Daily Text vs Chinese Annotator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Text
This app provides daily scripture readings with audio playback, encouraging a consistent spiritual practice. It also serves as a helpful tool for those learning the Chinese language.
- Daily scripture readings
- Audio playback of scriptures
- Chinese language learning aid
- Encourages good habits
- Widget for easy access
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Daily Text gives you a daily scripture, AI key-point summary, and natural read-aloud — all offline. Daily Text 9.0 makes it better in four ways: • Six languages: English, 中文繁體, 中文簡體, 日本語, 한국어, and Русский • Smarter AI summary: key points extracted faster and clearer • Browse the whole year: freely jump to any day, not just today • More natural system voice: improved neural read-aloud Whether you are commuting, working out, or on a break, open the app and let the day's text be read aloud to you. No internet needed — everything stays on your device. Download Daily Text 9.0 and make every word count.
Chinese Annotator
This app helps you learn Chinese by reading ePub books. It allows you to add Pinyin and English definitions directly to the text, and track your vocabulary knowledge. You can also export your learned words for flashcard review.
- Import ePub files
- Add Pinyin and English definitions
- Track known words and characters
- Hide known Pinyin/definitions
- Export word lists for flashcards
- Print pages to PDF
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A Chinese ePub reader to assist you in reading Chinese characters. After importing an ePub, you can add Pinyin and English on to the text in a 3-line format. After annotating the text in this way, you can then mark on a word by word basis which definitions you already know and which characters you know. There is a setting that hides the pinyin or definitions of words that you know. In this way, you are forced to look at the character and recall it instead of relying on pinyin. A word list is also available to allow you to see all words, words with unknown definitions, or words with unknown pinyin. This list of words can be exported to a file to be imported in to a flash card system, like Pleco. This allows you to easily pick out all the words you don't know in a publication and review them. You can also print the page of the book currently being displayed. In iOS 10 and greater, you can print to PDF.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Daily Text at Free against Chinese Annotator's $0.99. Daily Text also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (97% vs 72%). Chinese Annotator's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (30 vs 10). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Daily Text is free to download; Chinese Annotator costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Daily Text holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Daily Text's written reviews are positive against 72% of Chinese Annotator's.
Daily Text ships an update every 3 months, Chinese Annotator every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Text | Chinese Annotator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (10 ratings) — better | 4.1 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.8% of reviews — better | 72.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CHI HAO CHIU | Jon Hargett |
Customer experience
Daily Text
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In-app purchases
Daily Text
No in-app purchases
Chinese Annotator
No in-app purchases
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