Wordbrush vs Sharedee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wordbrush
Master Mandarin vocabulary for HSK levels 1-3 with spaced repetition and natural audio. Learn characters by radicals and practice with multiple card formats. Focus on daily learning without distractions.
- HSK 1-3 vocabulary mastery
- Spaced repetition (FSRS)
- Natural HD audio for words and sentences
- Character breakdown by radicals
- Multiple card formats
- Offline data storage
- No ads or notifications
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Free, in full. Drill every HSK 1, 2, and 3 word into long-term memory, all 2,199 of them, in frequency order. Natural HD audio for every word and every example sentence, every character decoded by its radicals, scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. No accounts. No ads. No streak guilt. Ten minutes a day. Open it, do today's session, close it. Come back tomorrow. The science wins arguments. Wordbrush uses FSRS, the modern free spaced repetition scheduler that powers Anki. Cards reappear on the precise day your brain is about to forget them, not before, not after. Failed cards loop back in minutes; mastered cards stretch out for months. A Chinese flashcard without sound is half broken. Every word is paired with studio-quality audio rendered by Google's Chirp 3 HD voices. Tones, prosody, register, all there. Every word also gets a hand-curated example sentence in a second voice for context. Show, don't tell. Each character is broken down into its radicals, the meaningful sub-components, with pinyin, name, and a one-line note on what they signify. The water radical 氵, the heart radical 心, the woman radical 女. You stop memorizing characters one stroke at a time and start seeing how they're built. The HSK levels unlock in order. You start with HSK 1. Once you have introduced every HSK 1 word, HSK 2 unlocks. Then HSK 3. The Statistics screen shows your progress through each level. The scheduler keeps you focused on what's actually in front of you, not what comes next. What's inside: • 2,199 words, every HSK 1-3 word, in frequency order • 4,398 audio recordings (one per word, one per example sentence) • Five card formats: recognition, listening, and production for every word, plus sentence-building and character-tracing cards • Hand-curated example sentences for every word • Character breakdowns by radical, with etymology and position • Bottom-up unlock so you finish HSK 1 before HSK 2 starts • A simple home page: a calendar showing your activity, today's count, and a single "begin" button • iPhone and iPad • Full VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and high-contrast support What it costs: • Nothing. Wordbrush is free, in full. • Nothing is locked. No trial to run out, no locked words, no tiers, no add-ons, no ads. What's not inside: • No accounts. All your data lives on this device. • No advertisements. • No notifications nagging you back. • No streak shame. Skip a day, the app waits patiently. • No leaderboards. The only person you're competing with is yesterday's you. Open the app. Today's session is already cued up. Read or listen to the front of each card, mentally answer, then tap to reveal. Rate it strictly, Again if you missed it, Easy if it was instant. Wordbrush handles the rest. Built for: • Adult learners who already know other resources exist for grammar and conversation, and want a tool that does one thing well • Anyone who's bounced off gamified language apps and wants something that respects their time • People who appreciate restrained, calligraphic design over neon mascots Wordbrush is finished. Open it, do today's session, close it. Come back tomorrow. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://wordbrushchinese.com/privacy
Sharedee
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Learn Chinese in one continuous flow — from discovering a new word to remembering and using it. Sharedee brings your personal dictionary, visual AI, study assistant, flashcards and notes into one focused app. LEARN FROM THE WORLD AROUND YOU • Take a photo or choose a photo or video from your library • AI identifies objects and places Chinese characters and pinyin on the image • Tap a word to see its meaning, HSK level, radical and example sentence • Save one word or add everything to your personal dictionary YOUR OWN DICTIONARY • Search by characters, pinyin or meaning • Organize vocabulary into sets and topics • Look up Chinese characters by handwriting • Export your data to CSV whenever you need it LEARN AND REVIEW WITH A SYSTEM • Review vocabulary with flashcards and spaced repetition • Keep learning notes in the same app • Return to recently saved words and continue learning ASK TIỂU TRƯ • Ask about vocabulary, grammar, idioms and usage • Get explanations and study suggestions for your question • Revisit your chat history whenever you need it COMMUNITY LIBRARY • Discover shared vocabulary sets • Preview and import sets that match your learning goals • Keep the words already in your personal collection unchanged Sharedee supports English and Vietnamese, with light and dark themes. --- Need help? hello.sharedee@gmail.com Privacy policy: https://sharedee.com/en/privacy Terms of use: https://sharedee.com/en/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Wordbrush at every 3 days against Sharedee's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Wordbrush sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Sharedee sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wordbrush ships an update every 3 days, Sharedee every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wordbrush | Sharedee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Urban Algorithm LLC | Creative Creg |
In-app purchases
Wordbrush
- Wordbrush Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
- Wordbrush Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Sharedee
- Student Plan — Monthly$2.991 Month
- Student Plan — Yearly$29.991 Year









