# I Learn Chinese Characters — user reviews > 81 indexed App Store user reviews of I Learn Chinese Characters by YOYASOFT LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 30 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/i-learn-chinese-characters/id389073069/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/i-learn-chinese-characters/id389073069.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 23 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## What do users think of I Learn Chinese Characters? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great for learning characters - ✍️ Shows stroke order and writing practice - 🧠 Explains character etymology and history - 🎧 Provides pronunciation audio - 📚 Useful for serious learners - ✨ Interactive and engaging - 💯 Well-designed and informative - 💰 Good value for money - 💡 Clear explanations and examples - ✅ Progressive study format - 🌟 Highly recommended by users - 📚 Handy reference tool - 📝 Good for practicing writing - 🚀 Fast and easy to use - 💡 Detailed character explanations - 👍 Customer service responsiveness **Cons** - 📉 Limited content/characters - 🐛 Stroke recognition bugs - 🤔 Percentage learned status deceptive - ✍️ Writing practice not always available - 🧐 Errors in English text in later lessons - 🐌 Slow recognition of strokes - 📚 Not ideal for quick study or grammar - 🤷‍♂️ Character selection unclear - 🖱️ UI could be improved/too much navigation - 🚫 Does not teach grammar or reading extensively - 🗣️ Lacks sentence practice within the app **Commonly reported bugs** - Sound glitch within lessons - Stroke recognition issues - Character trace buggy - Does not function properly (full version) - English words instead of pinyin in progressive study - Incorrect audio for pinyin words - Does not pick up strokes on iPhone version - Character trace is a little buggy **Most requested features** - Add traditional characters - Regularly add more characters - Add sentences and phrases for practice - Practice writing simple sentences - Hear pronunciation while writing - Test writing recall without watermark - Expand content beyond lesson 11 - Include every Chinese word - Connect sentences - More content and lessons - Search feature - Traditional characters option - More words in the index - Add more content - Expand character database - Explain origin of characters - Add more words - Add idioms and academic words - More content - Add more characters ## Newest reviews (15 of 81) ### 4/5 — Great app *2013-07-11, version 2.2.5* Great app, I just think it should be updated with new lessons more often. ### 5/5 — Excellent app!! *2013-06-13, version 2.2.5* If you are learning Chinese you need this app. It's very interactive and has very detailed explanations of each character, making it easier to remember each one. It breaks you in very easily before getting quite heavy around the fifth unit. The tests are excellent and use good examples of the newly learned characters to get you used to seeing them used normally. I use this with a little Chinese character writing book for extra practice and I can read more and more Chinese now. Buy this app if you are serious about studying Chinese and you will never look back. ### 5/5 — Beginning Chinese Student in China *2013-03-28* I'm terrible at picking up languages orally. Before this app, I didn't know where to begin. Being able to write the characters of the phonemes I am learning helps me retain much more than I normally could through listening and speaking. I appreciate the clear audio along with the etymology of the graphemes as well as the different levels of usage. The combination of all the aforementioned factors make this app the most used of all my Chinese learning apps, except of, course, the dictionary. ### 5/5 — Excellent learning tool *2013-03-24, version 2.2.3* Great help work from characters to English. Have recommended the package. ### 4/5 — Good app *2013-03-14, version 2.2.3* This is a good app for learning Chinese. It doesn't have any bid problems, but it would be nice to be able to hear the pronunciation whilst writing them and to be able to test if you remember how to write them, without the watermark. ### 4/5 — Very helpful !! *2013-03-10* I love it, because it shows you how to write each character. Have not seen another app like it. Only, the words pool is very limited. wish they would include more words, and even for some that are included the write option is not available. ### 5/5 — Reveals the history of the character *2013-03-09* Also has a very helpful dictionary which you can search for a character's meaning with. Or translate a English word. ### 5/5 — Nicely done *2013-02-26, version 2.2.3* Better than flash cards. This app helps make sense of the characters. I love the practice sessions. ### 5/5 — Merveilleux *2013-02-25, version 2.2.3* Très bon logiciel l'un des meilleurs que je connaisse parmi Des centaines ### 5/5 — ILearnChinese is great *2013-02-13, version 2.2.3* I have been working through the progressive study and really like the format. The quizzes get more difficult and it really forces me to learn the characters. ### 5/5 — iLove iLearn Chinese! *2013-02-09, version 2.2.3* I love how this app is designed! Very informative and fun to learn with! Well done! ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-01-20, version 2.2.3* Awesome app for learning and testing your Chinese ability. Well worth the money. ### 5/5 — Best Concept *2013-01-02* It is exactly what I was looking for. The overall concept is very good and some improvments can still be made. And if those improvments are implemented, it will be the best software on the market by far. ### 5/5 — Worth the price! *2012-12-28* Features a few hundred characters at least, with pronunciation, usage, and progressive learning. Try the demo version then get this if you want more study. It's very helpful! ### 5/5 — Very good program *2012-12-20, version 2.2* Very good program. I am pleased with the progress ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — 上当啦 *2013-05-15, version 2.2.5* 买了想给儿子学习用的，完全是糊弄外国人的货！恨不得退款 ### 1/5 — 한글판은 없나요? *2012-12-10* 중국어 글자배우기 체험판 보고 유료 다운 받았는데, 영문판이예요. 한글판은 체험판 밖에 없나요? 영문판 밖에 없으면 저한테 쓸모가 없어요. 