Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Paici
Scan Chinese, read with pinyin. Practice listening & HSK.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1
Laoshi▲239Learn new words with flashcards to master Chinese faster
2021 · laoshi.io · its alternatives →
- 2
Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 3
- 4AA
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 5
Unlock Mandarin with Shengci: Daily HSK Vocabulary Mastery!
Aug 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 6
- 7
Speak Chinese but can't read? Learn Chinese reading FREE
Mar 2026 · readchinesehsk.com · its alternatives →
- 8
Capture, translate, and understand any text on your Mac
Aug 2026 · appunbound.com · its alternatives →
- 9IB
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 →
- 10
Master Chinese reading through AIpowered interactive drawing
Dec 2025 · sketchhanyu.aigility.digital · its alternatives →
- 11
- 12
A fun, free way to learn the tones in Chinese
2023 · chinesetones.app · its alternatives →
- 13
Hi HN! In trying to improve my Chinese skills, I built this tool that lets me write a mix of Chinese and English, then recommends a proper Chinese expression. This is super helpful when I want to write something in Chinese but I don't know all the vocab/grammar - I can enter my best effort and use English for the parts I don't know. Really, the fundamental benefit of the tool is that it encourages me to exercise the writing muscle, rather than defaulting to translating from English. My goal was to build something that is fast, relatively inexpensive, and not prone to misleading people.…
2024 · unscrambler.dpw.me · its alternatives →
- 14
AI-driven OCR and translation tools.
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 15
HanClip▲4Learn Chinese one sentence at a time, right-click to analyze
Jun 2026 · hanclip.com · its alternatives →
- 16
Select, snip, hover, paste, or type Chinese on your Mac. See pinyin, definitions, sentence translation, HSK context, and save local flashcards.
Sep 2026 · zhenzhu.app · its alternatives →
- 17
Learn Chinese from your Lockscreen, AI quiz, story and more
Jun 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 18
I made a website for learning Chinese. There are many already, but I think there is always room for new entries into the Chinese language learning ecosystem. The Site: - Course is an online version of the HSK course books (HSK 1-2 done so far, 3-4 coming soon) including all the vocabulary, texts, and all the content/activities from the coursebook and workbooks. - SRS Flashcards - SRS Sentence speaking - Character writing tool (Stroke data is from MakeMeAHanzi) - Dictionary is from the MBDG Chinese Dictionary - I build it using Rails and StimulusJS (with AI help) - Uses a lot of…
Dec 2025 · learnchinese.ai · its alternatives →
- 19
- 20
Categorise Mandarin text by HSK level
2025 · hsk-text-analyser.vercel.app · its alternatives →
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
Kaizen OCR▲31Fully offline OCR with 100+ languages support. Full Privacy
2025 · kaizen-apps.com · its alternatives →
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →