Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to PinYinSwift
Chinese characters into pinyin based on thesaurus
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. PinYinSwift launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Display Pinyin in web pages and video closed captions
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lingoedit 2.0▲445Simplify translation and editing: your AI language companion
2024 · its alternatives →
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yuyin.io▲136Master Chinese pronunciation with AI-powered feedback
2025 · yuyin.io · its alternatives →
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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 →
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2019 · mandarintonetrainer.com · its alternatives →
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I've built mandoBot, a web app that segments and translates Mandarin Chinese text. This is a Django API (using Django-Ninja and PostgreSQL) and a NextJS front-end (with Typescript and Chakra). For a sample of what this app does, head to https://mandobot.netlify.app/?share_id=e8PZ8KFE5Y. This is my presentation of the first chapter of a classic story from the Republican era of Chinese fiction, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun. Other chapters are located in the "Reading Room" section of the app. This app exists because reading Mandarin is very hard for learners (like me), since…
2025 · mandobot.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Hacked it together over the weekend. It can tell you the meaning of each character, how to write it and how to pronounce it!
2025 · chname.dev · its alternatives →
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𝑳𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔… #famouslastwords
2014 · qaz.wtf · its alternatives →
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TransLite▲98Hello ! David from Spain here :) I built TransLite because I was tired of breaking my flow every time I needed to translate something before sending it. The usual workflow was: copy → open a browser tab → paste → translate → copy again → paste back. I've created a small macOS menubar app that lets you translate the current clipboard instantly using a keyboard shortcut, in any app. It works locally and supports using your own OpenAI / Claude API key. It’s intentionally simple — no accounts, no tracking, no subscriptions. Happy to answer any questions. Best regards, David
Feb 2026 · translite.app · its alternatives →
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Effortlessly hyphenate English (US) words with HyphenateIt. Ideal for writers, editors, and language enthusiasts. Fast, accurate, multilingual hyphenation tool.
2010 · softhyphen.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…
Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →
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Cantonese spoken language learning tool
2024 · jyutping.deno.dev · its alternatives →
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Alphabet & pinyin
2025 · abc123speak.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Built with Nuxt & MongoDB – a way to preserve language with personal audio, anecdotes and stories. Hope to make a version open source one day so others can preserve their native languages.
2024 · nomenclature.ctang.art · its alternatives →
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Your Chinese character dictation companion
Aug 2026 · tingxie.ink · its alternatives →
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Make Chinese learning fun and easy
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Serica▲16Chinese dictionary with built-in flashcards
2025 · sericadictionary.com · 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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