I’ve tried Skritter + Noodle. While these apps have fancy bells and whistles such as spaced repetition and self testing, Strokes Order is my new go-to for handwriting practice. It has a no-nonsense interface which shows you your actual handwriting strokes instead of an idealized ’perfect’ character that the fancy apps render. This is superior design choice-as knowing where you fall short while writing a character gives you honest feedback and motivation for improvement. The developer is also very responsive. The previous version had a blocky background font for Traditional characters in the handwriting practice mode. I wrote the developer a quick note, and Viola - font background preferences for handwriting practice has now been implemented. Excellent!

I absolutely adore this app being able to write gives me a good dopamine boost! I enjoy how it’s all set up the only constructive criticism that I have is that if there’s any possible way, you can program it to where you can get somebody who is more of a native speaker to pronounce the pinyin. Because the robot guy just sounds too monotone and he’s not even really pronouncing the tones themselves. And I know how important that is. I do love this app very much. That’s the only thing I’d have to say needs work. I hope the creator of this app is having a wonderful day! I do appreciate all of your hard work that you put into this app. ❤️

I was fine with the occasional ad, but now every time you open the app you get 2 ads for every character. The app and these ads also prevents you from listening from audio on another app which is extremely frustrating if I’m trying to study chinese. I don’t know if buying the pro version would even help with preventing my audio from another app from turning off because the ads are just that prevalent. Is the sound turning off due to the ad or because I switched to a different character? Unclear. I really truly regret updating to the latest version. The app is great in terms of UX, but there are plenty of online resources that provide the same thing for free — and ad free. I liked the idea of donating “a cup of coffee” to the developers, but who would bother doing that now?

我是学生中文。 我喜欢学和写汉字。 非常好。 I applaud the efforts of this author. It is in keeping with the theme of international harmony and constructive cultural exchange proposed by Chairman Xi. 我爱你中国。This an excellent application for English speakers trying to learn Mandarin. It’s worth it’s weight in gold. The definitions are quite useful, better than Google translate. Chairman Xi should reward this program author as they have done a superior job. It makes learning so much fun. In addition I live the advertising which I find very interesting. The author should become wealthy. May God Bless you for your hard work!