Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Chinese Flash
Learn Chinese characters in a flash!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chinese Flash launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Build your own Chinese vocabulary and learn with flashcards.
2024 · deer-vocabulary.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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18 languages, works offline with audio & images
2023 · its alternatives →
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2017 · pingtype.github.io · its alternatives →
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I've recently launched a startup called Native Tongue. Our vision is to make language learning fun, fast and effective. We've released our first product "Mandarin Madness", which is to learn Mandarin Chinese vocabulary. Its available on android and iOS. Its for beginners to intermediate, including those with no experience. Please go here for more information and to download the app: http://mandarinmadness.com/ Our company website is http://nativetongue.com/ We would love to get some feedback on our mobile apps. We would also like to speak to people interested in language learning and…
2012 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’m Alex, and one of my favorite ways to learn languages is by reading novels. Currently I’m reading 三体 (3 body problem), but one problem I've always had is it takes ages to look up words, and add them to Anki flashcards so I can remember them. 三体 is especially brutal with so much sci-fi vocab. That’s why I built Readly. I snap a pic of the page I’m reading, it loads the text in-app and lets me lookup words, add to Anki-style flashcards, or ask AI questions about the text, all in a single tap. It's a huge time saver. My specific learning strategy, if anyone wants to replicate it: 1.…
2025 · readly.ink · its alternatives →
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Just for fun, I built a language learning tool. It represents Chinese and Japanese as graphs of characters, with connections indicating given characters can form a word. It can also decompose characters to give clues on how they're pronounced, analyzes words to understand which ones are commonly used together, and more. It's fully interactive, supports offline use, generates flashcards, has sentences from humans and from AI, and plenty of other features. Check out the README for details. https://github.com/mreichhoff/HanziGraph
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn Chinese with interactive stories
Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Mobile app to Create, Save & Learn new vocabulary !
2024 · flashcubes.io · its alternatives →
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Serica▲16Chinese dictionary with built-in flashcards
2025 · sericadictionary.com · its alternatives →
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