HSK Stroke Order vs LingoWonders
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
HSK Stroke Order
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Most stroke-order apps play you an animation and hope for the best. This one makes you write. Draw each stroke with your finger. It is accepted only if it starts in the right place, ends in the right place, stays close to the centre line, and comes at the right point in the sequence. Draw δΈ from right to left and it fails β direction is half of what stroke order means. Draw a stroke that belongs later in the character and the app tells you which one it was.
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 β 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 β FREE β’ Stroke-order animation, and a free stroke-by-stroke writing check on screen with a finger or Apple Pencil (Chinese, kana and hangul) β’ HSK 3.0 levels 1β3: about 2,200 words in free decks, Simplified and Traditional. Levels 4β6 are in Pro β’ Every word shows its reading (pinyin, kana, romanization, US IPA for English), its meaning and a speaker button β’ Flashcards, and dictation that reads each word aloud; words you miss come back for review β’ Choose the stroke-order standard for each list: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan or Japanese kanji β’ Search by word, reading or meaning β "shui" finds ζ°΄ FOR PARENTS β 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 ε¬ε lists, and thousands more words from preschool to A level. The Chinese library has about 7,200 words, including HSK 1β6. PRINT PRACTICE SHEETS β FREE, AS MANY AS YOU LIKE β’ η°εζ Ό tian-grid sheets with ζηΊ’ tracing, and pinyin over the characters β’ 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 β ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION β’ Every page of every sheet (free prints page 1) β’ Stroke-order sheets (η¬ι‘Ί) and stroke-order strips β’ Combined PDF: several sheet types in one file β’ More fonts: ζ εζ₯·δΉ¦ textbook kai, School print and Sloped print β’ Blue, red, green and purple trace ink, and trace fade β’ 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 β’ Read without limits: unlimited articles, longer texts and more recordings β’ HSK 4β6 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 β a real person reads every message.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HSK Stroke Order at none against LingoWonders's 1. LingoWonders's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. LingoWonders sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HSK Stroke Order asks for nothing beyond the download.
HSK Stroke Order ships an update every 6 weeks, LingoWonders every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HSK Stroke Order | LingoWonders |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bechample GmbH | lei cao |
In-app purchases
HSK Stroke Order
No in-app purchases
LingoWonders
- TraceSheet Pro$14.99
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