Learn Chinese vs Learn Shapes HD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Over 500 words, pictures, and sounds
- 10 learning categories
- Video flashcards
- Professional native Mandarin voiceovers
- Question mode for interaction
- Large text and buttons
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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!
Learn Shapes HD
Children can learn to identify seven different shapes with this educational app. It uses visual outlines and verbal pronunciation to teach shapes like circles, squares, and stars. The app offers a fun way for kids to practice their shape recognition skills.
- Learn 7 different shapes
- Identify shapes by outline
- Verbal pronunciation of shapes
- Shapes with different colors
- Practice shape recognition
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Delight your Kids as they learn and practice 7 different shapes. Kids can identify them with different colors. Learn to identify each shape by its outline and the verbal pronunciation. Lot of Shapely fun with: Circle Hexagon Octagon Square Rectangle Star Triangle
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Learn Chinese at 59% against Learn Shapes HD's 0%. Learn Chinese also leads on rating (3.3 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 17 months). Learn Shapes HD's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Learn Chinese sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Learn Shapes HD asks for nothing beyond the download.
Learn Chinese holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Chinese has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Learn Chinese's written reviews are positive against 0% of Learn Shapes HD's.
Learn Chinese ships an update every 6 months, Learn Shapes HD every 17 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Learn Chinese | Learn Shapes HD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (8 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | eFlashApps, LLC | Magicbox Animation Private limited |
Customer experience
Learn Chinese
Learn Shapes HD
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
Learn Shapes HD
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Learn Chinese
- Mandarin Baby Flash Cards Ad-Free$1.99
Learn Shapes HD
No in-app purchases
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