Chinese21
Education
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
- Handsfree
- Get quickly up to speed in understanding Chinese
- Gain confidence in speaking Chinese. Train with Apple's Speech Recognition
- Practice your writing skills
Master Chinese in 21 days with Chinese21!
Learn Chinese through a structured 21-day course designed for real-world conversations. Practice with speech recognition, track your progress, and create custom lessons from your own materials.
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- Hands-Free operation. Use it in your car, while walking, or anywhere. Allows for fast, hassle free inputs.
- Gain confidence in speaking Chinese. Train with Apple's Speech Recognition, imitate pronunciations with variable speech rates, individual words or full phrases, do add sound-alike words and add contextual phrases for better speaking flows.
- Quick up to speed in understanding Chinese, with multiple choice exercises.
- Test your writings with Chinese keyboard.
- Rate your language levels automatically.
- Make yourself remember meanings, spellings and pronunciations by repeating until you are golden.
- Quick Chinese 21 plan included.
- Extensive Language Studio included, for creating and sharing classes and glossaries. Create by camera or images, share with friends, and import our comprehensive glossary index from our website.
- Support 40 user languages - English, German, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Nordic languages including Icelandic, Arabic, all major Indian languages, Italian, French, Japanese and many others.
- One time payment for the full Pro package. Basic levels are Free.
What's New in 2.51
Added support for Apple CarPlay - Pending approval
Improved click word and handsfree command detection
Updates to the speech engine management
State transitions improvements
What's New in 2.60
iPad support
Chinese21 now runs natively on iPad — same Hands-Free experience as on iPhone.
Pinyin everywhere
Tone-marked pinyin now appears under the Chinese characters in Tune, Talk, Repeat After Me, and the Dialog Player. In Dialog Player, the pinyin shows whenever
translations are visible — including while you're being prompted to speak as Person 1 or Person 2.
Tune: tap any character
Each Chinese character under the purple card is now its own bubble. Tap the ones you want and the speaker button reads back just your selection — perfect for
drilling a single tricky syllable.
Tune: progressive credit per syllable
Recognition no longer needs the whole phrase in one breath. Say wǒ and it locks in the first character, then say shì and it completes the match — even across
separate attempts. The matched characters turn green as you go.
Tune: Record & Compare
New overflow-menu option: record yourself saying the phrase, then play your recording followed by the native pronunciation at the same speed. The speed slider works
for both your voice and the model voice.
Tune: Logoped pronunciation guide
Tap the new bubble icon on any phrase for a per-character pronunciation breakdown (initial, final, tone) with detailed mouth-position tips.
Word Scramble fixed for Chinese
Phrases now split into individual character tiles instead of appearing as one untappable block.
Tap-Click escape hatch
If hands-free voice commands are giving you trouble in Chinese, there's now a tap button in Tune that opens the command menu without using speech recognition.
Repeat After Me — better defaults for learners
Starts at Level 2 (manual), auto-translates AI responses, and Level 1 keeps prompts to one or two words.
AI speech rate goes lower
Minimum AI conversation speed reduced from 50% to 10% — useful for understanding fast native-pace Chinese sentence-by-sentence.
Many small fixes
Faster recognition recovery, better handling of Bluetooth audio routes, and improved stability for long hands-free sessions.
Translated by Claude. Tuned by Apple
The developer, OLE PETTER HAUGEN, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- OLE PETTER HAUGEN
- Size
- 44.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 52 more
- English, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Chinese21 Pro $24.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ole Petter Haugen. All rights reserved.
