Comparison

Dot Languages vs Boost Chinese

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

Head to head
About

Dot Languages

Master Mandarin Chinese with a structured curriculum aligned to HSK 3.0 and TOCFL 2.0. Engage with AI-powered exercises, personalized practice, and a vast library of lessons and articles. Track progress, stay motivated with gamified elements, and even bring your own content for study.

Highlights
  • HSK 3.0 & TOCFL 2.0 aligned curriculum
  • AI-powered exercises and personalized practice
  • 11,000+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, reading
  • Daily refreshed articles with in-app dictionary
  • Spaced repetition for vocabulary retention
  • Animated stroke-order character writing
  • Speech recognition for pronunciation practice
  • User-added content and study material generation
Features
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Dot Languages is a complete Chinese learning app: lessons carefully written and crafted by humans, advanced exercises powered by AI — all built around a structured curriculum aligned to HSK 3.0 (2021 and 2025) and TOCFL 2.0 (2023), with personalised practice. Learn at your own pace through a dynamic HSK-aligned learning path with 11,000+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, and reading. Read new articles daily, refreshed for every HSK level, and look up any word in a comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary with character components. Practice that adapts to you: spaced repetition for vocabulary retention, animated stroke-order character writing, speech recognition for pronunciation, multiple choice, matching, sentence arrangement, flash cards, and AI-evaluated open-ended questions. Stay motivated with awards, streaks, learning milestones, leaderboards, and social profiles. Track your performance with weekly progress charts. Bring your own content — add private articles from any source and generate study material from text you paste in. More features: family plans, teacher classroom tools, grammar with sentence-structure analysis, and variable-speed audio narration of articles.

About

Boost Chinese

Master Mandarin Chinese through interactive games, lessons, and native speaker videos. Improve pronunciation, writing, and vocabulary with personalized learning paths and HSK exam preparation. Supports multiple mother tongues.

Highlights
  • Interactive games and lessons
  • Chinese dictionary by mother tongue
  • Native speaker pronunciation videos
  • Chinese character stroke system
  • Expandable vocabulary decks
  • HSK exam preparation
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Improve your chinese easily, quickly, and enjoyably with Boost Chinese! Master and learn chinese by having fun with our interactive games. Discover everything you need to become a master of mandarin with our chinese dictionary adapted to your mother tongue. Write and speak chinese correctly and perfect your chinese pronunciation with our videos of native chinese speakers that will allow you to perfect both your listening and writing comprehension. Learn mandarin at your own pace with fun games and lessons. - LEARN CHINESE WITH YOUR MOTHER TONGUE: English, Spanish, Russian, French, and Portuguese. We are constantly working on adding more languages to meet your needs. - CHINESE DICTIONARY: Search for the word you need in our chinese dictionary in your mother tongue. - SPEAK CHINESE: Speak chinese naturally and improve your chinese pronunciation. - IMPROVE YOUR PRONUNCIATION WITH VIDEOS OF NATIVE CHINESE SPEAKERS: Master tones and sounds with practical examples and speak with confidence. - LEARN TO WRITE CHINESE: Discover how to trace chinese characters with our innovative chinese stroke system. Learn the correct order for a unique experience and have fun perfecting your chinese writing skills interactively. - EXPAND YOUR CHINESE VOCABULARY: Expand your vocabulary and master everyday and professional situations with our specific decks. From business terms to slang words, we launch at least one new deck every week. Stay up-to-date and expand your chinese vocabulary for everyday situations! - CHINESE LESSONS: Immerse yourself in immersive lessons designed for all levels. From the basics to the subtleties of the chinese language, each lesson is tailored to your individual progress, ensuring efficient and meaningful learning. - CHINESE GRAMMAR: learning to write chinese correctly will be easier with our lessons, you will find grammar from chinese for beginners to advanced levels, our lessons contain concepts with practical examples, covering adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and more. - LEARN CHINESE AT YOUR OWN PACE: We tailor our lessons and challenges for different levels, with fun lessons where you can learn to read chinese, whether you are a curious beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced master. - INTERACTIVE GAMES: Learn mandarin, overcome interactive challenges designed to test you and improve your skills at each level, and share your achievements with your friends! - HSK PREPARATION: Progress towards success in the HSK exam. We guide you in HSK preparation for all levels of the exam, from beginner levels (HSK 1, HSK 2, HSK 3) to more advanced levels (HSK 4, HSK 5, HSK 6), providing you with the necessary skills to stand out. - PROGRESS TRACKING: See your evolution in words learned and playtime in the app. Celebrate your achievements and adjust your approach based on your strengths and areas for improvement in chinese. - Thanks to a complex SM-18 spaced repetition system algorithm, we highlight more frequently the characters you need to reinforce and reduce the frequency of those you already master, thus optimizing your learning. We are a team of foreigners passionate about technology and the chinese language, our goal is to have in our hands and for as many people as possible the ultimate application to boost their chinese learning curve which sometimes seems really flat. Join us and see how fast we launch new features and create valuable content for you, for all of us! Learn chinese with Boost Chinese! Apple EULA -> https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of use -> https://www.boostchinese.com/legal/terms Privacy policy -> https://www.boostchinese.com/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Dot Languages4 screens
Boost Chinese4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Boost Chinese at 5.0 against Dot Languages's 4.2. Boost Chinese also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 72%). Dot Languages's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (55 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Dot Languages sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and Boost Chinese sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boost Chinese holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dot Languages has 55 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Dot Languages's written reviews are positive against 87% of Boost Chinese's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, Boost Chinese monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dot Languages versus Boost Chinese: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDot LanguagesBoost Chinese
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (55 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews87.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size200 MB151 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDot Languages ApSerik naturil

Customer experience

Dot Languages

All ratings55 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative22.2%

Boost Chinese

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.7%

Bugs and requests

Dot Languages

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App closes every time after signing up
  • App not opening
  • App crashes on startup
  • Articles disappear when hitting back icon
  • Return button partially visible after lesson
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  • Bug where leaving and re-entering a story counts as two reads
  • App freezes and never works again
  • Login screen freezes
  • App doesn't load at all
  • Kicks out of login every time app is opened
  • Streak and articles read does not carry across devices
  • Button of 'open more stories' doesn't work

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add Korean and Japanese language options
  • Add stories in addition to articles
  • Option for lifetime subscription
  • Speaking exercises
  • More vibrant colors and backgrounds
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  • Pictures to help remember words
  • Way to practice tones for each character
  • Option to switch to traditional characters
  • App for Cantonese

Boost Chinese

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Dot Languages

Subscriptions5
  • Standard Monthly7 Days trial$9.001 Month
  • Dot Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$18.491 Month
  • Standard Yearly7 Days trial$72.001 Year
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  • Dot Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$135.991 Year
  • Dot Premium - Family Plan7 Days trial$339.001 Year
3 purchases

Boost Chinese

Subscriptions2
  • Month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • 1 year7 Days trial$44.901 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$129.99

Questions

Is Dot Languages free?
Dot Languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Boost Chinese free?
Boost Chinese is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Dot Languages or Boost Chinese?
Boost Chinese is rated higher. Dot Languages averages 4.2 out of 5 from 55 ratings, while Boost Chinese averages 5.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Dot Languages or Boost Chinese have ads?
Neither Dot Languages nor Boost Chinese shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dot Languages or Boost Chinese?
Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, and Boost Chinese monthly. Most recently, Dot Languages was updated on November 3, 2026 and Boost Chinese on November 3, 2026.

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