Hanzi Popup
Chinese reading
Tap a Chinese word in a web page, book, PDF or video to see pinyin, meaning and HSK level.
Free, in-app purchaseWebsite
// Apps
iOS apps
Readers, a writing course, a camera app and a word game.
Indie developer · Chinese learning tools
Tools for learning Chinese
iOS apps, Anki decks and open data for HSK 3.0.
Ink Brush Chinese
Chinese course
Learn Chinese inside a story about two students in Beijing, and write each character stroke by stroke.
Free, in-app purchaseWebsite
Engly Reader
English reading
Tap an English word in an article, book, document or video to see its meaning and CEFR level.
Free, in-app purchaseWebsite
Mandarin Snap
Chinese vocabulary
Take a photo of an object and see its name in Chinese.
$5.99
Transcription Engine AI
Speech to text
Turn speech from the microphone, a video or a file into text, with synced subtitles and translation.
Free, in-app purchaseWebsite
MaekWord
Word game
An English word game: tap letters in order to solve each anagram before time runs out.
FreeWebsite
// Decks
Anki decks
Paid decks are sold on Patreon. Free decks download directly.
Paid
Anki xiě hànzì Premium, HSK 3.0
$15HSK 1 to 7-9. Writing cards, a redesigned layout and a built-in offline dictionary.
Anki xiě hànzì Cloze
$8Fill in the missing word in example sentences.
Kangxi Radicals
$5214 cards, one for each radical.
Free
Anki xiě hànzì, HSK 3.0
10,900 words in HSK 1 to 7-9, plus the old HSK 2012 list. Audio and stroke order.
Premium version with writing cards and an offline dictionary: $15 on Patreon.
Chinese Grammar Practice
Grammar patterns with example sentences.
Write Kanji
Draw Japanese kanji stroke by stroke, with onyomi, kunyomi and meaning.
Coming
- In progress
HSK grammar
Grammar patterns from HSK 1 to 7-9, with example sentences, audio and common mistakes. HSK 1 to 3 first.
- In progress
Chinese idioms
About 300 chengyu, each with its origin story, a picture, example sentences and audio.
Follow on Patreon for free to get the release post when each deck is out.
Follow on Patreon
// Anki tools
Anki tools
Add-ons, apps and card tools for Anki.
// Libraries
Libraries
Code for Anki decks, speech and text, to build on.
genanki-js
79Make Anki decks in the browser with JavaScript.
anki-tts
16Microsoft Edge text to speech inside Anki card templates.
AnkiJS-API
11JavaScript API for card information in the Anki reviewer.
tiny-aligner
Forced alignment of Chinese and English audio in the browser, with a 930K-parameter model.
misaki-wasm
Multilingual grapheme-to-phoneme engine on Pyodide and WebAssembly.
wtpsplit-kit
On-device text segmentation for iOS and macOS with Core ML.
// Data
Chinese data
Word lists, sentences, grammar and dictionaries.
HSK-3.0
414HSK 3.0 word, character and grammar lists with pinyin, zhuyin and frequency.
Chinese-Example-Sentences
2363,000 Chinese sentences with pinyin and English, for offline use.
cedict-json
14CC-CEDICT as one JSON file per simplified term.
chinese-chengyu
3Chinese idioms with pinyin and meaning.
Chinese Immersion Library
Channels, podcasts, sites and apps for learning Chinese, by level and region.
hsk-graded-sentences
Tatoeba Chinese sentences ranked from easiest to hardest, in SQLite.
// Blog
Blog
Notes on my projects, Anki and course reports.
// Contact
Get in touch
Pick what fits, so your message goes to the right place.
App helpProblem with an app?A bug, a crash or a feature you want in one of the iOS apps. Say which app and which iPhone.Email meDecks and dataQuestion about a deck?A card that looks wrong, a deck that will not import, or using the HSK data in your own project.Open an issue on GitHubWork togetherBuilding something for learners?Anki tools, iOS apps or Chinese language data. Send a short note about what you have in mind.DM me on X