# Hanyu: Learn Chinese Mandarin — HSK Test Prep, Pinyin & Tutor > HSK Test Prep, Pinyin & Tutor (iPhone/iPad app by Opticell Limited.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanyu-learn-chinese-mandarin/id6760541929 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Opticell Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/1883824295) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 40 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-03-18 - Data updated: 2026-08-29 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanyu-learn-chinese-mandarin/id6760541929/reviews.md ## What is Hanyu? Learn to read, write and speak Mandarin — with live radio from China, an on-device AI tutor, 680+ characters with stroke order, graded stories, 18 games and full HSK 1–3 mock exams with certificates. Everything is free for your first 30 days — no signup, no card details, nothing to cancel. Explore the whole app from the moment you download. After your free month, keep everything with a small monthly or yearly subscription, or make it yours forever with a single lifetime purchase. NEW: LIVE CHINESE RADIO Tune into 21 real stations from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong — news, music and talk, exactly as native listeners hear it. Every station is labelled by listening difficulty (music is the gentle on-ramp; news is a workout for advanced ears), audio keeps playing while you study elsewhere in the app, and play/pause lives right on your lock screen. HSK CERTIFICATION TESTS Take full-length mock HSK 1, 2 or 3 exams — 30 questions across character recognition, pinyin matching, translation, fill-in-the-blank, grammar and listening. Finish with a detailed report: score breakdowns by skill, personalised strengths and weaknesses, targeted exercise recommendations, and a downloadable certificate with your name, date and score. MASSIVE CONTENT LIBRARY 680+ characters & compounds with stroke order, pinyin, meanings & etymology Graded reader stories with interactive word lookup, sentence audio & quizzes Picture flashcard decks — flip & learn, topic by topic Manga Dialogues — animated everyday scenes with tap-to-learn words & audio Themed topic lessons: Restaurant, Hotel, Shopping, Transport, Doctor & more Grammar reference, radicals, measure words, opposites & question words Chinese culture: history timeline, interactive map, and a music section with famous singers, traditional instruments & modern genres Free content packs — new stories, flashcards, manga scenes and lessons in the in-app Pack Library 18 INTERACTIVE GAMES Memory Match, Time Attack, Quiz Mode, Listening Practice, Parrot Mode, Stroke Order Challenge, Pinyin Typing, Radical Hunt, Character Combo, Sentence Builder, Audio Dictation, Progressive Fade, Similar Characters, Memory Chain & more. AI CHINESE TUTOR Powered by Apple Intelligence, your on-device AI tutor teaches in English with Hanzi and Pinyin. Practise conversation, get grammar explanations, learn vocabulary and have mistakes gently corrected — all private, all on your device, no account needed. SCAN CHINESE ANYWHERE Point your camera at a menu, sign or book. Hanyu reads the Chinese live, glosses every word and translates whole sentences — entirely on-device. WRITE CHINESE BY HAND A natural drawing pad with animated stroke order for every character, plus dedicated training for stroke types, counts and radicals. PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS & CERTIFICATES Generate vocabulary lists, fill-in-the-blanks, matching exercises, translation practice and writing grids. Print your HSK certificates and reports. WHY HANYU? Try absolutely everything free for a month before paying a penny. Then choose what suits you: a flexible subscription for less than a coffee a month, or one lifetime payment that's yours forever. And if you bought Hanyu before, everything you purchased stays unlocked — always. Price: Free to download — 30-day full-access free trial built in SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Hanyu Premium is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.opticell-limited.com/hanyu ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Unlock Everything | $4.99 | one-time | | Cooking Section | $0.99 | one-time | | Picture Flashcards | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 1 | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 3 | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 2 | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 4 | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 5 | $0.99 | one-time | | Stories Vol 6 | $0.99 | one-time | | Manga Dialogues | $0.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.2.4 — 2026-08-29 Version 3.2.4 — Three fixes A small maintenance release that sorts out three things that weren't behaving. • The Today tutor card does what it says — the AI Tutor card on Today changes its suggestion every few seconds, but tapping it always opened the mnemonic writer, whatever it was offering at the time. Now each suggestion goes where it promises: "Practise a real conversation" starts a roleplay with your tutor, "Ask your AI tutor anything" opens the chat, and the mnemonic prompts still write you a memory hook. • "Next story" no longer skips your packs — stories added from a content pack were passed over when you tapped Next at the end of a story, no matter where they sat in your library. Next and Previous now follow the same order you see on the Stories shelf, so they respect your level filter, keep to the stories you've liked to the top, and skip the ones you've hidden. • New pack characters show up in Learn straight away — after installing a character pack mid-session, its characters were listed but the Learn deck kept stepping through the old set until you switched category or reopened the app. The deck now picks up new characters as soon as the pack lands, without losing the card you were on. