Comparison

Hảo vs LingoWonders

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

Head to head
About

Hảo

Features
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Hảo is a comprehensive Mandarin Chinese learning app — structured lessons, spaced repetition, and real exam prep in one place. Clear learning path • 5,600+ HSK 1–6 vocabulary words (HSK 3.0 standard), each with pinyin, tones, English meaning, and character breakdowns. • Real example sentences with pinyin and translations for all six levels. • Grammar lessons for HSK 1–6, and listening practice across all six levels. HSK exam prep • Scored mock exams for all six levels. • Detailed per-question answer explanations — why the answer is right, why the other options are wrong, and the grammar point to remember. • Mistake notebook, exam history, placement test. Practice all 4 skills • Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing — with on-device pronunciation practice and tone-curve visualization. • Beginner-friendly: start from absolute zero. Remember longer • Spaced repetition system (SRS) schedules reviews at exactly the right moment before you forget. • Favorites, daily streaks, and achievement badges for motivation. Hảo Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription) • Free tier: all of HSK 1, the first ~20% of lessons in each HSK 2–6 level, mock exams with 3 explanations per attempt. • Hảo Pro unlocks every HSK 2–6 lesson and every exam explanation. Built-in tools • Quick dictionary lookup, fully offline, no account required, privacy-respecting. Download Hảo and start your Mandarin journey today!

About

LingoWonders

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Learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean or English words, write them stroke by stroke, and print real practice sheets. LingoWonders is for learners, parents and teachers. Stroke order, voice and writing practice are free. There is no subscription, no ads and no account. READ — LESSONS FROM YOUR OWN MATERIAL Photograph a page, paste text, open a web page and LingoWonders makes a lesson. Listen sentence by sentence, tap a word to look it up, record yourself beside the app voice, save words. Stories in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean are included; they and a daily allowance of your own articles are free. FOR LEARNERS — FREE • Stroke-order animation, and a free stroke-by-stroke writing check on screen with a finger or Apple Pencil (Chinese, kana and hangul) • HSK 3.0 levels 1–3: about 2,200 words in free decks, Simplified and Traditional. Levels 4–6 are in Pro • Every word shows its reading (pinyin, kana, romanization, US IPA for English), its meaning and a speaker button • Flashcards, and dictation that reads each word aloud; words you miss come back for review • Choose the stroke-order standard for each list: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan or Japanese kanji • Search by word, reading or meaning — "shui" finds 水 FOR PARENTS — THE WEEKLY SPELLING LOOP 1. Photograph the school word list. Photo lists are free and unlimited, the photo stays with the list, and long sentences and stories stay whole. 2. Your child runs the dictation alone, with your own voice recordings or the app voice. English has US, UK, Australian and Singapore voices and "Spell it aloud". 3. Print a test sheet. Every page is free. 4. Paper Check (beta): photograph the finished test. LingoWonders shows what it read, and you mark each answer. It does not mark for you. 3 checks are free, then Pro. The This week tab keeps one card per list and shows the next step as one button. Share a list by link, QR code or file, free. LIBRARY Tao Nan School P1 spelling and 听写 lists, and thousands more words from preschool to A level. The Chinese library has about 7,200 words, including HSK 1–6. PRINT PRACTICE SHEETS — FREE, AS MANY AS YOU LIKE • 田字格 tian-grid sheets with 描红 tracing, and pinyin over the characters • Print with AirPrint, share a PDF or save an image. Free exports contain page 1 of each sheet and a small App Store QR code LINGOWONDERS PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Every page of every sheet (free prints page 1) • Stroke-order sheets (笔顺) and stroke-order strips • Combined PDF: several sheet types in one file • More fonts: 标准楷书 textbook kai, School print and Sloped print • Blue, red, green and purple trace ink, and trace fade • Paper Check beyond the 3 free ones, more profiles, and your choice to keep the small QR on your sheets or print clean pages. One Pro covers the whole family with Family Sharing • Read without limits: unlimited articles, longer texts and more recordings • HSK 4–6 decks Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. AI features such as Paper Check run on our servers and cost us per use, so they have a fair-use limit that may change over time. Everything else works offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no account, no subscription. Your words, lists and practice stay on your device, and LingoWonders works offline. The exceptions are Paper Check, reading words from a photo in the cloud, and example sentences: they send the photo or the words to our server and Google's Gemini model, and nothing is stored on our server. Read fetches a web page on your device only when you ask, and nothing from Read is uploaded to our servers. iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages. Questions or ideas? Write to lei@appfactory.sg — a real person reads every message.

Screenshots

Hảo4 screens
LingoWonders4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LingoWonders at none against Hảo's shown. Hảo's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, 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. Hảo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LingoWonders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hảo ships an update weekly, LingoWonders every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Hảo versus LingoWonders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHảoLingoWonders
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size173 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuu Hong Sonlei cao

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hảo

One-time1
  • Hảo Pro$6.99
1 purchases

LingoWonders

One-time1
  • TraceSheet Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Hảo free?
Hảo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LingoWonders free?
LingoWonders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hảo or LingoWonders have ads?
Hảo shows ads; LingoWonders does not.
Which is updated more often, Hảo or LingoWonders?
Hảo ships an update weekly, and LingoWonders every 3 days. Most recently, Hảo was updated on October 28, 2026 and LingoWonders on October 29, 2026.

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