# Niàn: Personalized Chinese OCR — Adjusts to your fluency level

> Adjusts to your fluency level (iPhone/iPad app by Tangential Technologies, LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nian-personalized-chinese-ocr/id6787375108 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tangential Technologies, LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1604740821)
- Category: Productivity, Reference
- Price: $4.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.5 · 21 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-19
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nian-personalized-chinese-ocr/id6787375108/reviews.md

## What is Niàn?

If you regularly find yourself struggling to read Chinese in daily life, Niàn was made for you. When you use Niàn to scan Chinese text, it only shows you the pinyin and definitions for words you don't already know, exercising your reading skills instead of atrophying them like a translator does. If you need more help, simply tap again to get even more help.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-08-27

FEATURES
- Tap a text box a second time to see results for just that box.

BUG FIXES
- Tapping the Mode button now always shows more help, skipping identical screens.
- Separate blocks of text, like menu items, are no longer merged into one result.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-24

BUG FIXES
- Selecting an empty area of an image no longer causes an error that sends you back to the scanner

### 1.1 — 2026-08-22

FEATURES
- Larger, ambidextrous controls, for easier one-handed operation
- Pinch to zoom, pan, and straighten the scanned page
- Draw a box on the viewfinder to select text precisely
- A flashlight key, for scanning text in the dark
- A camera-switching key, for scanning close-up and faraway text

BUG FIXES
- Fixed a stall that could freeze the app after the first scan

### 1.0 — 2026-08-19

No release notes.

## More apps by Tangential Technologies, LLC

- [SwingReview: Auto Golf Camera](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/swingreview-auto-golf-camera/id6605933749)

All apps by Tangential Technologies, LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1604740821

---

*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 2026-09-05.*