# Menzi: Learn Chinese — Next-Gen Language Learning

> Active Chinese language learning with AI feedback and personalized content. (iPhone/iPad app by Terros Digital LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/menzi-learn-chinese/id6779087684 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Terros Digital LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884167357)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 10 App Store ratings · 6 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 53 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-12
- Monetization: freemium
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/menzi-learn-chinese/id6779087684/reviews.md

## What is Menzi?

Recognizing a word is not the same as being able to use it. Cards advance through production: you compose the target word into your own sentence, and a language model evaluates that sentence for comprehension, accuracy, and complexity before the word moves forward in your review schedule.

Four axes of mastery

Real language is multimodal, so Menzi tracks every word across four axes: meaning, reading, listening, and speaking. A word counts as mastered only when you understand it, can read it, catch it in speech, and say it out loud. Extend that across thousands of words and fluency emerges.

Grammar, not just vocabulary

Words are the building blocks; patterns hold them together. Menzi includes a structured library of high-frequency grammar patterns with their own practice and progress tracking, so you’re building sentences instead of stacking nouns.

Your vocabulary is the material

Menzi doesn’t teach from a fixed corpus. Your deck is what everything is generated from: stories, listening sentences, grammar drills, and the tutor’s own conversation are all built from words you already hold, with a deliberate margin of new ones mixed in.

You set that margin. Pull a story toward the familiar and it reads almost entirely in words you know; push it the other way and it stretches you. This is comprehensible input in the technical sense, and it is hard to come by any other way — material at your exact level has to be made for one person.

Nothing you meet gets lost

Every sentence you write, story you read, and conversation you hold is scanned for words you haven’t formally studied. Each one is filed into a backlog with a count of how often you’ve met it, so the words you keep running into rise toward the front on their own.

They arrive at a pace you can absorb. New words enter your deck only as your schedule has room for them, measured against what is already due — so exposure can run ahead of study without your daily review turning into a wall. What you meet in the practice Menzi generates becomes the material the next round is generated from.

Immersive practice

• Talk with a live AI tutor that guides you toward correct production with feedback as you go
• Transcribe spoken sentences built from your exact vocabulary
• Read and listen to stories with audiobook-style read-along playback, the spoken word highlighted as it goes

Analytics that keep up with you

See every word you’ve met and how well you know it, plus learning rate over time, listening minutes, and more.

Menzi Pro

Menzi Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: $19.99 per month, including 20M AI credits and 30 minutes of audio each month. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.terrosdigital.com/privacy

## Key features

- Active sentence composition evaluation
- Four axes of word mastery (meaning, reading, listening, speaking)
- Structured grammar pattern library
- Personalized content generation from user vocabulary
- AI tutor with real-time feedback
- Speech transcription practice
- Immersive stories with read-along playback
- Detailed analytics on word mastery and learning rate

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Menzi Pro | $19.99 | per month |


## Recent user reviews (6 of 6)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/menzi-learn-chinese/id6779087684/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Wish i had sooner

*2026-08-28*

What ive always been looking for! I feel like im actually learning Chinese and ive tried dozens of apps/classes!!!

### 5/5 — Super cool!

*2026-08-27*

Super cool! Love the design and how it matches to your level. I’m just starting out and am excited to start learning!

### 5/5 — 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

*2026-08-25*

Intuitive design! Excited to start the journey!

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-08-21*

Excellent for learning Chinese. Best in class

### 5/5 — Note from the founder

*2026-08-20*

I developed Menzi for many reasons — the main one being to make language learning easier. Learning a language is a lot of work, but that doesn’t mean the work has to be uncomfortable. Menzi provides a framework so that you can simply open your phone and follow along. It’s designed to focus on the highest-leverage effort, making every minute of practice maximally effective. I’ve had an amazing time developing and, most importantly, using it. I hope Menzi can be as useful to you on your language journey as it has been to me.

Happy learning,
Michael

学习愉快，
明科

### 5/5 — Best Chinese Learning App

*2026-08-17*

Incredible framework for progression through the language. The natural language feedback and production oriented grading is a game changer

## Frequently asked questions about Menzi

### How does Menzi help me learn Chinese?

Menzi focuses on active language production by having you compose sentences. It evaluates your sentences for comprehension, accuracy, and complexity, advancing words through a review schedule based on your performance across meaning, reading, listening, and speaking.

