Version 3.2.1 — The Library Real Chinese books, in your pocket — and every word is tappable. • NEW: Library — a shelf of classic Chinese literature, free to download. Lu Xun's short stories, Zhu Ziqing's essays, three hundred Tang poems, the Analects, the Tao Te Ching, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and more • Read the way you learn — tap any word for pinyin and its meaning, hear it spoken, and save it straight into your Words for review. No more reading with a dictionary in your other hand • Start with real Chinese you can actually handle — the modern shelf is early vernacular writing, far friendlier than Classical Chinese, with difficulty marked on every book • Simplified or traditional — switch between 简体 and 繁體 at any time, mid-sentence if you like • Made for long reads — pick your text size, line spacing and a paper or night theme, search the contents of even the longest books, and pick up exactly where you left off • Free to try — the Tang poems and the Tao Te Ching are yours in full, plus a free story inside Lu Xun's collection • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Every book is in the public domain, re-typeset for comfortable reading on a phone. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Clearer, bigger Clippings. • Full screen — tap any clipping to view the screenshot full screen, then pinch or double-tap to zoom right in. No more squinting at tiny hanzi and pinyin. • Swipe to browse — flick left or right in full screen to move straight to your next clipping. • Cleaner word list — each clipping now shows only the Chinese words (with pinyin) you can save to your Words. English, punctuation and scanning noise are filtered out, so the list stays tidy and ready to study. Thanks for learning with Hanyu! Keep the feedback coming.

Version 3.1.1 — Clippings polish A quick follow-up to make Clippings feel just right. • Fixed: the delete (bin) button now actually removes a clipping — with a tidy in-app confirmation, and it drops you onto the next clipping so you can keep going • NEW: swipe left and right (or use Prev / Next) to move between your clippings without leaving the viewer • NEW: add a word by hand — tap the + in your Words tab, type the 汉字, and we'll fill in the pinyin and meaning for you • Clipping images no longer push the tappable words off-screen — the layout keeps the text within easy reach Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 3.1 — Your Notebook, now with Clippings That Chinese post you screenshotted? It doesn't have to get buried in your camera roll any more. • NEW: Clippings — Notepad is now your Notebook, with two tabs. Import screenshots or photos of Chinese text (a social post, a menu, a sign) and Hanyu reads them for you automatically, so every clipping arrives with tappable words, pinyin and meanings. Tap any word to save it straight into your Words for review • Add several at once from Photos, or snap a fresh one with the camera — no fiddly permissions • Add a note to any clipping to remember where it's from • Fixed: the More menu could nudge the page behind it while you scrolled — it now stays put • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 3.0.1 — Radio, back on the air A focused fix for live Radio, plus a little polish. • Fixed: Radio stations that showed "LIVE — streaming" but played no sound. Playback now buffers the way live radio should, so stations tune in reliably instead of stalling silently • Honest "LIVE" indicator — the streaming badge and bars now light up only when audio is genuinely playing, not before • Clearer status — a station that can't be reached now says so and invites you to try another, instead of appearing stuck on "streaming" • Small fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 3.0 — Your Chinese, connected Our biggest update yet ties the whole app together — and opens the door to real Chinese culture. • NEW: Creators to Follow — a hand-picked directory of Chinese YouTubers and vloggers for immersion, from slow-and-clear teachers to native vlogs, cooking and comedy. Tap to watch, and pin your own favourites (they stay private on your device) • NEW: Find Your Level — already know some Chinese? A quick 3-minute placement check sets your starting level so stories, practice and your daily plan match what you already know • NEW: Your Deck — every word you save, from stories, the dictionary or anywhere, now flows into one personal flashcard deck and your daily review. Learn a word once, meet it everywhere • Smarter reviews — your saved words join the same spaced-repetition system as your characters, so nothing slips through the cracks • Break past HSK 3 — new HSK 4 vocabulary packs in the Pack Library for when you're ready to level up • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.9.1 — Your dialogues, now in manga Every Manga Dialogue can now be read as a proper comic strip — and shared! • NEW: Read as comic — tap the new button in any Manga Dialogue and the whole conversation becomes a beautifully composed manga strip, panel by panel • Expressive characters — our two comic actors react to every line: they wave hello, light up at good news, blush at apologies and puzzle over questions • Study your way — toggle pinyin and English translations on the strip itself • Share the fun — press & hold any comic to save it or send it to a friend. Show them what you're learning! • NEW: Hearts & Feelings pack in the Pack Library — emotions & dating flashcards plus three sweet stories, from a café crush to the big confession • Small fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.9 — Tune in to China Immerse your ears! Hanyu now has a built-in Radio, streaming real live Chinese stations straight from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong — news, music and talk, exactly as native listeners hear it. • NEW: Chinese Radio — a live tuner in the Topics tab with hand-picked stations across news, music and talk • Keeps playing everywhere — the radio carries on while you use flashcards, stories or any other part of the app, and even when your phone is locked • Lock-screen controls — pause, resume and see what's playing right from the lock screen and Control Centre • Know before you tune — every station is labelled by region and difficulty, so beginners can start with easy-listening music and work up to full-speed news • Fresh station list — stations are updated remotely, so the lineup stays healthy without waiting for an app update • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.8.4 — Point your camera at any Chinese text — a menu, a sign, a package — and watch it come alive. • Live scanning — no more taking a photo and hoping. Chinese text now highlights in real time as you move your camera. Tap a line to grab it, or capture everything on screen at once • Every word explained — scanned text is split into words, each with its pinyin on top. Tap any word for its English meaning, hear it spoken, or dive into its characters • Instant English translation — see the full English meaning of whatever you scanned, right under the words (iPhones on iOS 18 and later, fully on-device) • Smarter AI tutor — the chat tutor now understands pinyin typed without tones and replies to what you actually said, plus it keeps its memory working in longer conversations • Reading card fixed — the Open button on the Today screen's Reading card now takes you straight to the story • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.8.3 — Room for all your decks • Flashcards, fixed for real — with lots of packs installed, the deck grid was cramming every deck onto one screen and squashing the photos into slivers. The list now scrolls properly, so every deck keeps its full picture no matter how many you collect. • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.8.2 — Jump straight in Two little things you told us were annoying — fixed. • Try new packs instantly — the moment a pack installs, a card pops up with a one-tap button that takes you straight to your new content: read the stories, flip the flashcards, watch the manga scenes or cook the recipes. No more hunting for where a pack landed! • Close the More menu naturally — swipe it down, tap the X, tap anywhere outside it, or tap More again. It gets out of your way the moment you want it to. • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu.

