Chinese No Pain: Learn Hanzi
Learn Chinese from scratch
Only for iPhone
Free
iPhone
Point your camera at Chinese text or record speech to get a transcript and translation. Save useful words to your library, then start reading or practicing.
Chinese No Pain is a free, ad-free app for anyone who wants to start learning Chinese from scratch and gradually move from study flashcards to the language they encounter in everyday life.
It brings together a clear beginner pathway, vocabulary collections by level and topic, smart review, short daily sessions, varied training modes, live camera translation, and Chinese speech recognition.
Start with the Beginner Path
Thirteen sections and 105 short lessons introduce essential words, phrases, and sentence patterns without overwhelming you. Each lesson is followed by practice, and your progress is saved so you can continue from the right place at any time.
Understand words instead of memorizing translations
Every word card includes:
• Chinese characters;
• pinyin with tone marks;
• translation;
• pronunciation.
Many words also include illustrations, simple explanations, radical and character breakdowns, examples, and related words. You can also add personal notes to any word.
Learn vocabulary by level and topic
Choose from ready-made collections:
• HSK 1–6;
• Top 100, Top 300, and Top 500 frequent words;
• themed vocabulary groups for conversation, travel, food, study, work, time, and everyday situations.
Add words to your library, mark favorites, and learn in manageable batches.
Turn the Chinese around you into study material
Point your camera at a menu, sign, package, or any other Chinese text. The app recognizes the text and displays translations directly over the camera view. You can freeze the frame, open individual words, and save the full recognized text.
You can also import a photo or screenshot containing Chinese text.
Record a short piece of spoken Chinese through the microphone. Chinese No Pain will create a transcript, show a translation, and highlight words you can open or add to your library.
Save and read texts
Recognized materials can be saved and read later in a dedicated reader:
• tap Chinese words;
• view pinyin and translations;
• listen to the text;
• continue reading from where you left off;
• start a practice session with words from the text.
Study for 5, 10, or 20 minutes
You do not need to decide what to review every time. Choose a session length, and the app will build a session from reviews, weak areas, sentences, pronunciation, and writing.
You can also choose from dedicated training modes:
• translation and character recognition;
• pinyin and listening;
• pronunciation;
• writing with tracing or Blank Canvas mode;
• matching pairs;
• the Bubbles game mode;
• Sprint and Audio Sprint;
• practice with weak or favorite words.
Review at the right time and track your progress
Words return for review when it is most useful for long-term memory. The app helps you track:
• progress for individual words and skills;
• your daily goal;
• your learning streak;
• XP and levels;
• achievements;
• study statistics.
Discover something new every day
Daily Discovery brings you a short new article about the Chinese language or culture each day. It is not a lesson or an exercise, but a small piece of useful reading. Chinese words inside the article can be opened as word cards.
Learn at your own pace
• free and ad-free;
• no mandatory account;
• the dictionary, lessons, reviews, and most training modes work without a constant internet connection;
• progress can be synced through iCloud;
• backup and data recovery are supported;
• smart reminders run locally on your device.
Chinese No Pain is designed for people who are starting from scratch, want to remember Chinese characters more easily, expand their vocabulary by HSK level and topic, and understand the Chinese they encounter in everyday life.
Learn Chinese without feeling overwhelmed — step by step, through meaning, context, and regular practice.
We’ve improved Camera capture in this update:
• Capture a still frame for clearer recognition of small Chinese text.• Pinch to zoom and drag a frozen translated frame.• Live translation is now more stable and stays better aligned with the original text.
We also improved responsiveness in Today, Daily Discovery, iCloud Sync, and pronunciation, and fixed several training and layout issues.
The developer, Evgenii Figurov, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Evgenii Figurov
- Size
- 315.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chinese No Pain