Comparison

MistakeBook vs iHanFei

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

Head to head
About

MistakeBook

Log and review incorrect answers to improve learning. Organize mistakes by subject and topic, and utilize spaced repetition to reinforce weak areas. Track progress with visual charts and daily check-ins for effective test preparation.

Highlights
  • Log mistakes with photos and notes
  • Organize by subject and custom tags
  • Spaced repetition review mode
  • Ebbinghaus forgetting curve schedule
  • Progress charts and stats dashboard
  • Data import/export backup
Features
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Capture every wrong answer in seconds. Sort mistakes by subject, tag key topics, and build a personal error bank—no account required. Preparing for midterms, finals, or standardized tests? Spaced review quizzes follow the forgetting curve so weak spots come back at the right time. See progress charts and daily check-ins to stay on track. • Log mistakes with photos, notes, and difficulty tags • Organize by subject, chapter, and custom tags • Review mode: quiz, practice, and spaced repetition • Ebbinghaus schedule for smarter recall • Stats dashboard: mastery trends and weak areas • Import/export backup—data stays on your device Built for students who want a simple, private way to turn errors into higher scores.

About

iHanFei

Features
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Two thousand years on, Han Feizi still cuts clean. iHanFei is an offline Legalist workshop built around a single classical work, not a static text dump: close reading, recitation, practice, collections, and a daily habit. No account, no ads, no tracking. 55 chapters, 5,376 sentences aligned across original, vernacular, and study English, plus 225 famous lines, 85 fables, and 47 concepts of fa, shu, and shi. Browse by 20 parts, 7 genres, themes, figures, and representative chapters, each with a short guide. 1. The complete work, fully offline • All 55 chapters in traditional order, 5,376 sentences aligned three ways • 225 famous lines, 85 fables, and 47 concepts of law, technique, and positional power • Guides for part, genre, theme, figure, famous line, fable, concept, and representative chapter • Everything ships inside the app, even with a weak signal 2. Three-layer close reading • Original, vernacular, and English on one page, each gloss on its own switch • Side by side, Chinese only, or English only, apart from the interface language • Simplified and Traditional glyphs, optional pinyin, vertical text, and sectioned long chapters • Immersive reading, a two-column iPad layout, and shareable study cards • Vernacular and English are study translations for this app, for learning only 3. The recitation workbench • Line-by-line highlighting, with speed, pitch, volume, and voice under your control • A Playback Content matrix sets title, author, and body in original, vernacular, or English • Continuous play, background audio, Now Playing, and an optional Live Activity • Start from last read, the daily passage, or a list 4. Legalist Study and Hunt the Law • Fade recall, fill in the blank, sense check, and a multiple-choice quiz • Drill one section or a batch from favorites and lists; fade and quiz update mastery • Fable match pairs a story with its sense • Hunt the Law: given one character, find every line that holds it 5. The fable hall and the concept graph • Story first, then back to the source sentence, with marks for the idioms most often taught • The fa, shu, and shi graph ties terms into a net • Fables and concepts can be saved and placed on the Home Screen 6. A passage each day • One selected chapter from a rotating pool, with optional solar-term and festival context • A local reminder, a check-in streak, and shortcuts to fables, recitation, or Study • Open a random chapter, or return to the last place you stopped 7. Favorites, lists, notes, and search • Separate favorites for chapters, fables, and famous lines, plus your own lists • Notes, history, continue reading, and a mastered list • Fast full-text search, plus handwriting search when you cannot type pinyin • List, grid, and card layouts; optional iCloud sync across your own devices 8. Widgets, Siri, and system features • Six Home Screen widgets for the daily passage, lines, fables, concepts, favorites, and mastery • Lock Screen accessories, StandBy, nine Control Center buttons, and ten Siri shortcuts • Home Screen quick actions and deep links; Spotlight stays off until you turn it on • For iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision 9. On-device explanation • On supported iPhone models and system versions, an on-device model can explain a paragraph or draft a quiz • Text stays on the device; the feature is off by default 10. Make it yours • Light, dark, or follow the system, with accent colors and alternate app icons • Interface in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and English • Tabs you can hide, a seven-page tour, three guides, and study cards in many styles 11. Who it is for • Readers who want the whole work, not a quote list • Students, teachers, and readers of political thought, including English readers • Anyone building a daily habit, with no account, no ads, and no analytics • The original is public domain. Vernacular and study English were made for this app, for learning only

Screenshots

MistakeBook4 screens
iHanFei4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MistakeBook at none against iHanFei's 1. MistakeBook also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). iHanFei's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $1.99). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MistakeBook costs $1.99 and iHanFei $0.99 up front. iHanFei sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MistakeBook asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
MistakeBook versus iHanFei: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMistakeBookiHanFei
Price$1.99$0.99 — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperXiamen City Fanyou Network Technology Co., Ltd.天从 何

In-app purchases

None

MistakeBook

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

iHanFei

One-time1
  • Reward developers$0.99

Questions

Is MistakeBook free?
MistakeBook costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is iHanFei free?
iHanFei costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do MistakeBook or iHanFei have ads?
Neither MistakeBook nor iHanFei shows ads.

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