HSK 단어장 vs TianTian
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HSK 단어장
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빅데이터 기반의 높은 적중률 HSK단어장은 기출문제 데이터를 기반으로 제공하는 단어장입니다. HSK기출문제 1급부터 6급까지의 빅데이터를 기반으로 기출문제를 분석한 빈도수를 제공하고 있습니다. HSK시험에 꼭 나오는 단어를 우선적으로 배우고 싶나요? 그렇다면 HSK단어장을 확인해 보세요. 내가 배우는 단어가 기출문제에 몇번 나왔는지, 빈도수까지 확인할 수 있습니다. 단어와 함께 배우는 기출문제 예문 HSK기출 단어장에서는 단순히 단어만 학습하는 것이 아닌 기출문제 예문까지 확인할 수 있습니다. 단어를 선택하면 단어가 등장한 기출문제 예문까지 확인할 수 있습니다. 기출문제 예문을 통해 단어를 익히면서 암기 효율을 더욱 향상시킬 수 있습니다. 검증된 기출 단어 예측 알고리즘 빅데이터로 기출 단어를 예측하기 위해서는 고도화된 예측 시스템이 있어야 합니다. HSK단어장은 빅데이터를 분석하여 실시간으로 단어장을 제작할 수 있는 기출 단어 예측 시스템을 제작하였습니다. 이 시스템을 통해 HSK1급부터 6급까지 기출문제에서 자주 나오는 단어들만 먼저 학습할 수 있습니다. 이메일: 5colorchinese@gmail.com 오색중국어 메인 블로그: https://blog.naver.com/colorproject
TianTian
This app helps you learn Chinese vocabulary by intelligently scheduling reviews based on your memory. It covers thousands of words from HSK levels 1-9, focusing on efficient memorization through spaced repetition.
- Spaced repetition algorithm (FSRS)
- HSK 1-9 vocabulary coverage
- Intelligent review scheduling
- Visual progress tracking (color-coded words)
- Offline audio playback
- Customizable daily review limits
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Ever shelved a vocabulary book with the first thirty pages black with notes and the rest still spotless? The problem isn't willpower. It's order. Nobody can tell by feel what to review and when. TianTian is a Chinese vocabulary app that works it out for you: 11,092 words from HSK 1 to 7-9. All you have to do is today's cards. “What should I study today?” The app picks for you. It starts with the 500 words of HSK 1, then runs through HSK 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to HSK 7-9, in Days of 50 flashcards. “I saw it once. Why didn't it stick?” That's how memory works. In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus drew the forgetting curve: two thirds or more of something new is gone within a day. But recall it right before you forget, and the curve flattens. Seeing a word once a day for ten days beats seeing it ten times in one day. This is the spacing effect, confirmed by a 2006 meta-analysis of 317 experiments from 184 papers. “So when does it ask me again?” The moment your chance of remembering drops to 90%. TianTian draws a forgetting curve for every card and asks again just as the memory starts to blur. Each right answer pushes the next review out: a new word comes back in 10 minutes, a familiar one in a few days, and one you truly know in a few months. Miss it and the gap shrinks. So your time goes to the words you don't know yet, not the ones you do, and the same 30 minutes leaves you with more. TianTian runs on FSRS, the spaced repetition algorithm built into Anki, refined on 700 million reviews from 10,000 real learners. “How much do I know right now?” Every word has a temperature: where it sits on its forgetting curve, turned into a color. A word you just learned is a warm green, one you haven't seen in a while cools to orange, and one you've missed three or more times sinks to red. Scroll a word list and the gaps show at a glance. “How far have I come?” Track your streak and accuracy, look back on a heatmap, and see when you'll finish at your current pace. “Why no example sentences?” Because they don't help you memorize words. For every feature, we asked: “Could you still memorize words without it?” Example sentences, rankings, friend lists, and logins didn't make the cut. The card holds the simplified characters, pinyin, meaning, part of speech, and the traditional characters when they differ. That's all. “Why no rankings?” Because someone else's pace shouldn't become your yardstick. New words per day, the review limit, target retention, when your day starts: you decide all of it. There are no notifications either. Nagging alerts only make you feel chased, and an app you open that way doesn't last. There are no accounts. Your history stays on your device, and you can export it to move to a new one. And more · Audio plays automatically when you flip a card · Choose from four voices, two female and two male, and download them to listen offline · In pinyin, only the tone-marked letters are colored, so tones stand out · Search by word, pinyin, or meaning, with or without tone marks · Save the words you like and add your own notes · Words you're forgetting and words you often miss gather in their own lists · Words with the same characters but different pinyin (like 地: de and dì) link to each other in word details · In each Day, blur pinyin or meanings, shuffle, or see the words you remember least first · Menus and word meanings also come in Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Spanish, and French · Browse the same vocabulary as cards at tian-tian.app/en, with history kept separate from the app · Light and dark themes, with background effects and blur you can turn off It's made for complete beginners tackling their first 500 words, test takers organizing HSK words by level, and working adults learning Chinese on their own, without classes. Smart is the app's job. Steady is yours. Just finish today's cards.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: HSK 단어장 at 9.0 against TianTian's 16.4. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HSK 단어장 | TianTian |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Color Project Co., Ltd. | JJangJJangE |
In-app purchases
HSK 단어장
No in-app purchases
TianTian
No in-app purchases








