Pleco Software

Latest News

  • New PLC Beta

    Along with today’s 3.2.16 bug-fix update on iOS, we’re also launching a beta test of a massive new update to our built-in PLC dictionary, featuring 40,000 new entries, 12,000 new example sentences, parts of speech for most entries, and many thousands of corrections and bug fixes. On iOS you can download that beta by just …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 16 years, and whenever possible, offer our customers free platform transfers and compatibility updates; 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 7 or Samsung Galaxy in 2017 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.