Comparison

Han4ABC vs WriteChinese

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Han4ABC

This app acts as a personal tutor to help you learn Chinese characters, pronunciation, and vocabulary. It offers interactive exercises for stroke order, speaking practice, idiom composition, and reading classic poems.

Highlights
  • Practice stroke order
  • Listen to Mandarin and Cantonese pronunciations
  • Pronunciation quiz with speech recognition
  • Guess English words from Chinese phrases
  • Compose idioms
  • Read Tang poems with pinyin
Features
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Han4ABC helps Chinese children growing up outside China learn Chinese like having a personal tutor. - Practice stroke order, Mandarin & Cantonese pronunciation, meanings, and example sentences - Improve speaking with Apple speech-recognition pronunciation quizzes - Learn common Chinese characters by grade level - Build English vocabulary through Chinese phrase games - Compose and read Chinese idioms aloud - Enjoy Three Hundred Tang Poems with pinyin and audio playback Interactive lessons, speaking practice, and classic Chinese culture — all in one app.

About

WriteChinese

Learn the correct stroke order for Chinese characters with animated guides and pronunciation. Supports text recognition, offline lookup, and practice writing with error correction. Ideal for students and learners of Chinese.

Highlights
  • Stroke order lookup and animation
  • Pinyin annotation and voice pronunciation
  • Text recognition for input
  • Offline dictionary
  • Writing practice with error alerts
  • Simplified and traditional Chinese support
Features
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"WriteChinese" is an app for learning the stroke order of Chinese characters, with stroke order lookup, pinyin annotation, voice playback, flashcards and vocabulary review. It works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Pencil. The app strictly follows the latest standards for Chinese character stroke order and includes tens of thousands of common characters, meeting the lookup needs of teachers, parents and children. Stroke order and radicals are based on the "Elementary School Students' Stroke-Radical-Structure Character-level Stroke Order Dictionary" and the "Modern Chinese Stroke-Radical-Structure Character-level Stroke Order Standard Dictionary." All of the more than 20,000 Chinese characters supported by "WriteChinese" are annotated with pinyin, and users can tap the play button to hear the pronunciation. Features: * Take a photo or choose an image for text recognition to help you input the characters you want to practice. * Handwriting lookup: find the character you want by writing it by hand, even if you can't type Chinese. * New flashcards: turn characters into cards for reviewing and memorizing anytime, anywhere. * New vocabulary book: automatically collect new characters for repeated review. * New word list quiz: test how well you've mastered a list, with your progress at a glance. * After text recognition, automatically translate English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, German, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Danish, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese into Chinese for easy comparison while learning Chinese. * Offline dictionary: look up characters you don't know. * Automatically save your input or text-recognition history for easy practice later. * Supports stroke order practice for almost all Chinese characters. * Play the standard stroke order of characters as an animation. * Practice writing Chinese characters; if there is a mistake, the app alerts you to the incorrect stroke. * Show or hide the stroke order to help with dictation and to strengthen memory. * Automatically annotate pinyin when you input any Chinese characters. * Voice playback of Chinese characters: if you don't know how to read a character, just tap the voice button to hear it. * Share your handwritten characters with friends. * Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English explanations. Discover more features... Chinese characters have a history of more than six thousand years; they are the world's longest continuously used writing system, with no break in transmission. They are the only surviving ideographic script created by ancient people and an important part of Chinese culture. We sincerely hope "WriteChinese" can help Chinese learners around the world and help billions of Chinese users learn how to write Chinese characters. Unlimited Access Membership Subscription - Use all in-app features without restrictions through this subscription. - Subscriptions are charged weekly, monthly or yearly, depending on the selected plan. - Payment is charged to your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase. - You can turn off auto-renewal 24 hours before the current period ends, or it will renew automatically. - Renewal is charged to your account within 24 hours before the current period ends, depending on your plan. - Users can manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in account settings after purchase. - Any unused free subscription time is forfeited after purchasing a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://www.dazhuogroup.com/writechinese/privacy_statement_en.php Terms of Use: https://www.dazhuogroup.com/writechinese/terms_of_use_en.php

Screenshots

Han4ABC4 screens
WriteChinese4 screens

Verdict

The call

Han4ABC and WriteChinese both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Han4ABC's written reviews are positive against 25% of WriteChinese's. Han4ABC also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). WriteChinese's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WriteChinese sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Han4ABC asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Han4ABC against 4.5 for WriteChinese. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Han4ABC's written reviews are positive against 25% of WriteChinese's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Han4ABC ships an update every 3 months, WriteChinese every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Han4ABC versus WriteChinese: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHan4ABCWriteChinese
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (27 ratings)4.5 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB356 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJianfeng WuShanghai Dazhuo Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Han4ABC

All ratings27 ratings
Positive85.2%
Neutral7.4%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

WriteChinese

All ratings21 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral9.5%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Han4ABC

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

WriteChinese

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Han4ABC free?
Han4ABC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WriteChinese free?
WriteChinese is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Han4ABC or WriteChinese?
WriteChinese is rated higher. Han4ABC averages 4.4 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while WriteChinese averages 4.5 from 21 ratings.
Do Han4ABC or WriteChinese have ads?
Han4ABC shows ads; WriteChinese does not.
Which is updated more often, Han4ABC or WriteChinese?
Han4ABC ships an update every 3 months, and WriteChinese every 7 months. Most recently, Han4ABC was updated on October 16, 2026 and WriteChinese on October 9, 2026.

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