Hanzi Constellation 漢字星圖 vs CiaoSpeak

Know one character. Light up its whole family. Hanzi Constellation is a visual map of traditional Chinese. Most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic. 青 (qīng) quietly predicts the sound of 清、晴、請、情… Learn one phonetic and the readings of its whole family follow. The map draws those families as constellations: 3,000 characters, 12,000 words, and every link between them. THE FIRST STAR CHART IS FREE The 188 most useful characters — 59.4% of everyday text — plus every component and the phonetic family heads they point to. Free forever. No account, no time limit, no ads. ONE PURCHASE, THE WHOLE MAP A single purchase unlocks all 3,000 characters, all 16 star charts — 99.7% of everyday text — and all 12,000 words. No subscription, and you are never repriced: every update to the base map, including the Taiwan Mandarin AI voice coming in a free update, is included. TAIWAN-FIRST, HONESTLY SOURCED • Taiwan-standard readings, pinyin and 注音 side by side • Official TBCL bands on 2,654 characters • Every phonetic link states its confidence, computed from the data — we tell you when a link is weak • Frequencies measured on Taiwan film and television subtitles, the closest public match to everyday Mandarin YOUR OWN TEXT, YOUR OWN CHART • Paste or type any Chinese — a menu, a lesson, a page of a book — and get a study set of its characters and words, matched against the map. • Or photograph it: printed text is read on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and the photo is not kept. • Step through a set card by card, mark what you know, export it to Anki. WHAT IT IS — AND ISN'T • A map, not a drill. Mark what you know; export any chart to Anki in one tap. • Search by character, pinyin, 注音 or English — or draw a character you can't type with the handwriting keyboard. • No account needed. Progress lives on your device, and the whole map works offline. Sign in with an email and a code, if you like, and your sky follows you to the website and back. • The speaker button uses your device's Taiwan Mandarin system voice today; a studio AI voice arrives in a free update — always labeled as AI, never passed off as a native speaker. • An explorer, not a dictionary — every card links straight into Pleco. • No streaks, no daily goals, no guilt. The sky just fills. A family-friendly filter, on by default, hides the dictionary's crude entries. Traditional characters are the canonical form; simplified is on the roadmap. The app has no analytics and no tracking. An account is optional, holds only your email and your progress, and can be deleted inside the app. Purchases are processed by Apple. Privacy: https://hanzi-constellation.app/privacy Terms: https://hanzi-constellation.app/terms

CiaoSpeak is a language learning app for English speakers who want to speak, not just study. Learn Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, or Traditional Chinese the way Taiwan speaks it, with a real course behind every conversation: lessons, stories, speaking practice and review. In speaking practice, a character in a real scene asks you one question. You answer out loud and find out if a person would understand you. If not, you get one gentle fix, explained in plain English. No account needed: open the app and start. HOW SPEAKING PRACTICE WORKS • Answer by voice or by typing. It doesn't have to be perfect. With a fix, you also see a more natural way to say it. • Stuck? Type it in English, see it in the language you're learning, then say it yourself. My phrasebook keeps every sentence you managed to say. TRADITIONAL CHINESE • Everyday Chinese as it's spoken in Taiwan, with Traditional characters and Taiwan-accent audio on every word. • Chinese tones and pronunciation from the first unit, Pinyin or Zhuyin (bopomofo), and handwriting with stroke-order guides. • Units labeled with TOCFL levels, from Novice to Band B. Speaking practice in Taiwan scenes: a breakfast shop, a night market, a taxi. LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH • Everyday Spanish as it's spoken in Mexico and across Latin America, from CEFR A1 to early B1. • Built around English speakers' mistakes: ser vs estar, noun gender, "tengo 20 años", gustar, and false friends like embarazada (pregnant, not embarrassed). • Speaking practice in scenes set in Mexico City and around Latin America. BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE • Everyday Brazilian Portuguese in the neutral São Paulo and Rio standard, from CEFR A1 to early B1. • The sounds English speakers find hard: nasal vowels (pão, bom), lh and nh, the Brazilian r. • Speaking practice in scenes set in Brazil. FOUR PARTS IN EVERY COURSE Lessons, leveled stories with audio, speaking practice, and spaced-repetition review of your mistakes, plus streaks, XP and an optional daily reminder. CIAOSPEAK+ CiaoSpeak is free to start. Every lesson and all review stay free forever, and today's speaking practice questions are free too (up to five a day). CiaoSpeak+ is an optional auto-renewing subscription that adds speaking practice in any scene whenever you like (fair-use limits apply), your whole phrasebook, the full Stories library and unlimited Quick Practice rounds. One subscription covers every course. • Monthly: US$5.99 per month • Yearly: US$39.99 per year, with a 3-day free trial for new subscribers Prices shown are for the United States. The App Store shows the price in your local currency before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase, or when the free trial ends. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel a free trial at least 24 hours before it ends and you won't be charged. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account settings (open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ciaospeak.app/privacy/ FREQUENTLY ASKED Which languages can I learn? Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, all taught in English. Do I have to speak out loud? No. You can answer every question by typing. Is CiaoSpeak affiliated with TOCFL? No. The Chinese units are labeled with TOCFL levels, but CiaoSpeak is independent and not endorsed by the SC-TOP. There are no past papers or mock exams. CiaoSpeak also teaches English, with explanations in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese or Traditional Chinese.