Taric is a Chinese reading app. The pitch fits in a sentence: open a book, tap any word, learn the language.
We built it because the existing tools didn't quite fit. Anki is brilliant but it isn't a reader. Pleco's reader is excellent but it isn't a curriculum. Graded-reader sites have nice content but no SRS. The bits all exist; nobody had stitched them together into one loop that we wanted to use every day.
What's in the loop
You pick something to read — paste an article, upload an EPUB, or grab one of the 3,300 books in the built-in library. Every word is clickable. A tap gives you the definition, pinyin, native-speaker audio, animated stroke order, example sentences, and — if the word is a grammar trigger — a link to the relevant grammar entry. You save the words you don't know. The next day, FSRS shows you a tiny review queue: just the cards that actually need you, no more.
That's it. There isn't a gamified streak that nags you, no XP, no virtual coins. The thing that motivates you is the book you're reading. The app's job is to get out of your way.
Who it's for
People who want to read Chinese — novels, articles, classical texts, whatever — and don't want to grind word lists in isolation. If you've already done HSK 1 and you're staring at "now what?", Taric is for you. If you're an absolute beginner, the starter curriculum will hold your hand through the first week.
What's next
Three things, in this order: speech recognition so you can shadow native audio and get scored on it; weeks 2–4 of the starter curriculum; and a much bigger mnemonics set. The public roadmap has the full list.
Thanks for reading. If you want a heads-up on the bigger updates, the changelog is the lowest-effort way to follow along.