Your words
Mimesis
Listen. Click. Keep.
Listen to talks, podcasts and your own audio, and keep the sentences you hear: click, memo, export, play.
Mimesis is built and in daily use and testing here at version 1.56.18, but it is not on Google Play yet. Free is everything that works inside Mimesis — listening, clicks, memos, broad IPA, review, Play clicks, your own backups. Exports and sending to other apps are Mimesis Pro, coming.
Click, memo, export, play 1.47.0 · in testing
- ClickOne tap keeps the sentence being said, with its place — and listening goes on.
- MemoA typed or spoken note on any click.
- Play clicks Only your clicked sentences, one after another, from their own audio: repeat ×1–×3, a gap between.
- Export as playlist (VLC) ProA clip per sentence with its subtitles — the sentence, its IPA, your memo — a playlist, and one reel video.
- Readwise ProA CSV in Readwise’s format, or straight to your own account. Text only, never audio.
- Practise in Antiphon ProShadowing and dictation live in Antiphon now: one tap sends the line there.
- Every word in IPABroad IPA free and offline, in your stress style and color; narrow through a bought Phonema.
- How hard is this?A level from A1 to C2, the harder words you have not saved, and how fast they speak.
- Propart of the paid upgrade, coming
- built, arrives in the next version
NOW
Let’s take a closer look.
ˈlɛts ˈteɪk ə ˈkloʊ·sɚ ˈlʊk.
- Playlists/Big Ideas 2026-10-12/
- 01 - Let’s take a closer look.m4a
- 01 - Let’s take a closer look.srt
- 02 - It changes everything.m4a
- 02 - It changes everything.srt
- playlist.m3u8
- reel.mp4
- README.txt
Mimesis stays simple: shadowing and dictation are no longer in Mimesis. They live in Antiphon, exact to the line of your own audio, and dictation also in Lectio.
What it can do
- Real English, not a textbook. YouTube videos and playlists, podcasts, audio files from your phone or Google Drive, your own subtitle files; a transcript that follows the speaker, chapters, sleep timer, lock-screen and headset controls.
- Keep what you hear. Clicks and memos, words in lists of your own, review with spaced repetition, Play clicks — all free, and all yours to back up to your own Drive.
- Take it with youPro Export as playlist (VLC), audio clips, Anki and AnkiDroid, Markdown, Obsidian or Logseq, Readwise, subtitles with IPA — and Practise in Antiphon.
Your data
No account, no ads, no analytics, and no Mimesis server. Your clicks, notes and voice stay on your phone; nothing of yours leaves it unless you send it — a copy to your own Google Drive or a folder, an export you share, cards for AnkiDroid, your clicks to your own Readwise, subtitles made online with your own AssemblyAI or Groq key, or a sentence handed to another of our apps. The privacy policy names every one.
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Package
com.neurophonetics.mimesis · Android 7.0 and later
Mimesis is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. Pronunciations come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary by Carnegie Mellon University. Mimesis is not offered on Android TV: clicks, memos and transcripts need a touch screen. Questions or a problem:
The rest of the family
Separate apps, each doing one job. None of them needs another — they simply go well together. Mimesis writes the basic IPA; Phonema writes the narrow one.
