Gushi - Learn Chinese
HSK 3.0 or your textbook
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
New: Gushi follows your textbook. Ten textbooks, lesson by lesson, or HSK 3.0 with all nine levels. One month free.
Learn Chinese with the new HSK 3.0, or with your own textbook.
All nine HSK levels and ten textbooks, every character, word and grammar point written and recorded.
START WHERE YOU ARE
Complete beginner, or already reading comfortably? Pick your HSK level, or let the placement test find it: it settles reading and listening separately, because almost nobody is at the same level in both.
YOUR TEXTBOOK
Learning in a course? Pick your book and your lesson. Gushi follows it lesson by lesson: each lesson's words and characters for reading, listening, speaking and writing, in your course's order. Grammar and the mock exams stay on the HSK path for now.
FIVE SKILLS
- Recognition: characters and words, until you know them on sight
- Reading: graded articles at your level, with questions at the end
- Listening: from single words to whole passages
- Speaking: shadowing with speech scoring, from single sentences to whole articles
- Writing: watch the stroke order, then write the character yourself
WHAT IS ON A CARD
Not just the translation. Every card carries the tone, the pinyin and a recording, how the character is built from its parts, a story to hold it, the words it turns up in, and example sentences. Every part has a name, and the building blocks show their history: oracle bone, bronze, seal, and the character you write today.
FEATURES
- Spaced repetition (FSRS) for every character and word you meet
- Full HSK mock exams at every level, in the official format, and the HSKK
- 428 grammar points, level by level, and a 量词 room at every level
- A weekly league: everyone who learns this week on one board, fresh every Monday
GUSHI INTELLIGENCE
Chinese goes better when you are not doing it alone, and Gushi Intelligence is what makes that work: one model of how you learn, used by you and by everyone helping you.
What it knows about you:
- Which skill you are building fastest, and which one is falling behind
- Your strengths and weak spots, down to the lesson, the word and the character
- The tone you keep struggling with, the character you keep forgetting, and the "hē" you keep saying in shadowing where it should be "hé"
What it does with that: the tone drill leans into the tone you miss most, and a character you keep forgetting comes back sooner.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE SCHOOL
Your teacher gets the same picture. Join your class with a code, and the Gushi Teaching Platform shows your teacher or language school how your week went, so the next lesson builds on it.
Gushi is built together with language schools: students and teachers at our founding partner school try it out and shape what we build next. gushichinese.com/teaching
PHONE AND COMPUTER
One account, one review history: the phone for the short moments, learn.gushichinese.com for a longer session at the computer.
BUILT ON THE OFFICIAL SYLLABUS
Every HSK word, character and grammar point comes from the official HSK 3.0 syllabus (考试大纲) published by Chinese Testing International at chinesetest.cn. We publish our edition for free at gushichinese.com, in all four languages: 11,000 words, 3,088 characters and 428 grammar points, with a recording of every word. Gushi is independent and not affiliated with Chinese Testing International or with any textbook publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION
Free for one month. Then Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it at any time in your Apple Account settings.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://gushichinese.com/privacy
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Gushi now follows your class, lesson by lesson.
NEW
- Lesson settings on Today: the lesson your class is on, your rhythm, words a day, and a pause for a holiday week
- The chosen lesson comes first in every deck, new words and reviews, and the date shows whether you finish in time
- Every learning card shows where it comes from, like "Volume 1 · Lesson 9"
- Listening, speaking and writing are ready for every word at once
- Search finds single characters again, and looks beyond your syllabus when you ask it to
- Drawing and photo search find every character Gushi knows, traditional ones too
- Every character and word page shows its frequency rank
- HSK 1 to 3 by lesson in the Library
- More look-alike characters, and better ones
- A story for every building block with a breakdown, and usage notes for every textbook entry
- Change your level both ways in the settings
BETTER
- Many fixes from your feedback
Free for one month. After that, Gushi Monthly or Gushi Yearly; everything is included in both.
Something wrong, or missing? The pencil button in the top bar writes straight to us, and we read all of it.
The developer, Jonas Niklas Kirner, 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:
- Contact Info
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jonas Niklas Kirner
- Size
- 740.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 3 more
- English, French, German, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $8.99
- Yearly $89.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Gushi
