LingoWonders: Language Reader
lei cao Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
LingoWonders: Language Reader is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by lei cao. Requires iOS 15.5. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 108 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v2.1.0
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About LingoWonders: Language Reader
Learn Chinese, Japanese, Korean or English words, write them stroke by stroke, and print real practice sheets. LingoWonders is for learners, parents and teachers. Stroke order, voice and writing practice are free. There is no subscription, no ads and no account. READ — LESSONS FROM YOUR OWN MATERIAL Photograph a page, paste text, open a web page and LingoWonders makes a lesson. Listen sentence by sentence, tap a word to look it up, record yourself beside the app voice, save words. Stories in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean are included; they and a daily allowance of your own articles are free. FOR LEARNERS — FREE • Stroke-order animation, and a free stroke-by-stroke writing check on screen with a finger or Apple Pencil (Chinese, kana and hangul) • HSK 3.0 levels 1–3: about 2,200 words in free decks, Simplified and Traditional. Levels 4–6 are in Pro • Every word shows its reading (pinyin, kana, romanization, US IPA for English), its meaning and a speaker button • Flashcards, and dictation that reads each word aloud; words you miss come back for review • Choose the stroke-order standard for each list: China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan or Japanese kanji • Search by word, reading or meaning — "shui" finds 水 FOR PARENTS — THE WEEKLY SPELLING LOOP 1. Photograph the school word list. Photo lists are free and unlimited, the photo stays with the list, and long sentences and stories stay whole. 2. Your child runs the dictation alone, with your own voice recordings or the app voice. English has US, UK, Australian and Singapore voices and "Spell it aloud". 3. Print a test sheet. Every page is free. 4. Paper Check (beta): photograph the finished test. LingoWonders shows what it read, and you mark each answer. It does not mark for you. 3 checks are free, then Pro. The This week tab keeps one card per list and shows the next step as one button. Share a list by link, QR code or file, free. LIBRARY Tao Nan School P1 spelling and 听写 lists, and thousands more words from preschool to A level. The Chinese library has about 7,200 words, including HSK 1–6. PRINT PRACTICE SHEETS — FREE, AS MANY AS YOU LIKE • 田字格 tian-grid sheets with 描红 tracing, and pinyin over the characters • Print with AirPrint, share a PDF or save an image. Free exports contain page 1 of each sheet and a small App Store QR code LINGOWONDERS PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION • Every page of every sheet (free prints page 1) • Stroke-order sheets (笔顺) and stroke-order strips • Combined PDF: several sheet types in one file • More fonts: 标准楷书 textbook kai, School print and Sloped print • Blue, red, green and purple trace ink, and trace fade • Paper Check beyond the 3 free ones, more profiles, and your choice to keep the small QR on your sheets or print clean pages. One Pro covers the whole family with Family Sharing • Read without limits: unlimited articles, longer texts and more recordings • HSK 4–6 decks Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. AI features such as Paper Check run on our servers and cost us per use, so they have a fair-use limit that may change over time. Everything else works offline. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads, no account, no subscription. Your words, lists and practice stay on your device, and LingoWonders works offline. The exceptions are Paper Check, reading words from a photo in the cloud, and example sentences: they send the photo or the words to our server and Google's Gemini model, and nothing is stored on our server. Read fetches a web page on your device only when you ask, and nothing from Read is uploaded to our servers. iPhone and iPad, in 12 languages. Questions or ideas? Write to [email protected] — a real person reads every message.
What’s new
Version 2.1.0 · Updated October 21, 2026
TraceSheet is now LingoWonders. 2.1 is the week loop: • Week Pack: one tap turns this week's list into sentences, a short reader and prompt cards for you, with readings and translations. It is made by AI on our server, so it can have mistakes. Free: 3 packs and 60 sentence words in total. Pro: 10 packs and 200 words a week. • Read aloud: record a sentence and get "Sounds right" or "once more", checked on the phone. Turn on Listen first to hear the app voice, then "Your turn". Next keeps recording. • Read tab: text, photos, links and files, or share into the app. Readings in pinyin, zhuyin, Jyutping, kana and romaji. On-device translation (iOS 18 and later). Record a whole reading and check it sentence by sentence, with the app voice or the original beside your take. • Listen while the app is open: speed 0.5×–2× and repeat. • One text editor for every list and reading: type, paste, scan, files, links. Split, merge, undo. • Share from Safari, Photos and Files into LingoWonders. • AI features ask for your permission once before anything is sent. You can turn it off in Settings. • Help & FAQ rewritten.
App privacy
The developer, lei cao, 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:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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