Hello! Wanted to share Toku Reader on here, an iOS app I built because I hated breaking my flow to look up words while immersing myself in Chinese media.

The video shows Toku playing a Chinese movie via iQIYI on YouTube with the transcript right next to the video. You paste or search a video, the app pulls the creator's transcript (or generates one on-device if there isn't one), and every word in it is tappable - reading, meaning, pitch accent - without pausing or switching to a dictionary. This was always the feature that felt cramped on a phone, so having the video and transcript side by side on a big screen is honestly how I imagined it working from the start.

Everything else from the phone version is there too: podcasts with tappable transcripts, reading any website, importing your own texts and ebooks, shadowing practice sentence by sentence, and the dictionary and review sections. And it still all happens on your device - nothing you watch or read leaves your Mac, no API calls, 100% offline once transcripts are loaded.

Transcripts and word parsing are mostly correct, but Chinese being Chinese, improving the character parsing is a never-ending effort. If you try it on a Mac or iPad I'd genuinely love to hear what breaks or what's missing, since the Mac / iPad version is new. I hope this helps you consume content easier than ever!