FullChinese Pro vs MandarinDash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FullChinese Pro
This app offers a comprehensive environment for mastering Chinese, aiming to take users from beginner to fluent. It supports learning through curated texts, native speaker recordings, and user-added content like YouTube videos with captions. Dictionaries and thousands of recorded sentences are included to enhance the learning experience.
- Beginner to fluent Chinese learning
- Learn with curated texts and native recordings
- Add your own content (YouTube CC, copy-paste)
- Extensive dictionary with recorded sentences
- Customizable learning environment
- Designed specifically for Chinese language
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FullChinese is the only Chinese learning app to provide a complete learning environment to bring you from beginner to fully fluent. By fluent, we don't only mean being able to hold simple conversations; we mean being able to read anything, understand anything and express yourself close to the way you would in your native tongue. To start using FullChinese, all you need to know is pinyin and what Chinese characters are about but after that, we’ll take it from there (FullChinese will not teach you pinyin, it assumes you already know it). You can use FullChinese with carefully prepared text and recordings or add your own content such as text that you copy and paste inside the app or Youtube videos that have Closed Captions (CC or transcripts). FullChinese contains hundreds of texts, hundreds of hours of content recorded by native speaker, fully pre-analyzed text. It also gives you access to fully preloaded dictionaries of 100,000 entries, with more than ten thousand recorded sentences. FullChinese also allows you to upload your own content. These are a few of the features designed to make your learning experience efficient and fun. FullChinese is not a generic language learning application adapted for Chinese, it has been designed, from the ground up, specifically for Chinese. We have completely reengineered the learning process by removing every second of wasted time, and by giving your brain every piece of information at the exact time it needs it. As these thousands of seconds of wasted time disappear, you’re learning accelerates and as you move further, faster, it becomes much more fun. FullChinese has been used by hundreds of students in top US universities. “FullChinese has completely changed the way I learned Chinese; I wished I had that when I started”.
MandarinDash
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MandarinDash is the ultimate app for learning Mandarin Chinese with speed and accuracy. Whether you’re a beginner or advancing toward fluency, MandarinDash makes language learning simple, interactive, and effective.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MandarinDash at none against FullChinese Pro's 4. FullChinese Pro's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. FullChinese Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $15.99 per month. MandarinDash asks for nothing beyond the download.
FullChinese Pro ships an update monthly, MandarinDash every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FullChinese Pro | MandarinDash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gammakite, Inc. | chaz STEWART |
In-app purchases
FullChinese Pro
- MONTHLY14 Days trial$15.991 Month
- 3 MONTHS14 Days trial$36.993 Months
- 6 MONTHS14 Days trial$59.996 Months
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- YEARLY14 Days trial$107.991 Year
MandarinDash
No in-app purchases
Questions
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