Provided is an electronic device which easily selects and executes an application relating to characters inputted by a user. A cellular phone (1) is provided with a display unit (21) which displays a character input screen, an operation unit (11) for inputting characters to be displayed on the character input screen, and a control unit (45) which controls the display unit (21) to display a candidate for conversion or a predicted candidate of the characters inputted using the operation unit (11). The control unit (45) displays the name of an application or the name of a processing in the application as the candidate for conversion or a predicted candidate, and when either name is selected, executes the processing of the application corresponding to the selected name.