Recoverable Files (Settings) — see the files that are still on your device but no longer in your library, preview them, and either bring them back or export them. The app never deletes them on its own. • Fixed a problem when rotating iPad, and made sure controls hold up at large text sizes and on narrow screens. Plus a number of smaller fixes.

You can now practice with video files. • Import video files — bring in MP4, M4V, and MOV files already on your device and loop them exactly like audio. Videos are referenced rather than copied, so they use almost no app storage. • Attach subtitle files — show an SRT or VTT file over the video, and nudge the sync if it drifts. Long lines are split into readable screens automatically. • Transcribe just a range — for a video with no subtitles, mark an A/B range and convert only that part with speech recognition. No need to process the whole film. • Tidy up subtitles — fix or hide a line that came in wrong, and restore the originals whenever you want. • Fullscreen practice — turn sideways to see subtitles and the range controls together. • Video shadowing and bookmarks — speak along the way you already do with audio, and save key scenes as bookmarks to jump straight back to them. • Subtitles into your wordbook — tap a word you don't know and save it with its context. Also fixed: while you were watching a video, the Lock Screen and Control Center could still show the playback card for the audio file you played before.

You can now type subtitles yourself. • Type subtitles yourself — write your own lines when speech recognition struggles with the audio, or when you'd rather practice from your own script. If you've already marked an A/B range, it's filled in for you. Running speech recognition later never erases what you typed. • Cleaner empty transcript screen — with no subtitles yet, you can now choose straight between converting speech to subtitles and typing your own. • More accurate subtitle ranges (iOS 26) — fixed lines that ran into the next word, and first or last sounds that were slightly clipped. Applies to newly converted subtitles. • Speech engine notice — when your device or language falls back to a less accurate engine, the transcript screen now tells you why. • Display Zoom support — tightened narrow-screen layouts so player buttons and library durations no longer get cut off. • Settings — check your app version, and jump straight to the user guide. Plus stronger data safety. Feedback is always welcome!

Keep playing with the screen off! • Background playback — your A/B loops keep running with the screen off or while you use other apps. • Sleep timer — auto-pause after 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Perfect for listening before bed. • Bookmark queue — tap Play All to practice your saved ranges back-to-back, and skip to the next or previous one right from the Lock Screen. • Lock Screen & Control Center — playback info and controls stay available while you practice. • AI word explanations (Beta) — tap a word in your wordbook and Apple Intelligence explains it on-device, in context. Plus major playback stability improvements. Feedback is always welcome!

Shadowing is here! • Shadowing — listen to an A/B range, then repeat it in your own voice. With audio and podcasts, play your take over the original and compare waveforms side by side. You can shadow on YouTube streams, too. • Subtitles built in — the passage's transcript appears right on the shadowing screen, highlighting each sentence as it plays. • Shadowing gap — a pause between loops gives you time to speak, with a countdown showing how long you have. Listen, repeat, listen again — no recording needed. • My Recordings — save your best takes and reopen them later to keep practicing the exact same range. • Fullscreen support — record and compare without ever leaving fullscreen video. Plus playback stability improvements. Feedback is always welcome!

This is the biggest update since Phrabbit launched. ■ Practice with YouTube (new) - Add a YouTube link and practice videos with segment looping, too - Set an A/B loop on the timeline and repeat until you can hear it, adjusting the speed - Full-screen practice mode makes captions bigger and easier to read ■ Progress tracking (new) - See this week's practice time, active days, and the segments you repeated most, at a glance - Watch your small daily repetitions add up ■ Redesigned Home - Manage audio files, podcasts, and YouTube all in one place - Cover art and thumbnails now appear in your library ■ Wordbook improvements - Words you mark as memorized are saved, and your overall progress is shown - When you save a word, the sentence it appeared in is saved with it ■ Better automatic captions - Caption cards are split more naturally, sentence by sentence - New on-device Whisper engine: caption quality is much better on older devices and unsupported languages. Your audio never leaves your device - Tap ⓘ to see how each caption was recognized Plus various refinements and bug fixes.

• Your free trial now starts when you finish setup, so you get the full 3 days. • More reliable transcription, with clearer messages when it can't run offline or on cellular. • "Download over Wi‑Fi only" is now fully respected.

• More reliable speech-to-text — Korean and other languages now transcribe faster and more accurately. • Fixed some podcasts that wouldn't play, with a clear message when a file is damaged. • The Wordbook now recognizes whole words in Japanese and Chinese (no more one character at a time), making it much easier to save vocabulary. • Stability improvements.

• More accurate language suggestions for speech recognition (including files named with only symbols or numbers) • Podcast episodes that can't be played now show a clear error message • Minor bug fixes and stability improvements

What's New in 1.0.1 - Speech-to-text now suggests the language that matches your audio, so podcasts and files in other languages get the right language by default. - Cleaner, better-synced subtitles: removed stray formatting tags, and podcast scripts that don't match the audio are no longer shown out of sync — tap the captions button to generate accurate subtitles instead. - Fixed an issue on iPhone where the last item in the list could be hidden behind the mini player and couldn't be tapped. - Various text, localization, and stability improvements.