ReadOut Chinese: HSK & Reader

ReadOut Chinese: Scan Chinese books, look up HSK 1-9 vocabulary, save words, and review with panda games—all in one place.

What can this app do?

1. Chinese Dictionary: Look up words easily.
2. Scan & Save Books: Tap a word to learn it on its word card.
3. Review with Panda Games: Answer correctly to earn bamboo.
4. NEW! Live in the Panda Forest: Spend your bamboo on food, farming, houses, and outfits (tap things to hear Chinese audio!).

The details

1. Chinese dictionary

• Over 12,000 words (English & Thai) with Pinyin, audio, HSK level, meaning, and stroke order.
• Checked against the new HSK 3.0 syllabus (Nov 2025), with CC-CEDICT for other words.

1. Scan books & your reading library

• Save unlimited page photos, paste text, share screenshots, or import PDFs (PDF is VIP).
• Pinyin above the Chinese, tap a sentence to hear it, and translations under each sentence.
• Tap a word to learn it on its 2-language word card, save it, and write your own meaning.
• Word Map [VIP]: tap one character to see its compound words, color-coded by HSK 1-9.
• New! Add your own MP3 audio to a book [VIP]: cut it sentence by sentence, then read along with the real voice.
• A color bar shows each book's HSK difficulty, and you can send text to your AI app.
• HSK 1-9 books for the full new syllabus, topic word books, and picture storybooks with audio (VIP storybooks checked by native teachers).

1. Review words with the panda game

• Saved words come back in the panda game, with a recap of each word.
• Panda Adventure: climb HSK 1-9 with all 11,000 words of the syllabus [VIP], plus quizzes made from the books you read [VIP].
• Practice writing characters in stroke order (in the app, or print worksheets with VIP).

1. New! Panda Forest & 2.5D Talking Rooms Bamboo you earn by reviewing is money in the Panda Forest.

• Restaurant 饭馆: order Chinese food like hotpot and buns, and pay with a 信用卡 card (first 5 dishes free, the rest VIP).
• Bubble tea shop 奶茶店: bubble tea and fruit teas, all free except 3 frappes [VIP].
• Foodie passport 护照: get a stamp for every dish your panda tries.
• Farm 农场 [VIP]: grow vegetables and fruit, raise chickens and pigs, and harvest for bamboo.
• Panda houses 房子 [VIP]: save bamboo to buy a home, from a bamboo hut to a pool villa.
• Panda ID card 熊猫身份证: name your panda and share its card.
• Dress-up: 13 Chinese costumes, from emperor to fairy. Pick a scene and share the photo.
• 2.5D talking rooms: rotate and zoom, tap the floor to walk, tap things to hear Chinese, and play "Find it".

Works offline & stays private:

• No login, works without internet after a one-time language download, your data stays on your device with file backup, and no personal data is collected.

Upgrade to VIP to unlock everything:

• Listen to a whole book, Chinese→Thai / English, and change the reading speed
• Word maps, compounds and words by level
• Import PDFs to tap and read each word, and add your own MP3 audio to books
• HSK 1-9 words A-Z, the panda game, and quizzes from the books you read
• Write HSK 1-9 words in the app, or print worksheets to practise
• Storybooks checked by native teachers
• The panda farm, panda houses, and special dishes and drinks
• All talking rooms, plus future books and rooms (Free: unlimited book scans, the dictionary, HSK 1 book pages 1-3, the first 2 talking rooms, the restaurant and bubble tea shop, the Panda ID card, and dress-up.)

VIP membership prices:

• Monthly: US$3.99 / month
• Yearly: US$19.99 / year (7-day free trial!)
• Lifetime: US$59.99

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