# Chinese Pinyin Trainer — user reviews

> 187 indexed App Store user reviews of Chinese Pinyin Trainer by trainchinese B.V., rated 4.50/5 from 97 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese-pinyin-trainer/id376797304/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese-pinyin-trainer/id376797304.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 68 · 4★ 18 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 3

## What do users think of Chinese Pinyin Trainer?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Excellent for tone training
- 🚀 Helps learn pinyin quickly
- 🎧 Clear audio pronunciation
- 💡 Fun and engaging for learners
- 💰 Low price / good value
- ✅ Effective for beginners
- 📚 Good for drilling foundations
- 💯 Helps improve listening skills
- 📱 Easy to use interface
- ✨ Useful for revision
- 🎯 Forces brain to work
- 🌟 Great for aural training
- 👍 Good for practicing pronunciation
- 📚 Useful pinyin guide included
- 🗣️ Authentic pronunciation

**Cons**

- 📉 Free version is limited
- ⏳ Trial version is short
- 🔊 Poor sound quality reported
- 🤔 Some tones are unclear
- 😩 Monotonous at times
- 💸 Not enough features without paying
- 🐞 Incorrect tones in some words
- 📱 App is dated
- 🐌 Slow setup / activation
- 🚫 Stops working after trial
- 🤏 Small print / tone marks
- 📊 Limited progress tracking
- ❌ 'Draw the tone' mode doesn't work
- 🔇 No sound in some versions
- ❓ Unclear if free version has ads

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Cannot see 'lü' tone marks
- Some words have incorrect tones
- 'Draw the tone' mode doesn't work
- App crashes on tablets
- No sound on some versions
- Free version stops working
- Trial version is too short
- Sound quality is poor
- Tones are unclear
- Small print for tone marks
- App is dated
- Slow setup process
- Login issues / password activation problems
- App stops working after trial
- Issues with upgrading

**Most requested features**

- Add a 'Next' button
- Allow re-listening to audio after wrong answer
- Fix 'lü' tone marks visibility
- Offer multiple voice levels for tones
- Add a testing function for tone comparison
- Include a microphone for pronunciation testing
- Support multitasking
- Support iPhone 5 display size
- Add progress tracking
- Option to stop after incorrect answers for review
- Practice multi-syllable words
- Define custom word lists
- Display Chinese characters during pinyin games
- Allow input of specific vocabulary
- Customizable tests for initial sounds
- Retest frequently missed words

## Newest reviews (18 of 187)

### 4/5 — Fun ear training for tones!

*2026-05-08, version 4.3.0*

This quick and playful app was just right for an adult learner like me, drilled with the tones but still missing many by ear in real time. Pleasant articulate voice, easy button selections, low price, fun challenges. Might even help watching Cdramas!

### 3/5 — Bực bộiiii

*2026-04-17, version 4.3.0*

Mắc gì toi nạp tiền rồi khong dùng được

### 5/5 — 芳草

*2025-03-02, version 4.3.0*

Great application to improve pinyin pronunciation

### 5/5 — Елена

*2025-02-13*

🔥👍🔥

### 5/5 — Very useful

*2024-12-27, version 4.3.0*

I like the method, I also use Duolingo but for Chinese I prefer this app

### 5/5 — Pinyin

*2024-11-27*

Отличный тренажер! Один из лучших. Всем советую отрабатывать Chinese на нем! Спасибо!

### 5/5 — Ok

*2024-11-12, version 4.3.0*

Dfg

### 5/5 — Great app for beginners

*2024-10-31, version 4.3.0*

This app provides the authentic pronunciation for learning Chinese

### 5/5 — perfect

*2024-10-27, version 4.3.0*

exactly what i’ve been looking for to help learn tones

### 5/5 — Great tone practice

*2024-09-22, version 4.3.0*

Excellent practice for tone recognition

### 5/5 — Perfect for tone listening practice

*2024-05-24, version 4.3.0*

I’ve always struggled when it comes to identifying tones with two or more characters - although simple, the app provides just what I needed for practicing this and as much as I want (with a relatively cheap subscription)

### 4/5 — Good app

*2024-05-05, version 4.3.0*

The tones are so hard.  This helps.

