HanziPop vs HanziCue

HanziPop teaches you Chinese in the moments you're already looking at your phone — on your Lock Screen, in a Home Screen widget, and in a daily notification. No streak guilt, no 20-minute lesson required. — WHAT YOU SEE EVERY DAY — A single hanzi with pinyin and meaning, picked from your active queue. Tap to mark it known, hard, or skip to the next one. The next time you glance at your phone, a new word is waiting. — WHAT'S INSIDE — • 10,000+ words across HSK 1-7 • 1,000+ structured lessons • 12 themed packs (Food, Travel, Work, Family, and more) • Native-quality pronunciation (Apple TTS) • Example sentences with pinyin and English • Favorites, lesson history, and a progress ring — HOW IT LEARNS YOU — HanziPop uses FSRS, the modern open-source spaced-repetition algorithm that schedules each word based on how well YOU remember it. Words you find easy show up rarely. Words you stumble on come back sooner. — PRIVACY-FIRST — • No account, no sign-up • No tracking, no ads • Your progress syncs across your devices through your private iCloud — Apple holds the keys, not us. We never see your data. — FREE & PRO — Start free with daily new words from HSK 1-3 and 3 themed packs. HanziPop Pro unlocks the full HSK 1-7 library, all 12 themes, unlimited daily words, and advanced widget configurations. — BUILT FOR THE LOCK SCREEN ERA — Most Chinese apps want you inside the app. HanziPop is built around the truth that you'll learn more if Chinese is just there, every time you pick up your phone. Two seconds, a hundred times a day, adds up faster than one 20-minute session you keep skipping. Built by an indie team that uses HanziPop every single day. We answer email. Questions, ideas, complaints: vooxxoow@gmail.com Privacy: https://www.aivoxx.com/legal/privacy.html Terms: https://www.aivoxx.com/legal/terms.html

Learn Mandarin step by step, then keep useful words close with HanziCue’s Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets. A GRADUAL CHINESE COURSE Follow 300 chapters across 37 stages, with more than 2,700 vocabulary entries and translated examples. The most frequent everyday words come early. Practice listening, sentence building, recall, dictation and speaking. Explore 64 supported story journeys and twelve guided conversations. Review earlier material with a daily plan and scheduled practice. LEARN, USE AND RETURN Meet words in context, build sentences, follow connected conversations and record your own replies. The extended course includes unfamiliar checkpoint sentences and returns to earlier language. Choose a starting chapter or revisit an earlier lesson while keeping your main path. An in-app learning plan explains how to combine understanding, speaking and review. TRAIN YOUR TONES Say a word and watch your pitch drawn live over a Mandarin voice saying the same word, with a score from 0 to 100 and a short tip when a tone drifts. The Tone Gym trains your ear and your voice, keeps a long-term map of every tone and tone pair, and steers practice toward the ones you need most. Scores compare pitch with a synthetic voice. They are practice feedback, not a certified pronunciation assessment. JAPANESE AND SPANISH, UNIT 1 Try a first unit of Japanese or Spanish, built with the same method: useful words first, quick recall, and sentences made only from words you know. YOUR WORDS, YOUR DECKS Import your own Anki packages or CSV vocabulary. Keep Chinese and Japanese decks, pronunciation, media and review history together. Words introduced in the Mandarin course appear in a dedicated deck, ready for widget practice. WIDGETS THAT FIT YOUR DAY Choose Lock Screen rectangular, circular or inline widgets, plus Home Screen sizes. Configure language, decks and pronunciation or meaning visibility. Tap a word to open its deck and review it. iOS controls widget refresh timing; updates cannot be guaranteed on every unlock. LISTEN AND SPEAK Choose an installed Mandarin voice, with a female narrator preferred automatically. Hear on-device speech, use slower Mandarin playback when useful, record your own replies and compare. An optional on-device check tells you whether a recording was understood. FREE TO START The first eight Mandarin chapters, the Japanese and Spanish units, personal deck reviews, imports and Japanese study are free. HanziCue Pro includes the full Mandarin course and widgets. Choose the available monthly subscription or lifetime purchase. Existing Pro customers receive the expanded course as part of their access. No separate account is required. Learning records and recordings stay on your device. Course completion records practice, not a guarantee of fluency. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/