Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro vs Tri Flash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro
Master over 1000 Mandarin Chinese words with flashcards, audio pronunciation, and review modes. Study simplified or traditional characters offline across 50 diverse categories. Improve your language skills effectively and easily.
- 1000+ Mandarin words
- 50 learning categories
- Audio pronunciation
- Simplified & traditional characters
- Offline study mode
- Flashcard review
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A photo of a panda. The characters 熊猫 beside it. The pinyin underneath. Tap, and hear it spoken in Mandarin. Tap again if the tone didn't stick. Next card. That's the whole app, and it's why it works: your brain files a word away much faster when it arrives attached to a picture than when it arrives attached to another word. 1,000 Mandarin words, 50 categories, no ads, no account, no internet needed. SIMPLIFIED OR TRADITIONAL — YOUR CHOICE One switch changes every card in the app. Studying for the mainland? Simplified. Living in Hong Kong or Taiwan, or learning from a grandparent who writes the old forms? Traditional. Most flashcard apps make you pick a side at download; this one doesn't. EVERY WORD, SPOKEN ALOUD All 1,000 words come with audio in clear, standard Mandarin. Tap a card once to hear it, then as many times as you like — tones settle in through the ear, and replays are unlimited. The audio works fully offline, same as everything else. TWO WAYS TO STUDY • Review Mode — flip through a category at your own pace, picture, characters, pinyin and audio together • Flip Mode — hide the answer and test yourself, one card at a time 50 CATEGORIES OF REAL, USEFUL WORDS Everyday life: numbers, colours, family, the house, days and months, positions Food and drink: fruit, vegetables, Chinese dishes, sweets, nuts and seeds Animals and nature: wildlife, birds, sea creatures, dinosaurs, pets, weather School and work: classroom, music, tools, technology, professions Travel: countries, flags, transport, and a category just for China …and thirty more. BUILT TO BE USED, NOT SUBSCRIBED TO No ads. Not one, not even between cards — this is an app children use, and nobody should be selling to them. No account, no sign-up, no data collected. Fully offline: the back seat, the plane, the waiting room. Everything is included. All 1,000 words and all 50 categories are open from the first launch — one price, nothing to buy inside, nothing to restore. No subscription. SCHOOL EDITION This is the edition for classrooms and for families who keep purchases switched off. There are no in-app purchases at all, so it can be bought through Apple School Manager, installed on shared or managed iPads, and handed to a child with nothing to tap that costs money. WHO IT'S FOR • Absolute beginners who want words before grammar • Parents teaching a child Mandarin, or keeping a heritage language alive • Travellers who want to recognise a sign and order lunch • Students building the vocabulary their textbook assumes they already have • Teachers and schools buying for a class, and parents with Ask to Buy switched on GOOD TO KNOW Do I need to read Chinese already? No. Every card shows the picture, the characters, the pinyin and the English together, with Mandarin pronunciation audio at a tap. Is this a course? No. It's vocabulary, done properly. Bring your own grammar. Simplified or traditional? Either, on a switch, any time. Who makes it? A small independent studio that has been making Chinese learning apps since 2016. Why Pro, when there's a free edition? This one includes everything for one price, with no purchases inside — for schools, and for families who keep purchases off. Tap the first category and see how many stick. 加油!
Tri Flash
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Tri Flash is a flash card application that allows to display 3 aspects of a word: the word, the latin transcription (ex: pinyin in Mandarin) and the translation. Unlike other flashcard applications that have only 2 sides! And do all this from the convenience of a Google Sheet: manage all your own words, according to what it is you want to learn. You can generate your own list of words from your favorite generative AI service for instance ! The application will let you randomly display words from the selected categories, and you can even check the pronunciation with text-to-speech. When you know a word enough, you can "hide" it. Pairing with a Google Sheet will require you to share / "publish to the web" your google sheet and enter the URL in your app (you can scan it as a QR code for convenience - use an online QR code generator to convert your URL). Once you have done this once, you never have to do it again: your sheet is "paired" with the app once and for all! You can add words from your paired google sheet when you make progress: simply "reload" and choose to replace or merge the words
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tri Flash at Free against Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro's $29.99. Tri Flash also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 14 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Tri Flash is free to download; Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro costs $29.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro ships an update every 14 months, Tri Flash every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro | Tri Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Handtechnics | Nicolas Blaisot-Balette |
In-app purchases
Fun Chinese Flashcards Pro
No in-app purchases
Tri Flash
No in-app purchases
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