Hanzi 1000 vs Crammed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hanzi 1000
Master Mandarin Chinese vocabulary with this educational tool. It offers a focused approach to learning essential characters and words.
- Mandarin Chinese vocabulary study
- Focus on essential characters
- Beginner-friendly
- Intermediate learning support
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Great app to study mandarin chinese vocabulary
Crammed
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Crammed turns lecture slides and PDFs into flashcards, then schedules every card for the day you're about to forget it. Real spaced repetition, the method medical students swear by. THE WHOLE APP IS ONE LOOP • Upload a lecture (PDF or PowerPoint). Cards start appearing in seconds. (Alternatively create your own) • It writes the card types that actually work: cloze deletions for dense facts, front/back for concepts — and skips the filler, so you get a lean deck, not a 500-card dump. • You approve or edit every card before it enters your schedule. • Study a few minutes a day. Your weakest cards always come first, and the schedule rebuilds itself around what you miss. IMAGE OCCLUSION, BUILT IN Draw boxes over any diagram — each box becomes a card that hides that region. The tool anatomy and pharm students bolt onto Anki with add-ons is native here: upload a figure-heavy lecture and Crammed offers the image cards itself. YOUR CARDS ARE YOURS • Studying with real scheduling is free forever — never paywalled. • Export any deck, any time. It opens in Anki, a spreadsheet, or anywhere else. • Bring your Quizlet sets: paste them right in, or import on the web. • Everything syncs to every device — upload on your laptop, study on the bus. WHAT WE DON'T DO • Your documents are never kept — parsed, turned into cards, deleted. • No games, no gimmicks, no feature maze. One workflow, perfected. Open the app and you're studying within a minute — no account, no tutorial, no decisions. Upload a lecture or tap the sample deck and
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Verdict
Hanzi 1000 and Crammed are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Hanzi 1000 | Crammed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joao Vianna | Alex Cortina |
In-app purchases
Hanzi 1000
No in-app purchases
Crammed
No in-app purchases









