Comparison

iPass vs TianTian

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

Head to head
About

iPass

This app offers AI-powered consulting for US college admissions, including university matching, application analysis, and essay feedback. It also provides tools for managing extracurricular activities, tracking application progress, and accessing global study abroad statistics.

Highlights
  • AI university matching
  • Application balance diagnosis
  • My Story Archive for admissions
  • AI essay analysis
  • Extracurricular activity management
  • Application tracker
  • Visa and schedule management
Features
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iPass โ€” AI-Powered College Admissions Companion Applying to college is overwhelming. iPass makes it simple. Powered by AI and real admissions data, iPass helps you find your best-fit schools, strengthen your profile, and stay on track from freshman year to decision day. WHAT YOU CAN DO โ€ข AI Admissions Diagnosis Enter your GPA, SAT/ACT, and AP scores to get an instant, data-driven match rate for hundreds of U.S. universities and boarding schools. โ€ข Smart School Matching Explore a curated database of top colleges and boarding schools โ€” acceptance rates, tuition, majors, alumni outcomes, and more. See how popular each school is with real-time view counts. โ€ข Extracurricular (EC) Tracker & Guide Build a standout activities list. Track your ECs, get guidance on what admissions officers value, and see how your profile stacks up. โ€ข SAT & AP Prep Practice and sharpen the skills that matter most for your target schools. โ€ข Real Admit Cases Learn from actual admissions results โ€” see the profiles of students who got in. โ€ข Application Calendar Never miss a deadline. Keep every ED/EA/RD date organized in one place. โ€ข Community Connect with fellow applicants, share tips, and get support through every step of the journey. WHY iPass iPass uses statistical models built on College Scorecard, Common Data Set, and other trusted sources to give you realistic, personalized insights โ€” not guesses. Note: Match rates are statistical estimates based on the information you provide and do not guarantee admission. Actual decisions depend on essays, recommendations, activities, interviews, and other factors. Start building your path to your dream school today. ------------------------------------------------------ iPass๋Š” AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์œ ํ•™ ์ž…์‹œ ์ปจ์„คํŒ… ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ƒํ™œ ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Pre College 1. AI ์ž๊ฐ€์ง„๋‹จ โ€” 6๋ฌธํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ 41๊ฐœ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ๋งค์นญ 2. ์ž…์‹œ ๊ท ํ˜• ์ง„๋‹จ โ€” GPAยทSATยทAPยทEC๋ฅผ ์ƒํ‚ค ๋‹ค์ด์–ด๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„ 3.My Story Archive โ€” 2~3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ž…์‹œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ก 4.AI ์—์„ธ์ด ์ง„๋‹จ - ์‹ค์ œ 1๋งŒ์—ฌ๊ฑด์˜ ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ,๋ถˆํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ ํ›„๊ธฐ DB ๋ถ„์„ 5.EC ํ™œ๋™ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ€” Common App ํ˜•์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ณผ์™ธํ™œ๋™ ๊ธฐ๋ก 6.์ž…์‹œ ํŠธ๋ž˜์ปค โ€” ์ง€์› ํ•™๊ต ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ 7.SATยทAP AI ์‹ค์ „ โ€” AI ์˜ค๋‹ต ๋ถ„์„ + 30์ดˆ ํ’€์ด ์ „๋žต 8. ๋ธ”๋ก์ฒด์ธ NFT โ€” ์—์„ธ์ดยทEC ์ €์ž‘๊ถŒ ๋ณดํ˜ธ (์•ฑ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์›น์—์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑ) 9.๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์œ ํ•™ํ†ต๊ณ„ โ€” IIE/CDS ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๊ด€๋ จ 10.์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ โ€” ํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ,๋ถˆํ•ฉ๊ฒฉ ํ›„๊ธฐยทํŒ ๊ณต์œ  11.๋ณด๋”ฉ์Šค์ฟจ 78๊ฐœ + ํ•ด์™ธ๋Œ€ํ•™ 207๊ฐœ ํƒ์ƒ‰ CDS 2024-25 ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ | AI ๋งค์นญ ์ •ํ™•๋„ 80% In College ๋ฉ”๋‰ด [์‹ ๊ทœ] ๋น„์ž ์Šค์ผ€์ฅด - ๋น„์ž ๋งŒ๋ฃŒ์ผ , I-20,I-94, ์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์ผ์ •์„ ํ•œ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถœ๊ตญ ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์ž๋™ ์•ˆ๋‚ด [์‹ ๊ทœ] ํ•™๊ต์ƒํ™œ - Microsoft 365, GitHub,Notion,Figma,Adobe,Spotify ํ•™์ƒ ํ˜œํƒ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— [์‹ ๊ทœ] ์‹œ๊ฐ„ํ‘œ - ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐ์œผ๋ฉด AI๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์—… ์ž๋™ ์ถ”์ถœ [์‹ ๊ทœ] ์ž์œ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ - ์œ ํ•™์ƒ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ (๊ธ€์“ฐ๊ธฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ) [์ˆ˜์ •] ์ธ์นผ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋ฉ”๋‰ด์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์—…์‹œ๊ฐ„ํ‘œ AI Scan ์‹คํ–‰์‹œ ํฌ๋ ˆ์‹œ ๋ฐœ์ƒ ๋ฌธ์˜: jw.park@dwavetech.co.kr ์ด์šฉ์•ฝ๊ด€ (Terms of Use): https://ipasscurator.com/terms ๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฐฉ์นจ (Privacy Policy): https://ipasscurator.com/privacy

About

TianTian

This app helps you learn Chinese vocabulary by intelligently scheduling reviews based on your memory. It covers thousands of words from HSK levels 1-9, focusing on efficient memorization through spaced repetition.

