Ulangi isn't beautiful, but it works great. The only other SRS flashcard app that works better than Ulangi for learning Mandarin is
Anki - and Anki has its own problems.
Here's Ulangi's rather austere introductory screen.
For a one time fee of $2, I purchased the Premium (ad-free) version of Ulangi. Note its capacity to sync with Google Sheets.
The few built-in Mandarin flashcard decks that Ulangi has are poorly organized and hard to access. You'll need to add words manually. However, Ulangi's built-in dictionary and translator makes this easy. Just hit the + to add any word. You can also edit any entry, including the ones created automatically by the dictionary.
This - the ability to choose between four different levels of ease in remembering - is what sets Ulangi apart from almost every other so called SRS flashcard system for Mandarin. Only Anki does it as well. Ulangi it uses text-to-speech (computer generated pronunciations) rather than actual audio recordings. I've found a couple words where the pronunciation wasn't accurate. The positive side is that you can create a flashcard for any word, even if you don't have a Chinese friend to record it for you.
The "writing" section tests your Pinyin spelling recall. (To type in Chinese, you type in Pinyin.)
One feature Anki has but Ulangi lacks is the ability to play audio on the front side of the card. In other words, with Ulangi, you can practice speaking and reading but not listening.
One last downside of Ulangi: if you're in China and you don't have a VPN, you won't be able to access it, because it relies on Google for its pronunciation and dictionary.
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