Chinese Buddy
KANZ COFFEE ROASTERS PTE. LTD Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Chinese Buddy is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by KANZ COFFEE ROASTERS PTE. LTD. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 12, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 46 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 12
- 2026 · v1.0.3
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About Chinese Buddy
Chinese Buddy is your patient AI Mandarin tutor — always pitched exactly at your level. Most apps make you memorize word lists. Chinese Buddy gets you speaking and reading. One tap and you're in a natural conversation with a patient AI panda tutor: it listens, responds, and gently corrects you. Why it works • Speaks at your level — every reply is just one step above what you already know. You understand almost everything, yet always learn something new. • Characters are a network, not a list — tap any word for an instant character card: component breakdown, sound and meaning parts, origin stories. Hanzi stop being isolated symbols. • Tones come first — the Tone Dojo trains your ear with minimal pairs, so your Mandarin actually sounds right. • Smart pinyin — annotations appear only on characters you don't know yet, and fade out automatically as you improve. • Graded reader — AI generates articles you can actually read, matched to your character knowledge, with just the right density of new words. • Your character count is your progress bar — knowing 1,000 characters covers 92% of everyday Chinese. Every step is visible. • Remembers what you've learned — words come back for review at the perfect moment (spaced repetition), so they truly stick. What's inside • Natural conversation practice with instant, gentle feedback • A 5-minute smart placement quiz that estimates your character knowledge • Tap-any-word graded reading with hanzi cards • Tone perception training dojo • Clear progress reports and HSK alignment • A warm panda buddy that keeps you going Privacy first Your learning data stays on your device. No social feed, no ads, no pressure — just you and your tutor. Start free, subscribe to continue. A little every day goes a long way. Terms of Use (EULA): https://cb26.pipi.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://cb26.pipi.com/legal/privacy
What’s new
Version 1.0.3 · Updated October 12, 2026
• Try Pro free for 7 days — cancel anytime • Simpler checkout: subscribe without signing in • See how many free conversations you have left on the Home screen • Bug fixes and improvements
App privacy
The developer, KANZ COFFEE ROASTERS PTE. LTD, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Other User Content
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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