MidMando now follows the new HSK 3.0 exam, and you can sit practice papers. • The course follows the HSK 3.0 exam syllabus, the one the papers use from December 2026: 11,000 words across HSK 1–9. Your progress moves with you, and words the syllabus dropped stay in your Outside HSK list. • Practice papers for every level, HSK 1 to 7–9: listening with its recordings, reading, writing and speaking, with explanations in English, a pinyin switch and feedback on your answers. • Every word shows four skills — reading, listening, handwriting and typing — and the HSK page can show your course by any one of them. • Flashcards: a swipe deck of the words you can read, in the Library. • Translate reads Chinese from the camera or a photo: a menu, a sign, a page. • Chit Chat with 布布: everyday small talk at your level, beside the guided chats. • Write any chengyu, or a phrase you translated, with a brush and keep it as your wallpaper. • iPad: a Writing tab for Apple Pencil, with whole sentences by hand, a notebook and a writing course. • A new Quick fire widget shows a new word on a timer, and tapping either widget opens the word. • Provinces & Cities lists every district, with bookmarks and notes for places. • Settings can have you type the pinyin, and hide pinyin once a word is learned. • "Other ways to say it" now covers every word in the course, and translations split Chinese into words more accurately.

MidMando is on the Mac, and there is a new game. • MidMando for Mac is a free download with this app. Select Chinese anywhere on your Mac, press Command-Shift-M, and read it. Same words, same progress. • Pairs: match every hanzi to its reading, using only words you have already met. It has a widget of its own, and the other widgets are set in the app's typefaces now. • Changes from your other devices arrive while the app is open, instead of waiting for the next time you launch it. • Playback survives a phone call, or another app taking the sound. • A new saying, 相见恨晚.

Repairs, and a few small improvements. • The end of a lesson shows your score and the words you missed again, instead of just a DONE button. • Tap a word in a translation or a lyric and you get its full page, the same one search gives you. • A word's page has a bookmark button at the top, and pressing it again takes the bookmark off. • Blob: type your answer straight into the box, and meeting him fits on an iPhone screen now. He sits at the top of the course. • Writing: the flick at the end of a hooked stroke is easier after a few tries. • HSK Levels has its own tab in the middle of the bar. Songs have moved into the Library. • iPad: turning it mid-class keeps the class open, and Split View lays out properly. • Two new songs, including 离骚 — 2,300 years old and the hardest thing here.

MidMando 3.0 is a new app from the ground up. A new look. One quiet, dark design across every screen, with Chinese characters set in serif and everything else out of the way. A daily plan. Open the app and today is ready: the word of the day, your next class, your bookmarks, the words you met outside the course and a review of what is slipping. Pick how long it should be. One card, five skills. Every word is asked by reading, meaning, tone, listening and writing, in an order that follows how well you know it. Radicals and components. A new section before HSK 1 with 514 pieces and 201 radicals from the national standards, and every character in the app taken apart into its pieces. Poems and provinces. 127 classical poems with pinyin and a plain English line for each, and all 34 provinces with the character on the number plate. Translate. Paste anything and get the Chinese, the pinyin, the English and the words you have not met yet, ready to learn. Search everything. Words, idioms, poems, songs, places and your own history from one box. Bookmarks. Bookmark any word, anywhere, and it joins your plan. Achievements and streaks. 155 achievements and a calendar of every day you studied. Teacher. Keep your classes, students and attendance. iCloud sync for everything you make, including bookmarks, pinned idioms, mix-ups and your song library. And still free, with no ads and nothing to unlock. Tell us what to do next from the report-a-bug button on any screen.

Your progress now follows you between devices. Everything you've learned — your words and their strengths, your streak, Review Words, saved idioms and slang, your songs and your Blob — now syncs through iCloud. Start a lesson on your iPhone, pick it up on your iPad. It's a safety net too: your progress lives in your own iCloud account, so reinstalling the app or setting up a new device brings it all back. Also in this update: cleaner pinyin in the review tiles, and clearer feedback when a word can't be looked up.

Our biggest update ever. MidMando is now a complete Mandarin companion. MEET BLOB Your AI conversation partner — and it only ever uses words you can already read, so every chat is comprehensible, never a wall of characters. LEARN THROUGH MUSIC New Music mode turns real Mandarin songs into lessons: tone practice, listening drills, line-by-line meaning and recital. A SMARTER READER Paste any Chinese text and tap any word for instant pinyin and meaning. Now with sentence translation, word-by-word breakdowns, and words you meet saved automatically. THE HSK WALL A redesigned Levels screen: every HSK 1–9 class as one continuous wall, instant jumps between bands, and a clear view of which characters you know. IDIOMS, SLANG & GAMES Learn 成语 with a teach-first flow and the 考考我 guessing game, plus a Slang & Texting section for how Mandarin is really used today. PROGRESS THAT FOLLOWS YOU iCloud sync keeps your progress, streaks and saved words in step across your devices. ALSO • Natural pronunciation on every word and sentence • Usage notes, synonyms and example sentences on word profiles • Words beyond HSK 9 captured and explained for you • A faster, cleaner, native iOS design throughout 谢谢 for learning with MidMando.

We keep working to improve the app to provide you the best mandarin learning experience. * We have added the lesson progressing feature on the watch app: now you can progress through classes and levels using your watch * Your music will, now, not stop when you use the app * Added haptic feedback for transitions and buttons We love hearing feedback from our users. Feel free to leave an App Store review or send us an email.