- Writing pad: practice characters by hand beside word cards, flashcards and every study screen. Works with Apple Pencil and rejects your palm. - My notes (Plus): notebooks beside your books in My books, with Apple Pencil, finger or trackpad. - Hold and slide over Chinese text to read the words under your finger. In the Grammar guide, tap an example word for its word card, or slide across words to ask Bao. - Dictation shows each sentence's meaning after Check. - Play together: start a party with friends, share your friend code as a QR code, and meet in the new arena-style room. - Mandarin plays when you tap a speaker button, even with the Silent switch on. - Stroke-order animations no longer need an outside server, so they load in mainland China too. - Fixes and performance improvements.

- Study Chinese now speaks Spanish: switch the app to Español in Settings. - HSK 3.0 Levels 1 to 4 now follow the 新HSK教程 textbooks, one chapter for each lesson. Level 4 is now two courses, Part 1 (上) and Part 2 (下). - Choose a level when you switch between HSK 2.0 and HSK 3.0. - Fixes and performance improvements.

- Grammar Guide is now a reference book, with one page per grammar point. - Road checkpoints ask fresh questions on every try. Can't speak right now? Switch to listening tests in Settings. - Step back through Bao's earlier clues. - Add a password to your account in Settings. - Better layouts on iPad and Mac, plus fixes.

Read your own Chinese books. • My books: photograph any Chinese page, or open a PDF, and start reading right away. Tap a word for pinyin, meaning and Bao's explanation, see each sentence translated, or listen. Included with Plus and the free trial. • Pinyin that knows your level: it shows on words above your course level, and you can hide or add it word by word. • 1v1 challenges: pick the level, the questions and the rounds before you challenge a friend, and tap a friend to see their profile. • Press and hold a word, or slide across a sentence, to ask Bao. • A cleaner Reading, Words and Stats header, plus fixes across leagues and lessons.

• Watch the road open: finish a lesson and the road to your next stop turns gold, with confetti, as Bao walks there with you. • A new treasure chest: chests open in a treasure pavilion, and your coins and gems fly into your counters. • Made for iPad and Mac: Home, the Bao World islands and coast, the treasure chest, the streak page and grammar lessons now fill the whole screen, and Match and Sentence Practice fit on one screen in landscape. • Meteor can be played as often as you like, and on iPad and Mac you answer by voice first. • Smoother audio when speech or reading audio stalls, and a sentence widget that fits its text.

Bao World: every course is now a painted world of islands. Bao walks each chapter's trail with you, stop by stop. Boss fights: mini-boss guardians watch over each part of a chapter, and the Nian Beast waits at the end. Hints from Bao: tap Hint on a question for a step-by-step clue. Press and hold a reading line to break it down word by word. Weekly leagues by level, with nine tiers from Stone to Master and Plus prizes for the top 3. Last week's winners meet in the Tuesday Cup. Play with friends by room code, or invite them to join from a browser. HSK 6 and the complete HSK 3.0 syllabus, Levels 1 to 9. Full HSK mock papers, scored like the real test. Write whole sentences, answer Hanzi Meteor out loud, and turn on hanzi and pinyin subtitles in Dictation. New widgets, including a Lock Screen sentence widget. A new free plan: your starting level and every level below it stay free. Plus unlocks the rest. Tone Studio is more reliable, plus many smaller fixes.

What's new (1.2.1) Tone grading three real defects fixed from your and the voice actor's recordings

The Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets now show words from the chapters you've actually unlocked. If you're six chapters into Chinese 101, that's what you'll see, not something from chapter 11. Move up to 102 and you can pull from 101, 102, or both. Also fixed: the widget was missing 241 words, including a good chunk of HSK 4. All 3,950 are in there now, and the word of the day stays inside the chapters you've opened.

A quick maintenance update with fixes and polish: • Smoother guided tutorials — Bao now takes you straight to each step instead of slowly scrolling or getting stuck. • Added the arena artwork for HSK 5 (Part 1 and Part 2). • Faster loading and a lighter app thanks to newly optimized images. • Various bug fixes and refinements throughout. Thanks for learning with us! Keep the streak going.

• A guided tour of your Practice Studio, so you always know where to go next. • Smarter placement — tell us if you've studied before and the test adapts to your level, with HSK labels on every stage. • Offline & sync reliability, accessibility improvements, and bug fixes.