This educational app encourages children to learn Chinese characters by writing them from memory. Correct strokes and words earn play time for selected apps, promoting a 'homework first' approach to screen time. It follows traditional teaching methods with stroke order and character breakdown.
1.0.6
October 21, 2026
Start at your child's grade (subscription): take a short quiz or set the grade, and practice skips the earlier grades. Easy, Medium or Hard: pick how hard it is to earn play time, or set every value yourself. Try the yearly plan free for 7 days. Clearer parent settings: "Write to unlock" for apps opened by writing, "Always blocked" for apps that stay closed, and a status line at the top. Up to 50 apps in each list. On a phone set to Chinese, the app now opens in Chinese. The course now follows Taiwan's school character list, with Taiwan character forms and words.
MoreGrades 1–6 set. Auto-renews yearly.
Lock & Learn locks selected apps. To unlock them, your child writes Chinese characters from memory. Each correct stroke earns a small amount of time, and completing words earns more, which is then added to a clock for app usage.
It teaches traditional Chinese characters with 注音 and follows the stroke order taught in Taiwan schools. It breaks down characters into simple building blocks and explains their meanings and phonetic components.
Yes, you can paste your child's weekly word list into the app. The practice mode will then focus on those specific words, teaching them with 注音 and meaning before they write them from memory.
Levels 1-69, which cover approximately 300 characters, are free to use without any time limits. Homework practice is also available for words within these free levels, plus up to five additional harder words per list.
A subscription unlocks all 4,900+ characters and over 25,000 words. It also provides unlimited homework words and access to the full word list for comprehensive learning.
There are two subscription options: $2.99 per month for extra characters and block features, or $29.99 per year for the same features.
Based on the provided data, Lock & Learn is supported on iPhone and iPad, indicating it is currently an iOS-exclusive application.
The app was last updated on October 21, 2026, with version 1.0.6. This suggests a relatively recent update, though the frequency of future updates is not specified.
