Hanly User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience99.0% of reviews
Neutral0.5% of reviews
Negative experience0.5% of reviews

~ Based on 193 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hanly Safe?

Hanly appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hanly is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 318 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

99.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
0.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 318 App Store ratings for Hanly.

Is Hanly Legit?

Hanly appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hanly is 60/100.

Based on 60 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Thank you

Amazing app. Best thing I’ve found for learning characters. Please add more campaign levels!

Perfect

It’s so perfect because it breaks down the characters.
I wish they would make one for I love the way it is structured.

Great for supplementing learning!

I’m so bad at planning my studying sessions to account for the forgetting curve but this app does all the work for me! I was skeptical at first because I struggle to remember new information without hand writing things, but the spaced repetition has meant that I can keep practicing until it’s in my long term memory- I just need to make sure I use the app most days.
The way characters are introduced makes it easier for me to figure out the meaning of new characters so I’ve been better at figuring out the meaning of sentences even when I forget the pronunciation of a character.
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great app for learning vocabulary

i’ve been using it daily for a couple weeks and i’m definitely improving

So helpful!!

I was struggling to learn characters in a Chinese 1 class, and this app has saved me! Great mnemonics, great interface, a lifesaver!! Thanks to the Redditor who mentioned this, I am forever indebted.

Good!

Useful, free, easy to use. The best app I’ve found for learning hanzi.

Very useful!

Would be 5* if not for the AI-generated images. Thankfully, you can disable most instances of it.

Must have for learning characters

I’ve tried a bunch of Chinese learning apps, and this is the only one that feels really well-made. You can tell there was a lot of effort and thought put into it.

Beautiful interface

I have never seen a more serene, soothing, aesthetically pleasing interface in my life. The structured learning fits my ADHD wikipedia rabbithole way of searching for more information once I feel comfortable with what I’m reading. This is an exceptionally well designed app that is supplementing my Chinese education, and it doesn’t overlap Anki or Pleco to any degree that I feel like I have to ditch.
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Best app for hanzi learning

Best Chinese learning app behind Pleco. As a “know enough to speak like a child” native speaker, this app gives me exactly what I need to improve my vocabulary, which is my biggest bottleneck.

I would gladly donate to the developers for this app. Please add a tip jar.

Any chance we could get a lock screen widget to show the characters we’re reviewing?
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Marvelous app

I never review anything but I had to for Hanly. Hands down the best app of its genre and it’s crazy that it’s all free. Thank you to the developers and educators behind it 🫶

Fantastic gem

Highly recommend!! So useful and learning so much every day. Thanks devs for making it free! Will subscribe when I have some cash!

Incredible

I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed an app so much that I left it WITH MY OWN FREE WILL to go leave a positive review (there’s no “rate us now!” button, I came here on my own)

I use this app alongside Duolingo because Duolingo is really bad at making any sense of the characters. Something about the structure of this app just… clicks.

I really enjoy the examples of how you can remember something. At first, some of the memory recommendations seem corny, but boy are they effective.

I really enjoy the pacing of this app, bringing back old symbols occasionally for review while continuing to focus on the ones I struggle with. At this point, I’ve learned about 120 characters.

My Chinese co worker said that once I hit 1000, it will be similar to a grade-2 reading level, which I’m super excited about.

To whoever made this app, you are incredible, and I hope you continue on beyond this to introduce more characters because I don’t know what I’ll do without this once I learn the first 1000. If you ever post a link for donations, I’ll gladly contribute. If I meet you in real life, I’d buy you a beer (or coffee, or tea, or whatever)
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Amazing

I'm learning fast and having so much fun doing it too

So far, I’m pretty impressed!

Very intuitive!

Outstanding

This is one of the best all-around apps I have ever used. It is intuitive, engaging, and excels at its purpose of teaching characters. The introduction of characters, nmemonics, options for pace of review, optional extra details, and occasional cutesy little side comments, are all very well done. I can’t believe it’s free.
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Amazing app

This is an amazing app. It really feels like its creators care and the delivery, explanations and order are really great. Thank you so much!!!

Best App to learn Chinese characters

And you cam use it without wifi!

Amazing app

I teach chinese to foreigners and this is an amazing app for my students and myself.

incredible learning tool

i've been trying to learn Mandarin for many years with minimal success and this is by far the best learning tool I've encountered so far. more people should know about this app. It was very clearly crafted as a labor of love. So much attention into the user experience. It is incredibly comprehensive and detailed yet also very fun. The use of spaced repetition and feeling that the app is guiding you patiently shows that the creator really understood language pedagogy. Can't recommend enough!
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