Version 2.8.1 — Search everything Search just got a whole lot smarter. It now looks through every corner of Hanyu — including all the content packs you've downloaded — so whatever you're looking for, it's one tap away. • Search EVERYTHING — stories, flashcard decks, manga dialogues, topic lessons, vocabulary, compound words, history, recipes and game sentences now all appear in search results • Pack content included — everything from your downloaded packs is searchable the moment it's installed • Discover new packs — search even matches packs you haven't downloaded yet, and takes you straight to the Pack Library to get them • Jump right in — tap any result to land exactly where it lives: the story reader, a flashcard deck, a manga scene, a recipe and more • Search inside sentences — find stories and dialogues by any line of Chinese, pinyin or English within them • Assorted fixes and polish under the hood Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.8 — Manga Dialogues Learn real Chinese conversations through short animated manga scenes — watch it play, tap any word, hear it spoken. • NEW: Anime Dialogues — animated everyday scenes with the full conversation below each one. Follow the dialogue line by line with pinyin, translation and audio, tap any word to learn it, then take a quick comprehension check • Start free — the "At the Noodle Shop" scene is included, so you can try it right away • More scenes to add — download the Everyday Essentials pack (meeting people, ordering food, shopping, directions, taxis and phone calls) for £0.99, or get everything with the one-time £4.99 unlock • Smoother all round — assorted fixes and polish Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.6.1 — Smoother, and more yours A polish release all about making Hanyu tidier, more personal, and easier to keep coming back to. • Like what you love — tap the heart on any story, flashcard deck or recipe and your favourites float to the top. Double-tap to push the ones you love most even higher. • Character Practice, refreshed — a calmer, less cluttered screen, plus a clearer set of levels including a new "Normal" that shows pinyin without the English, so you can test your memory. • Daily reminders — switch on a gentle nudge in Profile › Settings to keep your streak alive. • Streak milestones — a little celebration when you hit 3, 7, 30 days and beyond. • Easier to get around — a tidier "More" menu, your most-used topics rise to the top, and Today now points you to a specific game or story to jump straight in. • A cleaner profile screen, plus assorted fixes and polish under the hood. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu — keep that streak going! 加油

