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Q: What's the most useful China-related app you have on your phone?
Dictionary? Metro guide? something else?
13 years 16 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
iPhone apps:
1) KT-Dict
2) google translate
3) Wechat/Weixin
GTalk for communication with people in the rest of the world
The camera
Google Translate
Pleco, Google Translate, Mcdonald's electronic coupons, any kind of metro map.
Hanping Chinese Dictionary
Baidu Map
Taobao
WoChaCha (Barcode Scanner)
luggi:
you simply scan the barcode of a product and it will show you the price in different supermarkets and online. it works quite fine with domestic products.
i was once doing some promotion in a supermarket here in shanghai and we sold the products saying that it got the lowest price in shanghai. some chinese people really used that app to check up on us haha^^
Meituan/Dianping for group shop deals
沃行讯通 (Guangzhou live bus and taxi tracking, also traffic and Metro maps)
Google Translate
Google Maps
Pleco
I would say the dictionary....
If I don't know what to say I just type it in get the definition then show it to someone and they always point me in the right direction!
KT-Dict
Baidu maps (for buses and stuff)
And there was an app whose name I forgot, that registered places like restaurants, with a phone number and all, which was helpful sometimes.
Same...
Pleco
Weixin
And the one that tells you when the bus is coming 
on my iPhone:
Hand-writing Chinese input (to decipher unknown characters; built-in)
Chinese dictionary (which works offline)
Baidu Maps (only if you know Chinese; much more detailed than “foreign” maps)
ChinaBridge (taxi cards for train stations, hotels, etc.)
Dragon NaturallySpeaking (understands Chinese as well! much faster than typing PinYin; only if you know Chinese)
CRI app (China Radio International)
liesewang:
The CRI app allows you to watch video clips from the China Radio International. You can find the same contents on www.cri.cn, yet it is mostly given as Windows Media clips which won’t play on the iPhone.
Google Translate has in the latest update gotten offline dictionaries so you can download dictionaries for the languages you need, thus not using data-trafiic for translation. (only for text, e.g. speech still requires data-traffic)
