Chinese Characters 汉字 vs ChineseWriter Full
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chinese Characters 汉字
Learn to read and write thousands of Chinese characters with detailed instructions. Access free dictionaries, OCR translation, and Pinyin annotations for news articles. Covers HSK and AP Chinese exam requirements.
- Writing instructions for 3000+ characters
- HSK and AP Chinese exam coverage
- Free OCR for Chinese text translation
- Free English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries
- Pinyin annotation for news articles
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- Writing instructions for nearly 3000 Chinese characters - Covers all and more characters than required in the official Chinese Proficiency Examinations (HSK levels 1 to 6), and required in AP Chinese exams administered by the U.S. College Board. - Free Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Chinese text for easy translation, which is also free. - Free download of English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries for quick lookup - Links to the Chinese edition of renowned news sites such as New York Times, BBC and Reuters, with free Pinyin annotation to assist you read new words.
ChineseWriter Full
Learn to write Chinese characters with detailed stroke guidance and practice exercises. This app supports both Simplified and Traditional characters, offering phonetic pronunciations and component analysis for each character. It works offline and allows customization of writing speed and stroke color.
- Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters
- Stroke order and direction guidance
- Writing practice with error correction
- Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation and meaning
- Component analysis and example words
- Customizable stroke color and writing speed
- Offline functionality
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* Salient features + The data includes full Chinese characters both Simplified and Traditional + Identification through hard typing, pinyin... + Guide the order and direction of writing Chinese characters correctly and correctly. + Practice writing and writing instructions when writing wrong + Each character has Sino-Vietnamese, analysis of components by set, words containing it, Sino-Vietnamese meaning + Support setting stroke color and writing speed + The application works independently, without using the network --------------------------------------------- ***SUPPORT: Software : ChineseWriter Author: Nguyen Van Duy Call/SMS/Fb/Zalo : 0868934697 Email: Leo.appvn@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Chinese Characters 汉字 at none against ChineseWriter Full's shown. Chinese Characters 汉字 also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 20 months) and ratings volume (295 vs 5). ChineseWriter Full's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Chinese Characters 汉字 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and ChineseWriter Full sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ChineseWriter Full holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chinese Characters 汉字 has 295 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Chinese Characters 汉字's written reviews are positive against 64% of ChineseWriter Full's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Chinese Characters 汉字 ships an update every 10 days, ChineseWriter Full every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chinese Characters 汉字 | ChineseWriter Full |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (295 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 63.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 295 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 20 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | YOYASOFT LLC | Duy Nguyen Van |
Customer experience
Chinese Characters 汉字
ChineseWriter Full
Bugs and requests
Chinese Characters 汉字
Reported bugs
4 issues- Sound icon in journal not working
- Traditional characters not showing up
- Tracing feature lines snap and go haywire
- Tracing lines stop mid-trace and stretch across screen
Requested features
12 requests- Allow searching by tones (e.g., zhong1)
- Include pronunciation and Pinyin in journal saves
- Improve tracing feature with simpler stroke fonts
- Enable switching to traditional characters
- Support handwriting practice in Traditional characters
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- Add option to correct writing more accurately
- Remove or disable background picture
- Allow zooming in/out of character grid
- Show words in sentences when clicked
- Make search feature take user to character location in scroll
- Label character locations more specifically than HSK level
- Create an app for Japanese characters
ChineseWriter Full
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Chinese Characters 汉字
- MDBG DictionaryFree
- English-Chinese DictionaryFree
- Advanced Chinese Characters$12.99
ChineseWriter Full
- Remove ads$0.99
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