Version 2.6 — Hanyu now bends around the way you study — pin what you love, and unlock exactly what you want. • Like your favourites — tap the heart on any game or story and it floats to the top, so your go-to practice is always one tap away • Unlock stories your way — pick up individual Stories volumes for just £0.99 each, or get everything with the one-time £4.99 unlock • A cleaner Profile — a tidier, more compact profile screen, with quick Profile and Settings buttons right where you need them • Smoother all round — assorted fixes and polish Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu. 加油

Version 2.5 — Now you're cooking Say hello to Chinese Food — a brand-new section that brings the language into the kitchen, plus a new way to unlock just what you want. • A new Chinese Food section — download a Cooking pack and a whole new recipe section opens up: real dishes with mouth-watering photos, full ingredient lists and clear step-by-step methods • Recipes that come to life — many dishes feature short looping videos, so you can watch the steam rise and the wok sizzle • Learn as you cook — every recipe has "Kitchen Words": tap any ingredient or cooking term to see the hanzi and pinyin and hear it spoken • Browse by ingredient — filter by chicken, pork, beef, tofu, noodles, rice, dumplings, soup, vegetables and more • Unlock your way — get the whole Cooking section for just £0.99, or unlock everything in Hanyu for £4.99 (one-time, no subscription) • Clearer downloads — content you add from a pack is now clearly labelled throughout the app • Assorted fixes and polish Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu — now go and order (or cook!) it in Chinese. 加油

Version 2.4 — Now you're cooking Say hello to Chinese Food — a brand-new section that brings the language to the kitchen. • A new Chinese Food section — download a Chinese Food pack and a whole new recipe section unlocks in the app: real dishes with mouth-watering photos, full ingredient lists and clear step-by-step methods • Browse by ingredient — filter recipes by chicken, pork, beef, tofu, noodles, rice, dumplings, soup, vegetables and more to find exactly what you fancy • Five packs, forty recipes — Everyday Classics, Dumplings & Dim Sum, Sichuan Classics, Street Food & Breakfast and Noodles — from kung pao and mapo tofu to xiaolongbao, dan dan noodles and street-side jianbing • Make it yours — a new "Customise sections" control lets you hide the parts of Learn you don't use, keeping the app clean and tailored to you • Assorted fixes and polish throughout Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu — now go and order (or cook!) it in Chinese. 加油

Version 2.3 — A deeper dive into history The History section has had its biggest update yet — richer, more visual, and now expandable with brand-new downloadable packs. • New downloadable History packs — add whole themed collections from the Packs tab: Inventions & Innovations, Great Figures of China, Dynasties & Landmarks, The Treasure Ship Era, Sages & Strategists, and Schools of Thought • A more visual History — Zheng He's Voyages, the Silk Road and the Imperial Examination system now open with their own cover photos, and the Four Great Inventions each have their own artwork • Illustrated philosophy — the great schools of thought (Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism and Buddhism) now come with imagery and a deeper read • A complete Grand Canal — expanded into a full, illustrated historical feature • Fresh facts every time — each major city's "Fun Fact" now rotates, so there's something new to discover on every visit • Assorted fixes and visual polish across the app Thanks for exploring China with Hanyu — there's always more history to uncover! 加油

Version 2.1 — Explore China , the Geography section has had a big glow-up, plus a smoother, more polished app all round. • Major cities come to life — every city in Geography now has its own photo, from Beijing's Forbidden City and Shanghai's skyline to Chengdu's pandas and Xi'an's Terracotta Army • Redesigned city & province cards — tap any place for a beautiful cover-photo header, quick facts, "Famous For" highlights, local cuisine and a fun fact, with audio to hear the name spoken • Interactive map fixed — the map of China opens reliably again; tap any province to explore it • Smoother flashcards — closing a deck now takes you back to the flashcard overview instead of jumping away, so you can pick your next deck in a tap • Restore Purchases just works — if you owned Hanyu before, restoring now unlocks everything instantly with a clear confirmation, no app restart needed • Visual polish throughout — crisper Chinese characters, a fresh Notepad banner, and lots of small fixes across the Learn library Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu — more is always on the way! 加油

Hanyu is now free to start Big news ! You can now download Hanyu and start learning Mandarin for free. Read a full story, study your first characters, and play games at no cost. When you're ready, unlock the whole app with a single one-time purchase. • Free to download — jump straight into a graded story, character practice and games • Unlock Everything, once — all 28 stories, 680+ characters, 18 games, the AI tutor, and HSK 1–3 mock exams with certificates • One payment. No subscriptions. No monthly fees. Buy it once, learn forever • Restore anytime — your unlock follows your Apple ID across all your devices Thanks for learning with us. 加油!

