BeChineseHow do you read Chinese posts on X?
Share the post to BeChinese, and it opens as X shows it, ready to read. It doesn’t work inside the X app, because an iPhone doesn’t let one app draw over another. Brush or tap the words you can’t read, and their pinyin appears over them, they’re read aloud, and a card shows what they mean, with a button to save the word.
It’s for learning to read the Chinese yourself, not for translating it: the pinyin shows only on the words you pick, so you try the rest on your own.
How to share a post
- Open the post in X and tap Share.
- Choose BeChinese. If it isn’t listed, copy the post’s link instead, and in BeChinese, on Scan, tap Import from social media, then Paste.
- BeChinese opens with the post.
What comes in
- The post as X shows it, with the post it quotes.
- Its photos, each whole on a page of its own after it, since X’s grid crops them. Chinese in them, like a screenshot of a chat or a page of a book, is read too.
- A video becomes a lesson: the clip, and what’s written or said in it, line by line. Tap a word for its pinyin and meaning.
- A post with Chinese to read and a video gives you both: the post first, and its lesson behind it.
What you need
An iPhone on iOS 26 or later, and a connection: BeChinese’s server fetches the public post, with a daily limit for each account. You sign in with Apple or Google, then choose a plan, yearly, monthly or weekly, through the App Store. The yearly plan can start with a free week.
BeChinese does the same for 小红书, TikTok and Instagram.
