Pinyin Coach vs Skillify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinyin Coach
Master Pinyin pronunciation with interactive flashcards. Get detailed explanations of mouth and tongue placement, and listen to audio recordings to perfect your sounds. Ideal for anyone learning Mandarin Chinese.
- Pinyin flashcards
- Audio recordings
- Pronunciation explanations
- Mouth/tongue placement guides
- Progressive learning
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Learn to pronounce the initials and finals of Pinyin with handy flashcards. Cycle through them quickly and gain mastery with your pronunciation by listening to the recordings. Each Pinyin also includes a very descriptive explanation of how to pronounce the Pinyin from common English sounds and a description of the mouth, tongue and lip placement needed to pronounce the sound properly.
Skillify
This app offers offline learning for basic math and spelling. It allows for adjustable difficulty levels to suit individual needs. Future updates are planned to include additional customization options.
- Offline learning
- Addition, multiplication, division
- Spelling practice
- Configurable difficulty
- Future color options
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A simple app that works offline to easily teach addition, multiplication, division and spelling. It is very configurable so the difficulty can be adjusted! Later versions will include color options!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Skillify at 5.0 against Pinyin Coach's 4.0. Skillify also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Skillify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinyin Coach | Skillify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Nettle | Vikas Trivedi |
Customer experience
Pinyin Coach
Skillify
In-app purchases
Pinyin Coach
No in-app purchases
Skillify
No in-app purchases
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