Pinyinizer — Pinyin Converter 4+

The app is handy for quickly revealing pīnyīn over Hànzì.
Similarly to the last review, more tools are needed for making the result more useful for documents.

The app would benefit from the following to bump up its star rating. Examples readily available in web based applets :
1. Quick one button to copy the result, as selecting in the app is cumbersome. Choose to select Pīnyīn only, or also with Hànzì.
2. Set colours for the Hànzì & Pīnyīn result, which also copy across. User selectable using ‘apple crayons’ & numeric value and colour picker as options.
3. Result options to suit differing levels of learning stage : Pīnyīn characters with tones (as currently), Tones over Hànzì, Hànzì only but with above mentioned colours to represent tone.
4. Option to automatically recognise tone rules for output, and indicate when and to which Hànzì this is applied.
5. Setting for copying across text e.g. include Pīnyīn over/under/after & in brackets, etc.
6. Settings for formatting text.
7. Select male/female voice for sound output.

This is a great little app, but needs some more thought on how people might want to use it.

I wanted to be able to add pinyin underneath the Chinese in songs. So that people who do not know Chinese could at least sing along.

What is shown on the screen is okay, but formatting options would be appreciated. Biggest disappointment was then when I copied the text it added the pinyin in brackets after easy character. You never see this and looks terrible in PowerPoint. It needs to at least have the option to recognise lines and add the pinyin nicely spaced under the Chinese.

But as there is nothing else out there that does what what this app does it is a useful tool, but it could be so much better. A few well thought out modifications and you would have a very useful app.