Comparison

Esikidz Parent App vs Mandarin Flashcards

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

Head to head
About

Esikidz Parent App

Communicate with your child's educators, receive real-time updates on their progress, and manage tuition fees. View daily activities, photos, and reports to stay connected with their childcare experience. Easily download tax reports for expense tracking.

Highlights
  • Seamless communication with teachers
  • Real-time progress and well-being updates
  • Childcare center announcements feed
  • Online tuition fee payments
  • View daily activities, photos, and reports
  • Downloadable tax reports for expenses
Features
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โ€ข Our app is powered by cutting-edge technologies, allowing you to communicate seamlessly with your child's teachers and childcare managers. You can send and receive messages, ask questions, and receive real-time updates on your child's progress and well-being. โ€ข Stay up-to-date with the latest centre announcements and never miss out on important information with our childcare feed feature. โ€ข Managing your child's tuition fees has never been easier! Our app enables you to view your invoices and pay fees online quickly and securely, without the need for paper statements or waiting in long lines. โ€ข View your child's daily activities, photos and reports of their routines and milestones, and feel more involved and connected with your child's childcare experience. โ€ข Finally, we have made it simple and easy for you to download tax reports, enabling you to keep track of your childcare expenses and maximize your tax benefits. Thank you for choosing to use Esikidz Parent App. We are confident that our app will enhance your experience by helping you stay informed, connected, and involved in your child's childcare centre.

About

Mandarin Flashcards

Features
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A flashcard app specifically designed for the complexities of Mandarin! Switch between Hanzi (characters), Pinyin (the sounds) and English meaning to learn all three aspects of Mandarin. Enhanced difficulty algorithms can be adjusted based on your appetite for challenge and personal progression. My goal in creating this app was to make flashcards fun, and make it more difficult to just "guess" the word like so many other apps allow. Four directions, tracked separately. See a character and pick the sound, see the sound and pick the character, or start from the English and go either way. Each direction keeps its own score and its own difficulty, so a word you can read isn't assumed to be a word you can say. Wrong answers are picked to be genuinely hard. Distractors are scored on the initial and final pairs learners actually confuse (zh/z, ang/an) and on characters that share a radical, a component or a shape, including 740 hand-checked lookalike pairs. Four difficulty levels decide how many of the close ones you face. Cards start at two choices and climb one at a time to fourteen as you get them right; miss one and it steps back down and comes round again sooner. Start with the words that matter most. The Frequency deck orders the language by how common each word is: 250 units of 20 words, with unit 1 the 20 most frequent words in Mandarin. Practice the vocabulary that carries the most conversations first, and work your way down to the rarer stuff. Prefer a syllabus? The full HSK 3.0 word lists (levels 1 to 9) are built in as decks too, and you can import your own units. New: practice whole phrases. 2,430 conversational phrases across 18 topics, from ordering food to asking for help. One word is blanked and you fill the gap, in either direction. Once a phrase is familiar it comes back as shuffled tiles for you to put back in order. Watch the characters get written. Every Hanzi prompt is painted stroke by stroke, in proper stroke order, so the shape sinks in while you answer. Pick your brush speed, or switch the animation off. Tones are colored as you practice. Pinyin is tinted syllable by syllable, and every character takes the color of its own tone, so you start recognizing tones by sight instead of hunting for the little mark. There is a legend in Settings and a separate switch for each. On Hanzi and Pinyin rounds the tint fades once you have leveled a card past ten choices, so the colors can never hand you the answer. Hunt bounty cards for gold. Decks mark one card in every 25 as a bounty. Level it up to 14 choices and it deals a special 15 choice gold round, and getting that one right turns the card gold. All four practice directions are hunted separately, so every card has four golds to win, each with its own trophy ladder in the Trophy Room. Short term or long term, your choice. Short term keeps your active deck moving so nothing waits much more than two weeks. Long term follows a real forgetting curve across your whole card pool: every correct answer multiplies a card's rest by 2.5, out to a year. Both are tracked at the same time, so you can switch whenever you like without losing anything. Add a daily goal and a day streak, and separate profiles that keep separate progress. Everything runs offline. All 14,443 cards are built into the app, so there is nothing to download and no account to create. If you create custom cards with new characters, the strokes data will be auto downloaded, which does require a connection. This app pairs perfectly with whatever Mandarin course or app you're learning with. Reinforce what you're learning with flashcards in parallel! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Esikidz Parent App4 screens
Mandarin Flashcards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Esikidz Parent App at none against Mandarin Flashcards's 1. Esikidz Parent App also leads on ads (none vs shown). Mandarin Flashcards's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Mandarin Flashcards sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Esikidz Parent App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Esikidz Parent App ships an update every 6 weeks, Mandarin Flashcards every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Esikidz Parent App versus Mandarin Flashcards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEsikidz Parent AppMandarin Flashcards
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews25.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size46 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEsihome Technologies Inc.JAMES ROBERT THIESSEN

In-app purchases

None

Esikidz Parent App

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Mandarin Flashcards

Subscriptions1
  • Remove Ads$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Esikidz Parent App free?
Esikidz Parent App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mandarin Flashcards free?
Mandarin Flashcards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Esikidz Parent App or Mandarin Flashcards have ads?
Mandarin Flashcards shows ads; Esikidz Parent App does not.
Which is updated more often, Esikidz Parent App or Mandarin Flashcards?
Esikidz Parent App ships an update every 6 weeks, and Mandarin Flashcards every 2 days. Most recently, Esikidz Parent App was updated on October 7, 2026 and Mandarin Flashcards on October 25, 2026.

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