Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to YiChi
Learn to speak fluent Chinese Mandarin
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. YiChi launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons! Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to…
2022 · lessons.nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · mandarintonetrainer.com · its alternatives →
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Lingocat▲437Become fluent faster through conversational practice
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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yuyin.io▲136Master Chinese pronunciation with AI-powered feedback
2025 · yuyin.io · its alternatives →
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Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →
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Japanese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with kanji lookup, example sentences, flashcards, OCR photo lookup, and a Safari extension for reading Japanese.
2015 · nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →
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Learn Chinese with a gamified Chinese learning app!
2016 · ninchanese.com · its alternatives →
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A fun, free way to learn the tones in Chinese
2023 · chinesetones.app · its alternatives →
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Dictionariez▲58Facilitate your language learning with tons of dictionaries
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Become fluent in speaking English by talking to AI
2023 · lorro.io · its alternatives →
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Ninchanese▲115Learn Chinese with a gamified Chinese learning app!
2016 · ninchanese.com · its alternatives →
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WellSpeak▲139Practice English and be confident in pronunciation
2021 · apps.apple.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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Flalingo▲98Speak from day one with real-time AI voice practice
2021 · flalingo.com · its alternatives →
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