Jade is a modern Chinese dictionary and learning companion built for real daily use.
Look up Chinese instantly by Hanzi, pinyin, or English. Jade keeps the essentials clear first: the word, pronunciation, and practical meaning. When you want more, you can open the entry for deeper context, examples, related words, audio, and study tools.
Jade is designed for learners who want to understand Chinese in context, not just memorize lists.
Core features:
- Fast Chinese dictionary search with smart ranking
- Search by Hanzi, pinyin with or without tones, or English
- Simplified and Traditional script display
- Clean entry pages with meaning first and deeper detail on demand
- Pronunciation audio for Chinese words and text
- Handwriting input for characters you cannot type
- Save words directly to flashcards
- Build custom decks and reuse cards across decks
- Daily review sessions with spaced-repetition grading
- Core dictionary lookup available offline
- Cantonese supported
Use Jade Lens to understand Chinese from the world around you. Capture or import Chinese text, then open it in Jade to look up words, hear pronunciation, and generate deeper explanations when needed.
Use Explain to understand full sentences, phrases, names, or words that are not easy to find in a dictionary. Jade Pages break Chinese down into useful learning context so you can understand what something means and how it works.
Jade connects lookup and review, so useful words do not disappear after you search them. Add words to decks, review them in daily sessions, and browse curated decks by topic or level when you want structured practice.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app is great. I even bought the lifetime subscription and never regretted it. It has dictionary, vocabularies, and flashcard. It even has a system where you could take a photo of an item and the app will show you the Chinese wording of the item you took. It’s more like asking this app of how you say this item in Chinese. My only wish is that if the developers could make more category for more vocabularies ( like fruits, vegetables, transport, office, hobby, etc. ), then it will be better. Because right now it’s fella kinda less.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your support and for choosing Lifetime! ❤️ I’m really glad you’re enjoying Jade. And yes, we’ll definitely be expanding the vocabulary categories and adding many more decks over time. Happy learning! 😊
Nice layout and breakdown structure
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Love the UI in this app and the way the dictionary is organized. I’m a diehard Pleco user and I’ve found myself using Jade much more. Also, the explanations and breakdown of the words make it much easier for me to study and remember words. I usually avoid studying chengyu, but I look forward to it now since installing Jade. I’ve even started using them in more casual conversation.
Developer Response
This means a lot! thank you! I’m so glad Jade is helping you study and remember Chinese more naturally. More exciting features are coming soon, and Jade will only get better from here (including for free users).
Best free app for Chinese!
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Genuinely try this app. I’ve tested so many apps and they all are so money hungry is wild. I hope this app never goes down that route. This is a godsend! Thank you developers!
Developer Response
Thank you so much! this genuinely means a lot.Jade is still early, but the goal is to build something that truly helps people learn Chinese without making the experience feel frustrating or overly restricted.It's only going to get better from here!
Jade keeps getting better.
This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements to make learning Chinese feel smoother.
Version 1.9.0
The developer, Carlo Hafeneger, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
Carlo Hafeneger
Size
333.6 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
