Reviews for Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Excellent in many ways, but.... I bought the flashcard add-on recently, and still haven't been able to figure it out, in spite of hours deep diving into the very, very, very long instructions. Nothing intuitive about the menus, most of the names for every options are impenetrably obscure, the decision trees seem hopelessly absurd, etc etc. Oh and no point trying to use the menu items as keywords for a search into the instructions, somehow the words don't match. Would love to love this app though

Absolutely amazing. Every word is read slowly by Chinese speakers. For the majority of words there are example sentences which can be read out in an artificial voice. you can type in with Pinyin or draw the character. Has both simplified and traditional

Brilliant dictionary and translator. The stroke order was the selling point for me, but the ability to translate from pinying to characters and vice versa is excellent. (from an absolute beginner

The new OCR algorithm is absolutely amazing! it can now read slanted text, badly readable text and all kind of different types of text on the same screen! it's super useful when reading memes on 小红书 to lean chinese! you do need to enable the experimental ocr feature in the settings though, as it's much more accurate than the normal one. It took me a little work, but using the app "edge gestures" I could set up a swipe left gesuture which triggers pleco do to OCR on the screen and google transla

this app already marvelous, but there is one or two that can be improve 1. OCR is sucks sometimes, and for snap OCR, you guys should make the option to snap it horizontally or vertically, i mean sometimes chinese book is writing top down, not left to right, dev should consider this. 2. Flashcard, is not that good, you guys should acquisition the anki system, or just buy the whole anki, and implement it on pleco, that would have been great. 3. sometimes history error, missing, or nothing.

The app is very easy to use and is a great resource for one learning Chinese. The multiple dictionaries including sample sentences, words usage as verbs or nouns etc; functions like the clip reader etc are really helpful. Thank you Pleco!

I've been a Pleco user for more than a decade. The updated OCR is different, and after using it for a few weeks I can confidently say it's worse than before. Just the basic job of recognizing characters, it's gone from near 100% to barely usable.

I regret paying any money for this. This app 100% needs to be sunsetted and replaced. The manual doesn't match the app, OCR can't read top-bottom and honestly can barely read a lot of single characters correctly, the flashcard system is a waste of time (just use anki), I can go on.

More than just a simple dictionary. Provides card system to review words and even lookup words on screen. The app is free with no ads with some add-ons costing money but they are completely optional. This app is a must if you're learning Chinese.

I would absolutely love to give this app 5 stars. It is hands down the best chinese to english dictionary app. However, there is one problem with the app. The problem: When attempting to speak into the app, it often correctly displays the spoken words, but if it picks up any noise whatsoever it will refuse to search the word until it no longer pick up any noise. My recommendation: add a button to submit the voice search. Please add this. The microphone feature is nearly unusable otherwise.