Learn Mandarin,
step by step.
HanziCue is a Mandarin course for iPhone. It teaches the most useful words first, trains your ear for tones, and brings words back right before you would forget them.
Download on the App Store300 chapters
A gradual path across 37 stages, with 2,740 words, each taught in a translated example sentence.
Most useful words first
Everyday words like 人、知道、都、谁 arrive in the first chapters, so you can say real things early.
Hear and check your tones
Tone drills train your ear. Say a word and see your pitch drawn over the correct tone shapes.
Say it, don’t just recognize it
You type each new word in Chinese, build sentences, take dictation and record spoken replies.
Reviews built in
Words you are about to forget come back inside your lessons, timed by a modern memory model.
Stories and conversations
64 graded story journeys and twelve guided conversations use only words you have already learned.
Lock Screen widgets
Keep course words, or your own Anki and CSV decks, on your Lock Screen and Home Screen.
Private by design
No account and no tracking. Your progress and recordings stay on your iPhone.
How a chapter works
- Meet a few words with audio, a clear meaning and an example.
- Recognize them by reading and by ear, hear their tones, then type them in Chinese.
- Notice one pattern and build sentences with it.
- Follow a short story, then answer a speaker and record your reply.
- Pass a checkpoint that also brings back earlier chapters.
The first eight chapters are free. HanziCue Pro unlocks the full course and widgets. Tone feedback measures pitch only; it is not a full pronunciation score.