Comparison

Dot Languages vs 漢字注音

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

Head to head

Dot Languages

Learn Mandarin Chinese

Free

📚 Education

★ 4.255 ratingsView app →

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

漢字注音

Features

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搭配注音發音及生動圖片，輕鬆學習中文詞語。

Screenshots

Dot Languages4 screens

漢字注音4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dot Languages at Free against 漢字注音's $2.99. Dot Languages also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). 漢字注音's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Dot Languages is free to download; 漢字注音 costs $2.99 up front. Dot Languages sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. 漢字注音 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, 漢字注音 every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level

Dot Languages versus 漢字注音: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	Dot Languages	漢字注音
Price	Free — better	$2.99
Rating	4.2 (55 ratings) — better	—
Positive reviews	72.2% of reviews	—
Number of ratings	55 — better	—
Update frequency	Every 5 days — better	Every 4 months
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	Yes	No — better
Monetization	Free with in-app purchases	—
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod	iPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS	15.5	15.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size	200 MB	93 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Dot Languages ApS	Liru Hong

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

漢字注音

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

None

漢字注音

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dot Languages free?

Dot Languages is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

Is 漢字注音 free?

漢字注音 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.

Do Dot Languages or 漢字注音 have ads?

Neither Dot Languages nor 漢字注音 shows ads.

Which is updated more often, Dot Languages or 漢字注音?

Dot Languages ships an update every 5 days, and 漢字注音 every 4 months. Most recently, Dot Languages was updated on November 7, 2026 and 漢字注音 on November 3, 2026.