Facts about Language Reactor checked 2026-11-05 PT. Each fact links to its source. Prices and features can change; check the official site.
What each one is for
- Language Reactor: Formerly Language Learning with Netflix; describes itself as a toolbox to discover, understand and learn from native materials. [source]
- Echo Translate: Echo Translate is made for learning English (meanings in 40 native languages). [source]
Features
| Language Reactor | Echo Translate | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Chrome extension and the languagereactor.com website; works on phone and tablet. [source] | Chrome and Edge on a computer. Phone browsers can't install extensions; Pro audio review works on a phone. [source] |
| Whole-page bilingual translation | Not stated on the official site | ❌ Doesn't translate whole pages; translates the words and sentences you pick. [source] |
| Look up a word | ✅ Click a word for translations, example sentences with audio; Lexa AI gives contextual explanations. [source] | ✅ Select or click a word to see what it means in this sentence; the word and its sentence go into your word book. [source] |
| Word book / review | ✅ PhrasePump picks sentences for saved words due for review (a listening exercise); Pro saves words across all features and exports to Anki (free saves words only in PhrasePump). [source] | ✅ Review in the sentence you found the word, after 1, 3, 7, 15, 30 and 90 days; Pro adds audio review. [source] |
| Highlights words you've looked up when they come back | ✅ Saved words are highlighted throughout Language Reactor's content, recognizing plurals, verb conjugations and related forms. [source] | ✅ Highlighted when it shows up on another page, in a video or a PDF; hover to remember it, including plurals and verb forms. [source] |
| Video subtitles | ✅ Core feature: Netflix and YouTube bilingual subtitles, auto-pause after each subtitle, keyboard shortcuts. [source] | ✅ YouTube videos with CC subtitles; no Netflix subtitles. Click words, two languages or original only, jump back when reviewing. [source] |
| PDF / ebooks / import | ✅ Import web pages with the right-click menu, upload books, listen with text-to-speech. [source] | ✅ Online and local PDFs, never uploaded; import from Kindle Vocabulary Builder or CSV, export to CSV or Anki file. [source] |
Echo's import and export options.
Prices
| Language Reactor | Echo Translate | |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Bilingual subtitles (using Netflix's own subtitles), click-to-translate, basic AI explanations; words can be saved only in PhrasePump. [source] | 10 reviews, 500 lookups and 20 sentence translations a day; word book and reviews cover the 50 most recent words; all words highlighted [source] |
| Paid | Pro: US$5.95 for 1 month, US$13.95 for 3 months, US$39.95 for 1 year; adds speech recognition and machine-translated subtitles (Netflix), saving words everywhere and Anki export. [source] | Pro $4.99/month or $35.99/year; 1-Month Pass $5.99, 1-Year Pass $35.99 (no auto-renewal). Shows and reviews every word, syncs across computers, adds audio review and one-click sending to Anki. [source] |
What Language Reactor does better
- Video study tools Echo doesn't have: auto-pause after each line and shortcuts to replay or skip a line, on Netflix and YouTube. [source]
- 40+ study languages, with transliteration for other writing systems. [source]
- Anki cards with screenshots and audio (Pro). [source]
- Works on phone and tablet. [source]
- Its homepage shows 2,000,000+ users. [source]
Which one should I use?
- Language Reactor: You learn mainly by watching shows and YouTube and want line-by-line listening practice, or you're learning a language other than English.
- Echo Translate: You're learning English mostly by reading web pages, news and articles, and want to look words up on the page and remember them.
A Language Reactor alternative for reading websites and PDFs — reading workflows side by side. See also Language Reactor's platform FAQ.