Cloud Pinyin

Pinyin above every Chinese character, with the text still editable underneath. I built it because tap-and-hold popups for unfamiliar characters kept breaking the flow.

Paste Chinese text, or share it from Safari, a PDF, an image, or another app, and pinyin appears above every character.

Free version:
• Live pinyin as you type or edit
• Simplified ↔ Traditional in one tap (auto-detects the direction)
• Share extension with OCR for images and PDFs
• Clipboard history, plus auto-detect when there's Chinese on your clipboard
• Freeze Mode to lock pinyin on or off for words in the current document
• Adjustable text size, with bold, underline, and highlight

PLUS adds:
• Smart Pinyin, context-aware readings (so 长大 reads zhǎng dà, not cháng dà — handles tone sandhi too)
• Smart Conversion, word-aware Simplified → Traditional that picks the right character for the meaning (头发 → 頭髮, not 頭發)
• Freeze List, your own per-character pinyin overrides applied across every document, not just one
• Saved documents with iCloud sync

The free version is for casual use: one scratch page, quick lookups. PLUS is for the power user who keeps coming back to review and study.

Made by one person.

Available in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 한국어, and Tiếng Việt.

Privacy: anonymous usage analytics via TelemetryDeck. No accounts, no content collection. Full policy at https://mikechin.github.io.

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