# Hierolyte — Learn Egyptian hieroglyphs > Learn Egyptian hieroglyphs (iPhone/iPad app by Lucas Young.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hierolyte/id6757535990 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Lucas Young](https://appshunter.io/developer/303586609) - Category: Education - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 62 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2026-01-11 - Data updated: 2026-07-21 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hierolyte/id6757535990/reviews.md ## What is Hierolyte? Discover the ancient Egyptian writing system, one glyph at a time. Hierolyte brings the beauty and mystery of hieroglyphs to your daily routine, and now teaches you to read them. Each day at midnight a new hieroglyph unlocks for you to explore, learn, and add to your growing collection. No rushing, no cramming, just a calm journey through one of humanity's oldest writing systems. A New Glyph Every Day Wake up to a beautifully rendered hieroglyph waiting for you. Learn its sound, its meaning, and see it used in an authentic ancient Egyptian word. Watch your collection grow from a single symbol to a repertoire of over 200 essential signs. [VERIFY: sign count] Two Reading Courses When you are ready to go beyond collecting, two in-depth courses teach you to actually read. Reading Royal Names takes you from the Rosetta Stone to the temples of Abu Simbel, decoding the cartouches of Egypt's pharaohs sign by sign, the way Champollion did in 1822. Start with Ptolemy and Cleopatra, and work your way to Ramesses, Tutankhamun, and Thutmose III. Reading Real Words goes further, into the script the Egyptians used every day: the signs that carry whole sounds and whole ideas, and the silent labels that make a script without vowels read clearly. It ends with the offering formula, the single most common inscription on stelae the world over, so you finish on a complete, real text. Each course runs to 20 lessons with interactive exercises and scored quizzes. Spell Your Name, Free Type any name and watch it become a cartouche, built live from hieroglyphic signs, each one tappable so you can learn what it is. Save it or share it. It uses the popular tourist alphabet, which is a phonetic approximation rather than how an ancient scribe would have spelled the name, and the app is honest about the difference. Genuine Egyptological Content This is not simplified or "fun facts only." Hierolyte teaches you the same transliteration system scholars use, the same sign classifications from the Gardiner Sign List, and real example words attested in ancient texts. Articles, Flashcards, and Progress Unlock educational articles as you go, covering how hieroglyphs actually work: reading direction, phonetic values, determinatives, and more. Review what you have collected with flashcard sessions to find the signs that need more practice. Build daily streaks, watch your collection fill a calendar heatmap, and track your progress across every Gardiner category. Designed for Daily Ritual Hierolyte is intentionally unhurried. Spend a few peaceful minutes each day with a single glyph. The constraint becomes the feature: by the end of a year you will have internalised the core hieroglyphic repertoire without ever feeling overwhelmed. Academically Accurate, Beautifully Presented Every hieroglyph is rendered using JSesh, the standard tool used by Egyptologists worldwide. The warm, museum-quality design creates a contemplative space for learning these "divine words," as the ancient Egyptians called them. Full support for iPhone and iPad. Begin your journey into ancient Egypt. One glyph at a time. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Cartouche Reading Course | $4.99 | one-time | | Reading Real Words Course | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 3.0 — 2026-06-05 Hierolyte 3 turns the app into a complete reading course. Reading Real Words: a new 20-lesson course on the everyday script, from single sound-signs and silent determinatives all the way to the offering formula, the most common inscription on Egyptian stelae. The natural next step after Reading Royal Names. Spell Your Name: a free tool that turns any name into a live hieroglyphic cartouche you can tap, save, and share. Plus small fixes and refinements throughout. ### 2.0 — 2026-04-10 What's New in Hierolyte 2.0 - New: Reading Royal Names - a 20-lesson course teaching you to read Egyptian cartouches, from Ptolemy to Ramesses. Includes exercises, quizzes, and real-world photographs from temples across Egypt. - New: Full iPad support with adaptive layouts throughout. - Bug fixes and performance improvements. ### 1.3 — 2026-03-25 - New article: Pronunciation Guide (Day 4) - Learn how to actually say hieroglyphs - Bug fixes and performance improvements ### 1.2 — 2026-03-11 What's New in 1.2 - Every hieroglyph now has a unique, historically accurate fun fact - no more generic descriptions - Fixed glyph data: corrected sounds, types, and example words for D36, O4, A1, N5, L2, and more - Review sessions and article read progress now save reliably - Performance improvements to flashcard interactions ### 1.1 — 2026-02-08 In this release: - Fixes to streak calculations - Ability to unlock missed glyphs ## More apps by Lucas Young - [Notami](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/notami/id6745493846) - [WhenSuitsYou](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/whensuitsyou/id6757496606) - [Quiet Mirror](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/quiet-mirror/id6757656706) - [Skim Reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skim-reader/id6758281041) - [My Sides](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/my-sides/id6758912922) All apps by Lucas Young: https://appshunter.io/developer/303586609 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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