1. An electronic device, comprising: a display unit that displays a character input screen; an input unit that inputs a character to be displayed on the character input screen; and a control unit that displays, on the display unit, conversion candidates or predictive candidates for the character that has been input from the input unit, wherein the control unit displays names of applications or names of processing in the applications as the conversion candidates or the predictive candidates, and when any one of the names is selected, the control unit executes processing of an application corresponding to the selected name.