Pleco Software


Pleco Software provides an English and Chinese Dictionary application for iOS and Android devices. The Pleco Software company was founded in May 2000 by Michael Love.

Features

Pleco allows different ways of input, including Pinyin input method, English words, handwriting recognition and optical character recognition. It has many sets of dictionaries, audio recordings from two different native speakers, and has flashcards functions and document reader which looks up words in a document. Pleco is a free application with in-app purchases, additional functions and large dictionaries.

History

Application was first launched on the Palm Pilot in 2001. In 2013 Pleco had one of the major upgrades. Pleco Chinese Dictionary 3.0 was released for iOS users. In November 2017, Endymion Wilkinson's was added.