# Bookchoy

> Bookchoy is a Chinese-language learning app: a learning sidekick and spaced-repetition home for everything you want to remember. It's not a teacher or a replacement for tutors, Anki, or apps — it's a tool to understand Chinese and a place to save and review vocabulary captured from tutors, apps, books, shows, and conversations. Built by Steven Landow, a solo developer.

Bookchoy lets you look up Chinese words and save them to a spaced-repetition system (SRS) for review, with flashcards and quizzes, tone and pronunciation practice, and handwriting practice. You can capture vocabulary from across the web with the Chrome extension (works on YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, iQiyi, and any webpage), from Neovim with the bookchoy.nvim plugin, and from the app itself.

The mobile app lets you import any text or e-book to read and capture vocabulary from, test your pronunciation, learn handwriting. Bookchoy's SRS system is designed to be flexible and customizable. The mobile app has a library of word lists/review decks for topics and niches or HSK prep. It also has a curated library of original stories as well as a library of YouTube videos to watch with interactive subtitles. You can import your own YouTube videos too.

## Pages

- [Home](https://bookchoy.app/): Overview of Bookchoy and what it does.
- [About](https://bookchoy.app/about): The story behind Bookchoy and its philosophy as a learning sidekick.
- [Blog](https://bookchoy.app/blog): Posts on features and Chinese-learning resources.
- [Contact](https://bookchoy.app/contact): Feature requests, bug reports, and sharing study methods.
- [Upgrade](https://bookchoy.app/upgrade): Subscription and upgrade options.

## Blog posts

- [Flashcards](https://bookchoy.app/blog/flashcards): Flashcards are here! Practice recall with 3-sided flashcards instead of quizzes, if you prefer.
- [Bookchoy Chrome Extension](https://bookchoy.app/blog/chrome-ext): The Bookchoy Chrome Extension is here! It works on YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, iQiyi, and every webpage you visit. Everything you save on the extension will show up in the app for review.
- [bookchoy.nvim](https://bookchoy.app/blog/bookchoy.nvim): Use Bookchoy's dictionary directly in Neovim! If you are a programmer like me, you can use this plugin to look up Chinese words and save them to your SRS without leaving your text editor.
- [Practice Handwriting Chinese Characters!](https://bookchoy.app/blog/handwriting): Improve your character recognition by handwriting hanzi in Bookchoy!
- [Pronunciation Practice!](https://bookchoy.app/blog/pronunciation-practice): Practice your tones and pronunciation as part of your daily Bookchoy habit.
- [Videos and Podcasts for Learning Chinese](https://bookchoy.app/blog/videos-and-podcasts): Some of my favorite Chinese learning resources from YouTube
- [Launching my Chinese App](https://bookchoy.app/blog/launching-my-chinese-app): Before 2025 ends, it's time to let everyone try out Bookchoy!

## Optional

- [Privacy Policy](https://bookchoy.app/privacy): How Bookchoy handles user data.
- [Terms of Service](https://bookchoy.app/terms): Terms governing use of Bookchoy.
- [Sitemap](https://bookchoy.app/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable list of all indexable pages.