Skies Learn vs iChineseReader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skies Learn
Create and deliver collaborative lessons with an interactive bulletin board. Easily add rich content, questions, and quizzes to foster discussion and group work. Ideal for teachers and students to build and contribute to lessons together.
- Collaborative lesson creation
- Interactive bulletin board
- Rich content cards
- Discussion questions
- Quiz integration
- Student presentations
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SKIES is the easiest way to create and deliver collaborative lessons. It's like a class bulletin board, but bigger, and everyone can branch off each others' ideas endlessly. Add informational cards containing rich text, photos, drawings, web links, and more. Slip in questions to kick off a discussion. Attach quiz questions to discover what everyone else knows. Teachers, it's never been easier to make a lesson -- and students, it's never been easier to add to one! Great for formative assessment, labs, discussions, group work, and student presentations.
iChineseReader
This platform offers a leveled reading experience for K-12 Chinese learners, featuring hundreds of titles created by teachers. It includes tools for teachers to manage classes and assign reading, along with eQuizzes for comprehension assessment and a game to encourage independent reading.
- 20 leveled reading levels
- Hundreds of teacher-created titles
- Class management system
- Differentiated reading assignments
- Post-reading eQuizzes
- Motivation game for self-reading
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iChineseReader is the first online Chinese leveled reading platform for K-12 Chinese learners. This completely upgraded and updated version can serve your reading needs even better! Features: • Levelled reading section spanning 20 levels; • Hundreds of titles by classroom teachers for classroom use; • A comprehensive class management system empowering teachers to deliver differentiated reading assignments; • Post-reading eQuizzes providing immediate feedbacks to assess comprehension; • A new motivation game to inspire progressive self-reading at the reader’s own pace. Please contact us to schedule a presentation for your school or a free trial today!
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Verdict
Skies Learn and iChineseReader both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 43% of Skies Learn's written reviews are positive against 26% of iChineseReader's. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iChineseReader holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 91 and 134 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 43% of Skies Learn's written reviews are positive against 26% of iChineseReader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Skies Learn ships an update every 3 weeks, iChineseReader every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skies Learn | iChineseReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (91 ratings) | 3.2 (134 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews — better | 26.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 91 | 134 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Su-Kam Intelligent Education Systems Inc | Nan Hai (USA) Co. Inc. |
Customer experience
Skies Learn
iChineseReader
Bugs and requests
Skies Learn
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
iChineseReader
Reported bugs
20 issues- App is very glitchy
- Quizzes never render correctly
- Mini game keeps maintaining
- App is laggy
- App crashes a lot
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- App is slow
- App is not responsive
- App keeps saying 'Please wait app is syncing'
- Recording control bar blocks sentences
- Recording box obstructs words
- App keeps kicking user out
- Points disappear
- App is slow and lags a lot
- App sometimes crashes
- App sometimes kicks me out
- App is not good practice
- App doesn't read to me
- App keeps popping out
- App doesn't work on all iPads
- App doesn't work on all iPhones
Requested features
9 requests- Fix glitch in quizzes
- Save login and password
- Improve quiz rendering
- Fix mini-game maintenance issue
- More questions in easy levels
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- Fix recording control bar obstruction
- Add more gift box options
- Improve app responsiveness
- Make app work on all devices
In-app purchases
Skies Learn
No in-app purchases
iChineseReader
No in-app purchases
Questions
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