Chinesemate

Chinesemate is a practical China travel companion for reading, speaking, and navigating with more confidence.

Use a focused phrasebook, Hanzi scanner, offline-ready translator tools, and city guides built around real travel moments: ordering food, taking transit, checking into hotels, shopping, asking directions, and handling emergencies.

What you can do with Chinesemate:

Learn essential Chinese travel phrases with Hanzi, pinyin, English meanings, favorites, and audio playback
Search 75 useful phrases across greetings, food, transit, shopping, emergencies, numbers, directions, and hotels
Scan Chinese characters from your camera or gallery and translate detected text to English
Open a translation overlay for scanned images to inspect translated text in context
Speak or type Chinese and English for two-way translation after downloading language models
Explore China city guides with notes, cultural context, highlights, and travel checklists
Download city data and speech models for offline access after initial setup
Save progress, favorites, city checklist items, and offline travel information on your device
Chinesemate is designed for travelers who want quick, useful help instead of a generic dictionary. It focuses on the situations you are most likely to face while visiting China: finding the metro, paying for food, showing hotel details, reading signs, understanding screenshots, and asking for help