# Hankori: Learn Korean — Read, write and hear Hangul > Read, write and hear Hangul (iPhone/iPad app by Sascha Harald Effertz.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hankori-learn-korean/id6818541398 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Sascha Harald Effertz](https://appshunter.io/developer/6818541400) - Category: Education, Games, Word - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 20 MB - Languages: American English, German (Germany), European Spanish - Released: 2026-10-30 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Hankori? Hankori: Learn Korean teaches you to read, write and hear Hangul, the Korean alphabet. After the letters you build syllables, then come your first 418 words, the numbers, the time and the date. The app is a small world. You arrive by boat at a harbour, and Hoho and her puppy Bori walk with you along a street of shops. Every shop is one lesson. One key switches between night and day. 글자 · LETTERS • All 40 letters of Hangul: the simple and the double consonants, the simple and the compound vowels. • In the classroom Hoho writes each letter stroke by stroke on the board, and Bori explains it. Then you trace it on your hanji pad: first guided, then faint, then from memory. • Every letter is spoken by a native Korean speaker. You hear a consonant on its own first, then with ㅏ, ㅗ and ㅣ as a syllable. • Then you pick the letter for a sound and the sound for a letter. Later you write a letter you only hear, and Hoho writes the answer on the board. • The letters come in small groups, vowels first. Stars show how well you know each one. 음절 · SYLLABLES • Hangul puts letters together into syllable blocks. Here you build them yourself, with magnets. • Every letter is a magnet. At the right spot it snaps in with a clack, and you hear the syllable. At the wrong spot it pushes away. • Four levels: sort consonants and vowels, then syllables of two letters (가, 소), with one final letter (산, 곰) and with two (닭, 값). • Bori shows you every level first with his paw. 단어 · WORDS • 418 beginner words in more than 20 topics, such as animals, food, family, colours, the body, school, weather, shopping and common verbs. • LEARN: before a round you see the words with their meaning and their romanisation. Then the letters of each word fall, and you put them together into syllables. • You collect stars for every word. Words you know rest for a few days and then come back to be refreshed. • With HELP the spelling stands on the board from the start, otherwise only after a mistake. Without help you earn more stars. • WORDS opens MY WORDS: every pack and your progress. New packs open as you learn: whenever most words of a pack hold two stars, another one opens. If you already know some words, the placement test on a pack's page asks five of them without help. • ARCADE, the arcade game, opens after three LEARN rounds. A word's letters fall one at a time, and you steer each into the column of its syllable: ㄱ becomes 고, and 고 becomes 과. Three difficulties, three lives. 시간 · NUMBERS AND TIME • Korean has two sets of numbers. The hour counts with the native Korean numbers. The minutes, the month and the day count with the Sino-Korean ones. • A clock, a calendar leaf or a time written in Hangul sits on top of a lock. You turn the number wheels until they match, and the lock opens. • You read the clock and the calendar, and you set them yourself. ALSO INSIDE • English, German and Spanish for every meaning and menu, switchable in the settings. • Every word comes with its romanisation, following the Revised Romanization of Korean. • The letters and syllables are spoken by a native speaker. The words and the solved times are spoken by the Korean system voice of your device; without it, only those stay silent. • Calm music written for the street and every lesson. • Your progress stays on your device. A short code takes it to another one. NOT INSIDE • No ads, no in-app purchases. • No account, no data collection, no tracking. • No internet connection needed: the app works fully offline. WHO IT IS FOR For teenagers and adults who want to read and write Korean and would rather practise than learn a table by heart. You need no previous knowledge. Hankori does not replace a language course. You learn the script, the syllables, a basic vocabulary, the numbers and the time. Grammar is not part of it. ## Is Hankori safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Hankori. ## Is Hankori legit? Hankori: Learn Korean has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hankori is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-11-02 • New: the syllables shop 음절. You build syllables from letter magnets, in four levels from 가 to 닭. • The letters and syllables are now spoken by a native speaker. A consonant sounds on its own first, then in a syllable. • The letters shop is a classroom: Hoho writes on the board, Bori explains, you write on your pad. • Runs more smoothly on many phones. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-30 No release notes. --- *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 2026-11-06.*