# VerticalChinese — Poem Reader

> Poem Reader (iPhone/iPad app by Digital X Prairie LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verticalchinese/id6739588080 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Digital X Prairie LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1786193588)
- Category: Education, Books
- Price: Free (on sale, was $2.99)
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.2 · 52 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2024-12-31
- Data updated: 2026-07-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verticalchinese/id6739588080/reviews.md

## What is VerticalChinese?

Vertical Chinese is a calm, beautiful place to read classical Chinese (文言) — and a built-in dictionary that helps you understand every character.

Read the Daodejing, the Analects, Mencius, Zhuangzi, Tang poetry, Records of the Grand Historian, and more — 250+ foundational texts, laid out vertically and character by character, the way they were written.

READ
• Vertical, character-by-character layout with a steady pinyin gutter
• Toggle Traditional 繁 / Simplified 简, pinyin 拼, and English 英
• 聽書 read-aloud (audiobook) mode, plus per-word pronunciation
• Warm rice-paper design, with light & dark themes

UNDERSTAND — a dictionary built in
• Tap any character for pinyin, meaning, and animated stroke order
• Full CC-CEDICT word lookup — search by character, pinyin, or English
• Radical index to find characters you can't type
• Example sentences with pinyin and English

REMEMBER
• Save any character or word with a tap
• Spaced-repetition flashcards (練習) to review what you save
• Track your progress from carp to dragon — 鯉躍龍門


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.03 — 2026-06-24

Updated texts

### 1.0 — 2024-12-31

No release notes.

## Apps similar to VerticalChinese

| App | Rating | Price | Category |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Hanzi 1000](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hanzi-1000/id6502918931) | 4.7 (3) | Free | Education |
| [Smart Vietnamese Dictionary](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-vietnamese-dictionary/id1606886580) | — | Free | Education |
| [MandarinUp](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mandarinup/id6450726094) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Education |
| [Piegan Pictographs](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piegan-pictographs/id1484383179) | — | Free | Education |
| [Learn Chinese like Chinese](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-chinese-like-chinese/id6469580980) | — | Free | Education |
| [SAT Vocabulary Flashcard](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sat-vocabulary-flashcard/id519555087) | — | $0.99 | Education |

## More apps by Digital X Prairie LLC

- [Calendar Utility Management](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/calendar-utility-management/id6742163355)
- [Verbum Dei Latin Bible+Prayer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/verbum-dei-latin-bible-plus-prayer/id6745453748)
- [DXP Labs: AI Image Generator](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dxp-labs-ai-image-generator/id6747624476)
- [Wedding Vision AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wedding-vision-ai/id6749028201)
- [screenframr](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/screenframr/id6751126716)

All apps by Digital X Prairie LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1786193588

---

*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 2026-07-07.*