Version 1.8 — Your own Notepad Save the words you want to remember, then master them your way — plus fresher quizzes and brand-new content. • New Notepad — tap "Save" on any word (in stories, character study, the vocabulary lists, the dictionary or search) and it's collected in one place for revision • Review your way — go through your saved words as flashcards or test yourself with a built-in quiz, with audio on every entry • Stay organised — search, sort and mark words as "learned" to track your progress • Find it fast — open the Notepad from the More menu or straight from the Today screen • Fresher quizzes — story comprehension checks (plus lesson and grammar practice) now shuffle the answers and mix in new questions every time, with a "Try new questions" button so no two attempts feel the same • 3 new stories — At the Supermarket, A Rainy Day, and First Time on the High-Speed Train, each with audio, tap-to-translate words and a comprehension quiz • New topic lesson — Shopping (购物): vocabulary, real-life phrases, translation practice and cultural notes • 8 new practice sentences across HSK 1-3, plus visual polish across the Games tab And Hanyu is now at a new lower price. Thanks for learning with us — keep collecting those words! 加油

Version 1.7.1 — A fresh new look Hanyu just got a beautiful visual makeover from cover to cover: • Every story, topic, game, and HSK practice test now has its own artwork — the whole app feels richer and easier to navigate at a glance. • A brand‑new app icon. • Hand‑crafted custom icons throughout the Learn library (Radicals, Grammar, Vocabulary, History, Geography and more). • Open any lesson or story and its header now matches the card you tapped — a smoother, more connected feel. • Crisper Chinese characters on cards and headers, plus a number of small visual fixes and polish. Thanks for learning Mandarin with Hanyu — more great content is on the way! 加油

Version 1.7 — Content Packs & Plan Mode Hanyu now grows with you. This is our biggest update yet. CONTENT PACKS — choose what you learn Browse our free pack library and tap to add exactly the content you want — no app update, no re-download. Each pack folds straight into the app: new characters appear in Learn (as their own browsable set), sentences in the Sentence Builder, and full graded readers in the Stories tab. • "100 New Hanzi" — 100 fresh HSK 3-4 characters • "New Stories · Vol. 1" — three brand-new graded readers, one each for HSK 1, 2 and 3, with audio, tap-to-translate words and a quiz • Themed packs: Street Smart, Tone Master, Parrot Talk, HSK Sprint and more • Manage it all in one place — preview what's inside a pack, jump straight into studying it, rate it, mark it mastered, or remove it anytime PLAN MODE — guided journeys Turn the whole app into a game. Follow short, themed quests like "First Steps in China" and "Tone Boot Camp" — do a task and it ticks itself off, the next one unlocks, and finishing a journey earns you a badge. Your weakest areas, one win at a time. A LIVELIER TODAY SCREEN Your home screen now refreshes itself with rotating tips, game picks and reading suggestions, so there's always something new to try. New built-in lessons, plus polish and fixes throughout. Thanks for learning with Hanyu — keep it up! 加油!

What's New in 1.6.1 A polished practice experience and a big content boost. • Refreshed Practice screen — Character Practice and Sentence Practice now match the bold, App Store–inspired look of the rest of the app: gradient hero headers, editorial answer cards, glass controls and softer word-bank trays. • More Grammar — 11 new grammar lessons including 把 (disposal), 被 (passive), 是…的 emphasis, 得 degree complements, resultative and directional complements, paired conjunctions, 越…越, 一点儿 vs 有点儿, and verb reduplication. Plus 13 new interactive exercises to test what you've learned. • More Vocabulary — Six new themed sets: Emotions & Feelings, Sports & Exercise, Technology & Digital, Transport & Travel, Workplace & Office, and School & Study — over 100 new words ready to study. • Three new Topic Lessons — Workplace (在公司), Health & Fitness (健康与运动), and School & Studying (学校与学习), each with vocabulary, real-world phrases, cultural notes, and a practice quiz. • 40+ new dictionary characters spanning HSK 2 and 3. Thanks for using Hanyu — keep practising!

What's New (Version 1.6.0): A fresh look for your daily learning — plus three new conversation topics. • Brand-new Today tab — your Continue card, daily progress, review queue and Practice modes now sit in a clean, bold layout that's easier to scan and more rewarding to scroll • 3 new topic lessons — At the Airport, On the Phone and Family & Relationships, each with vocabulary, real-life phrases, translation practice and cultural notes • 27 new dictionary entries — travel, phone and family vocabulary across HSK 1-3 • Faster, smoother scrolling on the Learn tab Thanks for learning with us. 加油!