Haeonix

Earwright — Support

Listening practice from the video and audio you already have: play a sentence, write what you hear, see how close you were, and meet the hard ones again.

Requirements

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. A microphone for dictation by voice and for shadowing. No network access at all.

Questions people ask

How do I start without any files?

Press “Start with the sample” on the first screen: a one-minute public-domain reading with thirteen subtitle lines, bundled with the app.

My subtitle did not load with the media.

It loads when it sits beside the media with the same name — movie.srt, movie.smi, movie.lrc, or a language-tagged one like movie.en.srt. Otherwise open it with File › Open Subtitle.

Can I edit the subtitle here?

Not in Earwright — subtitles are read, never written. ⌘E hands the file to Cuewright, the sister app that edits them.

Clicking a word does nothing.

It looks the word up in the macOS dictionary, which needs a dictionary for that language switched on in the Dictionary app. With Lexwright installed, the word goes there instead.

Where do the level badges come from?

Openly licensed graded word lists — CEFR-J, Octanove, JLPT and HSK lists, and 국립국어원's Korean lists. Each source and licence is named in the About window.

Does anything I type or record leave my Mac?

No. The app has no network entitlement. Speech recognition uses Apple's on-device path where your Mac and the language support it; the permission prompt says what happens where they do not.

Reporting a problem

Email earwright@haeonix.com with the app version from its About window, what you expected, and what happened instead. A file that reproduces it helps more than anything else.