### What is the 'four axes of mastery' in Menzi?

The four axes of mastery are meaning, reading, listening, and speaking. A word is considered mastered only when you can understand its meaning, read it, hear it in speech, and say it out loud.

### Does Menzi teach grammar?

Yes, Menzi includes a structured library of high-frequency grammar patterns with dedicated practice and progress tracking, helping you build sentences rather than just memorizing vocabulary.

### How does Menzi personalize learning content?

Your vocabulary deck serves as the foundation for generated content. Stories, listening exercises, and grammar drills are built from words you know, with a controllable margin of new words mixed in to stretch your learning.

### Can I talk to an AI tutor in Menzi?

Yes, Menzi features a live AI tutor that guides you toward correct language production and provides feedback as you practice speaking and composing sentences.

### What are the analytics provided by Menzi?

Menzi offers analytics that track every word you've encountered and your proficiency with it, along with your learning rate over time, listening minutes, and other relevant metrics.

### What is included in Menzi Pro?

Menzi Pro is a subscription that costs $19.99 per month and includes 20 million AI credits and 30 minutes of audio per month. It auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the current period ends.

### Does Menzi have ads?

No, Menzi does not contain advertisements. The app is free to download and use, with an optional subscription for advanced features.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-11

• Practice drills now meet you where you are. An easier sentence arrives as a scaffold — the frame is already in place and you tap tiles to fill the gaps instead of typing the whole thing — and the drills climb toward full typing as you clear them. Getting one wrong marks the gaps so you can rearrange, rather than starting the sentence over.

• A practice sitting is measured by what you earn, not by a count of three. Each drill you clear is worth an amount that reflects how hard it was, a bar fills as you go, and anything left over carries into your next sitting. A sitting can end early with what it earned — it can no longer be failed.

• The first practice session with a new word or grammar pattern is always a scaffold. However far along you are, you meet something new as a frame to fill rather than a blank field — capped at the hardest scaffold, never dropped to the easiest.

• Drills now ask for the sentence a native speaker would actually say. Naturalness joins comprehension and correctness in deciding whether you move on. It still has no say in your review schedule, which reads correctness alone — and Move on is always there if you would rather not keep trying.

• Finishing a practice sitting counts however you leave it. Taking one to the end, reading “Practice complete” and pressing Done at the top of the screen used to bank nothing at all — your score, your passes and the session's progress were reported by the “Next word” button alone, so leaving any other way quietly lost them.

• A finished practice sitting no longer offers to move on. The pill stayed on screen beside “Go again” and “Next word”, and pressing it in the moment before the completion card appeared started another drill after your result had already been counted.

• “Start Practicing” now opens exactly that word's, or that pattern's, practice queue. On a word it used to admit the word and then serve every pinyin card you had due behind it, so a sitting named after one word became an ordinary review a few cards in. On a grammar pattern it erred the other way and served that one pattern and stopped.

• Fixed a crash when closing a sheet you had scrolled.

• The session write-up banner leaves on its own after ten seconds, and you can now flick it away sideways as well as down. The countdown pauses while your finger is on it or the app is in the background.

• Your deck's due badge names the track it means, in that track's own colour, and now watches all four. It summarised hanzi and pinyin only, on two different clocks, without saying which — so a word due for listening showed you its pinyin date, and a deck full of red could mean nothing you were about to be asked.

• The grammar library's pull-to-refresh spinner follows your pull instead of appearing on its own, where it could hang with the list held open.

• Audio holds its session between clips. It was torn down and rebuilt after every single one, so on AirPlay or Bluetooth the route was rebuilding between every two words.

• Face ID no longer asks you twice on a cold start. Opening the app dropped you onto the sign-in screen and made you unlock again, every single time, because the first session check ran before your stored credential was ready to be read.

### 1.0.9 — 2026-09-10

• Practising a word happens in your review run now. Start Practicing on a word's card opens your queue with that word first — the drill while it is still new, the recall card once it has settled, and the rest of what is due behind it. The separate Learn screen is gone; the practice it did now lives where the rest of your reviewing already does.

