Speak Chinese
without the fear.
You can read it. You can follow the show. Then someone asks you something and you freeze. Lenzi is who you practice with — out loud, every day, at exactly your level. She never judges, never gets impatient, and never has anywhere else to be.
Pick who you're talking to, then tap a reply and hear her answer in a real voice — no sign-up, no mic, however broken is fine.
For learners who can read Chinese but go quiet when it's their turn to speak.
Built by a learner who could follow a whole drama and still froze ordering lunch — so I made someone safe to practice on.
What a session feels like
From frozen to a sentence you've actually said out loud — in three steps.
Push to talk
Say something in Chinese — however broken, however slow. Nothing is recording you, nothing is scoring you, and nobody is waiting.
Lenzi answers out loud
Short, natural Mandarin in a real neural voice, pitched at your level. Say it wrong and the right form comes back woven into her reply — never a red pen.
Tap any phrase to hear it again
Chinese in Lenzi's replies is tappable — tap to hear that exact phrase in her voice, as many times as you need. Ask her to explain anything in your own language. Words you save turn into flashcards.
Notice what didn't happen: no red pen. You reached for “看了” and missed — the right form simply came back inside her reply, and the conversation kept moving.
She knows you
Generic apps hand you textbook dialogues. Lenzi starts from four questions — why you're learning, where you are, what makes you freeze, what you love talking about — and every conversation is pitched there.
Built around you from day one
Your answers become Lenzi's brief: she talks about your topics, at your level, and handles the exact way you freeze — going blank, fearing the switch to English, tones that won't behave.
Never judged, always answered
Say it wrong and Lenzi doesn't stop to lecture — the correct form comes back woven into the reply, the way a patient friend would do it. Two short sentences, then the conversation keeps moving.
A real voice, at your pace
Lenzi speaks with a natural neural voice — not robot Mandarin — and listens when you push to talk. Hours of daily conversation time, no scheduling, no embarrassment, no tutor fees.
Moments with Lenzi
Six ordinary moments, six ways a session actually goes — pulled straight from what the four questions tell her about you.
The dinners you sit quietly through
Talking about last night’s episode
Ordering at a night market
Going blank mid-sentence — Lenzi waits, hands the word back
The exam that never tests speaking
A call with 奶奶
Built only for Chinese
Not “40 languages, one engine.” Tones, hanzi, pinyin, stroke order, and a review loop built from the words you meet — nothing here is generic.
Spaced repetition flashcards
SM-2-style scheduling surfaces sentences when you're about to forget. Toggle cloze mode for active recall — the key word is masked, you produce it.
Re-encounter tracking
HanziLens tracks every word across everything you save. When a word keeps showing up in your life, you know it matters.
Per-sentence AI tutor
Open a chat panel on any saved sentence. Ask about the grammar, a tricky word, or get more examples — the tutor has the full breakdown as context.
Bonus: snip Chinese from anything you watch
The companion Chrome extension captures any Chinese on your screen — movie subtitles, manga, desktop apps — and turns it into a full breakdown you can save. Your captures become flashcards, and things Lenzi can talk about with you.
Snip this tab
Press Alt+Shift+S or click the extension. Drag a box over any Chinese text — bilibili, web manga, any site.
Capture a screen or app
Share a window or monitor, freeze a moving subtitle, drag-crop. Reaches desktop apps and sidesteps most DRM video restrictions that block tab capture.
Free to read. Pro to speak.
The whole study app is free — reader, flashcards, stroke practice, stats. Pro adds the one thing you can't practice alone: talking to someone.
- ✓15 snips / day
- ✓Full breakdown + pinyin
- ✓Save to collections
- ✓SRS flashcards + cloze
- ✓Re-encounter tracking
- ✓Ask Lenzi tutor · 40/day
- ✓Daily voice conversations with Lenzi
- ✓Built around you — your persona shapes every session
- ✓A natural neural voice — mistakes gently rephrased, never red-penned
- ✓Unlimited snips + higher-accuracy AI model
- ✓Unlimited Ask Lenzi — quizzes and sessions from your own words
- ✓Everything in Free
Coming soon to Pro
- Lenzi remembers — every conversation deepens what she knows about you
Pro members get these free when they land.
Questions, answered honestly
Can I practice speaking?
Yes — that's the point of Pro. You get daily push-to-talk conversations with Lenzi: you speak Mandarin out loud, Lenzi answers in a natural neural voice with short, everyday replies, and mistakes come back gently rephrased instead of red-penned. Nobody is waiting on you, nobody is judging, and you can stop mid-sentence. Your mic input uses your browser's speech recognition (in Chrome that's processed by Google), and Lenzi's replies are generated in the cloud.
Is HanziLens free right now?
Yes. The reader and the whole study app are usable today on the free tier: 15 captures a day plus unlimited flashcard review, cloze, practice quizzes, stroke-order writing, collections, and export. No card, nothing to pay.
What does Pro add?
Pro adds the one thing you can't practice alone: daily spoken conversations with Lenzi. It also lifts every limit — unlimited captures, a higher-accuracy AI model, unlimited Ask Lenzi, and a study agent that quizzes you from your own saved words and builds practice sessions. Everything else — the reader, flashcards, stroke practice, stats — stays free for everyone.
Does it work on Netflix and Disney+?
Usually — with the right mode. A normal tab snip comes back black on DRM-protected video (the browser blocks it; that's not us). Use "Capture a screen or app" instead: share the window, freeze the frame, and crop — that reads most protected players. A small amount of hardware-protected content can still show black, and the extension tells you when that happens instead of failing silently.
What languages can the breakdown be in?
31 languages — English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and more. Pick yours once; every breakdown and the AI tutor use it.
Do you store what I snip?
No. The cropped image is analyzed and discarded — it's only kept if you press "Save to collection", and then it's the text and breakdown that's saved, not the image. Our AI provider processes each snip only to generate that one result (see the privacy policy for details). The extension runs nothing on a page until you start a snip.
Lenzi in your pocket.
A daily speaking habit belongs on a phone, and that's where Lenzi is headed — but it isn't built yet, and we'd rather say so than promise a date. Join the waitlist and you'll hear the day it's real.
- iOS & Android
- First invites at launch
- No card · unsubscribe anytime
Stop just watching.
Start speaking.
Four questions, and Lenzi knows where to meet you. Reading and the study app are free — and when you're ready to say it out loud, she's waiting.