The Best 12 Pleco Alternatives

  • ChineseSkill

    Chinese language has and does deserve its notoriety for heartbreaking difficulty. If that wasn’t bad enough, most of the resources available for learning Mandarin Chinese are expensive, and time-consuming.

    Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad

  • wenlin

    Wenlin software makes learning Chinese easier and more interesting, for begining students, life-long speakers, and scholars alike. It combines a comprehensive Chinese dictionary, a Unicode text editor, and flashcards.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows

  • DimSum

    DimSum: a program designed to help you learn and use Chinese. Many people have requested versions of the tools on this website that can be run locally. DimSum is the answer to these requests.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Hanping Chinese Dictionary

    Hanping is Android's most user-friendly offline dictionary for learning Chinese. Includes handwriting recognition, native speaker audio, stroke animations, AnkiDroid...

    Freemium

  • Nciku

    English Chinese dictionary, help learning Chinese language, Chinese character, and Chinese pinyin. Dictionary with Chinese handwriting recognition, pinyin translation...

    Free Web

  • MDBG English to Chinese dictionary

    This website offers more than just a dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input and more. The MDBG dictionary...

    Free Web Facebook

  • Youdao Dictionary

    Youdao is a search engine released by Chinese internet leviathan, NetEase in 2007. It is the featured search engine of its parent company's web portal, 163.com, and...

    Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Web

  • YellowBridge

    Free online dictionary with suggestions of words that start / end with searched character. Requires that you turn ad blockers off.

    Freemium Web