Mandarin Assistant HSK Widget
Learn Chinese at phone unlock
Only for iPhone
$1.99 · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Learn Mandarin every time you unlock your phone! Master HSK vocabulary effortlessly with customizable Home and Lock Screen widgets, OCR lookups, and personal anotations.
Master Mandarin Chinese passively throughout your day! The Mandarin Assistant HSK Widget integrates vocabulary learning directly into your daily routine by placing interactive flashcards right on your iOS Home Screen.
Whether you are preparing for the HSK 1–6 exams or just trying to expand your Hanzi and Pinyin vocabulary, this app keeps you consistently exposed to the language without needing to open a separate study app.
Whether you speak English, French, or even using your foundational Mandarin (HSK3), Mandarin Assistant is your personal notebook towards fluency.
KEY USE CASES
• Heard a word? Search by Pinyin and "Heart" it with your personal notes
• Saw a new word in a text? Use character recognition (OCR) and save it with notes
• Preparing for a conversation? Create a list and add all the words you’ll need
• Want to study throughout the day? Add a widget showing your Hearted words to your home screen—reinforce learning every time you unlock your phone
• Studying for a test? Sync your lists with Anki and review flashcards there
• Unsure which words to focus on? Start with the ones you’ve annotated and Hearted
• At an intermediate level? Switch definitions from English/French to HSK3-level Chinese
KEY FEATURES:
• Smart iOS Widgets: Beautifully designed widgets for your Home Screen. See a new word, its Pinyin, and its English/French/HSK3 translation every time you glance at your phone.
• OCR Camera Recognition: Instantly translate and analyze Chinese characters from real-world text, menus, or books using your camera.
• Comprehensive Dictionary & HSK Levels: Fully supports HSK 1 through HSK 7+ vocab lists with clear definitions, collocations and examples.
• Tailored Learning: Track your progress, save tricky words to your personal study list, and customize your widget update frequency to match your learning pace.
• Privacy focused: works fully offline, no account. Only anonymous usage data reaches dev, and you optionally can backup your notes to Google Drive.
Mandarin Assistant helps you take control of your learning—making Mandarin study smarter, more personal, and always within reach.
Currently supports Simplified Chinese (HSK level 3), English and French.
Make Chinese study a seamless part of your lifestyle. Download Mandarin Assistant HSK Widget today!
Ratings & Reviews
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v5 -- Mandarin Assistant becomes multi-lingual with French, and HSK3 dictionary, definitions/examples across 120k words!
Toggle langage in dictionary.
Improvements:
- Adjust text size in dictionary
- Performance:
-- Search results are faster, better ordered
-- Much faster start
- Cloud backups are tiny
The developer, Vertex8, 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:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Shanghai Vertex8 Information Technology Consulting Co., Ltd.
- Size
- 287.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.2 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2026 - Vertex8 & Cyrille Berliat
