Shuo Chinese Companion

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About this app

Shuo is an advanced offline Chinese dictionary and camera translator designed to turn every word you search into a seamless learning experience.
Scan a sign, menu or message, tap a recognized word, and quickly find its meaning.

📷 Scan with your camera or share an image
🔎 Search in Chinese, pinyin or English
✍️ Watch stroke order and practice writing
🧠 Save words to flashcard decks
🧳 Use practical phrases with pinyin or zhuyin and built-in pronunciation

Text recognition, dictionary lookup, stroke animations and phrases work offline.

The easy camera translator uses on-device machine learning to instantly recognize Chinese text without ever requiring an internet connection.
Once you scan or search for a word, you get a comprehensive dictionary entry complete with detailed stroke order animations to help you master character structure.
From there, you can instantly save any word into custom flashcard decks to build your own study material.

Shuo helps you retain what you learn with study reminders that prompt you to practice your saved vocabulary over time.

The app completely adapts to your preferred learning style.
You can toggle effortlessly between Simplified and Traditional characters, choose between Pinyin and Zhuyin notation, and enable color-coded tone marks for better visual retention.
Shuo also leverages your device's native text-to-speech to provide accurate voice playback, letting you adjust speech rates and choose between Mainland and Taiwanese accents.

Most importantly, Shuo puts your focus and privacy first.
The app contains zero ads, zero analytics, and zero tracking.
Everything you scan, search, and study stays completely secure on your offline device.

What’s new

- Word of the Day: Discover a new daily Chinese vocabulary word every day alongside friends
- Enhanced Word Details: View detailed explanations, animated pronunciation audio buttons, and regional tags
- Smarter Dictionary Search: Primary definitions rank ahead of surnames when searching or viewing character breakdowns
- Deck & UI Improvements: Cleaner deck dropdown menus with scroll indicators, refined color swatches, and larger deck name editing text