Turn Chinese immersion into fluency.

Every C-drama, song, or vlog becomes a lesson, with pinyin over every word. Tap any word to save it with the exact moment you heard it. That is how immersion sticks.

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Learning Japanese? Gravity does that too

How it works: watch, tap, review

  1. Watch: C-dramas, music, vlogs, real talk. Pick what you enjoy!

    HSK 3 17:10 One Day in Chengdu | China Vlog 🇨🇳 Jovane PJY
    HSK 2 17:03 Why Are There So Many People Outside at 9 PM in China? Zhangkai Chinese
    HSK 3 14:53 🇨🇳A Day in Shenzhen: Drone Delivery, Hakka Food & China’s Future City|A Day in Shenzhen|Drone Delivery, MixC World, Shenzhen Bay Park|ChineseVlog talkinchinese_redred
    HSK 2 9:38 Speak in Chinese |Chengdu|Comprehensible Input Walkthrough Nihao Chinese
    HSK 5 10:06 Time to Get Into It! Ordinary People Can Buy 3D Printers Too! 小宁子 XNZ
    HSK 4 34:24 Solo Travel Vlog in Vietnam 🇻🇳 ✨✈️ Jovane PJY
    HSK 2 26:06 Beginner podcast: 10 Questions about the USA, I got most wrong | Comprehensible Chinese Lazy Chinese - Comprehensible Input
    HSK 3 12:49 Cooking Chinese Tomato Gravy Noodles - Learn Chinese through Cooking西红柿打卤面 A Cup of Chinese
    HSK 4 13:27 [Quanzhou Vlog] What Tourism Did to This Ancient Chinese Village|HSK 4-5 Chinese at Dawn
    HSK 3 24:23 Can You Follow My Chinese For 20 Minutes? | A Night Out in Shanghai Chinese at Dawn
    HSK 4 15:12 Learn REAL Chinese With Me|My Summer Obsessions + Homemade Malatang 🇨🇳|HSK4|Chinese Vlog 🎬 talkinchinese_redred
    HSK 2 13:29 How I Survived a Day in China with Just 20 RMB!在中国用20块钱过一天!|Chinese Vlog|Listening practice|CC Subs talkinchinese_redred
    HSK 3 10:01 100% Chinese Listening Challenge (You’ll Understand More Than You Think!) ShuoshuoChinese说说中文
    HSK 3 10:53 Speaking Some Simple Chinese at a Clothing Market Zhangkai Chinese
    HSK 5 14:09 Why Do People Spend a Fortune Playing Racing Games? 小宁子 XNZ
    HSK 3 10:34 Comprehensible Chinese Input | What is "520" in China? Dating Culture & Tips to Find a Girlfriend Chinese Mandarin with Nicole
    HSK 3 25:22 Spend a cosy day with us in China's countryside (桐庐)|Slow Chinese Vlog|HSK 3-5 (subtitled) Chinese at Dawn
  2. Tap: Don’t know a word? Just tap it.

    一口这个牛肉饼,再加上一口酸奶,

    A bite of this beef pancake, followed by a sip of yogurt,

    2:11 – 2:15

    真的好好吃。

    is really, really delicious.

    2:16 – 2:17

    它有一点像我之前去台湾吃的那个

    It’s a little like the one I had in Taiwan before,

    2:17 – 2:21
  3. Review: Your saved words come back as flashcards.

    1 / 4
    word

    Definition

    tasty

Bruce, Gravity co-founderKevin, Gravity co-founderKelvin, Gravity co-founderThomas, Gravity co-founderJames, Gravity co-founderBethia, Gravity co-founder
The team at Heimdall Space, language learners in Vancouver, building the study tool we kept wishing existed.
Our mission

Get fluent reading what's actually in front of you.

Gravity started from a simple belief: language learning should follow you into real life and feel effortless enough that your only job is learning, not building lessons, drills, and word lists that rarely match what you actually see in real life.

Our mission is to help more of the world become fluent in the language around them: not just textbook fluency, but the confidence to read the menu, follow the sign, understand the message, and feel at home in a place that once felt unfamiliar.

We're a team of polyglots and lifelong language learners who have lived abroad, moved through different cultures, and watched friends, family, and classmates run into the same wall. We hope Aio will help make that wall feel a little easier to climb.

Meet the team
How we compare

Other tools study words. Gravity studies your world.

Most of us have stitched together our own setup: a streak app, a dictionary, a deck, an AI chat. Here is how those stack up against doing it in one place.

Compare Gravity with
Gravity compared with Duolingo, Migaku, and Pleco + Anki
CapabilityGravityDuolingoMigakuPleco + Anki
Learn from real native content: C-dramas, songs, vlogsYesNoYesPartial
Curated library of native videos, levelled by HSKYesNoPartialNo
Word-by-word synced transcripts with pinyin, tap any word to saveYesNoYesPartial
Replay the original video clip from the cardYesNoPartialNo
One tap to create flashcardsYesNoYesYes
Zero setup neededYesYesPartialPartial
Spaced repetition built inYesPartialYesYes
Made for your phoneYesYesYesYes
Built in Possible, with friction Not really
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The things we hear most often, in plain language. Missing one? Email [email protected] and we'll add it.

  • Where can I download Gravity?

    Gravity is available on the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.

  • Which languages does Gravity support?

    Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. You pick one when you set up, and you can add or switch to the other any time from Home or Settings.

  • What can I watch in Gravity?

    C-dramas, music, and real Mandarin from Chinese YouTube creators: everyday vlogs, food and travel, street interviews, and slower videos made for learners. The library is organised by topic and HSK level, and Moments gives you short clips to swipe through.

  • Simplified or traditional characters?

    Simplified. When a word also has a traditional form, its dictionary entry shows that too.

  • Does Gravity show pinyin?

    Yes. Tone-marked pinyin sits above every word in the transcript and on your flashcards. Once you don't need it, you can turn it off.

  • How do the synced transcripts work?

    The transcript follows playback word by word. Tap any word to see its pinyin and meaning, hear it spoken, get an explanation of how it's used in that sentence, or save it for Study.

  • Where do saved words go?

    Words you choose to save appear in All words. You can practise them there, search and sort them, or organise them into your own decks. Words saved from Media keep their source context so you can return to the moment where you found them.

  • What's the little pink creature on my screen?

    That’s Aio, your language friend from space. Aio guides you through setup and appears around Gravity as you learn.