HanziGlow vs LingoWonders

HanziGlow helps children, beginners, parents, and lifelong learners practice Chinese characters with animated stroke guidance and responsive handwriting tools. Explore a 10,171-character library, with 200 common characters available for free. A monthly or yearly subscription opens the full library and advanced practice. Eligible new subscribers can try either plan free for one week. Features: • Animated stroke order, guided tracing, copying, and free writing • Finger and Apple Pencil handwriting with adjustable brushes • 44 preset filters, including course levels, common-use tiers, and stroke counts • Search by character, pinyin, tone, or meaning; group and collapse results • Pinyin, meanings, words, and source notes, with separate readings and audio where available • Practice classic poetry, prose, and your own passages • Replay and compare saved writing, with efficient local history and interruption recovery • Preview, print, or export writing-history PDFs and complete local backups • Multiple paper styles, low-glare themes, and accessibility settings • Offline-first use with no account, ads, or remote analytics Your writing and personal passages stay on your device. If a subscription ends, saved handwriting remains available to view; paid tracing guidance and new paid practice require renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel in Apple Account subscription settings. Restore purchases at any time from the app. Terms of Use (standard Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Full entries open in the iOS system dictionary. Availability depends on the dictionaries installed on your device. Manage them in Settings > General > Dictionary.

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.