I’ve been looking for something exactly like this for a very long time. Yes, Pleco has an ePub reader, but you have to tap on words you don’t know to get a definition/pinyin. Nothing like this. If you are trying to increase your literacy in Chinese by reading material that YOU CHOOSE rather than uninteresting (IMO) “stories” in similar apps, this is the app for you. If you use it consistently, it will grow along with you like no other app. Granted, the process of learning raw characters is probably better suited to other methods such as flash cards, writing, and MEMRISE. But this is a perfect compliment to those methods. I give it 4 stars because the app lacks a certain UI polish. But it does everything as advertised. REQUEST: for those of us who are intermediate and up, it would be nice to start off assuming all characters are KNOWN and THEN be able to indicate those that are UNKNOWN. Otherwise it takes a loooong time to indicate all the characters/words you already know. iCloud syncing would be great too so I can use seamlessly on my iPhone and iPad.

Increasing rating to four stars. Able to reliably export PDF of characters along with Pinyin for the characters that I did not know how to pronounce into a PDF annotation app. Developer addressed all of my feedback except selection of definition. Will increase to 5 stars when able to easily choose a particular CC-CEDICT entry for display rather than the first entry in the list of definitions.

I know it’s been a while since these have been updated, but I really use them all the time. I would pay almost anything for a similar app that lets you do tone colors or leave tone markings in. I’m familiar enough to remove many words, but I’m unsure of the tone, so if I want to use this in any official capacity, I have to put the words back in or just use straight pinyin, which is more confusing to me now. An option where you can add/remove the definition, pinyin, and tones would be perfect and I would pay a lot for it.

If you want to learn Chinese characters, this is an app one could have only wished for and never believed would have. After importing an ePub in characters, you teach the app what words you know and it remembers across publications. So you can have a paragraph with characters only for what you indicated you knew, with character-pinyin if you know the word but not clear on character, and character-pinyin-English if need the full aid. All mixed together. And as you learn you keep updating. Amazing tool. Thank you! Would pay more than a dollar for it. Thank you!