Pleco Software

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  • Website Redesign

    Welcome to the slightly redesigned Pleco website! We’re now running on WordPress, as opposed to our previous system of static pages – we’re hoping this will enable us to keep the site updated more easily + let us post messages on the blog section more often than twice a year. 🙂 The content of this site …Read More »

Key Features

  • OCR

    Look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’ using your device’s camera, or tap-lookup words in a still image.

  • Handwriting

    Look up words by drawing them on the screen; very accurate and tolerant of stroke order mistakes.

  • Dictionaries

    Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.

  • Audio

    Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.

  • Flashcards

    Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.

    • Document Reader

      Look up words in a document simply by tapping on them; supports TXT/EPUB/DOC/PDF files and web pages on iOS, TXT/PDF files on Android.

    • Screen Reader

      Android-only; look up Chinese words in any app on your device by tapping on a floating button.

    • Incredibly Fast

      We use a custom-built database engine so fast that it can search and process results from a dozen different dictionaries before you’ve finished lifting your finger off the screen.

    • Well-Supported

      We’ve been in business for 15 years, and we offer free upgrades and free platform transfers whenever possible; we have users who bought the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary from us for Palm Pilot in 2001 and are still able to use that same purchase on their brand-new iPhone 6s or Samsung Galaxy in 2016 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.