### 5/5 — Tốt

*2024-04-16, version 4.3.0*

Tốt

### 5/5 — Pinyin Treber

*2024-04-08*

Cool

### 4/5 — Great

*2024-01-29, version 4.3.0*

Great pronunciation. Really helps.

### 5/5 — Perfekt für kleines Geld

*2023-12-07, version 4.3.0*

I

### 5/5 — Дуже зручна аплікація

*2023-08-21, version 4.3.0*

Все зручно і просто

### 3/5 — Improvements needed

*2023-05-31*

Training screen should have “Next” button. If student did wrong answer, it would be good to have chance to listen the audio record again to understand the error, and press Next after that.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Sucks after the actualization

*2026-06-26, version 5.0.0*

Ir was great because it’s free version let you practice 15 excersices. Now it only let you practice 5. Sad.

### 1/5 — Entspricht nicht der Beschreibung !!

*2025-08-29, version 4.3.0*

Die Menü Sprache ist ausschließlich in Russisch,?es gibt keine Englische Version! Die Beschreibung ist falsch und irreführend!!

### 1/5 — Good app

*2019-07-23, version 4.2.1*

I like Chinese now

### 1/5 — Фактически платное приложение

*2018-11-24*

25 слов в день, после отсылает за покупкой

### 1/5 — Плохо

*2016-07-03, version 4.0*

Даёт прослушать только несколько слов. Потом отсылает за покупкой на 299 рублей.

### 1/5 — перестало настраиваться

*2016-01-11, version 4.0*

перестало позволять настроить. работает лишь в режиме по умолчанию. Разработчики игнорируют покупателей своего продукта.

### 1/5 — Great for the deaf

*2012-09-27, version 2*

There's no sound on my version. Completely hopeless!

### 1/5 — Malo, ni se molesen en bajarlo

*2012-03-14, version 2*

Idem

### 1/5 — Ganz nett, aber unbrauchbar

*2011-10-29, version 2*

Stoppt leider nach ein paar Wörtern und dann soll man die Vollversion erwerben. Diese Mini- und Lockversionen sind leider unbrauchbar und echt nervig.

### 1/5 — Stops working

*2011-09-17, version 2*

After just a few words the trial version stops working.  No way to review the words that you have heard, just a demand that you purchase the upgrade.  I declined and deleted this app because the few words that I saw, were not enough for me to decide if this app were worth buying or not.  A better way to learn is to use the website :  Memrise.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Cuộc sống

*2026-05-13, version 4.3.0*

Hay

### 5/5 — App quality

*2026-04-29, version 4.3.0*

Good

### 5/5 — Quick easy way to study tones

*2026-01-02, version 4.3.0*

This is probably the best way to get the little bit of training you need. A little bit every day. I do two sessions of 50 correct answers. My incorrect percentage has gone down from 33% to 16% in a bit over a week. I think a couple months will make it automatic for be, which is what you need.

### 5/5 — Отлично

*2025-12-25*

Отличное приложение

### 5/5 — Отзыв

*2025-11-22*

Очень нравится

### 5/5 — Пиньинь

*2025-10-31*

Очень полезное приложение . Рекомендую

### 5/5 — Learning

*2025-09-28, version 4.3.0*

Good

### 5/5 — Best app to train pinyin

*2025-08-24*

The only app that allows you to train pinyin. Good one, but please fix the the lü tone marks, you can’t see them

### 5/5 — Muốn học cách phát âm

*2025-08-09, version 4.3.0*

5sao

### 5/5 — Phát âm

*2025-08-06, version 4.3.0*

Rất tốt

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