Highlights
  • Spaced repetition algorithm (FSRS)
  • HSK 1-9 vocabulary coverage
  • Intelligent review scheduling
  • Visual progress tracking (color-coded words)
  • Offline audio playback
  • Customizable daily review limits
Features
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Ever shelved a vocabulary book with the first thirty pages black with notes and the rest still spotless? The problem isn't willpower. It's order. Nobody can tell by feel what to review and when. TianTian is a Chinese vocabulary app that works it out for you: 11,092 words from HSK 1 to 7-9. All you have to do is today's cards. โ€œWhat should I study today?โ€ The app picks for you. It starts with the 500 words of HSK 1, then runs through HSK 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to HSK 7-9, in Days of 50 flashcards. โ€œI saw it once. Why didn't it stick?โ€ That's how memory works. In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus drew the forgetting curve: two thirds or more of something new is gone within a day. But recall it right before you forget, and the curve flattens. Seeing a word once a day for ten days beats seeing it ten times in one day. This is the spacing effect, confirmed by a 2006 meta-analysis of 317 experiments from 184 papers. โ€œSo when does it ask me again?โ€ The moment your chance of remembering drops to 90%. TianTian draws a forgetting curve for every card and asks again just as the memory starts to blur. Each right answer pushes the next review out: a new word comes back in 10 minutes, a familiar one in a few days, and one you truly know in a few months. Miss it and the gap shrinks. So your time goes to the words you don't know yet, not the ones you do, and the same 30 minutes leaves you with more. TianTian runs on FSRS, the spaced repetition algorithm built into Anki, refined on 700 million reviews from 10,000 real learners. โ€œHow much do I know right now?โ€ Every word has a temperature: where it sits on its forgetting curve, turned into a color. A word you just learned is a warm green, one you haven't seen in a while cools to orange, and one you've missed three or more times sinks to red. Scroll a word list and the gaps show at a glance. โ€œHow far have I come?โ€ Track your streak and accuracy, look back on a heatmap, and see when you'll finish at your current pace. โ€œWhy no example sentences?โ€ Because they don't help you memorize words. For every feature, we asked: โ€œCould you still memorize words without it?โ€ Example sentences, rankings, friend lists, and logins didn't make the cut. The card holds the simplified characters, pinyin, meaning, part of speech, and the traditional characters when they differ. That's all. โ€œWhy no rankings?โ€ Because someone else's pace shouldn't become your yardstick. New words per day, the review limit, target retention, when your day starts: you decide all of it. There are no notifications either. Nagging alerts only make you feel chased, and an app you open that way doesn't last. There are no accounts. Your history stays on your device, and you can export it to move to a new one. And more ยท Audio plays automatically when you flip a card ยท Choose from four voices, two female and two male, and download them to listen offline ยท In pinyin, only the tone-marked letters are colored, so tones stand out ยท Search by word, pinyin, or meaning, with or without tone marks ยท Save the words you like and add your own notes ยท Words you're forgetting and words you often miss gather in their own lists ยท Words with the same characters but different pinyin (like ๅœฐ: de and dรฌ) link to each other in word details ยท In each Day, blur pinyin or meanings, shuffle, or see the words you remember least first ยท Menus and word meanings also come in Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Spanish, and French ยท Browse the same vocabulary as cards at tian-tian.app/en, with history kept separate from the app ยท Light and dark themes, with background effects and blur you can turn off It's made for complete beginners tackling their first 500 words, test takers organizing HSK words by level, and working adults learning Chinese on their own, without classes. Smart is the app's job. Steady is yours. Just finish today's cards.

Screenshots

iPass4 screens
TianTian4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TianTian at none against iPass's 2. iPass's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. iPass sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. TianTian asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iPass ships an update every 5 days, TianTian every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences ยท 3 level
iPass versus TianTian: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriPassTianTian
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 5 days โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
MonetizationFreemiumFree โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size46 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDwavetech Co., Ltd.JJangJJangE

Customer experience

iPass

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TianTian

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

iPass

Subscriptions2
  • iPass_Premium_monthly$11.991 Month
  • iPass Premium Annual$119.991 Year
None

TianTian

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iPass free?
iPass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TianTian free?
TianTian is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iPass or TianTian have ads?
Neither iPass nor TianTian shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iPass or TianTian?
iPass ships an update every 5 days, and TianTian every 2 weeks. Most recently, iPass was updated on October 8, 2026 and TianTian on October 10, 2026.

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