Comparison

Chinese Radical Realms vs Hanmo

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

Head to head
About

Chinese Radical Realms

Features
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Chinese Radical Realms is a story-driven Chinese learning game where players meet personified radicals and build a resistance against a calligraphy bureaucracy. Explore a complete six-region campaign with 32 radical characters, illustrated hideouts, voiced dialogue, boss encounters, and a final rescue. Learn through short interactive visits: trace each character, connect it to its meaning, recognize pinyin, and optionally practice pronunciation. The full campaign is free, with no subscription required. The app is designed for focused solo play. There are no accounts, ads, or social features. Pronunciation practice uses the microphone only when you choose it and is evaluated on your device. Every pronunciation prompt can be skipped. Privacy-friendly product analytics use TelemetryDeck. Terms of Use (EULA): https://chineseradicals.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://chineseradicals.com/privacy

About

Hanmo

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Hanmo (汉墨) puts Chinese vocabulary where you already look: your lock screen. Add the widget and a rotating word from today's plan — character, pinyin, meaning — appears every hour. Tap it and you land on that exact word, ready to review. ONE SIMPLE LOOP • A daily plan of new words and due reviews (you choose the pace: 5–20 a day) • Flip-card review: see the character, recall it, then reveal • Don't know a word? It comes back in the same session until you do • Know a word three times over the days? It earns its red seal — mastered MADE FOR CONSISTENCY • Words rotate hourly in a window you choose (e.g. 08:00–22:00) • A gentle daily reminder at the time you pick — optional • Streaks that survive a busy day HONEST BY DESIGN • 100% offline — works in airplane mode from first launch • No account, no analytics, no tracking, no paywall • Simplified and Traditional scripts, with pinyin (and zhuyin for Traditional) • On-device audio for every word and example sentence Dictionary data from CC-CEDICT, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Screenshots

Chinese Radical Realms4 screens
Hanmo4 screens

Verdict

The call

Chinese Radical Realms and Hanmo 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Chinese Radical Realms versus Hanmo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChinese Radical RealmsHanmo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInkvi LLCAbdulhamit CELIK

In-app purchases

None

Chinese Radical Realms

No in-app purchases

None

Hanmo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chinese Radical Realms free?
Chinese Radical Realms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hanmo free?
Hanmo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chinese Radical Realms or Hanmo have ads?
Neither Chinese Radical Realms nor Hanmo shows ads.

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