Bigme Cloud vs Pinyin TL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bigme Cloud
This app offers a private cloud storage solution for organizing and accessing work and life content across multiple platforms. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the Smart Office Book.
- Private cloud storage
- Content collection
- Cross-platform viewing
- Smart Office Book integration
- Work and life organization
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Bigme Cloud is a private storage space designed to be used with the Smart Office Book. You can store content that you need to collect for work and life here. All content can be collected and viewed across platforms.
Pinyin TL
This app uses your device's camera to recognize Chinese characters in images and display their corresponding Pinyin. It can also provide dictionary definitions for recognized words and works offline.
- Recognizes traditional and simplified Chinese
- Displays Pinyin for characters
- Provides CC-CEDICT dictionary entries
- Supports horizontal and vertical text
- Works offline
- Uses Live Text for selection
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Do you ever look at Chinese text and wish you could see Pinyin above each character? Now you can, with Pinyin TL! With Pinyin TL, you take a picture, select some Chinese text within that picture, and that text is displayed at the top of the screen along with its corresponding Pinyin. You can even tap on a word (at the top) and see its CC-CEDICT dictionary entry. App features: - Select text using Apple's "Live Text" UI. - High-accuracy text recognition: Simplified and traditional characters, horizontal and vertical alignment, stylized text, handwritten text. - High-accuracy Pinyin: Correctly resolves most polyphonic characters. - High-accuracy word recognition: Uses CC-CEDICT to identify words. - On-device processing: Works offline, 100% private. Pinyin TL is made by the developer of tChess (the chess app that was featured in Apple's "Learn" commercial for the iPad) and Learn Chess (the Apple Staff Favorite e-book).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pinyin TL at 5.0 against Bigme Cloud's 1.0. Pinyin TL also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Bigme Cloud's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pinyin TL holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bigme Cloud has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bigme Cloud ships an update monthly, Pinyin TL weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bigme Cloud | Pinyin TL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bigme Cloud Literacy Technology Co., Ltd. | Tom Kerrigan |
Customer experience
Bigme Cloud
Pinyin TL
In-app purchases
Bigme Cloud
No in-app purchases
Pinyin TL
No in-app purchases
