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Pinyin TL

Utilities

Tom Kerrigan

iPhone iPadFree
Store rating
5.0 ★
Store ratings
1
AVALW mentions
0
Price
Free
Platforms
2
Listed
Nov 14, 2026

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About Pinyin TL

Do you ever look at Chinese text and wish you could see Pinyin above each character?

Now you can, with Pinyin TL!

With Pinyin TL, you take a picture, select some Chinese text within that picture, and that text is displayed at the top of the screen along with its corresponding Pinyin.

You can even tap on a word (at the top) and see its CC-CEDICT dictionary entry.

App features:
- Select text using Apple's "Live Text" UI.
- High-accuracy text recognition: Simplified and traditional characters, horizontal and vertical alignment, stylized text, handwritten text.
- High-accuracy Pinyin: Correctly resolves most polyphonic characters.
- High-accuracy word recognition: Uses CC-CEDICT to identify words.
- On-device processing: Works offline, 100% private.

Pinyin TL is made by the developer of tChess (the chess app that was featured in Apple's "Learn" commercial for the iPad) and Learn Chess (the Apple Staff Favorite e-book).

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