Taxi-Book China
* Chinese cities, a way to speak and talk in Chinese with locals without internet connection, with free versions for Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It provides a big talking English Chinese dictionary and helps English Chinese translations with talking phrasebooks in its full versions.
It is made to help you travel in Chinese cities and make your trip in China comfortable. Taxi-Book talks to Chinese taxi-drivers who can bring you to your destinations.
The available cities are: (all full versions provide speaking and talking function for Chinese)Beijing 北京 (free Lite version)Beijing 北京 Changsha 长沙Chengdu 成都Chongqing 重庆Dalian 大连Dongguan东莞Foshan佛山Hangzhou 杭州Harbin 哈尔滨Hong Kong 香港Guangzhou 广州 (free lite version)Guangzhou 广州Guilin 桂林Lijiang 丽江Kunming 昆明Nanjing 南京Ningbo宁波Qingdao 青岛Sanya 三亚Shanghai 上海 (free lite version)Shanghai 上海Shenyang 沈阳Shenzhen 深圳 (free lite version)Shenzhen 深圳Suzhou 苏州Taiyuan 太原Tianjin 天津Wuhan 武汉Wuxi 无锡Xi`an 西安Xiamen 厦门Yantai 烟台
More cities are coming soon!
The app also features dialogue options for talking with locals in Chinese. Note that you may fill gaps in the phrases using our English-Chinese dictionary containing more than 12,000 words to create your own phrases. For example, in a restaurant you may say "I'm allergic to ... (select/dictionary). Could you make this dish without it?" in perfect Chinese. Some phrases also feature likely answer options that the dialogue partners may choose as a reply.
This free app comes with free versions of four cities. In the free version, e.g., the Beijing city guide contains more than 500 locations in China's capital. And if that's not enough for you, just upgrade through buying the full content of Beijing to unlock more than 1,500 locations and speaking function for all dialogues.
Taxi-Book also offers more city guides for all key Chinese cities for hotels, restaurants, banks, sightseeings, hospitals and administrations etc. And if you don't feel like browsing through the lists, just use the fast search option on each city's home page to find the locations you are looking for.
Note: Buying another city means you pay just one time and can use it forever. There are NO HIDDEN COSTS.
Features:
- Locations: Hundreds of locations divided into 10 categories are featured.
- Locations come with detailed information like English and Chinese name, address, phone number, and GPS coordinates.
- View locations on Maps and find nearby places easily (requires online connectivity).
- Once you've chosen a location, press the Taxi-Card button to bring up a simple yet effective page that allows you to tell a taxi driver clearly where you want to go. Show the page to the driver and shake the phone to make it pronounce the phrase with your desired destination.
- Taxi-Card: Choose between different color styles to customize the page to your liking.
- Dialogues: Special dialogues for use in a taxi situation like "Turn on the meter, please" or "How long will the ride take approximately?"
- Basic Phrases: For everyday situations to say things like "Hello", "Thank you", tell others your name or ask where the restrooms are.
- Favourites: Pick your favourite locations out of all the locations and add them to your favourites list for quick and easy access.
*Please note that while the app is designed to work in offline mode, using Map view and buying in-app purchasable content require internet access.
Category : Travel & Local
Reviews (6)
Used to work great and then lately stopped working for Chengdu. Uninstalled and then reinstalled but still not working. Select a restaurant then app closes!
Wuhan has three large train stations, not just two. Google it, the developers apparently didn’t bother to. The one I need isn't listed in the taxi cards, so I'm back to using the free Google translate. Too bad you can't see that before you pay for the city, I wouldn't have purchased Wuhan. There are similar free taxi apps for Beijing and Shanghai. Comically, there is a taxi-talk translation for "Please obey the traffic laws," which is sort of like asking a fish not swim, because you don't like water.
I live in Qingdao & paid to add the Qingdao info but most of it was 3 years or more old.
Paid for three cities. Tells me to "Pay for at least one city to activate sound." Sound doesn't work. Android version is trash.
Update: Everything is working now. If you are looking for any kind of taxi app for China, this is the one for both work and play.
I saw this on iPhone. Great app. On Android it stops every few seconds before you can get the taxi card up. Do not waste your money. Clean install gives the same issues. Unusable really.