ChineseSkill - Learn Chinese

• Annual Chinese Learning Plan — $79.99/year ($6.66/mo)
• Premium (Monthly) — $11.99/month
• Premium (Monthly) — $59.99/year ($4.99/mo)
• Premium (Monthly) — $99.99/year ($8.33/mo)
• Monthly premium subscription — $12.99/month
• Full Access (1 month) — $14.99/month
• Full Access (1 month) — $79.99/year ($6.66/mo)
• Lifetime membership — $159.99
• Lifetime membership — $399.00

Last verified 2 Sep 2026

4.8 15306 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Love the app - want to give it 7 stars!

   I am a teacher and very thoughtful about the ways the human brain absorbs information. I teach in a predominantly Chinese area, so I am motivated to learn Chinese. My students think it is exciting and funny when I try to speak Chinese - they laugh, then help me with my accent and tones. I bought Rosetta Stone (very expensive) and I do use it, but this app is 1) much easier to get into, 2) more memorable with art than with photos, 3) more multimodal (switching from recognize, recall, listen, write, fill-in, English to Chinese, Chinese to English, etc.), 4) more grammatically oriented (ie this/that), 4) more organized topically, 5) less confusing (when using RS I have to stop and look things up on google translate or else stay confused) 6) more reading/writing (on this app I am starting to read the Chinese before the English), more time friendly (5-10 minute sections), and 8) more [sic] FREE!!! So great that I took the time to write a review! (I rarely do this) [[[ If you are a developer reading this review, please turn the large written Chinese characters into Flashcards for optional ongoing vocabulary development (I currently screenshot them, but think it would be a great addition to the app - and thank you!! ]]]

   Stuffins229er · 2 Sep 2026

2. 4/5Please fix this!

   Hi! I love this app, but however, the new lesson format is very annoying!! There is no way to turn off English translations in the new lessons! I already KNOW what the characters mean, and if I am supposed to be learning to read Chinese and not English, I need to be able to only see Chinese characters if I want. Giving English translations every darn time WILL NEVER HELP a person learn to read Chinese. We need to be able to test our reading skills by NOT seeing English(or other language that a person’s native language is.) over or under the characters. Why did you guys ADD English to everything?? The old lessons were not like that. Please fix the new lessons to be English free! It is not immersion when my native language is always in my face when I don’t want it to be. A person should be allowed to choose whether they want translations or not. If we can choose to have pinyin, both pinyin and characters or just characters, then we should be able to turn on and off the English translations as well. The ONLY place any English translations should be permanent in, are in the green/red boxes, where corrections are given after we give an answer. Otherwise, English(or other people’s native language) should be an option in the non-green/red box areas and not permanent. I tried to find a way to turn them off, but there is no way. PLEASE FIX IMMEDIATELY! Thank you! I will change to 5 stars once this is fixed.

   lavenderlily3 · 2 Sep 2026

3. 4/5Better than duolingo

   I’ve tried this and duolingo for a few days, and although duolingo seems to be more well known (could be just marketing), I like ChineseSkill app more. (My background is that I am Cantonese Chinese, and I know how to speak and understand some really basic Mandarin but am not a native Mandarin speaker.) Duolingo was way too repetitive, i was on the first lesson “greetings” and it repeated the same two words (“hello”) throughout 2-3 long lessons which was such a waste of time. ChineseSkill is not as mind-numbingly repetitive and even when it does try to teach you the same word/sentence a few times it will do it in a few different ways. Also, I really appreciate that ChineseSkill teaches not only the sounds of the words but also shows you the pinyin and how to write the words in Chinese characters, which duolingo does not do. They are both fun apps, and I can see how they’d be a fun and easy way to teach people completely new to the language. But since I already know how to speak and understand some basic mandarin, and I am looking to increase my vocabulary more quickly in order to be able to carry conversations and would also like to learn how to read and write chinese, I think I need to take a more advanced maybe university level course, like on Coursera or something.

   Angel226 · 2 Sep 2026

4. 5/5One Small Issue!

   Overall I love this app! I’ve been using it for a month and a half, and I’ve found that it’s an incredibly useful tool to assist with learning! Everything they teach is done in a very comprehensive way and of the mini games are very helpful! It’s also easy to access and practice vocabulary you’ve previously learnt! However, I have noticed a small issue when you try to draw certain characters. This has occurred with the character ‘red’(红) as well as with about 3 others characters that I’ve come across. The issue makes it impossible to draw the last stroke of a character, and it only occurs when you attempt to free draw the character along the provided guided lines. From what I can discern, it seems the app believes certain characters have one fewer stroke than they actually have, which causes this glitch. I hope you’ll consider fixing this problem! It doesn’t impact the overall experience of the app too much, but it’s somewhat of an inconvenience!

   RafeHavok · 2 Sep 2026

5. 3/5Only Half Suited for Traditional Character Learners

   I want to give this app 5 stars so badly because they offer such a wide variety of content and the ability to pay a one time fee for premium for the life of the app. Unfortunately, my circumstances mean I am studying mandarin with traditional characters at the forefront and while the main course offers traditional characters, all of the classmates and all of the premium content use simplified characters only with no option to toggle to traditional. I do believe there are benefits for traditional learners to learn simplified characters but that isn’t something beginners should be tackling at the start of their learning (which someone using an app like this inevitably would be). I’m honestly kind of disappointed I bought the premium now that I know I can’t made use of so much of the content. The only thing left to comment on is the review section with flash cards of content you’ve been introduced to. It’s nice to have them all in one place but with no spaced repetition functionality and no native speaker audio, it’s just better to use an external flash card software you can edit.

   SPcandybars · 2 Sep 2026

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