Stroke animation
The stroke animation is terrible and distracting, with the strokes flipping back and forth needlessly. The very minimal number of lists that are free is also a huge downside.
Exactly what I was looking for
Many chinese language resources really seem to miss the mark for me, starting by teaching all sorts of characters you are very likely to see in a textbook, but very unlikely to see out in your daily life. This app gives lists of most commonly used characters - ones you will actually come across on signage and menus. However, if you are a student or something and need to know how to write the the obligatory “teacher” and “nice to meet you” type of characters, they are included as well in the HSK lists. Really a wonderful app, a very good use of spaced repetition software. Making the act of remembering characters into a sort of game with instant feedback is such a good way to learn. The fact that it is offline makes it even more convenient. One thing - a few of the recordings are wrong but the pinyin (so far) is always right so do mind that. I also would love the capacity to make an account so that I can keep the same progress on my ipad and my iphone.
Edit: trying to use this app again in 2024 most lists are locked behind a paywall. More importantly though, there’s a weird glitch where every stroke I write appears first backwards and then the correct way. Very very disorienting. I will not be using this app anymore
Edit: trying to use this app again in 2024 most lists are locked behind a paywall. More importantly though, there’s a weird glitch where every stroke I write appears first backwards and then the correct way. Very very disorienting. I will not be using this app anymore
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Flashcards don’t make sense
Have flash cards in pinjin and not their English translation. Following your logic, I am asked about things like “Chinese radical”. How am supposed to know from that WHICH radical you want? Bugs like that are really idiotic in what could otherwise be a good app.
Used to be perfect
This app used to be the perfect app for learning to write Chinese! But on my new phone it has a bug that reverses all of the character strokes when you write and is really distracting 😭 I can only use it on my old phone - hope you can fix this sometime 🤞🤞🤞
Strokes flipping
The strokes appear backwards then flip.
Issues with writing practice feature
The practice writing feature doesn’t work on the iPad
Potential
I got this app to learn how to write characters, but when I practice, I am unable to see all of the character, because of how zoomed in it is
Good but a problem for me
When I’m on my iPad and I click on the Chinese character to write I can’t exit so I had to reopen the app
Glitches your money away.
I love the concept for this app. It has a ton of great potential. But the number of glitches that it has makes it annoying as heck to work with. Whatever you do do not buy the subscription. If you ever Delete and the re download or update the app it will delete you subscription with no option to restore your access. It just eats your money. The app has so many glitches that it is impossible to give a comprehensive list but a few of my favorites are: not letting you access the last few words in the list you’re studying, speaking the wrong pronunciation on several different flash cards, having the wrong character in the writing portion of the flash card, having the most sensitive “double tap to show answer” feature that makes you accidentally reveal the answer to the question marking the question wrong and making you start over.
I would love to give this app 5 stars. I can tell that someone put a lot of effort into a stellar concept. But it is just too glitchy to deal with.
I would love to give this app 5 stars. I can tell that someone put a lot of effort into a stellar concept. But it is just too glitchy to deal with.
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One Major Criticism
The character 和 is a very common Chinese hanzi, and its definition is “and.” But I looked this character up in Noodle Chinese’s dictionary, only to find out that “and” is not among this character’s listed definitions. I find this surprising, considering how common of a character 和 is.
Please fix for a good rating.
Please fix for a good rating.
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iPad landscape mode bug
There’s a big when using this app in landscape mode on the ipad. It zooms in to part of the view and I can’t see the necessary prompts.
Misleading!! Need to pay monthly subscriptions to unlock each list
A lot of the lists are monthly subscription based in order to unlock them. And how long that list gets unlocked depends on how much you pay. For example, you pay $x.xx /month for 1 month. Or $y.yy /month for 6 months. Or $z.zz /month for 12 months (Max). So it’s not permanently unlocked. Only 5/63 =~ 8% of the lists are unlocked! And these free lists have average of only 10-20 words only!! Over 92% of the lists are locked!! And you have to unlock each list individually!! So you can’t pay a one time monthly fee and unlock all the lists. Each list needs to be paid separately!! That is crazy ridiculously expensive!! I’m sure you can pay for a better app that costs less than this.
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So far so good!
I’m really enjoying this app so far and I’ve noticed it’s helped me learn some characters I was struggling with previously just with Anki. Honestly it helps me to write out the character a lot!
Only reason I can’t give it five stars right now is that even though I purchased a subscription to access all of the lists, I can’t access these lists across my devices. Like my iPad for example where it’d be way easier to practice writing the characters with my Apple pen. But every time it shows the lock icon and says I already have a subscription. I tried to redownload this app hoping it’d help but it still gives me the same issue.
It’d be nice if we could have an account to login to so I could access the lists across all my devices.
Other than that it’s great!
Only reason I can’t give it five stars right now is that even though I purchased a subscription to access all of the lists, I can’t access these lists across my devices. Like my iPad for example where it’d be way easier to practice writing the characters with my Apple pen. But every time it shows the lock icon and says I already have a subscription. I tried to redownload this app hoping it’d help but it still gives me the same issue.
It’d be nice if we could have an account to login to so I could access the lists across all my devices.
Other than that it’s great!
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Very helpful but there are many problems
I love how the app comes with a lot of free features and allows you to practice strike order and memorize chinese characters but there are many problems that I hope the app makers can fix. Things like not saving your progress, not having a choice between simplified and traditional chinese, etc.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE
TO SWITCH TO TRADITIONAL CHINESE YOU HAVE GO TO THE SETTING APP AND FIND THE APP AT THE BOTTOM OF THE APP LIST 🥰
Almost there
Only thing missing is to have the personal study-list sync between your iPhone and iPad.
Glitch problem??
I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this problem but I just redownloaded the app on a new phone (iphone Xs) and when I edit a deck to add more words my screen glitches and closes down the app... I really love this app and I want to keep using it but I literally can’t anymore :(
Great for 简体字！
I learned Chinese in Taiwan. Consequently, simplified characters were a bit of a mystery to me—especially stroke order. With the advent of computers and personal devices, my writing had become so rusty, I was searching for something to refresh my memory so I can write by hand well again. Noodle is fantastic for helping me a) to brush the rust off my writing in general, b) to learn simplified stroke order, c) to really -learn- just about any characters I want to put in my list, reading, writing, pronunciation, and meaning—all in one simple, free app.
Wishlist: 1) option to study BOTH traditional and simplified 字. 2) ability to export/share/airdrop lists.
Wishlist: 1) option to study BOTH traditional and simplified 字. 2) ability to export/share/airdrop lists.
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I feel compelled to create my first review.
I’m so happy that this app provides such a plethora of words that are covered in HSK I-VI. It is also very competitive in that it does not have ads which breaks the immersion in some other Chinese learning apps.
Traditional Character
The app is great if you need it for Simplified Character, but I need Traditional Character。☹️
