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[Bigdumogre]

Anyone know any good apps for iPhone for translating to pinyin or English? Looking for something to scroll over simplified characters.

[imron]

Pleco and its pleco reader.

[Shelley]

Can you use Pleco to read web pages and other things on the fly with importing it to the clipboard or into the reader?

 

I thought the OP wanted something like Perapera or Zhongwen which work on web pages, you roll over the character and it gives pinyin and meaning.

 

I may have misunderstood.

[Bigdumogre]

Can you use Pleco to read web pages and other things on the fly with importing it to the clipboard or into the reader?

I thought the OP wanted something like Perapera or Zhongwen which work on web pages, you roll over the character and it gives pinyin and meaning.

I may have misunderstood.

Your right

Have pleco and bundle already

[mikelove]

There's no way for an iOS app to spy on / overlay its interface on another app - that's only possible on Android (and used heavily by our recently introduced Screen Reader and Screen OCR features). To be honest, it's kind of a security nightmare - all sorts of things a malicious app might do with that level of access - so it's understandable why Apple wouldn't allow it, but it would certainly be useful for Chinese lookup purposes if they did.

 

However, our Web Reader on iOS (part of the bundle you already have) gives you an embedded web browser with support for tapping on Chinese characters on pages to look them up, so that gets you an equivalent level of access with web pages at least, and our soon-to-be-introduced share extension will let you pop up a Pleco definition or reader window on top of pretty much any content that can be shared with the standard iOS system share sheet (made even easier in iOS 9 by the addition of a "Share" command to the text selection bubble).