ChineseSkill vs 一日一字
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).
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | ChineseSkill | 一日一字 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (15K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 358 MB | 561 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | YIYAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. | 书豪 何 |
Customer experience
ChineseSkill
一日一字
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
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
一日一字
No in-app purchases









