Pleco Chinese Dictionary

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes, mostly for new devices + new versions of iOS

Bug fixes

Bug fixes.

Check out our new Rainbow Bridge + Mandarin Companion graded readers in the "Add-ons" screen.

3.2.65: Bug fixes

3.2.63: Bug fixes

3.2.62:
• Added experimental neural network handwriting recognition option - enable in Settings / Input Methods / Handwriting.
• Added the option to install HSK 3.0 flashcards in Import/Export / Install Premade Cards.
• Increased resolution of PDF OCR.
• Other minor fixes/tweaks.

Bug fixes.

- Bug fixes.
- Support for upcoming iOS devices.

- Bug fixes.
- Restored support for table of contents in PDFs.
- Added option in settings to hide PDF thumbnail bar.

Bug fixes.

Bug fixes.

3.2.53:

• Re-enabled iOS 14 'scribble' gestures when handwriting input is not active.
• Restored bookmark functionality to the PDF viewer, along with a 'jump to page' option in the bookmark popup to jump to an arbitrary page number.

3.2.52:

• Bug fixes

3.2.51:

• Added free 'lite' handwriting recognizer.
• Updated PDF + HTML decoding for iOS 14.
• Bug fixes + data file updates.

3.2.52: 

• Bug fixes

3.2.51:

• Added free 'lite' handwriting recognizer.
• Updated PDF + HTML decoding for iOS 14.
• Bug fixes + data file updates.

• Added free 'lite' handwriting recognizer.

• Updated PDF + HTML decoding for iOS 14.

• Bug fixes + data file updates.

• Added automatic weekly flashcard backups to iCloud Drive to protect against lost data from inadvertent app uninstalls.

• Bug fixes + data file updates.

• Added automatic weekly flashcard backups to iCloud Drive to protect against lost data from inadvertent app uninstalls.

• Bug fixes + data file updates.

Bug fixes + data file updates.

Stay safe, everyone.

• Additional bug fixes for iOS 13.

• Additional bug fixes for iOS 13.

• Additional bug fixes for iOS 13.

• Additional bug fixes for iOS 13.

• Improved support + bug fixes for iOS 13.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• Support for upcoming versions of iOS.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• Support for upcoming versions of iOS.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• Bug fixes for upcoming versions of iOS.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• More bug fixes, including fixes for future versions of iOS.

Also, if you haven't yet, check out our *50* new graded reader add-ons in the "Add-ons" screen. (all of which offer free sample chapters)

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• Bug fixes, including fixes for future versions of iOS.

Also, if you haven't yet, check out our *50* new graded reader add-ons in the "Add-ons" screen. (all of which offer free sample chapters)

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

• Added a whopping *50* new graded reader add-ons, including graded-reader versions of the "Four Great Classic Novels" (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and A Dream of Red Mansions); demo versions of all of them are available in "Add-ons".
• Bug fixes.
A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

Also, on upcoming products: yes, we're still working on 4.0, it's unspeakably awesome (it's more-or-less the only thing we've been working on for the past 3-and-a-half years) and we plan to provide more details on new features / release plans very soon. (but to assuage any concerns, no, we're not going to make you sign up for a subscription to keep using Pleco or anything evil like that - add-ons will still be one-time purchases, and any functionality you have should be accessible in the new version without your needing to buy it again [though you may need to pay to access some newly-added functionality])

• Added a whopping *50* new graded reader add-ons, including graded-reader versions of the "Four Great Classic Novels" (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and A Dream of Red Mansions); demo versions of all of them are available in "Add-ons".
• Bug fixes.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while.

Also, on upcoming products: yes, we're still working on 4.0, it's unspeakably awesome (it's more-or-less the only thing we've been working on for the past 3-and-a-half years) and we plan to provide more details on new features / release plans very soon. (but to assuage any concerns, no, we're not going to make you sign up for a subscription to keep using Pleco or anything evil like that - add-ons will still be one-time purchases, and any functionality you have should be accessible in the new version without your needing to buy it again [though you may need to pay to access some newly-added functionality])

• Bug fixes in support of new iOS hardware.
• Replaced confusing 'hwr'/'vox'/'chn'/etc labels above the keyboard with nice sensible icons.
• Other bug fixes, including (finally) the restoration of the 'Define' option when selecting text.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

