Learn Mandarin Words vs Pinyin Learner

Learn Mandarin Words — your pixel pet helps you learn Chinese. Words flow across the screen like music. No quizzes, no stress. Just watch, absorb, and swipe left to feed any word you want to review. Your word-eater swallows it and remembers for you. Fed words loop on your home screen widget 24/7. A quick glance when you unlock your phone — another review done. Turn on Marathon mode to keep the cycle going and hatch eggs. Your pet is alive. It has health points. Feed it words to keep it healthy. Stop feeding, and it fades away. The Revival Lantern can bring it back — buy one ahead of time as insurance, and it activates automatically. 3,500+ words across 4 levels: Basic (500 essential words), Elementary (600 everyday words), Intermediate (800 advanced words), Expert (1600+ mastery words). Each word shows the Chinese character, pinyin with tone colors, and English meaning. Swipe left to feed → Widget repeats your words → Marathon hatches eggs → Your pet evolves → Collect 12 badges → Forge the ultimate Cosmos badge. Features: - Pixel word-eater pet that grows with you - Home screen widget with 24/7 word cycling - Pinyin with tone colors (red, orange, green, blue) - 12 collectible badges in random order - Egg hatching through Marathon days - Revival Lantern — buy anytime, activates on its own - iCloud sync — switch devices, keep your progress - No ads. No subscriptions. Free to download.

Pinyin Memory is a quiet place to keep the Chinese you meet --- words, lines, phrases --- and re-meet them later. Not a course. Not a translator. A personal memory center for one learner at a time. The pitch is simple: capture in 5 seconds, re-meet through play. No streaks shoving you back into the app. No grades. No leaderboards. Just your corpus, your pace, your mood. --- What you get --- CAPTURE • One-screen entry: type a hanzi, get auto-pinyin and per-character tone colors. • Tag it. Add a meaning in your language. Save. Done. • Decomposer: paste any Chinese text, tap segments to save. DICTIONARY • Your corpus, searchable across hanzi, pinyin, and meaning. • Filter by tag, kind, or how shaky you are on it. • Every entry has its own postcard with notes and TTS. RE-MEETING (the heart of it) • Recall - infinite 4-direction swipe self-test. Forget, not sure, almost, know. Cards keep coming. • Match - memory pair game from 4×4 to 10×10. • Cloze - fill in the missing character from four options. • Flashback - Tinder-style quick recognition for honest self-rating. PRACTICE • Tone Tap - hear a syllable, tap the tone. • Tone Twin - find the same-tone-pattern pair in a grid. • Daily Drop - one fresh word per day. Keep or skip. • Mosaic - drag hanzi cards to build a sentence from a translation. INSIGHTS • Streak, memory size, last-7-days bars, 5-week heatmap, by-tag breakdown. • All offline, all from your own review events. --- Local-only by design --- No account. No cloud. No analytics. No tracking pixel. No third-party SDKs hidden in the corners. Your dictionary lives in a SQLite file on your phone. Export it anytime as JSON. Delete the app, the data goes too. --- Paper & Ink design --- Warm paper, cast ink, hand-stamped serial. Italic Fraunces headings, Geist body, Caveat handwriting for your own meanings, Noto Serif SC for the hanzi. Tone colors that work with the palette --- not traffic-light red/yellow/green. Choose from 10 themes: Paper & Ink, Midnight Glow, Garden, Ember, Love Letter, Aqua Glow, Gold Century, Crimson Court, Linen, and Mocha. --- Pinyin Pro (optional) --- Free forever: Dictionary, Recall, Match, Cloze, Flashback, Decomposer, and the first two themes. Pinyin Pro unlocks: Tone Tap, Daily Drop, Tone Twin, Mosaic, and all 10 themes. Subscribe monthly, yearly or lifetime based on your needs