Pleco Software is a cool little New York company focused on exactly one thing: creating the world's best tools for learning Chinese.
Our flagship product, Pleco 2.0, gives you everything you need to look up and study Chinese vocabulary: content from eight different dictionaries, handwriting input, flexible Pinyin searches, audio recordings for over 34,000 words, stroke order diagrams, a built-in document reader, and one of the most advanced and customizable flashcard systems ever invented. And all of this running on a device you can carry around in your pocket.
We're profitable, privately-held, and have been in business since 2000, and we back up our products with excellent customer service, an active user community, and generous upgrade policies - we've got customers using the latest version of Pleco who haven't had to buy an upgrade in 7 years.
The second update for Pleco 2.0 is now available, fixing lots of bugs and adding several useful tweaks / new features like an improved screen for organizing flashcards, interruptible audio, and a larger handwriting input box on Windows Mobile.
The update is available for Windows Mobile here (installation instructions here), and for Palm OS here (installation instructions here). A complete list of changes is available here.
We've also released a brand new Chinese-English dictionary, based on "A Chinese-English-Dictionary" from Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press - it features very detailed definitions and tons of example sentences, all of which include Pinyin transliterations.
See this page for a bit more information on the new dictionary; you can install a demo version of it to your handheld as part of the 2.0.2 update. Existing Pleco users can order this dictionary for $29.95 through the My Orders page on our website.
We've also just added a new "Complete" bundle to our product line, which includes all 8 of our currently-available dictionaries for US $199.95 - see this page to order it.
We've also lowered the price of the Basic bundle to $59.95, and added a fourth dictionary (NWP English-Chinese) to the old Linguist bundle - if you've purchased one of those recently and would like a credit for the price difference / extra dictionary, let us know.