• Bug fixes in support of upcoming iOS system software and hardware updates.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

• Bug fixes in support of upcoming iOS system software and hardware updates.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.32:
• More bug fixes, including a couple of long-overdue iPhone X UI glitches.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.31:
• More reliable restoration of in-app purchases.
• Bunch of bug fixes.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.30:
• Bunch of bug fixes.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

Newish things to take a look at:
• Paid e-books; the amazing "Chinese History: A New Manual" by Endymion Wilkinson (an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese history) plus two new collections of graded readers.
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

3.2.29:
• Bunch of bug fixes.
• Support for some new / updated content we'll be launching shortly.

A note on reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

Newish things to take a look at:
• Paid e-books; the amazing "Chinese History: A New Manual" by Endymion Wilkinson (an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese history) plus two new collections of graded readers.
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

3.2.28:
• Minor but time-sensitive bug fixes.

Newish things to take a look at:
• Paid e-books; the amazing "Chinese History: A New Manual" by Endymion Wilkinson (an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese history) plus two new collections of graded readers.
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.27:
• Bug fixes.
• New option to exclude example sentences when exporting cards.

Newish things to take a look at:
• Paid e-books; the amazing "Chinese History: A New Manual" by Endymion Wilkinson (an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese history) plus two new collections of graded readers.
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.26:
• Optimizations / bug fixes for the new iPhone X.
• Added an alert when trying to auto-play audio with the mute switch on.
• Enabled links to usage notes from popup dictionary bubbles.
• Made the 'fix startup freezes' option from 3.2.23 now apply automatically. (we'll likely remove that option shortly once we confirm this works)

Previously:
3.2.22:
• Bug fixes (one old bug and two new ones), plus the recent search history button option is also available on iPads in interface modes when the iPad would not otherwise show that button (split-screen or definition hidden).
3.2.21:
• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)

Newish things to take a look at:
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.25:
• Optimizations / bug fixes for the new iPhone X.
• Added an alert when trying to auto-play audio with the mute switch on.
• Enabled links to usage notes from popup dictionary bubbles.
• Made the 'fix startup freezes' option from 3.2.23 now apply automatically. (we'll likely remove that option shortly once we confirm this works)

Previously:
3.2.22:
• Bug fixes (one old bug and two new ones), plus the recent search history button option is also available on iPads in interface modes when the iPad would not otherwise show that button (split-screen or definition hidden).
3.2.21:
• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)

Newish things to take a look at:
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.24:
• Optimizations / bug fixes for the new iPhone X.
• Added an alert when trying to auto-play audio with the mute switch on.
• Enabled links to usage notes from popup dictionary bubbles.
• Made the 'fix startup freezes' option from 3.2.23 now apply automatically. (we'll likely remove that option shortly once we confirm this works)

Previously:
3.2.22:
• Bug fixes (one old bug and two new ones), plus the recent search history button option is also available on iPads in interface modes when the iPad would not otherwise show that button (split-screen or definition hidden).
3.2.21:
• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)

Newish things to take a look at:
• New expanded Essentials Edition of the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.23:
• Made another attempt to fix the startup freeze issue that's affecting a small % of our customers with iOS 11.
• As a fallback in case this latest attempt doesn't work, added a 'Fix Startup Freezes' option to our *system* settings screen (system Settings app / Pleco) which should definitively fix the issue by avoiding the relevant code altogether. (the downside is that it will also totally disable iCloud sync, but it should at least allow you to keep using Pleco while we figure this out)

Previously:
3.2.22:
• Bug fixes (one old bug and two new ones), plus the recent search history button option is also available on iPads in interface modes when the iPad would not otherwise show that button (split-screen or definition hidden).
3.2.21:
• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)

Newish things to take a look at:
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.22:
• Bug fixes (one old bug and two new ones), plus the recent search history button option is also available on iPads in interface modes when the iPad would not otherwise show that button (split-screen or definition hidden).

