Memorii vs HanCard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Memorii
This app aids in learning East Asian characters like Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, and Korean hangul. It offers customizable flashcard slideshows and a home screen widget for continuous practice. Manage your vocabulary with folders, checkmarks, and favorites, with iCloud sync across devices.
- Learn Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, Korean hangul
- Customizable vocabulary slideshows
- Home screen widget for constant visibility
- Flashcard library management with folders
- iCloud sync across all devices
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Memorii helps you study Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji, and Korean hangul. Practice your vocabulary with customizable slideshows. Ordered or shuffled, based on characters, pronunciation, or meaning. The app also includes a widget to keep your favorites always visible on your Home Screen and help you memorize throughout the day. Manage your flashcards library with folders, checkmarks, and favorites. The app comes with basic vocabulary lists to get you started, and your library is available on all your devices with iCloud sync.
HanCard
Learn Chinese characters with flashcards and a comprehensive dictionary. Supports multiple pronunciation systems and offers sharing features for collaborative learning.
- Flashcards for Chinese readers
- Fast lection creation
- Share lections
- Multiple pronunciation displays
- Extensive character data
- Chinese-English dictionary
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HanCard is a vocabulary trainer for chinese characters. Features: * Flashcards for the vocabulary of New Practical Chinese Reader", "Practical Chinese Reader", "Integrated Chinese (Ed. 1 & 2)" and "HSK Levels 1-4" * Fast creation of new lections * Sharing of lections you created between your devices or between you and your classmates * Configuration for your language needs: select pronunciations to be displayed (chinese, cantonese, korean, japanese, vietnamese...) * Data for more than 45.000 characters * Chinese-English dictionary with almost 100.000 entries Contains informations on: * Character, definition, traditional and simplified variants * Chinese pronunciation (Pinyin, Pinlu, Mandarin) * Cantonese pronunciation * Tang dynasty pronunciation * Korean pronunciation (Hangul and Romanization) * Japanese pronunciation (On and Kun) * Vietnamese pronunciation * Radical stroke counts * Dictionary references Not all information is available for all characters. Acknowledgments: HanCard includes data from the Unihan database, distributed under the Terms of Use in http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html. Copyright © 1991-2010 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. HanCard includes data from CC-CEDICT (http://cc-cedict.org) in accordance with the license provided at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. The data used for the flashcards is from http://hskflashcards.com/. The data for Practical Chinese Reader Books 1 & 2 is licensed under the terms of the GPL. Drop me a line if you want to have the JSON file I created from this data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HanCard at 5.0 against Memorii's 1.0. HanCard also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Memorii's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Memorii sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and HanCard sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HanCard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Memorii | HanCard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vincent Tourraine | Dominik Wei-Fieg |
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Memorii
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In-app purchases
Memorii
- Japanese Kanji Pack 1$0.99
- Chinese Hanzi Pack 2$0.99
- Japanese Kanji Pack 2$0.99
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- Chinese Hanzi Pack 1$0.99
- Chinese Hanzi Pack 3$0.99
- Korean Hangul Pack 1$0.99
HanCard
- I like HanCard$0.99
- I really like HanCard!$1.99
- Practical Chinese Reader$1.99
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- Integrated Chinese (Second Edition)$1.99
- Integrated Chinese (Third Edition)$1.99
- I love HanCard!$2.99
- I can't live without HanCard$3.99
- New Practical Chinese Reader$3.99
- HSK (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì)$7.99









