For learners who've outgrown Duolingo and want more than Anki.
Merry Mandarin sits where serious Chinese learners actually live: Beyond the gamified beginner apps and the empty flashcard deck. 14,000 hand-curated words, FSRS-5 scheduling, character decomposition, graded stories, stroke-order practice, and seven mini-games — one app instead of five.
Built for the things that actually trip you up.
Six specific frustrations every Chinese learner hits. Six specific tools to get past them.
My dictionary says 做 means “do.” Then so does 干. And 弄. Now what?
Every one of our 14,000 entries comes with usage notes, classifiers, common confusions, and human-written example sentences. The dictionary you wish Pleco had.
In other apps, I reviewed some words fifty times and they still feel new.
FSRS-5 schedules each card at the moment it's about to slip — not on guesswork, not on a fixed interval. Up to 20% fewer reviews than SM-2 for the same retention.
I know 80 characters and still can't read a menu.
Point your camera at any Chinese text — menu, sign, museum placard, manga panel. Tap any word to look it up or save it.
汉字 still look like random scribbles after a year.
Every character broken into its radicals and IDS component tree, with etymology. Once you see the pattern, characters stop being random.
I'm done memorising HSK lists. I want to actually read.
Graded short stories at every HSK level, plus a built-in HSK 1–6 course path. Read your first complete story by week three.
Anki was a chore. Duolingo was a game. Where's the middle?
Seven mini-games that drill the exact words your SRS queue is tracking — not generic vocab. Same retention, less guilt.
A journey that actually ends in fluency.
Start with 150 survival words. Work your way up through graded stories — and one day, the same novels Chinese students read in school.
HSK 1 → HSK 6, fully structured
Every lesson unit is hand-curated with example sentences, native audio, and the correct measure words — so you never learn a word in isolation.
100+ graded stories — and the classics are on their way
Our hand-crafted story library takes you from beginner sentences to rich, authentic texts. We're also busy translating and adapting China's great literary classics into approachable modern Chinese, so one day you'll read them right inside the app — tap any character for pinyin, tone, meaning, and stroke order.
Stories Library Available now
100+ hand-crafted graded stories from HSK 1 to advanced — each with native-speaker audio and character-level annotations.
Dream of the Red Chamber Coming soon
Cao Xueqin's Qing-dynasty masterpiece, adapted for learners — chapter by chapter with full annotations.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Coming soon
Luo Guanzhong's epic adapted into digestible modern Chinese — perfect for intermediate and advanced readers.