Practice Hanzi is an iPhone app for learning to write Chinese characters. You trace each character stroke by stroke and the app checks every stroke, then spaced repetition brings it back before you forget it. The vocabulary of 115 Chinese textbooks is already inside, chapter by chapter.
At a glance
- Name
- Practice Hanzi
- What it is
- An iPhone app for learning to write Chinese characters
- Platform
- iPhone, iOS 16.4 or later
- Released
- 6 November 2026
- Price
- Free to download. Premium is a subscription priced per country; the yearly plan starts with a free trial.
- Made by
- Xijing Art, Shanghai
- App Store
- Practice Hanzi on the App Store
In numbers
- 115textbooks
- 1,947textbook chapters
- 142,535vocabulary entries
- 6,421characters
What it does
- Writing practice on a 米字格 grid, each stroke checked as it is traced
- Stroke order animation for every character
- Spaced-repetition review (FSRS)
- Textbook vocabulary by chapter: HSK Standard Course, Integrated Chinese, New Practical Chinese Reader and more
- Pronunciation scoring
- Dictionary search in English or pinyin, and on-device scanning of a printed page
Images
iPhone screenshots, 1320 × 2868 JPEG. Free to use in articles about Practice Hanzi. Click an image to download it.
Contact
For interviews or anything not on this page, write to hello@practicehanzi.com.
