Membership
Pricing
All lookup and reference pages on HanTrace are free, forever. Pro adds the interactive learning layer on top.
Free
$0/ forever
For browsing, looking up and light studying. No account required — sign in to save words and get your Daily Mix.
- HSK 3.0 vocabulary, characters, stroke order, measure words and polyphones
- Full dictionary lookup and browsing
- Stroke-order and pinyin typing practice (no account needed)
- Tone practice: full HSK tone quiz bank (levels 1-9, sign-in required)
- Vocabulary notebook for 100 saved words
- Daily Mix: a short mixed set every day (new, due and tricky words)
- Tags: organize your words with up to 20 tags
- Export your own vocabulary data (CSV or plain text)
No time limit — the free layer does not expire, and no card is required.
Pro
Best value — save 42%$4.08/ month
billed annually — $49.00 / year
or $6.99 / month billed monthly · same features, cancel anytime
- Everything in Free, including Daily Mix
- Vocabulary notebook for 10,000 saved words
- Due review: your full spaced-repetition schedule, unlimited
- Quiz review on your saved words
- Tone practice on your saved words
- Learning statistics & progress panel
- Tags: up to 100 tags
- Monthly or annual billing — same features
Secure checkout handled by an external merchant of record. Sign in first so the upgrade lands on your account.
Subscription terms
Subscriptions auto‑renew until cancelled. Cancel any time using the subscription-management link in your purchase‑receipt emails — your access remains active until the end of the paid period, and remaining time in a billing period is not refundable.
30-day money-back guarantee on your first billing cycle: full refund within 30 days of your first purchase, one refund per customer. Renewals are not covered under the guarantee. See our Refund Policy for details.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free trial?
There is no expiring trial, because the free layer does not expire. Every lookup and reference page is free forever, and a free account keeps working with no time limit — Daily Mix included. Pro is month-to-month or annual, and your first billing cycle carries a 30-day money-back guarantee, so the refund window is your safety net.
What can I use without an account?
The whole reference layer: HSK 3.0 vocabulary, character pages with pinyin, tones and stroke order, measure words and polyphones. The stroke-order and pinyin typing practice tools work without an account too. Signing in adds the vocabulary notebook, tags and Daily Mix.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free covers the reference layer, Daily Mix and a notebook of 100 saved words. Pro raises the notebook to 10,000 words and adds the Pro-only review tools: your full spaced-repetition Due review queue, Quiz review and tone practice on your own saved words, and the learning statistics panel. Daily Mix is identical in both plans and is not rationed.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel whenever you like, using the subscription-management link in your purchase-receipt emails (or just contact us) — you keep Pro access until the end of the period you already paid for, and your account then returns to Free instead of being locked. Time remaining in a billing period is not refundable.
Why is annual cheaper than paying monthly?
Monthly is $6.99, which comes to $83.88 over twelve months. Annual is $49.00 for exactly the same features — $34.88 less, about 42% off. Both plans unlock identical Pro features; the billing period is the only difference.
What payment methods do you accept?
Payments are handled by an external merchant of record, so card details are never entered on HanTrace itself. All major credit and debit cards are accepted.
What HSK levels are covered, and how many words?
All nine HSK 3.0 levels: 3,000 characters and 9,470 words, each with pinyin and its own entry page. Entries outside this coverage are not published, so a lookup for a word we do not cover returns a not-found page rather than a partial entry.
What happens to my saved words if I go back to Free?
Nothing is deleted. A Free notebook holds 100 words; if you have more than that, they all stay in your account — what pauses is adding new words, until you delete down below the limit or subscribe again. Pro raises the notebook to 10,000 words.