Comparison

Learn Chinese vs blaboo

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

Head to head
About

Learn Chinese

This app makes learning Mandarin vocabulary fun for young children with over 500 words, pictures, and sounds. It features interactive modes and professional voiceovers to aid memory and engagement.

Highlights
  • Over 500 words, pictures, and sounds
  • 10 learning categories
  • Video flashcards
  • Professional native Mandarin voiceovers
  • Question mode for interaction
  • Large text and buttons
Features
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Building strong Chinese (Mandarin) vocabulary has never been so exciting for preschoolers and toddlers. * 10 Categories - All in 1 App! * Over 500 words, pictures, voiceovers and sounds! * Kids tested - they love it! Parents tested - they love it! * Building vocabulary has never been so much fun * Video flashcards in animals and transportation categories * Large words and letters * Large icons and buttons * Professional native Mandarin voiceovers recorded in production studio * High quality images * Real sounds where applicable * Question mode for parent-child interaction * Great memory building exercise * FREE! Categories include: Food items, Animals, Transportation, Numbers, Colors & Shapes, Clothing, Household items, Body Parts, Outdoor items, Music Instruments/Arts & Learning. EFlashApps Chinese Mandarin Educational Baby Flash Cards features over 500 high quality images with text and voiceovers. There are additional real sounds where applicable (such as a lion's roar or an ambulance siren) to enhance visual and auditory learning and memory simultaneously. Parents have the option to turn voiceovers off during parent-child learning session and turn voiceovers on when the child is self-learning. They can enable Question Mode to display 4 images and ask the child to click on the right answer. Complexity of words is perfect for ages 1 to 4 so two or more young siblings can play together and even teach each other!

About

blaboo

Learn new words through engaging illustrations and audio pronunciation. This free app supports multiple languages and offers various categories for vocabulary building. Review learned words with flashcards.

Highlights
  • Illustrated word learning
  • Audio pronunciation
  • Multiple language support
  • Categorized vocabulary
  • Flashcard review
Features
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Free Word Learning App! Are you worried about learning words? You can learn words from favorite pictures, such as cars, jobs, animals and more in BlaBoo. Are you studying foreign languages? BlaBoo offers a variety of languages including English, Japanese Chinese and so on. [Features] - Various Categories BlaBoo has a variety of categories, illustrations. Study words by seeing the illustration. - Voice Let's touch it! When you touch the picture, the pronunciation of the word is spoken. people can study words with the sound. - Multiple Languages BlaBoo supports Korean, English, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and more. BlaBoo also helps you study foreign words! - Review Did you study new words? Then, using a word card to review the words you studied. [Blaboo is FREE!] Yes, BlaBoo is totally FREE! Just Download and study new words together! [Study new words into categories.] 1. Select Language BlaBoo supports multiple languages. Press the Change Language button at the top of the Home screen to select the language you want to study. 2. Select Category Select the category in which you want to study the word. BlaBoo support 15 categories such as Animals, Occupations, Vehicles, Food, and more. 3. Touch For Pronouncing! Volume Up! touch the illustrations on the screen. You can hear the voices of the words of the illustrations. Free Word Learning App, BlaBoo You can download it now for free and get started right away!

Screenshots

Learn Chinese3 screens
blaboo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: blaboo at 4.3 against Learn Chinese's 3.3. blaboo also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Learn Chinese sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. blaboo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

blaboo holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 10 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Chinese ships an update every 6 months, blaboo every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Learn Chinese versus blaboo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Chineseblaboo
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (8 ratings)4.3 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings810 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopereFlashApps, LLCJeongHean Kim

Customer experience

Learn Chinese

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral28.6%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive59.2%
Neutral22.5%
Negative18.3%

blaboo

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Learn Chinese

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • App locks up on intro screen
  • Categories won't open after purchase
  • Some Chinese characters are wrong (e.g., number five)
  • Audio doesn't match pictures (peanuts/pancakes, peanuts/pear)
  • New update makes app unusable
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  • Button too close to ads
  • Numbers section sometimes doesn't move
  • VoiceOver not working in free version
  • Food category flashcards and audio mismatch (pancake, peanut, pear, peas)
  • Animal category: starfish wrong
  • Vehicle category: bulldozer named bicycle
  • Pronunciation error for 蝙蝠
  • Flashcards with missing audio or flashcards without audio

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add Pinyin option
  • Larger characters
  • Option to hide English text
  • Traditional Chinese characters
  • More vocabulary categories
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  • Better safeguards against scam ads
  • Tap image to repeat sound
  • Sentence structure help

blaboo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Learn Chinese

One-time1
  • Mandarin Baby Flash Cards Ad-Free$1.99
None

blaboo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Learn Chinese free?
Learn Chinese is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is blaboo free?
blaboo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Learn Chinese or blaboo?
blaboo is rated higher. Learn Chinese averages 3.3 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while blaboo averages 4.3 from 10 ratings.
Do Learn Chinese or blaboo have ads?
Neither Learn Chinese nor blaboo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Chinese or blaboo?
Learn Chinese ships an update every 6 months, and blaboo every 9 days. Most recently, Learn Chinese was updated on November 1, 2026 and blaboo on November 3, 2026.

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