Hanzi Time
Yuxiao Zhang Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hanzi Time is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Yuxiao Zhang. Rated 5.0/5 from 2 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 24, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 2 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 44 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 24
- 2026 · v1.3
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About Hanzi Time
Learn Chinese from your home screen. Hanzi Time turns idle glances at your phone into fluency. A clean widget shows one common Chinese word at a time — big character, pinyin, and meaning — spaced through the hours you choose, so you learn without opening an app. • 5,000 of the most common words and phrases, ordered by real-world frequency • Native audio pronunciation for every word • Choose how many words per day and your active hours • Minimal, distraction-free widget in standard and translucent glass styles • No accounts, no ads, no data collection — everything stays on your device HOW IT WORKS Add the widget to your home screen and pick your settings: how many new words a day, and the hours you're awake. Hanzi Time spaces the day's words evenly across that window, so a new word is waiting each time you glance at your phone — and nothing arrives while you're asleep. Words are ordered by how often they actually appear in real Chinese, so you learn the most useful vocabulary first. Tap any word in the app to hear it pronounced. HANZI TIME PRO Pro unlocks all 5,000 words, native audio for every one, and Focus mode — drill just the top 50, top 100, or any set of words you've saved. One purchase, yours forever. No subscription.
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated September 24, 2026
Fixed: the widget sometimes showed a word that wasn't in your Today list. Between midnight and your start hour it was still showing the previous day's last word. Fixed: your words are now spread across your full active hours. Previously the last word of the day arrived up to three hours before your chosen end time. Fixed: the widget now updates when you change time zones, so travelling no longer leaves it a day behind. Fixed: marking a word as saved no longer clears the "already seen" check marks on the rest of your word list.
App privacy
The developer, Yuxiao Zhang, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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