Read and watch anything in Chinese.
JustShuo puts pinyin over every word, tells you what any word means with one click, and turns the words you don’t know yet into flashcards. Use the books, articles, films and shows you actually want to read and watch.
Pay once, no subscription. Works offline. No account needed.
Bring your own Chinese.
JustShuo makes it readable.
Import a book, an article or a whole folder of texts, or just paste. JustShuo splits the text into words, adds pinyin in tone colours, and colours every word by what you know:
new words in blue, words you’re learning in gold, known words left plain.
Click any word for its meaning and its HSK level.
Any text you like
Text files, EPUB books, PDFs, Word documents and saved web pages, or paste straight from the clipboard. Pictures come along if you want them.
Know how hard it is first
Analyse Difficulty shows how much of a text you already know and which HSK levels its words come from, so you can pick texts that stretch you without drowning you.
Your level from day one
Tell JustShuo your level when you start and the words you already know aren’t marked as new. Mark a word known with one key as you read.
Learn from the films and shows you love.
Open a video with Chinese subtitles and every line becomes clickable words with coloured pinyin. The word being spoken lights up as you listen, and the whole transcript sits beside the picture.
Hear it again
Repeat a line, slow it down, or pause after every line to catch up.
Test yourself
Blur the English until you’ve had a go at the Chinese.
The files you have
MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, AVI and WMV, with subtitles inside the file or beside it (SRT, VTT, ASS).
Subtitles out of sync?
Nudge them earlier or later and JustShuo remembers it for that video.
See yourself improve
Words known, words learning, how much of each HSK level you’ve covered, your streak and the reviews ahead. A vocabulary page lists every word you’ve met.
Yours, on your computer
No account and no cloud. Your texts, videos, words and flashcards stay on your computer, and JustShuo works without the internet.
- A backup every day, and a full backup to one file whenever you like.
- Keep your library on another drive or in a synced folder.
- Light, sepia and dark themes, and the reading font and size you like.
Pay once. Keep it.
No subscription and no monthly fee. Try every feature free with the sample text and video first, for as long as you like.
Free Trial
- Every feature, with the sample text and sample video
- No time limit, no card details
- Unlock it later with a licence key
JustShuo 1.0
£29.99 once
- Your own texts, books and videos, as many as you like
- Every JustShuo 1 update included
- One person, on Windows or on Mac (one licence each)
*Coming soon to Mac