환불 되나요? ### 1/5 — Current download *2011-12-07* I just paid for this full version, big mistake it does not function properly. When I was doing the progressive study section unit 3, it gave me English works instead of pinyin and it's the same word twice. When you click on the listen button to hear the pinyin word it's the word but says something totally different in English. What a waste of my money and time. So much for using this as my school studying!!! ### 2/5 — Annoying sound glitch *2012-09-10* The sound doesn't work when you click on a character within a lesson. It works in the glossary of characters, but not within the lesson. For example, in the introduction to pinyin and pronunciation, it says "Click below to hear the four different tones used in Mandarin," and when you click on them, nothing happens. But if you jump out of the lesson and go to the glossary and then click on the relevant character/word, then the app will play the sound. This is extremely frustrating, and a very shabby glitch in the program. The developer needs to fix this ASAP, for it's a glaring mistake that severely detracts from the app's usefulness. What good is reading a lesson on a tonal language if you can't actually hear the tones while doing the lesson? It's obviously a bug, but it needs to be fixed immediately. Otherwise, content-wise, the app seems pretty good. But until the developer fixes the sound glitch, I recommend any beginning student of Mandarin to buy another app. ### 3/5 — Appropriate for more serious Mandarin learners. *2013-07-14* Don't be fooled by the lack of fun animated games this app is actually quite helpful. Mandarin learners will benefit from the stroke order videos and character writing practice. A more advanced Chinese learner is able to recognize characters by their radicals, and this is one of the few apps that teaches basic stroke composition/radicals. Buy this app, practice writing with a real pencil and paper and you will be well on your way to understanding basic Chinese sentences through the meaning of characters. This app focuses more on characters than grammar or reading though so it's not perfect, but I haven't found a better app for learning Mandarin characters. The app even gives you the meaning based on the characters etymology and structure. Well designed app! Learn your Mandarin characters here and enjoy the animated apps like MindSnacks Mandarin for tonal/fast recognition studies. Don't buy this if you are just learning Mandarin for a quick week in China or don't plan on practicing the language through reading. This will not help the people who just need quick study to get by in China. Buy a phrase book in your local bookstore for that. ### 3/5 — Needs improvements (v0.90) *2011-02-07, version 0.90* In addition to Many more characters, this app needs a UI makeover...too much navigation is involved. Also could use a search feature since the layout is not very obvious. Too small for the price, expected a lot more characters....Also the recognition leaves a bit to be desired...many times my strokes are only half recorded and I have to move my finger very slowly to get recognition... ### 3/5 — Nice app, well presented but ... *2010-09-26, version 0* The main problem with this app is that it does not promote proper stroke order! Still very useful for the reading/recognition parts. ### 4/5 — Excellent, but could be improved *2021-06-19* A version with traditional characters would make this more useable for many students. Also, more characters should be added regularly. ### 4/5 — Helpful in Learning Characters *2014-05-31* This will not teach a person the Chinese language, but it makes a handy reference when one is working with pinyin and wants to see what the real words are. The progressive study has the worthy goal of quickly familiarizing a novice with Chinese text to make it less intimidating. The percentage learned status displayed here is deceptive, however. I have completed enough levels supposedly to be able to recognize over 60% of characters in typical text, but from my experiments with Chinese newspapers, it is closer to about 40%. The number of errors in the English text also increases in the later progressive lessons as if less proofreading were being done. An amusing example is where a bride is described as "newly web." ### 4/5 — One of my top ten Chinese apps *2013-12-24, version 2.2.6* I can practice writing, and self test. The background information on the characters is useful for memory retention. The app works great, and I find myself reaching for it at least 2 times a week. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please keep updating! *2018-11-20, version 2.2.7* This is a great app. I always come back to it. When someone asks me what’s a good app for learning Chinese I recommend this one. 最好！ ### 5/5 — U *2014-09-29, version 2.2.6* I love it ### 5/5 — Very useful app *2014-04-05, version 2.2.6* It's a very well made app. Nice collection of words, you can go through all the words step by step or use it as a special dictionary. I'm studying Chinese and tried many apps. This is one of the few that is really useful over the time. Other best apps for Chinese lerners that I did not delete after a little time: Pleco, the best dictionary so far Skritter, very good to learn how to write ### 5/5 — Great APP *2014-03-25, version 2.2.6* One of my top 5 APPS I like that it shows you stroke order, and the color code when you write a stroke in the correct order. ### 5/5 — Great app, needs to add sentences next. *2013-09-20* Great app for understanding the characters, especially under "Progressive Study." Sample sentences and phrases are provided but it would be great to practice writing simple sentences within the app by strokes. I like the video animation for the stroke order, the examples of usage and definitions. Money well spent! ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2013-09-01, version 2.2.5* This program is a great sublime to other learning you may be doing. It is white intense, but worth your time. ### 5/5 — Excelente *2013-08-23, version 2.2.5* Es muy buena aplicacion y muy completa. ### 5/5 — Great! *2013-08-13, version 2.2.5* Great app! ### 5/5 — Very effective *2013-06-30, version 2.2.5* I find this app very well done. Tried many other ways but they were either too basic (few words learnt without a context) or too complex (each lesson was 40 character on top of dialogues etc) This one is definitely a good buy (not the cheapest either I guess) Hope you'll like it as much as I do! ### 5/5 — Trace and trace again. *2013-06-19, version 2.2.5* This is a great way for beginners and above to learn and practice characters. --- *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 2026-08-29.*