“I Want To…” App Finder

Updated 2025/06/30

Created by YenKid

Categories: Essentials | Optional | Productivity | Online communities | Hong Kong only

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YenKid In China in a garden with traditional Chinese architecture, lush green trees, a pond, and a small waterfall in the background.

YenKid’s Choice

Alternative

Essentials

I want to reserve a hotel room

I want to hail a taxi

I want to book a train ticket

I want to take the metro

Trip 携程

Meituan

DiDi 滴滴

AMAP

12306

Trip

Alipay

Local metro app

Ticket machine

Alipay (QR scan)

WeChat (QR scan)

I want to see the menu/ place an order

I want to look at a map

I want to see the metro map

I want to buy tickets (e.g. museum)

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AMAP

Baidu Maps

MetroMan

Alipay

Trip

WeChat mini-app

Ticket counter

Meituan Waimai

Ele me 饿了么

I want to order takeaway

I want to see a movie

I want to research local restaurants

I want to translate

Jingdong

Meituan

Maoyan

Taopiaopiao

Dianping

Baidu Translate

Youdao

HelloChinese

DeepL

I want to learn Chinese

YenKid In China in a garden with traditional Chinese architecture, lush green trees, a pond, and a small waterfall in the background.
YenKid In China in a garden with traditional Chinese architecture, lush green trees, a pond, and a small waterfall in the background.
YenKid In China in a garden with traditional Chinese architecture, lush green trees, a pond, and a small waterfall in the background.

I want to shop online

I want to join Chinese social media

I want to watch videos

Du Chinese

Pleco

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Optional

Jingdong

Taobao

Pinduoduo

Xiaohongshu

Weibo

Bilibili

Douyin

WeChat Channels

I want to watch dramas/ movies

I want to listen to music

I want to rent a bike

iQIYI

Tencent Video

Tencent Music

NetEase Music

DiDi Bike

HelloBike

Meituan Bike

RedNote

DeepSeek

I want to research local attractions

Trip

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Productivity

Chrome/Safari/Edge

Microsoft Office

Gmail

Premiere Pro

Photoshop

ChatGPT

Google Drive

Zoom

UCWeb

WPS Office

QQ/163

CapCut

Meitu

DeepSeek

Baidu Cloud

VooV

Online communities

Instagram

X

YouTube

TikTok

Reddit

IMDB

Quora

RedNote

Weibo

Bilibili

Douyin

Tieba

Douban

Zhihu

Hong Kong only

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Metro

Buses

Transport Card

Restaurant Finder

Weather

Learn Cantonese

MTR

CityMapper

Octopus

OpenRice

My Observatory HK

Cantonese by Nemo

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Note: Some of these apps may be exclusive to the Mainland China or Hong Kong appstore so you may need to make a region-specific account to download them.