Comparison

Hanzi Worksheets vs LingoWonders

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

Head to head
About

Hanzi Worksheets

Features
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Stroke-Order Copybooks — Type Chinese characters and get A4-ready practice sheets in seconds. Is your child’s handwriting messy? Unsure of stroke order? Keeps misspelling certain words? Type the characters you want to practice, or search preset worksheets, and instantly generate standard copybooks for guided practice. Unlike preprinted books, this app offers highly customizable sheets: progressive strokes with new strokes highlighted in red, or turn off stroke order for demo, tracing, and freehand practice. Pinyin supported; landscape or portrait layout; preview matches print. Core Features • Progressive stroke order: one more stroke per cell, new strokes in red—order at a glance • With / without strokes: hide stroke-order cells; keep demo, tracing, and blank practice • Pinyin and stroke demos: show Pinyin and stroke examples above each character • Square / rice-grid sheets: adjustable tracing and blank cells; stroke-free mode can auto-fit row width • Font choices (stroke-free mode): default stroke outline / LXGW WenKai / LXGW ZhenKai • Paper and size: A4 landscape or portrait; adjustable rice-grid size • Multi-character, multi-page: enter many characters at once, one row per character; auto page breaks with flip preview • Preset vocabulary: grades 1–3, holidays, and daily themes—fill and generate in one tap • Export and print: system print, save PDF, share files; vector PDF optimized for A4 • Built-in character library: stroke data for thousands of common characters • Recent sheets: auto-saved; reopen and print anytime Who It’s For • Elementary students and parents learning stroke order • Teachers who need quick handwriting assignments • Overseas Chinese learners and self-study users Privacy & Use • No account required • Data processed primarily on your device • No ads, no social notifications Free & Unlock • Free trial: each successful sheet counts as 1 use; first 20 free • Share rewards: share from Settings; each successful share adds 5 uses (up to 10 share rewards) • One-time purchase: unlimited generation; restore purchases supported Note Stroke vector data from the open-source project Make Me a Hanzi. Some extremely rare characters may be missing—you’ll be notified when typing. Download now and spend less time hunting for worksheets—more time practicing with your child.

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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

Hanzi Worksheets3 screens
LingoWonders4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hanzi Worksheets at none against LingoWonders's 1. LingoWonders's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. LingoWonders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hanzi Worksheets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hanzi Worksheets ships an update every 9 days, LingoWonders every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Hanzi Worksheets versus LingoWonders: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHanzi WorksheetsLingoWonders
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB109 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer鹏 徐lei cao

In-app purchases

None

Hanzi Worksheets

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

LingoWonders

One-time1
  • TraceSheet Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Hanzi Worksheets free?
Hanzi Worksheets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LingoWonders free?
LingoWonders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hanzi Worksheets or LingoWonders have ads?
Neither Hanzi Worksheets nor LingoWonders shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hanzi Worksheets or LingoWonders?
Hanzi Worksheets ships an update every 9 days, and LingoWonders every 3 days. Most recently, Hanzi Worksheets was updated on October 25, 2026 and LingoWonders on October 24, 2026.

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