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OCR
Look up unknown Chinese words ‘live’ using your device’s camera, or tap-lookup words in a still image.
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Handwriting
Look up words by drawing them on the screen; very accurate and tolerant of stroke order mistakes.
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Dictionaries
Huge and growing collection of licensed dictionary databases, including titles from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, and many other major publishers.
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Audio
Recordings from two different native speakers for 34,000 Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer (for sentences) and Cantonese support as well.
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Flashcards
Insanely powerful / customizable system, making it extremely easy to add new flashcards from dictionary entries or import pre-made vocabulary lists.
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Document Reader
Look up words in a document simply by tapping on them; supports TXT/EPUB/DOC/PDF files and web pages on iOS, TXT/PDF files on Android.
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Screen Reader
Android-only; look up Chinese words in any app on your device by tapping on a floating button.
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Incredibly Fast
We use a custom-built database engine so fast that it can search and process results from a dozen different dictionaries before you’ve finished lifting your finger off the screen.
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Well-Supported
We’ve been in business for 20 years, and offer free compatibility updates whenever possible; we have users who bought the Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary from us for Palm Pilot in 2001 and are still able to use that same purchase on their brand-new iPhone or Samsung Galaxy in 2020 without ever having had to pay an upgrade fee.