Hi,
I wonder if there is a way to color-code tones in Skritter App like it is in site version. New app is wonderful and now I spend much more time learning, but I sadly noticed I have much more problem learning tones.
When practicing with colors tones, to my surprise, came almost intuitively. Now I often have no idea, what the tone should be.

And if there is no way of turning it on, could you be so nice and think about such an update? :)
I know you put stress on color-coding the correctness, but I would actually find knowing tones more gratifying ;)

I second this, it would be extremely helpful.

PS. How do you do this in the site version? I can't find it anywhere.

When studying, hit the settings button in the top right. It's in there.

I too miss this very much. On top of the bigger learning curve, my brain keeps insisting that all wrong characters should be 1st tone and all right characters should be 3rd tones. :-/

I support this request, too. That would be really helpful. I am really concerned about seeing characters in the wrong color - so turning the coloring of the characters off would be fine with me, too.

Yes, just turning off the coloring would be helpfull. (and probably easier to do)

I was just thinking the same today; I really like using the tone colors in the web site version, and hope a future version of the iOS app will support it too.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. We're not planning on adding tone coloring to the app. The design is already coloring everything that would be used for tone colors based on score colors right now, and the tone colors were always a sort of much hassle and maintenance problems on the web version, so we decided that we would skip them.

That’s too bad. The lack of tone colouring is the main reason why I’m switching back to my old flashcard app. Actually, I find the score colours pretty distracting when learning tones using colour mnemonics.

Just out of curiosity, if the character is the color of the tone, doesn't that prevent memorization of the tone because you're always 'reading' the tone of the character from the color? I am not knocking the system, as I've never tried it, but that was the first concern that came to mind.

lechuan,
What you could do is when you see the prompt (in English, for example) say the word aloud and identify the tone. Then when you start writing the "ink" color will show if you were right or not. When you finish writing you can either grade yourself to include tone as a criterion, or turn on tone testing to get prompted for a separate grade for tones. I do not currently have tone testing turned one, so I'm not sure how it works if you have both tone testing and tone colors turned on.

Thanks for the explanation podster. For those that have been using the color-system, do you notice any improvement in tone retention when reading non-colored materials?

From the posts above, I get the feeling that I should turn off tone colors in my Pleco dictionary so as to avoid unintentional color associations with tones in the future.

I notice a huge difference. Many, many characters appear as their tone colour in my head, even when they're not coloured in print.

This is interesting. I'm not using the tone colours, but am learning using Tuttle, which has archetypes for each tone, with the idea that you should think of a story in your head and add in the appropriate archetype. So, 1st tone is giant, 2nd tone is fairy, 3rd tone is teddy, 4th tone is dwarf, neutral tone is robot. I don't do this all the time, but it's useful when I'm struggling for me to think 'a fairy does that' or 'that's a dwarf thing'. I'm sure my brain is doing something similar to whatever is happening with colours.