Comparison

Pinyin Learner vs ReviCard

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

Head to head
About

Pinyin Learner

Features
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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

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ReviCard

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ReviCard uses the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve to schedule each review for you, with a calendar and progress view that make today’s tasks and remaining work easy to follow. Card creation is flexible. Photograph a question you missed and it becomes the card front in seconds—a convenient way to build a mistake notebook. Vocabulary cards also support a listening-question mode. Forgotten cards restart; missed reviews roll into today, so your plan stays visible and manageable. FEATURES • Ebbinghaus spaced review: new cards are studied the day you create them, then scheduled at intervals such as 1, 3, 7, 15, and 30 days. Remembered cards move forward; forgotten cards restart • Calendar plan: pending, remembered, forgotten, and overdue items are shown by day • Progress tracking: streaks and review stats help you follow how learning is going • Photo cards: take a picture or pick from your library to capture a question or answer • Listening mode: vocabulary cards can be set as listening exercises FREE TO USE • Custom cards for words, sentences, and mistakes, plus one-tap English↔Chinese lookup from a built-in offline dictionary • Today’s Review (the only place answers are submitted) and a calendar plan • Daily review reminders • Browse exam word lists and study stats REVICARD PRO • Auto-add new words from exam lists: Zhongkao, Gaokao, Kaoyan, CET-4, CET-6, TOEFL, IELTS, and GRE • Multiple exam lists can run at once, each with its own daily new-word target • Forgotten words take up new-word slots, keeping the load manageable • iCloud sync for cards, plans, and images (iCloud account required) Exam lists are compiled from the built-in offline dictionary by study tags. They are for learning reference only and are not official exam syllabi. SUBSCRIPTIONS: REVICARD PRO ReviCard Pro is available as an auto-renewable Monthly or Yearly subscription. Prices are shown in the app at the time of purchase and may vary by region. • Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period • Subscriptions can be managed or canceled in App Store account settings after purchase Privacy Policy: https://russell-luo-187.github.io/revicard-privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula TOEFL, GRE, and IELTS are trademarks of their owners. ReviCard is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Exam lists are tag-filtered from built-in dictionary data for study reference only; they are not an official syllabus.

Screenshots

Pinyin Learner4 screens
ReviCard3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pinyin Learner at 15.1 against ReviCard's 18.0. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pinyin Learner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and ReviCard sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Pinyin Learner versus ReviCard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPinyin LearnerReviCard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB141 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRIOU Kevin宇 罗

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pinyin Learner

Subscriptions2
  • Pinyin Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Pinyin Pro Yearly$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pinyin Pro Lifetime$24.99
2 purchases

ReviCard

Subscriptions2
  • ReviCard Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • ReviCard Pro Yearly14 Days trial$6.991 Year

Questions

Is Pinyin Learner free?
Pinyin Learner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ReviCard free?
ReviCard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pinyin Learner or ReviCard have ads?
Neither Pinyin Learner nor ReviCard shows ads.

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