# Aisten: Podcast Transcription

> AI Subtitles, Shadow, Vocab

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6453694910](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6453694910)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6453694910`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** 祥 陈
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 4.90 / 5 (146 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.8.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-19
- **First published:** 2023-07-29
- **Size:** 295 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aisten-podcast-transcription/id6453694910)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://josscii.github.io/aisten/privacy.html](https://josscii.github.io/aisten/privacy.html)

## Description

**Aisten: Podcast Transcription** helps language learners turn podcasts into practical study materials. Generate AI-powered subtitles and transcripts, follow along with real conversations, practice shadowing, and explore vocabulary in context.

Learn with podcasts in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Japanese while improving listening comprehension and discovering natural expressions from native speakers. Aisten is designed to make podcast-based language practice simpler, especially when episodes lack transcripts or vocabulary lookup is inconvenient.

## Rankings

- #115,161 — Overall

## Review summary

Users praise Aisten for turning podcasts and videos into a powerful language-learning hub with fast transcriptions, a rich feature set (bookmarking, saving, clickable words), and strong price-to-value. They highlight responsive support and frequent updates. Common drawbacks center on AI explanations of mistranscriptions, occasional quality inconsistencies (including language switching), and requests for better transcript alignment, bookmarking flow, and cross-device syncing. Overall, it’s seen as a highly capable, affordable app that excels for language learners, with room for improvements in accuracy, UX, and multi-device parity.

### Pros

- Excellent language learning support with features like spaced repetition, bookmarking, and saving content
- Fast, capable transcription with clickable words and overall accuracy
- Rich feature set including import, bookmarking/saving, PIP, Live Activity, subtitles, and iCloud syncing
- Great value for money with high customization and frequent updates
- Highly responsive support and proactive updates from the developer

### Cons

- AI explanations for mistranscriptions can be misleading; users want verification first and correction suggestions
- Inconsistent transcription quality across episodes, including language-switching (e.g., French/English)
- Replay/loop functionality and transcript alignment could be improved for easier use
- Cross-device synchronization isn't seamless for all devices (sync gaps reported)
- Transcript alignment and bookmarking workflow could be simplified (distinguishing bookmarks vs favorites)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6453694910)