NEWBuilt for HSK 3.0 — the 2026 nine-level standard

From HSK to fluent.

11,000 official words, 5,200+ exam-format questions, 7 timed mock papers, and an AI coach that marks your writing and answers you out loud — across all 9 HSK levels, in 9 languages.

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Set your exam date. The plan builds itself.
11,000
official words
each with pinyin, a meaning in your language and stroke order
5,200+
practice questions
3,457 reading · 1,433 listening · 335 picture-choice
7
timed mock papers
one per level, scored the moment you hand it in
9
levels
HSK 1 all the way through the 7–9 band

What you actually get

Not a wall of flashcards. A dated plan, real exam formats with recorded audio, mock papers that give you a number, and an AI that marks what you write and answers what you say.

Set your exam date. The plan builds itself.

Set the exam date, get the plan

The countdown drives everything. Your day opens on the one task that moves the needle most, sized so you'll actually finish it.

Know your level before you pick one

A score, not a feeling

Seven timed mock papers, one for every level. Twenty questions, twelve minutes, scored the second you hand it in — and every miss drops into your review queue.

4,750+ questions, in the formats the paper uses

Real exam formats

Listening, matching, picture-choice, reading and writing — every official HSK 3.0 question type. 1,300+ listening items come with recorded audio, not read out by the browser.

AI marks your essay the way the exam would

Marked on the four things the exam marks

Grammar, vocabulary, coherence and task, 25 points each. Then every sentence you got wrong, rewritten, with the reason in your language.

Say it out loud. AI answers back.

Say it out loud. It answers back.

Tap the mic and talk. The AI replies in Chinese with pinyin and a translation, and fixes what you said — a conversation, not a chat window.

Built for the new HSK 1–9

The whole word list, free

All 11,000 entries: hanzi, pinyin, a meaning in your language, stroke-order animation, and a play button big enough to hit without looking.

The streak is the whole trick

An honest diagnosis

A readiness band with the confidence behind it, plus the specific skills costing you marks.

The difference

Why this beats another question bank

A bank gives you more questions. Everything below is the part a bank leaves to you.

01

It tells you what to fix, not just what you got wrong

Every answer is tagged against 45 exam skills. Miss enough resultative-complement questions and the app stops handing you random drills — that grammar point goes to the top of tomorrow's plan and stays there until the numbers move.

Weakest skills → tomorrow's plan
  • Resultative complement42%
  • Listening · inference61%
  • Word cloze74%

02

Marked against the official criteria, not against vibes

Write a composition and the AI scores it the way the paper does — grammar, vocabulary, coherence and task, 25 points each for 100 — then corrects it line by line and explains every change in your language. Speak an answer and it comes back the same way.

我们讨论关于这个问题我们讨论这个问题

讨论 already takes its object directly, so 关于 is redundant — the same depth of explanation, in whichever language you're learning in.

03

Your language, all the way down

Nine complete interfaces — not an English app with translated word lists. Arabic and other right-to-left languages run in a true RTL layout, not a mirrored afterthought.

  • EN

    Placement test

  • ES

    Prueba de nivel

  • AR

    اختبار تحديد المستوى

04

Written for HSK 3.0, not re-labelled from the old exam

The exam was rebuilt into nine levels in 2026 and most apps are still shipping re-badged HSK 2.0 content. Every question here was written against the new outline.

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Including the 7–9 band, where almost everyone else stops at 6.

And the rest of it

The parts that don't fit on a phone screenshot, all of them real and all of them counted.

Every mistake on its own schedule
Miss a question and it comes back sooner. Get it right and it backs off. Nothing is reviewed on a fixed loop.
76 graded stories
HSK 1 to 6, sorted by the ten situations you'd actually use them in — travel, ordering food, work, seeing a doctor.
3,088 characters, stroke by stroke
Every character in the word list, animated in the correct order. 123 of them you can trace yourself on a grid.
282 characters explained as pictures
Where the shape came from, so it stops being an arbitrary squiggle and starts being something you can picture.
A 15-question placement test
Free, no account, five skills scored. It tells you which level to start from instead of making you guess.
Point your camera at anything
Get the Chinese word for what's in front of you, kept with the photo so the word has something to hang on.
Old level to new level
Paste an HSK 2.0 level or a block of Chinese text and see exactly where it lands on the nine-level scale.
Nine interface languages
Explanations in yours, the Chinese stays Chinese, and Arabic runs in a true right-to-left layout.

Free where it should be free

Everything you'd look up stays open. You only pay when you want the coaching on top.

Free

$0

  • Look up all 11,000 official words — pinyin, meanings, stroke order; guided study for the first 3,000
  • Placement test, text analyser and 2.0 ↔ 3.0 converter
  • A daily allowance of practice in every skill
  • One timed mock paper per level
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♛ For exam season

Pro

$59.99 / year

≈ $5.00 a month · or $12.99 billed monthly

  • Unlimited practice and mock exams
  • AI writing feedback on the four official criteria
  • AI speaking partner and pronunciation scoring
  • Full weakness diagnosis and a plan built from it
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Cancel anytime · no card for the placement test

Questions people ask first

Is this the new HSK 3.0 or the old exam?
HSK 3.0 only. The exam was rebuilt into nine levels in 2026 and every question here was written for that standard — not converted from the old six-level test.
Do I need to pay to start?
No. The 11,000-word dictionary, the text analyser, the level converter and the placement test are free and unlimited. Daily practice has a free allowance; Pro removes the limit.
Is there an iPhone app?
Not yet — a native app is on the roadmap. Today NestChinese runs as a web app that works well on any phone: open it in Safari and tap Add to Home Screen, and it behaves like an installed app (offline-friendly, full screen, its own icon).
What languages is it available in?
Nine languages, including proper right-to-left layout for Arabic. Explanations appear in your language, while the Chinese you're learning stays in Chinese.
Are the mock exams free?
One timed mock paper per level is free — seven papers in total, twenty questions each, scored with a review of what you missed. Pro removes the limit on retakes.
How much of the content is actually written for 3.0?
All of it. 11,000 words from the 2025 list, 5,200+ questions in 3.0 formats, 7 mock papers, 3,088 stroke-order animations and 76 graded stories, none of it converted from the six-level exam.

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