# LingoWonders: Language Reader — Chinese, Japanese & Korean

> Chinese, Japanese & Korean (iPhone/iPad app by lei cao.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lingowonders-language-reader/id6816287607 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [lei cao](https://appshunter.io/developer/1448332242)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.5 · 109 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 1 more
- Released: 2026-09-28
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is LingoWonders?

Learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean or English words, write them stroke by stroke, and print real practice sheets. LingoWonders is for learners, parents and teachers. Stroke order, voice and writing practice are free. There is no subscription, no ads and no account.

READ — LESSONS FROM YOUR OWN MATERIAL
Photograph a page, paste text, open a web page and LingoWonders makes a lesson. Listen sentence by sentence, tap a word to look it up, record yourself beside the app voice, save words. Stories in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean are included; they and a daily allowance of your own articles are free.

FOR LEARNERS — FREE
• Stroke-order animation, and a free stroke-by-stroke writing check on screen with a finger or Apple Pencil (Chinese, kana and hangul)
• HSK 3.0 levels 1–3: about 2,200 words in free decks, Simplified and Traditional. Levels 4–6 are in Pro
• Every word shows its reading (pinyin, kana, romanization, US IPA for English), its meaning and a speaker button
• Flashcards, and dictation that reads each word aloud; words you miss come back for review
• Choose the stroke-order standard for each list: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan or Japanese kanji
• Search by word, reading or meaning — "shui" finds 水

FOR PARENTS — THE WEEKLY SPELLING LOOP
1. Photograph the school word list. Photo lists are free and unlimited, the photo stays with the list, and long sentences and stories stay whole.
2. Your child runs the dictation alone, with your own voice recordings or the app voice. English has US, UK, Australian and Singapore voices and "Spell it aloud".
3. Print a test sheet. Every page is free.
4. Paper Check (beta): photograph the finished test. LingoWonders shows what it read, and you mark each answer. It does not mark for you. 3 checks are free, then Pro.
The This week tab keeps one card per list and shows the next step as one button. Share a list by link, QR code or file, free.

LIBRARY
Tao Nan School P1 spelling and 听写 lists, and thousands more words from preschool to A level. The Chinese library has about 7,200 words, including HSK 1–6.

PRINT PRACTICE SHEETS — FREE, AS MANY AS YOU LIKE
• 田字格 tian-grid sheets with 描红 tracing, and pinyin over the characters
• Print with AirPrint, share a PDF or save an image. Free exports contain page 1 of each sheet and a small App Store QR code

LINGOWONDERS PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
• Every page of every sheet (free prints page 1)
• Stroke-order sheets (笔顺) and stroke-order strips
• Combined PDF: several sheet types in one file
• More fonts: 标准楷书 textbook kai, School print and Sloped print
• Blue, red, green and purple trace ink, and trace fade
• Paper Check beyond the 3 free ones, more profiles, and your choice to keep the small QR on your sheets or print clean pages. One Pro covers the whole family with Family Sharing
• Read without limits: unlimited articles, longer texts and more recordings
• HSK 4–6 decks

Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. AI features such as Paper Check run on our servers and cost us per use, so they have a fair-use limit that may change over time. Everything else works offline.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No ads, no account, no subscription. Your words, lists and practice stay on your device, and LingoWonders works offline. The exceptions are Paper Check, reading words from a photo in the cloud, and example sentences: they send the photo or the words to our server and Google's Gemini model, and nothing is stored on our server. Read fetches a web page on your device only when you ask, and nothing from Read is uploaded to our servers. iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages.

Questions or ideas? Write to lei@appfactory.sg — a real person reads every message.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| TraceSheet Pro | $14.99 | one-time |


## Is LingoWonders safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess LingoWonders.

## Is LingoWonders legit?

LingoWonders: Language Reader appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for LingoWonders is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.2.0 — 2026-10-24

2.2 makes the week simpler:
• A new Week page: your streak on top, one thing to do today, and your lists folded below. Tap a list to open its steps.
• Tap any word in Week Pack sentences, lists and the read-aloud sheet to see its meaning. Press and drag for a phrase, or search the dictionary.
• Review that brings words back: words you are still learning come back on a schedule, in rounds of up to 20, with a summary at the end.
• An optional daily reminder at the time you pick (Settings › Reminders). Off unless you turn it on.
• Learning on your own: with the "Me" profile, Week starts with flashcards and dictation needs no second person.
• The streak now counts only days you practised.

