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Welcome to the redesigned Pleco website!

We're proud to announce the release of the new Seventh Edition of Endymion Wilkinson's Chinese History: A New Manual, published exclusively as an electronic edition by Pleco. In addition to being available in our iOS…

Thanks to a recent court ruling, we are now permitted to link directly from our iOS app to our website for in-app purchases for customers in the US, instead of relying solely on Apple's in-app purchase system and paying…

We are - finally! - ready to welcome outside beta testers for our long awaited Pleco 4.0 update.

We’ve just released an additional 23 Rainbow Bridge graded readers, adding to the 35 we already offered. They cover a range of skill levels and can be bought individually or in a new "2021 Rainbow Bridge bundle" in the…

We've just released a set of 17 graded readers from Mandarin Companion. They include illustrations, cover a range of skill levels from beginner (Breakthrough) to intermediate (Level 2), and (with one exception) are…

Dear Friends of Pleco,

We are truly honored to announce the release of our first ever paid e-book that's not a dictionary, "Chinese History: A New Manual" 5th Edition by Endymion Wilkinson. It's available right now to purchase for US$29.99…

We're pleased to announce that the ABC Cantonese dictionary is now available in our iOS + Android apps.

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…

The first public release of the Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters was just released in Pleco; see this blog post on Outlier's site for details, or go into the Pleco "Add-ons" screen to purchase it.

We're very excited to announce that we've just signed a license for the forthcoming ABC Cantonese Dictionary, edited by Robert Bauer, which we hope to start offering in Pleco in early-to-mid 2017. This is the first…

We've just released a massive new English-Chinese dictionary add-on, the New Century English-Chinese Dictionary 《新世纪英汉大词典》 from Collins + 外研社. It's available for $29.99 via the "Add-ons" screen and our online store.

We just added an option to upgrade the Basic bundle to Professional in-app on iOS, for the difference in price ($50); we'd already been doing a version of that unofficially through our website on request (since Apple…

Welcome to the slightly redesigned Pleco website!