Pleco Chinese Dictionary for Android

Pleco Chinese Dictionary is one of the most comprehensive and flexible apps for anyone learning Chinese, be it a complete beginner or a seasoned student. Look up words by characters via various dictionaries, use flashcards to memorize words and logographs, practice handwriting, and paste text right into the built-in reader to get its meaning. Pleco Chinese Dictionary suits both traditional and simplified Chinese learners and even offers support for those studying Cantonese. Changing between character sets or showing Pinyin and Zhuyin is pretty straightforward.

Version history

Here you can find the changelog of Pleco Chinese Dictionary since it was posted on our website on 2025-04-29. The latest version is and it was updated on Panda Downloads on Apr 29, 2025. See below the changes in each version:

Version

posted on 2024-10-13

.96: fix bug with Yale romanization
.95:
- Updated to new, neural-network paid TTS
- On Android 14 and later, made Screen OCR use Accessibility rather than Media Projection
- Fixed speech recognizer doing English instead of Chinese
- Fixed a bug that flipped paused New OCR images upside-down
- Fixed Screen OCR bar position bugs
- Fixed foldable screen bugs
- Fixed a bug that could cause ebooks to lose place when rotating screen
- Made "Pleco" system selection menu command use reader if length >

Version

posted on 2024-10-13

.96+.97: bug fixes
.95:
- Updated to new, neural-network paid TTS
- On Android 14 and later, made Screen OCR use Accessibility rather than Media Projection
- Fixed speech recognizer doing English instead of Chinese
- Fixed a bug that flipped paused New OCR images upside-down
- Fixed Screen OCR bar position bugs
- Fixed foldable screen bugs
- Fixed a bug that could cause ebooks to lose place when rotating screen
- Made "Pleco" system selection menu command use reader if length >

Version 3.2.94

posted on 2024-04-02

Experimental fix for some issues users have been having with accessing Android system TTS

Version 3.2.93

posted on 2024-01-19

Minor update with data file updates for CC-CEDICT and our embedded Chinese font files, plus support for adaptive icons and a few bug fixes.

Version 3.2.92

posted on 2024-01-05

Policy compliance update

Version 3.2.91

posted on 2023-07-28

Bug fixes.

Version 3.2.90

posted on 2023-05-01

- Rewrote layout code for screen reader/OCR to hopefully find the edges of the screen more reliably; this includes a new checkbox on Android 9/10 to manually tell Pleco if the navigation bar is on the left
- Hid screen reader notification on Android 13 - we're no longer required to show one, and it had gotten pretty useless since we're also no longer allowed to close the notification shade when you tap a button
- Stroke order backgrounds now use correct aspect ratio
- Lots of other bug fixes

Version 3.2.86

posted on 2022-04-09

3.2.85/6:
. Clip Reader + Tablet Screen Reader bug fixes
3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.

Version 3.2.85

posted on 2021-10-08

3.2.85:
. Fixed Clip Reader crash on some devices
3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.

Version 3.2.84

posted on 2021-09-30

3.2.84:
. Made Clip Reader 'reload' button always visible to deal with slow clipboard refresh on some devices.
3.2.83:
. Added experimental neural network HWR - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
. Added HSK 3.0 in Import/Export / Premade Cards. (tap "Yes" and you'll see an additional prompt)
. Added min font size for Screen Reader.
. Eliminated erroneous clipboard messages.
. Improved landscape Screen OCR dimensions.
. Updated in-app purchase library for more reliable payments.