# Chinese21 > Chinese21 (iPhone/iPad app by OLE PETTER HAUGEN.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese21/id6753718421 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [OLE PETTER HAUGEN](https://appshunter.io/developer/1831337755) - Category: Education, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.6 · 45 MB - Languages: American English, Albanian, Arabic, Bangla, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch and 43 more - Released: 2026-01-22 - Data updated: 2026-08-23 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chinese21/id6753718421/reviews.md ## What is Chinese21? Master Chinese in 21 days with Chinese21! Learn Chinese through a structured 21-day course designed for real-world conversations. Practice with Speech recognition, track your progress, get advice from a teacher, and learn while driving your car. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Chinese21 Pro | $19.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.33 — 2026-08-16 Versions: 1.0: Talk 2.0: Handsfree 3.0: In the Car 3.30: With Teacher 3.31: Talk iPhone Audio Tested ### 3.31 — 2026-07-07 Versions: 1.0: Talk 2.0: Handsfree 3.0: In the Car 3.30: With Teacher 3.31: Talk iPhone Audio Tested ### 3.30 — 2026-06-25 Versions: 1.0: Talk 2.0: Handsfree 3.0: In the Car 3.30: With Teacher ### 2.60 — 2026-05-25 - Hands-Free operation. Use it in your car, while walking, or anywhere. Allows for fast, hassle free inputs. - Gain confidence in speaking Chinese. Train with Apple's Speech Recognition, imitate pronunciations with variable speech rates, individual words or full phrases, do add sound-alike words and add contextual phrases for better speaking flows. - Quick up to speed in understanding Chinese, with multiple choice exercises. - Test your writings with Chinese keyboard. - Rate your language levels automatically. - Make yourself remember meanings, spellings and pronunciations by repeating until you are golden. - Quick Chinese 21 plan included. - Extensive Language Studio included, for creating and sharing classes and glossaries. Create by camera or images, share with friends, and import our comprehensive glossary index from our website. - Support 40 user languages - English, German, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Nordic languages including Icelandic, Arabic, all major Indian languages, Italian, French, Japanese and many others. - One time payment for the full Pro package. Basic levels are Free. What's New in 2.51 Added support for Apple CarPlay - Pending approval Improved click word and handsfree command detection Updates to the speech engine management State transitions improvements What's New in 2.60 iPad support Chinese21 now runs natively on iPad — same Hands-Free experience as on iPhone. Pinyin everywhere Tone-marked pinyin now appears under the Chinese characters in Tune, Talk, Repeat After Me, and the Dialog Player. In Dialog Player, the pinyin shows whenever translations are visible — including while you're being prompted to speak as Person 1 or Person 2. Tune: tap any character Each Chinese character under the purple card is now its own bubble. Tap the ones you want and the speaker button reads back just your selection — perfect for drilling a single tricky syllable. Tune: progressive credit per syllable Recognition no longer needs the whole phrase in one breath. Say wǒ and it locks in the first character, then say shì and it completes the match — even across separate attempts. The matched characters turn green as you go. Tune: Record & Compare New overflow-menu option: record yourself saying the phrase, then play your recording followed by the native pronunciation at the same speed. The speed slider works for both your voice and the model voice. Tune: Logoped pronunciation guide Tap the new bubble icon on any phrase for a per-character pronunciation breakdown (initial, final, tone) with detailed mouth-position tips. Word Scramble fixed for Chinese Phrases now split into individual character tiles instead of appearing as one untappable block. Tap-Click escape hatch If hands-free voice commands are giving you trouble in Chinese, there's now a tap button in Tune that opens the command menu without using speech recognition. Repeat After Me — better defaults for learners Starts at Level 2 (manual), auto-translates AI responses, and Level 1 keeps prompts to one or two words. AI speech rate goes lower Minimum AI conversation speed reduced from 50% to 10% — useful for understanding fast native-pace Chinese sentence-by-sentence. Many small fixes Faster recognition recovery, better handling of Bluetooth audio routes, and improved stability for long hands-free sessions. Translated by Claude. Tuned by Apple ### 2.50 — 2026-04-11 - Hands-Free operation. Use it in your car, while walking, or anywhere. Allows for fast, hassle free inputs. - Gain confidence in speaking Chinese. Train with Apple's Speech Recognition, imitate pronunciations with variable speech rates, individual words or full phrases, do add sound-alike words and add contextual phrases for better speaking flows. - Quick up to speed in understanding Chinese, with multiple choice exercises. - Test your writings with Chinese keyboard. - Rate your language levels automatically. - Make yourself remember meanings, spellings and pronunciations by repeating until you are golden. - Quick Chinese 21 plan included. - Extensive Language Studio included, for creating and sharing classes and glossaries. Create by camera or images, share with friends, and import our comprehensive glossary index from our website. - Support 40 user languages - English, German, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Nordic languages including Icelandic, Arabic, all major Indian languages, Italian, French, Japanese and many others. - One time payment for the full Pro package. Basic levels are Free. Changes in this version includes: - Added support for Apple CarPlay - Pending approval - Improved click word and handsfree command detection - Updates to the speech engine management - State transitions improvements Translated by Claude. Tuned by Apple ## More apps by OLE PETTER HAUGEN - [Voxly AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/voxly-ai/id6749590578) - [French21](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/french21/id6752799461) - [German21](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/german21/id6753718355) - [Polish21](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polish21/id6753718412) - [English21](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/english21/id6753718459) All apps by OLE PETTER HAUGEN: https://appshunter.io/developer/1831337755 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-23.*