Dot Languages vs Podcastly

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.

Learn Chinese by listening to real podcasts. Podcastly turns any Chinese-language podcast into a language lesson. Pick an episode, and Podcastly transcribes it, splits every sentence into words with pinyin and meanings, and lets you save the words you want to keep. LISTEN WITH A LIVE TRANSCRIPT • Follow along sentence by sentence while the episode plays • Tap any word for pinyin, meaning and example sentences • Show pinyin or a translation for every line • Slow the audio down when speech gets fast FIND SOMETHING AT YOUR LEVEL • Every show carries a difficulty level: Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced • "Ready to learn" collects hand-picked episodes whose transcripts are already finished — free on every plan • Or search the Chinese podcast charts for a show of your own IN YOUR LANGUAGE • Use Podcastly in English, German or Japanese • Menus, word meanings, example translations and AI explanations all follow the language you pick BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY • Save words straight from the transcript • Review them with spaced-repetition flashcards, right before you would forget them • Hear natural pronunciation for words and whole sentences GO DEEPER • Ask the built-in AI to explain a word or sentence in context • Read short mini stories written from your own saved words • Track your listening time, streak and learning progress day by day FREE AND PRO The free plan includes 60 minutes of new episode transcription per week, 500 characters of pronunciation audio and 10 AI explanations per day, and keeps up to 50 saved words. Listening, the dictionary and every episode that has already been transcribed are free and unlimited. Podcastly Pro removes these limits: up to 10 hours of new transcription per month, 40,000 characters of pronunciation audio per month, 100 AI explanations per day and unlimited saved words. Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, available monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings at any time. Terms of Use: https://kenvoice.github.io/podcastly-legal/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://kenvoice.github.io/podcastly-legal/privacy/