The following screenshots are taken from both the Windows Mobile and Palm OS versions of Pleco; the Windows Mobile version is on the left, the Palm OS version is on the right. For more screenshots, see our online instruction manual.
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A basic character search. You can enter characters using handwriting recognition or a built-in radical table.
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A Pinyin search. You can enter Pinyin with or without tones.
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A mixed character/Pinyin search, speeding up lookups for words where you recognize one character but don't recognize the other.
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A full-text search, letting you find any dictionary entry which contains a particular word in its definition / examples.
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Handwriting input - just draw the character you're looking for and Pleco will recognize it. You can take as long as you like to draw the character (there's no timer, you hit Recognize when you're done) and our recognition engine supports cursive writing and even tolerates some mistakes in stroke order.
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You can also write characters right in the main dictionary screen.
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Along with handwriting input, Pleco also includes a built-in radical table like you'd find in a printed dictionary.
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Stroke order diagrams; simply tap on any character to bring up its stroke order.
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Flashcard test; Pleco includes several different flashcard test modes. In this one, you look at part of a card, reveal the whole card and grade yourself on whether or not you remembered it correctly.
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In this flashcard mode, you actually have to write in the correct characters for the supplied Pinyin/definition.
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There's also a good old-fashioned multiple-choice test mode.
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And a mode where you're prompted to tap on a character's strokes in the correct order.
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There's also a built-in document reader; you can use this to read through a Chinese-language text file and look up unknown words simply by tapping on them.