Note: This is a copy paste from old document and will be updated and organized in time.

• Websites with content across many languages
  • Netflix
  • Youtube
  • If you install Mozilla and open YouTube in a desktop mode, you can turn your screen off/use other apps and the video will still be playing in the background. You can use this for passive listening. (I tried it on Android, idk if it works on IOS).
  • Radio Garden: Listen to radio from all over the world
  • TuneIn: Listen to radio in many languages
  • IPTV: Watch TV from all over the world
    • Use VLC to open the streams
  • PocketCasts podcast app allows you to browse by region and topic making it very easy to find what’s popular in that region.
  • Youglish - Search youtube for videos with the example word in the CC subtitles. Great for finding pronunciation of single words and for finding videos about specific topics of interest with CC subtitles.
  • https://mattw.io/youtube-geofind/location - Search for YouTube videos from specific areas in the world. Useful for searching for content for less spoken languages or for picking language parents from specific regions.
• Content Downloading
  • 4K Video Downloader: High Quality Video and Audio downloads of Youtube Videos. Allows downloading of Subtitles, and Audio Tracks of Youtube Videos.
  • FlixGrab: A program to download popular streaming services. Currently includes Netflix, HBO, Disney +, among others. (Windows Only).
  • Kigo Netflix Downloader (Cracked): Cracked version of Kigo Netflix Downloader, less buggy than Flixgrab.
  • Youtube-dl: Download videos from a wide variety of sites (including Youtube). It can also download subtitles from quite a few websites if you use --write-sub (or --write-auto-sub for machine-generated subtitles).
  • Youtube-dl GUI (non-command line)
  • Lj Video Downloader (for Android) seems like it can replace youtube-dl for Android users.
• Popup Dictionaries and card creation
  • Yomichan: Japanese popup chrome browser dictionary addon
  • Language Reactor: New version of Language Learning with Netflix/YT. Nearly the same features with paywall behind some features.
  • Migaku Tools: Anki and Chrome addons dictionary lookups and card creation. (Dictionary)(Browser extension)
  • Dictionary Anywhere: Popup dictionary supporting multiple languages. Chrome, Firefox
  • QTranslate: popup dictionary and translator for windows, works on clipboard change, text selection, highly configurable.
  • ShareX OCR: Optical character recognition allows you to copy text from pictures. This is helpful when you want to look up words or copy sentences from comics which typically do not have copyable text.
  • Iago: Browser extension with sentence mining & built-in dictionary on TV shows / videos, automatic flashcard creation, and SRS review.
  • Monolingual WordReference: Browser extension for WordReference that hides native text within the site, giving a complete monolingual experience.
• Artificial Immersion Apps
  • Readlang: Freemium Chrome Extension for on-page translations. Saves words to list that can be exported with original sentence, target word, and translation for import into Anki.
  • Toucan: Replaces words in your native language with your target language when browsing the web.
• Video Players that help with immersion
  • MPV
  • Voracious
  • PodPlayer: Clickable subtitles, Auto translate subtitles, show two subtitles at once, Subtitle viewer, shortcut to copy current subtitle line and more. User friendly interface.
• OCR for manga
  • Transformers OCR: An OCR tool using maim with Transformers. Recognizes text and copies it to the clipboard. Works on GNU/Linux.
• Immersion-enhancing video players
  • Animebook: a simple web video player that is useful for immersion with subtitle file. It contains great anki cards creation tools. For more information, read its github page.
  • Asbplayer: another simple web video player like animebook. Moreover, you can watch any web/streaming video with a chosen subtitle file and create anki cards from them, it has a quick subtitle retime tool. For more information, read its github page.
  • mpv: A video player program, it is useful for immersion and anki cards creation but it’s very complex to learn how to use it.Matt made a great video on how to install it, configure it and use it.
  • Voracious: Desktop video player with easy dictionary lookups, powerful subtitle modes and instant Anki export for Windows, Mac, Linux
• Immersion-enhancing video players for mobile
  • LPlayer: A simple android video player very useful for freeflow immersion with subtitle files.

jidoujisho

: Android video player with language learning tools, Jisho.org in-app dictionary lookups, custom J-J dictionary and YouTube with JP subs support, and instant AnkiDroid export with image and sound. I recommend reading the

github

page to understand how the app works and how to use it.