Pleco Chinese Dictionary

6.9easy start · #19of 39
in Online Dictionaries

Free to practise onyes
Free trialno
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workno

Runs on Android, iOS.

Pleco Chinese Dictionary is ranked #19 of 39 in online dictionaries on The Geeks Club. It runs on Android, iOS. There is a free plan.

Pleco Chinese Dictionary plans and pricing

All plans

Free Version Free Basic dictionary search · handwriting · included dictionaries · limited reader, audio, and flashcards pleco.com · 7 Oct 2026

Basic Bundle (iPhone/iPad) $29.99 once One-time purchase OCR · flashcards · stroke order diagrams · document reader · Mandarin audio · Kai font · Oxford Chinese Dictionary pleco.com · 7 Oct 2026

Basic Bundle (Android) $29.99 once One-time purchase OCR · flashcards · stroke order diagrams · document reader · Mandarin audio · Kai font · Oxford Chinese Dictionary pleco.com · 7 Oct 2026

Professional Bundle (iPhone/iPad) $59.99 once One-time purchase Basic Bundle features · Oxford, ABC, New Century, Tuttle, and Guifan dictionaries · male TTS voice pleco.com · 7 Oct 2026

Professional Bundle (Android) $59.99 once One-time purchase Basic Bundle features · Oxford, ABC, New Century, Tuttle, and Guifan dictionaries · male TTS voice pleco.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on online dictionaries

Free plan: Yes
Audio pronunciation: Yes
Usage examples: Yes
Translation lookup: Yes
Offline access: Yes
Mobile apps: ios_android
Languages covered: 2

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The record

Product: Pleco is an all-in-one Chinese dictionary, flashcard, and document-reading app offered for iPhone/iPad and Android.
OCR: The app can look up Chinese words through the camera or from text in a still image.
Handwriting: Users can look up words by drawing Chinese characters, and the maker describes its recognition as tolerant of stroke-order mistakes.
Dictionaries: The iOS app includes CC-CEDICT and the PLC dictionary, with additional free and paid dictionaries, including licensed titles from major publishers.
Search: Search supports Chinese characters, Pinyin, English, wildcards, and full-text lookup, with merged frequency-sorted results.
Flashcards: The flashcard system supports creating cards from dictionary entries, importing word lists, spaced repetition, and study modes such as tone drills.
Document formats: The upgraded iOS document reader supports text, HTML, DOC, DOCX, PDF, and EPUB files; the Android reader opens text and PDF files and supports lookup from web pages and clipboard content.
Audio: Pleco provides Mandarin and Cantonese audio support, including native-speaker Mandarin recordings for more than 34,000 words on Android.
Stroke order: The free app includes stroke-order animations for 500 characters, with 28,000 available in the paid add-on.
Compatibility: The maker says downloaded dictionaries and features let the app run without an internet connection after download.
Integrations: On Android, a floating screen-reader interface can tap-lookup Chinese words in other apps.
Ads and billing: The maker says the app has no ads or subscriptions and that paid add-ons are one-time purchases.
Privacy: Pleco’s privacy policy says it does not share personal information with Apple or Google and does not share information with third parties or affiliates for marketing.
Support: Pleco says users can contact support by email and that it reads every message and replies within a couple of business days.
Price from: Free

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Online Dictionaries in 2026#19 of 39

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