Chinese Stories vs Gospel Learning
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chinese Stories
This app offers e-books designed for learning Mandarin Chinese at various proficiency levels. It provides interactive features like definitions, pinyin, and quizzes to enhance the learning experience.
- Interactive e-books for Mandarin learning
- Definitions, pinyin, and HSK/TOP levels for words
- Save unfamiliar words for later memorization
- Hyperlinks for proper nouns to learn culture and history
- Full English translation and pinyin for each story
- Comprehension quizzes with progress tracking
- Audio versions for listening practice
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If you are learning Mandarin Chinese, our monthly E-books will provide you with the best learning experiences. Now we have two different levels of E-book collection, which are Beginner, Elementary and Intermediate. As for Advanced level, it is coming soon in six months. You can purchase the E-book in accordance with your language proficiency. The language used is carefully selected to correspond to official levels. For texts in Simplified Chinese, the characters are chosen in accordance with New HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) and YCT (Youth Chinese Test) levels in Mainland China. Our Beginner level corresponds to New YCT level 2&3, Elementary level to New HSK level 3, and Intermediate level to New HSK level 4. As for Traditional Chinese version, the words used are also carefully chosen on the basis of the TOP (the Test of Proficiency-Huayu) standard in Taiwan. Our Elementary level corresponds to TOP elementary level, and Intermediate level to TOP intermediate level. As for Beginner level, each E-book has 5 stories, and each story contains 150~200 Chinese characters. Elementary E-book has 12 stories, and each story contains 250~300 Chinese characters. Intermediate E-book has 12 stories, and each story contains 450~500 Chinese characters. Our Chinese learning E-books have features as followed: 1. Click on a colored words, and we will show you its English definition, pinyin, part of speech, sentences, and its HSK/TOP level. 2. Click on “More,” and you get to know different meanings of the same word. 3. You can save words you don’t know or aren’t familiar with to memorize later. 4. Click on hyperlinks of proper nouns such as place names or celebrity names, and learn more about Chinese geography, culture, and history while reading Chinese stories. 5. Every story comes with full English translation and pinyin. 6. We track your progress. After reading each article, a five-question quiz will test how well your understanding of the story is and will keep a record of your first-time test result. 7. The audio version of each story enables you to listen to standard Chinese and to train your Chinese listening skill.
Gospel Learning
Access a vast library of trusted Latter-Day Saint gospel learning resources, including videos and lessons on thousands of topics. This tool helps users deepen their understanding, answer difficult questions, and prepare classroom materials. It offers personalized learning tracks and interactive features for both individuals and educators.
- Extensive topical index
- Thousands of videos on various topics
- Personalized learning tracks
- Classroom lesson sharing via code
- Lesson templates for Come Follow Me
- Social sharing and learning progress tracking
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Gospel Learning is a tool for Latter-Day Saints to find trusted resources to learn the gospel from the best teachers in the church. With an index many times larger than the Bible's Topical Guide, Gospel Learning matches the best content to the learning needs of the user. Thousands of videos are available on thousands of topics including many sensitive topics many LDS don't understand or have difficulty explaining to others. Parent now have a trusted application where they can direct their children, friends and other families to go to get answers to difficult gospel questions or to deepen their understanding of the gospel. Learning Tracks have also been developed to take the user through a series of videos based on interesting topics. The app will suggest videos and topics that the user will want to explore to enhance their understanding of the gospel. The classroom feature allows teachers in the gospel to load their lesson which can include text, video, pictures, scriptures, and quotes and then share that lesson via a 6 digit code where the classroom students can enter the code into the app and see the lesson. Lesson templates for Come Follow Me are also available to help teachers prepare their classroom materials. The Gospel Learning app also allows for social sharing, following others gospel learning, earning levels, achievements and badges for participating in the system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Gospel Learning at 50% against Chinese Stories's 0%. Gospel Learning also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.8) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Chinese Stories's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Gospel Learning holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gospel Learning has 63 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chinese Stories's written reviews are positive against 50% of Gospel Learning's.
Chinese Stories ships an update every 3 months, Gospel Learning fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chinese Stories | Gospel Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (12 ratings) | 4.4 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chinese Stories Publishing Co., Ltd. | Gospel Learning Org, Inc. |
Customer experience
Chinese Stories
Gospel Learning
In-app purchases
Chinese Stories
No in-app purchases
Gospel Learning
No in-app purchases







