Noodle Chinese 9+
Write characters, study vocab
Noodle
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The easiest, most effective way to create and study Chinese vocab lists!
- 100% Offline.
Noodle works without data. Study anywhere, anytime, without waiting for anything to load.
- Handwriting Recognition.
Practice over 10,000 characters. When studying, get real-time feedback on your strokes.
- Personalized Learning
Noodle adapts to your progress, focusing more on words you need help with, less on those you know.
- Smart Flashcards
Study actively by reading and writing words. Memorize faster, remember longer.
- A Full Dictionary.
Over 100,000 entries. See example sentences, character breakdowns, synonyms, and related words.
- Vocab Lists.
Create your own or choose from hundreds of topics like Numbers, Colors, and Animals.
What’s New
Version 0.1.1
New in this version:
- Dark mode
- New lists
- Bug fixes
We'd love to hear from you! hello@noodlechinese.com
Ratings and Reviews
Free, not wifi-restricted, effective
This app is excellent for learning to write Chinese characters with the correct stroke order. There is no charge for downloading and there are no ads, and it is even contained within your phone, ipad or computer so you don't need to connect to the internet to use.
I have only two gripes:
1) Font: The characters are in a font that differs from the standard digital form for characters you'll get when using a Chinese keyboard or browsing the web in Chinese. Having said this, one could make the argument that being able to recognise characters flexibly would make your reading better and be useful since the characters are far from fixed in form when used in real life- especially people's handwriting!
2) Personal Input: the app does not contain many premade decks, which is certainly understandable. This meant I had to use the search function to find and collect the characters I wanted to study (specifically the top 1,000 most common characters). Mind, it was no special nor difficult effort to find said characters; the app seems to have pretty much any character you're looking for.
Overall an excellent app that works very well as SRS and as a quick practice tool when you've got a spare minute.
Flashcards don’t make sense
Have flash cards in pinjin and not their English translation. Following your logic, I am asked about things like “Chinese radical”. How am supposed to know from that WHICH radical you want? Bugs like that are really idiotic in what could otherwise be a good app.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Noodle Chinese, Inc
- Size
- 119.8 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
- Copyright
- © 2020 Noodle Chinese, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Plan £12.49
- Biannual Plan £46.99
- Annual Plan £75.99