Pleco Software is a cool little New York company focused on exactly one thing: creating the world's best tools for learning Chinese.
Our flagship product, Pleco 2.0, gives you everything you need to look up and study Chinese vocabulary: content from seven different dictionaries, handwriting input, flexible Pinyin searches, audio recordings for over 34,000 words, stroke order diagrams, a built-in document reader, and one of the most advanced and customizable flashcard systems ever invented. And all of this running on a device you can carry around in your pocket.
We're profitable, privately-held, and have been in business since 2000, and we back up our products with excellent customer service, an active user community, and generous upgrade policies - we've got customers using the latest version of Pleco who haven't had to buy an upgrade in 7 years.
After two-and-a-half years in development, the newest version of our software is now available for Windows Mobile and Palm OS.
For information on features, pricing, and upgrade policies, see the product page. The user manual includes a more detailed upgrade guide for users of PlecoDict 1.0, along with a list of new features and an introduction to the redesigned flashcard system.
An iPhone version of Pleco 2.0 is also in the works, but we're not ready to announce a release date for it yet.
In conjunction with the release of Pleco 2.0, we're now also offering the previous version of our software, PlecoDict 1.0, on Palm OS only, at a significant discount over its original price. (1.0 is no longer available at all on Windows Mobile)
If you decide later on that you'd like to upgrade to 2.0, you can do so for just the difference in price between your discounted copy of 1.0 and its 2.0 equivalent. See this page for information on features and pricing.
Along with the new software, we're also debuting a new website design. This is the fourth major redesign of our site - to see how far we've come, take a look at the 2001, 2004, and 2006 versions. We've also added several new features to our online store - it now supports PayPal payments, offers automatic quantity discounts, and lets you purchase gift certificates if you'd like to give a copy of Pleco to someone else.
(if the page looks weird / distorted with the new design, just hit your browser's Refresh or Reload button and that should clear it up)