Previously in 3.2.21:
• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)

Newish things to take a look at:
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

• Lots of bug fixes, including (we hope) a fix for startup crashes on the iPhone 8.
• New options to adjust the volume of individual audio/TTS voices (Settings / Audio) and to add a recent search history popup button to the toolbar on iPhones (Settings / Search Interface).
• Some modest performance optimizations, mostly in long documents.
• Added support for paid e-books; we aren't actually launching any today, but expect an announcement on that front shortly.
• Built a few hundred demo stroke order diagrams into our app (as we already do on other platforms) rather than requiring a separate download. (this will only apply to new installs; if you've already installed Pleco, you can download the demo of stroke order diagrams in "Add-ons" / "Features" to get access to those few hundred characters for free)

Previously in 3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)
• Bug fixes.

Newish things to take a look at:
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

3.2.20:
• Massively updated our built-in PLC dictionary, adding tons of new words / definitions / examples and, by extremely high popular demand, parts of speech.
• Added a long-requested option in Settings / Audio to specify which TTS voice should be used to play Mandarin headwords.
• Added new 'enhanced' TTS audio databases for our Hong, Qiang, Kayan, and Kaho text-to-speech voices; they're free if you own those voices + can be downloaded in "Add-ons" / "Purchased but not downloaded." (if you don't own them yet, their "Add-ons" pages have been updated with separate enhanced audio previews to listen to, and we've made all of our TTS previews a lot longer)
• Bug fixes.

Previously in 3.2.19:
• Optimized for newest iOS software + hardware
• Added a clipboard monitoring option for Clip Reader on split-screen iPads (Settings / Reader), to go along with the existing option to monitor the clipboard on the search screen (Settings / Search Interface).
• Fixed an issue that kept our Cantonese TTS from playing audio correctly for a few characters that were common in Cantonese + rare in Mandarin.
• Various other minor bug fixes + tweaks.

Newish things to take a look at:
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary
• New Mandarin + Cantonese TTS voices
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one, you hopefully shouldn't need to do it again for quite a while...

• Optimized for newest iOS software + hardware
• Added a clipboard monitoring option for Clip Reader on split-screen iPads (Settings / Reader), to go along with the existing option to monitor the clipboard on the search screen (Settings / Search Interface).
• Fixed an issue that kept our Cantonese TTS from playing audio correctly for a few characters that were common in Cantonese + rare in Mandarin.
• Various other minor bug fixes + tweaks.

Newish things to take a look at:
• Military Mandarin Lexicon, a great new dictionary of PRC military terminology
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary and new Cantonese (and Mandarin) TTS voices.
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• Beta version of the long-awaited revamp to our PLC dictionary (the one built into our free app); you can download that for free in Add-ons / New PLC Beta. This is a *huge* upgrade, with 40,000 new entries, 12,000 new example sentences, parts of speech for most entries, and many thousands of corrections and bug fixes.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

Reviews: the App Store no longer resets our review average with every update (yay!), but if you haven't left us a review recently, we'd really appreciate it if you would - after this one you should hopefully never need to do it again :-)

See our new ABC Cantonese dictionary + 5 new text-to-speech voices in "Add-ons," along with a big new update to the Outlier character dictionary.

Changes:
• Numerous changes in support of new + upcoming dictionaries, like support for tone coloring in Cantonese example sentences for ABC Cantonese, support for larger + colored embedded images for the Outlier dictionary, and improved support for searches containing digits for a forthcoming new dictionary.
• Increased audio volume of our TTS voices to match up with that of the built-in iOS one.
• Made the mute switch work for all auto-playing audio, both in flashcards and in the popup reader.
• Various minor bug fixes.

Newish things to take a look at:
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary and new Cantonese (and Mandarin) TTS voices.
• New 1.1 update to the popular Outlier character dictionary.
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• Beta version of the long-awaited revamp to our PLC dictionary (the one built into our free app); you can download that for free in Add-ons. This is a *huge* upgrade, with 40,000 new entries, 12,000 new example sentences, parts of speech for most entries, and many thousands of corrections and bug fixes.
• New Outlier Mini dictionary, first early mini release of a major new Chinese-English dictionary of character etymology - paid add-on but with the price credited towards a purchase of the full Outlier dictionary once it's ready.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

As always, since the App Store resets our review average with every update, we'd really appreciate it if you'd leave another review - don't have to write anything, just the star button will do. We hate the fact that other developers put up nag screens asking for reviews, and would never do that ourselves, but reviews help us show up more prominently in search results, which leads to more users / more money to improve Pleco.

