ChineseSkill vs Chinese Language Learning+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ChineseSkill
Master Mandarin Chinese with interactive lessons, smart reviews, and AI-powered speaking practice. Learn Pinyin, Hanzi, vocabulary, and grammar for work, travel, or HSK exams. Improve listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.
- Gamified bite-sized lessons
- Native-speaker audio & video
- Handwriting practice
- Spaced Repetition System (SRS)
- AI Tutor with speech assessment
- HSK preparation tools
- Travel phrasebook
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ChineseSkill is the best Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese learning app for beginners! Featured by the App Store in "New Apps We Love" and "The Best Language-Learning Apps"! Built by professional Chinese teachers with 20+ years of experience teaching Chinese as a foreign language, ChineseSkill makes learning Chinese fun, effective, and genuinely rewarding. Trusted by millions of learners since 2014, our game-based lessons take you from your very first character to real-life conversations — with structured courses, interactive practice, and real cultural context. With ChineseSkill, you can start from Pinyin, tones, and basic Chinese characters, then build listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills step by step. Whether your goal is to travel, study, pass HSK tests, talk with Chinese-speaking friends, or understand Chinese culture, ChineseSkill helps you make steady progress every day. What makes ChineseSkill different: Unlike other Chinese learning apps, ChineseSkill offers three complete, expertly-designed courses so you can learn exactly the Chinese you need: ■ Simplified Chinese – Mandarin from Mainland China (standard Putonghua) ■ Traditional Chinese – Mandarin from Taiwan ■ Cantonese – as spoken in Hong Kong Features: ■ Game-based Chinese learning: lessons so fun you'll never get bored. ■ Bite-sized curriculum to fortify your Chinese listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. ■ Speech recognition corrects your pronunciation and tones, making speaking Chinese a breeze. ■ Handwriting practice specially designed to learn Chinese characters at a faster rate. ■ Immersive lessons help you have real-life, practical conversations quickly. ■ Self-adaptive learning games that personalize your study path. ■ Graded stories and listening practice tailored to your level. ■ The well-designed Pinyin and Tone courses for newbies. ■ Authentic videos featuring native Chinese speakers. ■ Systematic courses based on HSK levels. ■ Study progress tracking across multiple devices. ■ Offline accessibility: once a course is downloaded, no internet connection is required. With these tools at your disposal, nothing can stop you from mastering Chinese. Start your path to fluency today! ChineseSkill Premium offers: ■ One-month subscription for $11.99 ■ Three-month subscription for $24.99 ■ Twelve-month subscription for $59.99 The above prices are for U.S. customers. Pricing in other countries may vary, and charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country of residence. Once purchased, subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off in your iTunes Account settings at least 24 hours before the end of the payment period. Terms of Service: https://www.chineseskill.com/terms-conditions-html Privacy Policy: https://www.chineseskill.com/privacypolicy-html Contact Us: nihao@chineseskill.com Supported languages: English, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, French, German, Turkish, Russian, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Hindi, Arabic, Thai. *Videos, additional vocabulary, and Booster content are currently only available for Mandarin (Mainland).
Chinese Language Learning+
Master Mandarin Chinese with interactive mini-lessons covering Pinyin, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Designed by CSL teachers, it prepares you for HSK exams with speech assessment and handwriting practice.
- 500+ mini-lessons
- HSK curriculum alignment
- Automatic speech assessment
- Chinese character handwriting
- Gamified learning style
- Offline learning support
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App is the must-have app for all Mandarin Chinese beginners. This app includes 500+ fun and engaging mini-lessons that will teach you everything from Pinyin to Chinese vocabulary and train your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. App's core curriculum is designed by professional CSL (Chinese as a Second Language) teachers in accordance with the unique characteristics of Mandarin Chinese. The curriculum covers vocabulary required to pass HSK. Automatic Chinese speech assessment, Chinese character handwriting and pinyin tone animation technologies are used in app to make language learning more convenient, exciting and effective. With app, complete beginners have a chance to learn Mandarin Chinese systematically and quickly reach a conversational level. Features: - Professionally designed curriculum: optimized for total beginners and customized for the Chinese language structure - Automatic speech assessment: start speaking Chinese immediately - Learn by playing: lessons and challenges are presented in a gamified style - Multiple practice modes: original exercise types will help you memorize new information and reinforce learning faster than with textbooks - Bite-sized lessons: perfect for morning commutes and lunch breaks - Offline learning: no internet connection required - Both simplified and traditional characters are supported - Display Chinese as pinyin, characters or both What are you going to learn? - 300+ sentence patterns - 1000+ keywords and phrases - 1500+ essential Chinese characters App supports learning Chinese from languages: ENGLISH, VIETNAMESE Download now and start your Chinese studying anywhere at your own pace! Please read Term of Use: https://thanhbkap.github.io/Chinese-Games/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: ChineseSkill at none against Chinese Language Learning+'s shown. ChineseSkill also leads on ratings volume (15K vs 6) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Chinese Language Learning+'s advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Both are free to download. ChineseSkill sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month and Chinese Language Learning+ sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ChineseSkill holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChineseSkill has 15K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of ChineseSkill's written reviews are positive against 100% of Chinese Language Learning+'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ChineseSkill ships an update every 5 days, Chinese Language Learning+ monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ChineseSkill | Chinese Language Learning+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15K ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 388 MB | 200 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YIYAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | DEVWORLD VIETAM COMPANY LIMITED |
Customer experience
ChineseSkill
Chinese Language Learning+
Bugs and requests
ChineseSkill
Reported bugs
3 issues- Issues with syncing progress across devices
- Screen elements getting cut off on iPhone X
- Inconsistencies in lesson content and translations
Requested features
4 requests- Add more male voice options
- Improve lesson navigation and progress tracking
- Introduce gamification elements for motivation
- Provide more flexibility in disabling English translations
Chinese Language Learning+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ChineseSkill
- Premium (Monthly)$11.991 Month
- Monthly subscription$12.991 Month
- Monthly premium subscription$12.991 Month
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- Quarterly subscription$13.993 Months
- Full Access (1 month)$14.991 Month
- Premium+ (Monthly)$19.991 Month
- Premium (Quarterly)7 Days trial$25.993 Months
- Quarterly premium subscription$29.993 Months
- Premium+ (Quarterly)7 Days trial$39.993 Months
- Premium (Annual)7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Annual Chinese Learning Plan$79.991 Year
- Full Access (1 Year)$79.991 Year
- Full Access (1 Year)7 Days trial$79.991 Year
- Premium+ (Annual)7 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Lifetime membership$159.99
- Lifetime membership premium$299.99
- Lifetime membership$399.00
Chinese Language Learning+
- Learning Premium Monthly Plan$1.991 Month
- Three Months VIP$1.993 Months
- One Month VIP3 Days trial$4.991 Month
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- Learning Premium HalfYear Plan$5.996 Months
- Learning Premium Annual Plan$9.991 Year
- Six Months VIP3 Days trial$24.996 Months
- 1 Year VIP3 Days trial$49.991 Year
- No ads Pack$14.99
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