Comparison

Boost Chinese vs PE Toolbox

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

Head to head
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

About

PE Toolbox

Features
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PE Toolbox makes planning physical education lessons simple, visual, and fast. Built for PE teachers, PE Toolbox gives you the tools to organize activities, explain drills, create court diagrams, and build lessons without needing complicated planning software. VISUAL ACTIVITY PLANNING Create easy-to-understand diagrams for games, drills, and activities. Add players, equipment, movement, and other elements to show exactly how an activity should work. BUILD YOUR LESSON Organize activities into a complete PE lesson so you can see your plan before class begins. TEACHING CUES Keep important instructions and skill cues alongside your activities so they're easy to reference while teaching. EQUIPMENT Keep track of the equipment needed for each activity and lesson. SAVE & REUSE Save activities and lessons so your best ideas don't disappear at the end of class. PDF EXPORT Turn your plans into clean PDFs that can be printed, shared, or saved for later. PE Planner was designed by a PE teacher with one goal: spend less time formatting lesson plans and more time teaching. Whether you're planning a warm-up, skill activity, small-sided game, or complete lesson, PE Toolbox helps turn your ideas into a clear plan you can actually use in the gym.

Screenshots

Boost Chinese4 screens
PE Toolbox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PE Toolbox at none against Boost Chinese's 3. Boost Chinese's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Boost Chinese sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PE Toolbox asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Boost Chinese versus PE Toolbox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoost ChinesePE Toolbox
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size151 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
Developererik naturilRyan Walker

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Boost Chinese

Subscriptions2
  • Month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • 1 year7 Days trial$44.901 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$129.99
None

PE Toolbox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boost Chinese free?
Boost Chinese is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PE Toolbox free?
PE Toolbox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Boost Chinese or PE Toolbox have ads?
Neither Boost Chinese nor PE Toolbox shows ads.

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