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油 ### 3.2.3 — 2026-08-19 Version 3.2.3 — Five fixes A maintenance release that clears out the rough edges you reported. • Parrot Mode scores you again — the game listened to your Mandarin and then said nothing. It now waits for the recogniser to finish, tells you what it heard and marks the round right or wrong, with tone feedback. If it genuinely didn't hear you, it says so and lets you try again instead of counting it as a mistake. • Tap any word in a story — words outside a story's own vocabulary list came up with pinyin but no meaning. Every word is now glossed from the built-in CC-CEDICT dictionary, and multi-character words are read as words rather than split into single characters. • A close button you can actually see — the x on a full-screen clipping used to vanish against a white screenshot. It now sits on a dark disc with a light ring, legible over anything. • Memory Match's x is back in the corner — it had drifted in next to the title instead of sitting at the top right. • Audio Dictation holds its shape — the panel no longer grows and jumps as you pick an answer; the space for the result, the stroke animation and Next Round is reserved from the start. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油 ### 3.2.2 — 2026-08-17 Version 3.2.2 — Fade the template A new way to make writing practice harder, plus a proper tidy-up of the Games section. • NEW: Fade the template — the writing pad in Character Practice now has a Template slider. Start with a clear guide underneath your strokes, then fade it down as the character sticks, all the way to an empty square. Hanyu remembers where you left it. • Radical Hunt fits your screen — the hunting board and your Caught Characters list now sit on screen together, so you can see what you've caught without scrolling off the bottom mid-round. The end-of-round summary fits properly too. • Character Combo, full screen — the game now uses the whole screen, with bigger character tiles that are easier to hit and a Next Round button that's always within reach instead of hiding below the fold. • Parrot Mode speaks up again — Play Audio and the microphone now work on every card, not just the first one. Your answer is scored once instead of several times, so the game no longer skips ahead through cards you never saw. • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油 ### 3.2.1 — 2026-08-11 Version 3.2.1 — The Library Real Chinese books, in your pocket — and every word is tappable. • NEW: Library — a shelf of classic Chinese literature, free to download. Lu Xun's short stories, Zhu Ziqing's essays, three hundred Tang poems, the Analects, the Tao Te Ching, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and more • Read the way you learn — tap any word for pinyin and its meaning, hear it spoken, and save it straight into your Words for review. No more reading with a dictionary in your other hand • Start with real Chinese you can actually handle — the modern shelf is early vernacular writing, far friendlier than Classical Chinese, with difficulty marked on every book • Simplified or traditional — switch between 简体 and 繁體 at any time, mid-sentence if you like • Made for long reads — pick your text size, line spacing and a paper or night theme, search the contents of even the longest books, and pick up exactly where you left off • Free to try — the Tang poems and the Tao Te Ching are yours in full, plus a free story inside Lu Xun's collection • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Every book is in the public domain, re-typeset for comfortable reading on a phone. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油 ### 3.1.2 — 2026-07-26 Clearer, bigger Clippings. • Full screen — tap any clipping to view the screenshot full screen, then pinch or double-tap to zoom right in. No more squinting at tiny hanzi and pinyin. • Swipe to browse — flick left or right in full screen to move straight to your next clipping. • Cleaner word list — each clipping now shows only the Chinese words (with pinyin) you can save to your Words. English, punctuation and scanning noise are filtered out, so the list stays tidy and ready to study. Thanks for learning with Hanyu! Keep the feedback coming. ## More apps by Opticell Limited - [DrawPad](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/drawpad/id6760317949) - [WalkFindr](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/walkfindr/id6760369032) - [MyLLM - Local AI Agent](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myllm-local-ai-agent/id6760704297) - [LinkFindr](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/linkfindr/id6760857542) - [E-Grid](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/e-grid/id6761284626) All apps by Opticell Limited: https://appshunter.io/developer/1883824295 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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