Han4ABC vs SimpleLingo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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Han4ABC helps you 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.
SimpleLingo
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SimpleLingo is a simple and convenient way to learn foreign words. You can learn from ANY language to ANY language. Currently, we increase the amount of vocabularies to use this app even easier than before.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: SimpleLingo at none against Han4ABC's shown. Han4ABC's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Han4ABC ships an update every 3 months, SimpleLingo every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Han4ABC | SimpleLingo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (27 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jianfeng Wu | Sergei Klishin |
In-app purchases
Han4ABC
No in-app purchases
SimpleLingo
No in-app purchases
