Comparison

DMLS vs Hanzi Blitz

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

Head to head
About

DMLS

This app helps advanced language learners maintain and improve fluency through contextual exercises. It offers various practice methods, including translation, listening, and reading comprehension, with smart error tracking and instant translations.

Highlights
  • Contextual learning from diverse sentences
  • Practice any language pair
  • Sentence translation exercises
  • Listening and reading comprehension
  • Smart error tracking
  • Instant word and sentence translations
  • Bookmark favorite sentences
Features
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Drill My Language Skill: keep your learning momentum with beyond-the-basics lessons. Practice your English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. A basic language course may get you to A2 or B1, B2 level - but probably won't take you further. What's worse, without constant practice your language proficiency will decline. With the free DMLS app you can maintain your fluency and improve your reading and listening skills, by building upon what you already know with continuous practice. Key features that set us apart: * Learn from context: This app is not about starting from scratch; it's about building upon what you already know. Engage with tens of thousands of diverse sentences to refresh known words and grammatical concepts and learn - sometimes infer - new ones. * Any language pair: Exercises "from" and "to" any of the supported languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian. * Variety of Exercises: Translating sentences both ways: to and from your target language. Listening and reading comprehension tasks. Constructing complete sentences from standalone words, either by listening to the target language's audio without seeing the text, or by translating from your known language. * Instant translations: Stuck on a word or sentence? Use our instant translation feature to translate a single word or the whole sentence, and keep practicing. * Smart Error Tracking: No one's perfect, and mistakes are a part of learning. The app intelligently tracks your errors, prompting you to revisit and master those tricky sentences later. * Your own favorite sentences Bookmark interesting sentences in a list to review at a later point. * Easy registration Full functionality with an anonymous account. Premium features: We offer a premium subscription that would make your language practice even more enjoyable: * Focus on specific exercise types Just reading (no sound required) or just listening: chose the exercise type that feels the most appealing right now. * Dual Language Learning: If you want to learn a language that is similar to the one you somewhat know, but don't know quite well. Or just up for a brain teasing, to challenge and enhance your cognitive skills? Learn two languages simultaneously! Add translations of all sentences to a third language - the one you have a good command of - and learn two languages at once. * Better translations Translations right in the app and explanations of what the specific word means in the specific sentence. Pretty neat! * No ads (obviously). There aren't that many to begin with, but with premium there's 0, so infinitely fewer.

About

Hanzi Blitz

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Learn to recognize high-frequency Mandarin Chinese vocabulary and Japanese Jōyō kanji without clutter. Hanzi Blitz presents one word at a time and asks you to identify its pronunciation and meaning from six carefully selected choices. Compound words are tested character by character, helping you understand both the complete word and the characters inside it. Switch between two completely independent learning tracks. Chinese includes pinyin, Simplified and Traditional forms, and compound words. Kanji includes Japanese on'yomi and kun'yomi readings for all 2,136 Jōyō kanji. Each track keeps its own progress, statistics, hidden items, and review schedule. The review system models each word separately. Correct recalls strengthen a word over time, while missed words return sooner. Reviews are triggered by both elapsed time and the number of new words you have studied, so older material stays active even during fast study sessions. Features: - 10,000 frequency-ranked characters and compound words - All 2,136 Jōyō kanji with on'yomi and kun'yomi readings - Independent Chinese and Kanji learning progress - Pinyin with tone marks and Mandarin pronunciation playback - Six-choice character and meaning recognition - Character-by-character compound-word practice - Adaptive review based on time and newly learned words - Detailed dictionary senses and examples after mistakes - Learning and mastered-word statistics - An “Already know” option for removing familiar material - Fully offline study with no accounts, ads, analytics, or tracking All study progress remains on your iPhone.

Screenshots

DMLS4 screens
Hanzi Blitz3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hanzi Blitz at none against DMLS's 2. Hanzi Blitz also leads on ads (none vs shown). DMLS's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. DMLS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Hanzi Blitz asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DMLS versus Hanzi Blitz: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDMLSHanzi Blitz
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCircling Shortcut LLCheng quan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DMLS

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly premium3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Hanzi Blitz

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DMLS free?
DMLS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hanzi Blitz free?
Hanzi Blitz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DMLS or Hanzi Blitz have ads?
DMLS shows ads; Hanzi Blitz does not.

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