# Gushi - Learn Chinese — HSK 3.0 or your textbook > HSK 3.0 or your textbook (iPhone/iPad app by Jonas Niklas Kirner.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gushi-learn-chinese/id6799015237 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jonas Niklas Kirner](https://appshunter.io/developer/6799015239) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 706 MB - Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), European Spanish - Released: 2026-09-08 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is Gushi? Learn Chinese with the new HSK 3.0, or with your own textbook. All nine HSK levels and ten textbooks, every character, word and grammar point written and recorded. START WHERE YOU ARE Complete beginner, or already reading comfortably? Pick your HSK level, or let the placement test find it: it settles reading and listening separately, because almost nobody is at the same level in both. YOUR TEXTBOOK Learning in a course? Pick your book and your lesson. Gushi follows it lesson by lesson: each lesson's words and characters for reading, listening, speaking and writing, in your course's order. Grammar and the mock exams stay on the HSK path for now. FIVE SKILLS - Recognition: characters and words, until you know them on sight - Reading: graded articles at your level, with questions at the end - Listening: from single words to whole passages - Speaking: shadowing with speech scoring, from single sentences to whole articles - Writing: watch the stroke order, then write the character yourself WHAT IS ON A CARD Not just the translation. Every card carries the tone, the pinyin and a recording, how the character is built from its parts, a story to hold it, the words it turns up in, and example sentences. Every part has a name, and the building blocks show their history: oracle bone, bronze, seal, and the character you write today. FEATURES - Spaced repetition (FSRS) for every character and word you meet - Full HSK mock exams at every level, in the official format, and the HSKK - 428 grammar points, level by level, and a 量词 room at every level - A weekly league: everyone who learns this week on one board, fresh every Monday GUSHI INTELLIGENCE Chinese goes better when you are not doing it alone, and Gushi Intelligence is what makes that work: one model of how you learn, used by you and by everyone helping you. What it knows about you: - Which skill you are building fastest, and which one is falling behind - Your strengths and weak spots, down to the lesson, the word and the character - The tone you keep struggling with, the character you keep forgetting, and the "hē" you keep saying in shadowing where it should be "hé" What it does with that: the tone drill leans into the tone you miss most, and a character you keep forgetting comes back sooner. IN YOUR LANGUAGE SCHOOL Your teacher gets the same picture. Join your class with a code, and the Gushi Teaching Platform shows your teacher or language school how your week went, so the next lesson builds on it. Gushi is built together with language schools: students and teachers at our founding partner school try it out and shape what we build next. gushichinese.com/teaching PHONE AND COMPUTER One account, one review history: the phone for the short moments, learn.gushichinese.com for a longer session at the computer. BUILT ON THE OFFICIAL SYLLABUS Every HSK word, character and grammar point comes from the official HSK 3.0 syllabus (考试大纲) published by Chinese Testing International at chinesetest.cn. We publish our edition for free at gushichinese.com, in all four languages: 11,000 words, 3,088 characters and 428 grammar points, with a recording of every word. Gushi is independent and not affiliated with Chinese Testing International or with any textbook publisher. SUBSCRIPTION Free for one month. Then Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gushichinese.com/privacy ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Yearly | $89.99 | per year | | Monthly | $8.99 | per month | ## Is Gushi safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Gushi. ## Is Gushi legit? Gushi - Learn Chinese has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gushi is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-28 Gushi now follows your class, lesson by lesson. NEW - Lesson settings on Today: the lesson your class is on, your rhythm, words a day, and a pause for a holiday week - The chosen lesson comes first in every deck, new words and reviews, and the date shows whether you finish in time - Every learning card shows where it comes from, like "Volume 1 · Lesson 9" - Listening, speaking and writing are ready for every word at once - Search finds single characters again, and looks beyond your syllabus when you ask it to - Drawing and photo search find every character Gushi knows, traditional ones too - Every character and word page shows its frequency rank - HSK 1 to 3 by lesson in the Library - More look-alike characters, and better ones - A story for every building block with a breakdown, and usage notes for every textbook entry - Change your level both ways in the settings BETTER - Many fixes from your feedback Free for one month. After that, Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both. Something wrong, or missing? The pencil button in the top bar writes straight to us, and we read all of it. ### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-26 Gushi follows your textbook now. NEW - Learning paths: HSK 3.0, ten textbooks lesson by lesson, or the first 1,000 words. Pick one when you start, and switch it in the settings - On a textbook path, Today, Profile and Statistics follow your book and your lesson - Every character broken down to its last part, and every part has a name - Every part is marked by what it gives the character: its meaning, its sound, both, or only its shape - History: the old forms of a character, from oracle bone to today, with short films - A page for every building block: how it is used, how it sounds, its strokes and its other forms - A Gushi story for every word, not only for every character - New voices for words and characters, and every example sentence spoken - A new Today: every deck with its own mark, and progress on the sentence decks - Mock exams in the HSK 3.0 format, and an HSKK hall for the oral exam - Write in freehand, then compare your strokes with the right ones - Choose what Today shows: grammar, the exam hall, the playground - Replies to your feedback arrive in an inbox in the app BETTER - Many fixes to meanings, recordings and layouts Free for one month. After that, Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both. Something wrong, or missing? The pencil button in the top bar writes straight to us, and we read all of it. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-01 Stories for every level: every character from HSK 1 to 9 now has its own short story, in English, German, Spanish and French. NEW - One clear meaning on every card, the others underneath - Every reading of a character with its own sound - A short tour through the app for new learners - Areas open step by step as you learn more characters - The weekly league shows everyone who is learning this week - Speaking practice: hear your own recording next to the original - Slower playback on listening cards BETTER - Your music keeps playing while you study, and the XP sound works on silent - You stay signed in, also after updates - Show your password while you type - Many fixes to meanings, sounds and layouts ### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-17 Gushi speaks French now — the app and the whole HSK 3.0 syllabus, beside English, German and Spanish. NEW - A placement test that settles reading and listening separately, because almost nobody is at the same level in both - The building blocks have a front door of their own: 915 of them, in four bands, each with the oracle bone its shape came from - Measure word training, one room at every level - The HSK 1-3 stories in your language, not only in English - Sign in with a password, or with Apple — and an Apple login can be joined to an account you already have BETTER - A flipped card says the character out loud - The backlog on Stats counts the same pile Today counts Free for one month. After that, Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both. Something wrong, or missing? The pencil button in the top bar writes straight to us, and we read all of it. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-08 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Gushi | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [JLPT Step N1](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jlpt-step-n1/id6756796846) | — | Free | Education | | [Hangul Street: Learn Korean](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hangul-street-learn-korean/id6793157518) | — | Free | Education | | [HANJI: Learn Korean Hangul](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanji-learn-korean-hangul/id6807298006) | — | Free | Education | | [HSK3.0 Chinese Words](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hsk30-chinese-words/id6756714604) | — | $3.99 | Education | | [LingPal: AI Language Learning](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lingpal-ai-language-learning/id6772073062) | — | Free | Education | | [HanKa (汉卡): Learn Chinese HSK](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanka-learn-chinese-hsk/id6787262052) | — | Free | Education | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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