CHAC: Learn Chinese Characters
Pim Voogt Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
CHAC: Learn Chinese Characters is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Pim Voogt. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 19, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 90 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 19
- 2026 · v1.2.49
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About CHAC: Learn Chinese Characters
Learn Chinese characters through a training hall built for complete beginners. CHAC teaches 397 Chinese characters in small guided lessons for complete beginners. The course includes all 246 current HSK 1 recognition characters, all 125 current HSK 2 additions, and 26 retained 2021 and foundation cards. Meet each character in a first-read pass, explore its text memory cue and approved illustration where available, hear its pronunciation, and practise its English meaning before moving on. UNDERSTAND HOW CHARACTERS WORK - See modern character breakdowns in clear beginner language - Learn which component provides meaning and which provides sound - Explore memory cues grounded in documented character history, with original mnemonics where reliable origins are unavailable - Hear pinyin pronunciation through your phone's offline voice BUILD RECALL STEP BY STEP - Watch animated stroke order and trace every character on screen - Review each character with spaced repetition - Move through sixteen themed chambers with forging exercises and trials - Use Pattern Scrolls and Sentence Forge to practise useful sentence tools - Finish with the Jade Hall final exam drawn from everything you have learned WORKS OFFLINE, ACCOUNT OPTIONAL Learning works without an account and your progress stays on your device by default. Optional Google or Apple sign-in lets you carry progress to another device. You can delete your account and synced progress inside the app. CHAC is free and supported by ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.2.49 · Updated October 19, 2026
Hindi is now an app language. The translation is new and machine-made, so please tell us about any mistakes. Choose it in Profile > Language. CHAC is much smaller to download: about 60 MB instead of 167 MB. "Next character" and "Next lesson" are now translated in French, Thai, Japanese and Korean.
App privacy
The developer, Pim Voogt, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: App Functionality
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:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, App Functionality
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