Pleco Chinese Dictionary Negative Reviews

Pleco Chinese Dictionary App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Pleco Chinese Dictionary app received 15 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Pleco Chinese Dictionary? Can you share your negative thoughts about pleco chinese dictionary?

Pleco Chinese Dictionary for Negative User Reviews

✓ Do not purchase the add onsI purchased the OCR and it’s so hard to use that it’s practically useless. I therefore wasted £10 on it and went back to google translate after only a day. Update: It would appear that the App Store does not allow refunds and there is no way to get a refund without calling my credit card company and asking them to give me my money back through the “chargeback” mechanism under section 75 of the consumer protection act. I will also cancel my Apple Music subscription and never purchase anything from this store again..AshP333Version: 3.2.39

✓ Absolutely useless appThis app simply can't translate simple sentences like "which way is bus stop or train station". Why develop an app which can't do simple functions like this? This must be the most expensive and ripoff app in App Store. No speech recognition function at all. There are better apps cheaper and more functions than this. Google translator is free but does similar function. App is not user friendly at all..Prince Charles of AustraliaVersion: 3.2.20

✓ Good app but…Wish the search could be changed to focus less on random historical figures (which clutter up results) instead of useful words.Candiceli1Version: 3.2.70

✓ ChangesWhy has this dictionary changed in a negative way? I try to write a Chinese character and the Pleco interface now interprets it as an English letter or an asterisk or some totally unrelated character. This dictionary used to be easy, accurate and fast. Now, after whatever changes have been made, it’s just a total frustration..Irish SeaVersion: 3.2.48

✓ HandwritingIt was great when handwriting was included with the free app. Though advertised as free it is not available anymore!! Why should I have to pay $13.99 to hand write when I have had this app for years!? Not happy.PeichsVersion: 3.2.50

✓ It’s great, but why is it even expensive?Pleco has been my sidekick throughout my Chinese learning journey, but one of the things that bother me is the fact that so many feature are either not there or you have to buy it. For example, only few characters have stroke order animations. What’s the point of that if I could just use an online website like YellowDictionary.com to look it up? It would also be nice if there was a feature were you copy pasted a Chinese text and it added pinyin or Zhuyin Fuhao above it. Other than that, I don’t see why the app’s features should be so expensive..UsleasVersion: 3.2.59

✓ Flash cards are a jokeI am trying to explore pleco flash cards to anki and when I export them, I want 3 categories-Hanzi, Pinyin and the English translation. However when I do this, the English translation section always includes paragraphs of 'example sentences' which I cannot seem to separate. Not only does this make it difficult to read the flash cards, but it basically reveals the answer when I am doing an English-Chinese review, which defeats the entire point of doing the exercise in the first place. How can I separate a simple English words from the mountains of example sentences in the flash cards? This should be much more intuitive..SzangarVersion: 3.2.26

✓ No automatic or cloud backupFirst off, I absolutely adore this app. But right now, I am very angry at a critical feature that is missing - automatic cloud backup. I just switched phones and it was a hurried affair because I had to trade in my old one. Apparently, iCloud does not backup and restore Pleco's database. I was shocked to learn that Pleco only has manual backup options. It's 2024 - this is unacceptable. I just lost 3 years worth of history and can never get it back..Yawhann ChongVersion: 3.2.74

✓ Way too expensiveThe add ons are too expensive and the design of the program is not user friendly..ForesipsVersion: 2.2.7

✓ AwfulTook away handwriting recognition and made it a paid feature and replaced it with stroke lookup. totally useless now!.BleckaIckVersion: 3.2.20

✓ Annoying ‘Version Conflict’ messageI love this app and been using it for many years but sadly I have to leave negative feedback as the iCloud database does not sync successfully and keeps displaying the same error message prompting me to choose a backup which means I keep losing my saved flash cards. I have followed the instructions by disabling it and re-enabling many times but the message keeps repetitively popping up. Please fix!.Simbiat131Version: 3.2.47

✓ Powerful but flash cards update?A very useful app that I’ve bought multiple add ons for and feel like I got my money’s worth in both dictionary (great already when free and very slightly improved with add ons) and flash cards (purchase only), and the integration between the two helps. Lots of customisation, which I tend to hope for (eg. I love black screens, prefer smaller font sizes, and have preferred colours for each of the four tones - all of which I was able to get to just my preference with Pleco. There’s much more than this, of course). As for flash cards, what makes it awesome is the combo of varied options for learning patterns (eg. you get to customise the spaced repetition or even whether spaced repetition is used at all) and the types of task you do (from traditional flash cards to multi choice and gapfills, from reading based to listening based, with a focus on characters or a focus on pinyin or both, etc). Why only three stars then? A few things could greatly improve the app: Most of all - a massive flashcard update has been touted for years and never come. I put extra money into just hoping it’d encourage them to get there quicker and thinking it’d pay off in the end. Almost 4 years later and the idea seems to have been dropped. :( The UI is a bit chaotic in its organisation. A lot could be done to make all the options more user friendly and accessible, and some terminology could be better clarified. The only way to install publicly produced flash cards is through a complicated: download on a PC, then drag and drop in through iTunes, then unpackage in the app. It’d be nice to be able to either browse and download in Pleco itself (ideal) or at least through a browser on your phone/tablet straight to Pleco..HeathJVersion: 3.2.47

✓ So expensiveEverything there is so expensive so i only try the demo.App su cksVersion: 3.2.61

✓ Expensive Add-onsJust a basic dictionary. Anything useful is a very expensive add-on. Also the interface isn't intuitive..KonKonKaosVersion: 2.2.11

✓ Christmas day is Confucius' birthday??! WHAT?!I checked the dictionary the word Christmas in Chinese language. It says birthday of Jesus, and down below it says birthday of Confucius!!! What on earth??!! you guys better change this, very very wrong!.HappybananaVersion: 3.2.47

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