• Your first review is sized by the time you said you had. Every budget used to be handed roughly the same sample, so five minutes a day meant meeting more than half of everything you had just committed to before you had even signed up, while an hour a day saw under a tenth of it. The 50-minute setting also dealt an identical review to 40 — a whole notch on the slider that changed nothing.

• Naturalness is its own score. Correctness used to ask whether your Chinese was both valid and natural, so plain-but-correct Chinese could be marked down on the one score that decides when a word comes back. Correctness now asks only whether the Chinese is valid; naturalness is its own read-out that never gates and never changes your schedule. The grade card's tip names all four scores it draws.

• The session write-up no longer stops you. It used to open an empty panel with a spinner the moment a sitting ended, on top of wherever you had just gone, and the only way past it was to throw away the thing you were waiting for. Now it slides up as a banner — tap to read it, swipe to send it away.

• Your day's progress keeps up now. Finishing a sitting updates your digest straight away instead of waiting on the write-up, and stepping out of a dictate or read pane counts what you just did — before, that only landed if you ended the whole session. Coming back to the app after a while refreshes it too, rather than showing numbers from hours ago until you pulled to refresh.

• Review bodies no longer come up blank. With Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions switched on, iOS reports a keyboard with no height at all, and every review body collapsed underneath its own header.

• Listening is steadier. Clips keep their tail over AirPlay and a mirrored screen, a clip that cannot play says so instead of twenty seconds of silence, and the microphone is let go when you leave dictate — it could previously stay lit in the status bar until the app was closed.

• A new grammar pattern takes five practice sittings to settle, where a word takes three. They used to share one number.

• A grammar pattern opens as its own card, the way a word does, instead of dropping you into a practice session to read about it. Both cards now draw their shape immediately and fill in, rather than sitting on a spinner.

• Home holds its shape while it loads instead of jumping as each piece arrives, and the stats grid names its two columns.

• Signing up after trying Menzi as a guest keeps your AI agreement. Converting an account used to bring the consent screen back on the first screen you landed on.

• Your Chinese name is saved now, with its reading. The step that picks one for you had been quietly discarding it, so the greeting had a name to show and never showed one.

• The write-up describes the sitting you actually finished, and names the grammar patterns you used in it. A visit made up entirely of quick reviews now gets one at all — before, it ended with no analysis.

• Your analytics count two more things you were already doing: sentences transcribed and sentences spoken, as lifetime totals beside your chat turns.

• The onboarding coach says less. Three tips that pointed at a button labelled Skip, a pill labelled Skip and a button labelled Submit are switched off — the guidance you still get is the guidance the screen doesn't already give you.

### 1.0.8 — 2026-09-09

• Opening the app is fast again — properly this time. A signed-in launch waited on a request to confirm who you are, and after the phone had been asleep that request could go out over a connection that had quietly died: measured across 31 launches, a quarter of them took more than twenty seconds to reach the home screen. Nothing was actually slow. The app now knows who you are from what it already has and draws straight away, checking in the background.

• Two new grammar patterns: 之间, and 之前/之后. The 之 series was missing entirely even though its everyday cousins 以前/以后 have been there from the start. They are taught apart on purpose — 之 is the written register, and reaching for it in conversation sounds formal by accident.

• A story's glossary reads as a list again. Each word takes one line, with a More button on the entries whose meaning does not fit — decided by measuring the text, not by guessing from its length.

• The grammar library says how much is in it — “116 patterns”, or “12 of 116 patterns” once you have searched or filtered, the way your deck already does.

### 1.0.7 — 2026-09-08

• Say it, don't type it. Dictate is a new mode: a sentence appears, you read it aloud, and your pronunciation is scored. It is Transcribe's twin — that one plays a sentence and asks you to type it — and the two share a pool, so every sentence built for you can be practised either way. Dictate starts switched off, since it needs a microphone and a sentence you can already read; turn it on in your daily plan.

• Grammar patterns earn credit the way words do. Use a pattern in a sentence you write and it counts, even when the drill was about something else — and the end of a session now names the patterns you met for the first time alongside the new words.

• You can see which tracks an answer moved. One reply often earns credit on several at once; instead of a single number, you now get a card per track that advanced, each in that track's own colour.

