Master Chinese vs Etch

HSK Exam prep App. Best HSK App for learning and mastering all 1500 HSK Chinese exam phrases. Based on HSK Levels 1-6. Learn English to Chinese with fill-in the character type game. Learn Chinese to English through flashcards. Take quizzes to test your knowledge. Review flashcards to quickly recognize, and to reinforce memory through recall and repetition. App will automatically keep track of your progress. App will record and display your quiz results to provide feedback for improvement. Companion APP to Learn Chinese: HSK Mots. Part 2 of Learn Chinese series. * Learn all 1500 HSK Levels 1-6 Chinese phrases * Learn through quizzes and flashcards. * HSK divided into smaller, more manageable learning levels. * Quiz records and stores test results to help you track your progress. * Characters in simplified form, pinyin and English definitions are included. * Learn proper Mandarin pronunciation with clear audio. * HKS Levels 1-6 (standardized Chinese Proficiency Tests). For technical support, send message to support@knownpoint.com

Note: Etch's interface and its AI-generated definitions are in Chinese. It is built for Chinese speakers learning English. I built Etch because vocabulary never stuck for me. Words I looked up were gone the next day. My dictionary app held hundreds of saved words and not one of them had become mine. What I eventually understood is that the problem was not recall — it was writing. Reading a word ten times does less than writing it once. Psychologists call this the generation effect: producing the answer yourself leaves a far stronger trace than reading it. So Etch does one thing well. It makes you write the word. Capture without leaving what you're reading A Shortcut pulls the selected word in along with the sentence it appeared in. The sentence where you met the word is the sentence you'll see again at review time — words stripped of context are the hardest to keep. The entry fills itself in Pronunciation, definitions, example sentences, morpheme breakdown and common collocations arrive a few seconds after you add the word. Senses are ordered to fit the sentence you captured, rather than copied from a dictionary in fixed order. Review by writing, not by recognizing Write with a finger or Apple Pencil, get judged the moment you finish, and see letter by letter where you went wrong. Three modes: write from the meaning, write from the pronunciation, or fill the blank in a sentence. Recognizing a word is not the same as being able to write it — that difference is the whole point of Etch. Scheduling is handled for you Etch uses FSRS-5. It schedules each review from the word’s difficulty, stability, and current retrievability, aiming to bring it back as memory weakens rather than promising an exact moment of forgetting. One vocabulary across Mac and iPhone Capture on the Mac, review on the iPhone, progress syncs both ways. A home screen widget keeps today's words in front of you, and the ink darkens as you finish them. Etch is free, carries no ads, and does not sell your data. You can export your whole vocabulary at any time, and delete your account from inside the app.