Warning: we've updated our paid text-to-speech engines in this release, so if you've purchased one or both of those, you'll need to download a data file update (~60 MB each) to keep using them. If you use our TTS frequently, we'd recommend opening Pleco and updating those data files immediately after installing this update, so that you won't find yourself unable to use TTS at an inopportune moment.

Changes:
• Bug fixes (PDF bookmark saving, disappearing input method bar, etc)
• Usability improvements (auto-play flashcard audio now respects the mute switch, flashcard backups now tappable in File Manager, etc)

Newish things to take a look at:
• New free Source Han Serif Chinese font (Song-style), in Add-ons / Features.
• Beta version of the long-awaited revamp to our PLC dictionary (the one built into our free app); you can download that for free in Add-ons. This is a *huge* upgrade, with 40,000 new entries, 12,000 new example sentences, parts of speech for most entries, and many thousands of corrections and bug fixes.
• New Outlier Mini dictionary, first early mini release of a major new Chinese-English dictionary of character etymology - paid add-on but with the price credited towards a purchase of the full Outlier dictionary once it's ready.
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

Upcoming things:
• ABC Cantonese Dictionary and new Cantonese (and Mandarin) TTS voices, hopefully out in June. (they're already ready on our end, we're just waiting on some business-related stuff)
• Couple of other new dictionaries + something that isn't quite a dictionary but that we hope you'll love anyway.
• Big 1.1 update to Outlier Mini.
• Giant Pleco 4.0 update, 10 years in the making (and our primary focus for the past ~2 years), with a giant spectacular overhaul of our flashcard system + OCR and a bunch of other neat stuff. (release date TBD but we're getting closer and closer...)

As always, since the App Store resets our review average with every update, we'd really appreciate it if you'd leave another review - don't have to write anything, just the star button will do. We hate the fact that other developers put up nag screens asking for reviews, and would never do that ourselves, but reviews help us show up more prominently in search results, which leads to more users / more money to improve Pleco.

Changes:
• Bug fixes. (among others: 不/一 tone sandhi now work correctly when reading headwords with our TTS add-ons)
• Hyperlinks now work correctly in Outlier dictionary usage notes - note that they still won't work in some entries until we update the Outlier database (should be in a few days).
• Full-width */? wildcard characters are now supported in searches.

New things to take a look at:
• Beta version of the long-awaited revamp to our PLC dictionary (the one built into our free app); you can download that for free in Add-ons. This is a *huge* upgrade, with 40,000 new entries, 12,000 new example sentences, parts of speech for most entries, and many thousands of corrections and bug fixes. We don't expect people will find any problems with this that are worse than the bugs in the old PLC, but we're doing a beta anyway just to be safe.
• New Outlier Mini dictionary, first early mini release of a major new Chinese-English dictionary of character etymology - paid add-on but with the price credited towards a purchase of the full Outlier dictionary once it's ready.
• Updates to many add-on dictionaries in "Add-ons."
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

As always, since the App Store resets our review average with every update, we'd really appreciate it if you'd leave another review - don't have to write anything, just the star button will do. We hate the fact that other developers put up nag screens asking for reviews, and would never do that ourselves, but reviews help us show up more prominently in search results, which leads to more users / more money to improve Pleco.

Changes:
• Bug fixes. (most importantly, EPUB bookmarking + stroke order filled-in status)

New things to take a look at:
• "New Century English-Chinese Dictionary" in Add-ons, a brand new (published in 2016), comprehensive (240k entries), example-rich (130k examples) English-to-Chinese dictionary based on the Collins corpus.
• Experimental Kai-style stroke order diagrams, free in Add-ons if you already own our stroke order add-on.
• More generous stroke order demo if you don't own that add-on yet - download that demo in Add-ons (of the original or the experimental Kai diagrams) and you can now see stroke order for several hundred common characters in the main dictionary.
• Our experimental OCR system update (coming officially in 4.0) - Settings / OCR / New OCR System - with a completely revamped motion detection system that should feel much less jittery than before.

As always, since the App Store resets our review average with every update, we'd really appreciate it if you'd leave another review - don't have to write anything, just the star button will do. We hate the fact that other developers put up nag screens asking for reviews, and would never do that ourselves, but reviews help us show up more prominently in search results, which leads to more users / more money to improve Pleco.