• Your other tracks fill as fast as you place words. Once a word's pinyin is placed, its characters, listening and speaking cards open straight away rather than waiting their turn — so reading that word in a story or hearing it in a dictation earns credit on those tracks too, instead of being forfeited while they were held back. If you have been using Menzi a while, expect your due counts to jump once as everything that was waiting opens together.

• The grammar you keep running into comes up first. Patterns you have already met in stories, drills and conversation are now admitted ahead of the rest — the same way your word backlog has always worked.

• Revealing the tutor's meaning costs what a drill's does, and says so. Tapping a reply used to show the pinyin for free while quietly giving up the credit you would have earned for reading the characters. Each layer now takes a deliberate double tap and tells you what it forfeits, so nothing is spent without your asking.

• A drill you would rather not answer can be skipped. It counts nothing against you: no score, no streak, no repetition.

• Opening the app no longer hangs. A first launch after a while away — especially on cellular — could sit on the splash screen for up to a minute, waiting on a sign-in check that had silently failed to send rather than one that was slow. It now gives up after eight seconds and retries, so a bad connection costs a moment instead of the whole launch.

• Fixes: a long drill prompt no longer runs past the edge of its bubble, and a word drill now highlights the word it is asking about in the reference sentence, the way grammar drills already highlighted their pattern. Holding the microphone while a word is being played now interrupts it and starts recording straight away, instead of doing nothing until the audio finished.

### 1.0.6 — 2026-09-05

• Start your whole day with one button. The digest card now runs every track in sequence — words, characters, grammar, transcription — and remembers which sittings you've finished, so you pick up where you stopped instead of choosing a track each time. It moves from one track to the next without a loading pause.

• Setup ends with a real review, not a questionnaire. New learners now do a guided first session drawn from their own deck, so the app has taught you something by the time you reach the home screen.

• Tell us how long you have, and get a day built for it. Seven time budgets, each producing a plan you can see, adjust, and arrange into named sittings before you commit to it.

• Every mode starts on day one. Characters, listening and speaking no longer wait for a word's meaning to sink in first — all four begin together, so those tracks fill up immediately instead of sitting empty for days.

• A word you already know is not taught to you. Every new word and pattern now opens with a single question instead of a lesson — answer it and the word enters your schedule at the level you just showed; miss it and it gets taught properly. Tell us your level at setup and your deck starts stocked to match it — a hundred common words for a beginner, a thousand for an advanced learner — which you place simply by working through them. New words also arrive at a steady daily pace rather than in a flood.

• Every grammar pattern is open from the start. Levels no longer unlock one after another behind a percentage — a pattern you do not know simply gets taught when you miss its first question, the same way words work now.

• A track is never empty with nothing to do about it. When a queue runs dry it now tops itself up, rather than showing you a finished screen you didn't earn.

• The words you use get credit. Writing a sentence in any drill now credits the due words you worked into it, not just the one being asked about — the same way the flashcards already did.

• Speak is a loop now. Hold the mic to answer, and autoplay speaks the word to you first — hear it, say it, see the score, go again. Transcribe autoplays too, and both start on for new accounts. Yuki is back among the voices.

• Your wins wait for you. Milestones no longer land in the middle of a review — they gather while you work and arrive together on the home screen, beside the day they moved.

• Dictation is now called Transcribe. It was sharing the name "Listen" with the listening review, so a day holding both showed two rows with the same label and different numbers.

• Fixes: the dictation prompt says what it actually wants, a word you've silenced no longer offers a speaker button, a grammar drill opened from a pattern now shows the difficulty it was written for, a panel opened during a session no longer slides under the tab bar, audio drills follow the voice you picked instead of playing clips recorded in your previous one, every card you type on opens with the keyboard already up, the speaker button no longer gets clipped, and signing out or deleting your account now clears what belonged to it on the device, so the next account starts genuinely fresh. Tapping the widget opens the exact drill it was showing you rather than an older one, and the tutor no longer greets you afresh every time you pass through chat. The character card no longer plays the word aloud — hearing it handed you the reading the card is asking you for. Feedback on a pinyin answer comes back in English again instead of entirely in Chinese, a sentence written in Chinese is always graded rather than answered by the tutor, and a drill that does not actually contain the word or pattern it is asking about is now discarded instead of served.

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