Comparison

ChineseSkill vs 一日一字

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Gamified bite-sized lessons
  • Native-speaker audio & video
  • Handwriting practice
  • Spaced Repetition System (SRS)
  • AI Tutor with speech assessment
  • HSK preparation tools
  • Travel phrasebook
Features
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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).

About

一日一字

This minimalist journal app focuses on learning a single character each day, inspired by annual character selections. It supports various East Asian typefaces and offers features for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean learners, including Pinyin fonts and calendar views for easy sharing.

Highlights
  • Daily character learning
  • Minimalist writing interface
  • Multiple East Asian typefaces
  • Pinyin fonts for pronunciation
  • Calendar view for records
  • Screenshot saving for sharing
  • Home screen widgets
Features
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"一日一字 - Journal" is your fresh new diary! - Inspired by the "Hanzi of the Year(年度汉字)", why not have a "Hanzi of the Day(今日汉字)" - Adhering to minimalism, writing too much is too strenuous, One is perfect! - Songti, Heiti, Yuanti, Kaiti...... Classic East Asia typefaces are now supported. - You can even choose different font regions to get different characters' shapes for Simplified/Traditional Chinese Hanzi, Japanese Kanji, and Korean Hanja. - Calendar view helps show your records all in one. One-click and save them as screenshots quickly with many grid options. So good for SNS sharing! - A Start-learner in Chinese? Pinyin Fonts will find you the pronunciation. - Creative tool for Chinese learning or Japanese learning. Make Hanzi/Kanji a lemonade! Many a little makes a mickle. - Support Adding Widgets to the Home Page

Screenshots

ChineseSkill4 screens
一日一字4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 一日一字 at none against ChineseSkill's 17. 一日一字 also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). ChineseSkill's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ChineseSkill sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. 一日一字 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

一日一字 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ChineseSkill has 15K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ChineseSkill ships an update every 5 days, 一日一字 daily. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ChineseSkill versus 一日一字: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChineseSkill一日一字
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (15K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings15K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size358 MB561 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYIYAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.书豪 何

Customer experience

ChineseSkill

All ratings15,394 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews1,450 reviews
Positive89.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative5.5%

一日一字

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

一日一字

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

17 purchases

ChineseSkill

Subscriptions14
  • 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
One-time3
  • Lifetime membership$159.99
  • Lifetime membership premium$299.99
  • Lifetime membership$399.00
None

一日一字

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChineseSkill free?
ChineseSkill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 一日一字 free?
一日一字 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ChineseSkill or 一日一字?
一日一字 is rated higher. ChineseSkill averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while 一日一字 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ChineseSkill or 一日一字 have ads?
Neither ChineseSkill nor 一日一字 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ChineseSkill or 一日一字?
ChineseSkill ships an update every 5 days, and 一日一字 daily. Most recently, ChineseSkill was updated on October 27, 2026 and 一日一字 on October 14, 2026.

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