Live Pinyin Camera Lense
Read Chinese characters in AR
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Point your camera at Chinese and read it. Live Pinyin writes tone-marked pinyin right above the characters while you look at them — no typing, no cropping photos, no waiting.
WHAT IT DOES
• Pinyin over every line the camera sees: textbooks, menus, signs, labels
• Works with Simplified and Traditional characters
• Freeze the picture to study it: pinch to zoom, tap a line to enlarge it
• Copy a line as pinyin, as characters, or both
• Save pages with the pinyin on them and open them again later
• Share a page with the pinyin printed on it
• Make the pinyin bigger or smaller
READINGS THAT MAKE SENSE
Many characters change their sound with the word they are in. Live Pinyin reads whole words, so 银行 comes out yín háng, not yín xíng.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Recognition runs on your device, and your pictures never leave your phone. No account, no sign-up, no ads.
Available in 32 languages — pick yours in Settings, whatever your phone is set to.
FREE AND PAID
30 minutes of live camera time are free, and the demo and your saved pages always stay free. One small one-time purchase unlocks unlimited camera time. No subscription.
Questions or ideas? ios-app-contact@bechample.com
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- Improved user interface: changing font size
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Bechample GmbH
- Size
- 2.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 30 more
- English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Live Pinyin Camera $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Bechample GmbH
