Clavis GO vs HanziCamera

Scan pages from your book (or your game) with the free Clavis GO app, and make your reading experience even more fun and interactive! Download the app and select your book. Your phone camera will recognize pages with extra media: spoken text, music, videos, or websites. Think of Clavis GO as a QR code scanner, but without the need of having actual QR codes printed on any of the pages. That way, listening to stories, reading and enjoying fun extra’s are constantly within reach. Clavis GO encourages children to engage in the story. The app enhances their involvement and stimulates active observation and listening. You can use Clavis GO everywhere: all you need is a book and a phone or a tablet! Using the Clavis GO application is child's play. Just open the book on any page, scan it with your phone or tablet camera and discover the extra multimedia for your book.

Hanzi Camera reads printed Chinese and puts the pinyin above it. Photograph a page — a worksheet, a textbook, a storybook, a sign. Highlight the line you want with your finger, the way you would with a real highlighter. The line comes back with pinyin above every character, big enough to read aloud. Tap any word to see what it means. HELP YOU TO LEARN CHINESE Most camera apps translate Chinese into English. That replaces the language people are trying to learn. Hanzi Camera does the opposite: the characters stay exactly where they are, and the pinyin sits above them as a scaffold. IT WOULD RATHER SAY NOTHING THAN GUESS A confidently wrong tone is worse than no help at all. When a character has more than one possible reading, Hanzi Camera shows every reading rather than picking one and hoping. When it cannot read something — handwriting, a bad photo, a word it does not know — it says so instead of inventing an answer. Readings come per word, not per character, so 长高 is zhǎng gāo while 变长 is biàn cháng. BUILT TO BE SIMPLE • Two buttons: take a photo, or choose one • Pinch to zoom in on small print • Undo and redo step through your lookups, so one photo serves many questions • Works on an old iPhone or a hand-me-down iPad — iOS 16 and up FREE, WITH NO CATCH Every part of the app is free. Nothing is locked, there is no trial and there are no ads. The in-app purchases you can see listed are an optional tip jar for the developer — they unlock nothing, and the app is identical whether you use them or not. PRIVACY The app makes no network calls at all. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no data collection of any kind. Photos are saved to your camera roll, so your usual iCloud Photos settings apply to them. Simplified Chinese only. Dictionary data from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 3.0.