### 2.1.0 — 2026-10-21

TraceSheet is now LingoWonders. 2.1 is the week loop:
• Week Pack: one tap turns this week's list into sentences, a short reader and prompt cards for you, with readings and translations. It is made by AI on our server, so it can have mistakes. Free: 3 packs and 60 sentence words in total. Pro: 10 packs and 200 words a week.
• Read aloud: record a sentence and get "Sounds right" or "once more", checked on the phone. Turn on Listen first to hear the app voice, then "Your turn". Next keeps recording.
• Read tab: text, photos, links and files, or share into the app. Readings in pinyin, zhuyin, Jyutping, kana and romaji. On-device translation (iOS 18 and later). Record a whole reading and check it sentence by sentence, with the app voice or the original beside your take.
• Listen while the app is open: speed 0.5×–2× and repeat.
• One text editor for every list and reading: type, paste, scan, files, links. Split, merge, undo.
• Share from Safari, Photos and Files into LingoWonders.
• AI features ask for your permission once before anything is sent. You can turn it off in Settings.
• Help & FAQ rewritten.

### 1.5.0 — 2026-10-18

What's new in 1.5

• HSK 1–3 is here: about 2,200 words (HSK 3.0 levels 1–3) in free decks, in Simplified and Traditional. Stroke order, voice and writing practice stay free, with no subscription.
• Hán-Việt reading next to the pinyin, e.g. 学习 → học tập. It turns on by itself when your phone is in Vietnamese; there is a switch in Settings.
• Paper Check shows each answer full width (tap to zoom) and lists every word, marking the ones it did not find.
• Photo lists keep long sentences and stories whole, and you can pick photos from inside the camera.
• Listen pauses at natural breaks, with pause and resume, or reads whole sentences. Choose your own recordings or the app voice for each list.
• Library: Tao Nan School P1 spelling and 听写 lists, plus thousands more words from preschool to A level.
• The Pro screen now lists everything Pro includes.

Also new since the last App Store version
• This week tab: one card per list, with the next step as one button. Photo lists are free and unlimited.
• A dictation your child runs alone, with your voice recordings and a choice of English accent, plus a printable test sheet (every page free).
• Paper Check (beta): photograph a finished test and mark each answer yourself. 3 free checks, then Pro. Missed words return as short review rounds.
• One Pro for the whole family (Family Sharing). English spelling mode with US, UK, Australian and Singapore voices. Share a list by link, QR code or file.
• Pick the stroke-order standard per list: mainland China, Taiwan or Japanese kanji. Hong Kong 默書 with a Cantonese voice and 原稿紙 sheets, plus kanji and hangul test sheets.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-05

What's new in 1.0.2

• Rows per character now goes up to 10: the first row has the model character and its trace copies, and the rows below are empty boxes for writing on their own
• New sheet option: Repeat whole list (×1 to ×10). The sheet prints your whole list, then starts again from the top, as many times as you choose

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-29

What's new in 1.0.1

• Easier writing on screen: dots and other tiny strokes are recognised more kindly, and new Skip stroke and Skip word buttons mean no one gets stuck
• Two new sheet options: Rows per character (practise each character on up to 5 rows) and Fill page with empty rows
• Every practice mode is one tap away: Dictation, Flashcards, Write on screen, Review and Print sheets tiles on each list's page
• Cantonese premium voices now show up and work, and a small tip helps you get a clearer, free voice when yours sounds robotic
• PDFs are named after your list, and the QR now sits at the bottom centre of the page. Pro: keep it or print clean pages, your choice
• Fixed: on Mac, the Share button no longer keeps spinning after you save

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