Comparison

Karen keyboard vs Bagan Keyboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Karen keyboard

This app provides a custom keyboard and font for typing in the Karen language across all iOS applications. It allows users to communicate in their native tone and language with ease.

Highlights
  • Karen font support
  • Custom keyboard
  • Type in all iOS apps
  • Mother tongue language support
Features
Currently charting
Read full description

First app support Karen font and keyboard Install custom Karen font and you can typing, communication in all iOS apps. Enjoy your mother tone language. Note: Please accept to install Karen font before type --------------------------------------

About

Bagan Keyboard

This app offers an enhanced typing experience for the Myanmar language on iOS devices. It provides smart suggestions, shortcut phrases, and supports both Zawgyi and Myanmar Unicode fonts, making communication faster and easier.

Highlights
  • Enhanced Myanmar typing system
  • Smart suggestions
  • Predefined shortcut phrases
  • Supports Zawgyi and Myanmar Unicode
  • Customizable font settings
Features
Read full description

# Typing is Easier Ever - Best Myanmar Keyboard # Are you looking for Best Myanmar Keyboard for iOS? Do you want to use smart Myanmar Keyboard on your iPhone? The long-awaited Bagan Keyboard is here now! Bagan Keyboard is a Myanmar Keyboard from emphasizing and hard-working development on Myanmar Language typing system. It also provides the perfect solution of iOS Myanmar Keyboard for those who communicate via instant messages, with an easier, faster, and smarter. Many iOS users are now using Bagan Keyboard as their default typing app. It completes you with suggestions. It saves your time with predefined shortcut phrases. It listens to your typing actions and instantly provides you back your preferred phrases. The development team is always taking care of every user feedback and claim, to provide you a better experience of typing instant messages, also to go with flavors at your wish, both Zawgyi, and Myanmar Unicode. Bagan Keyboard is also known as Burmese Keyboard, Zawgyi Keyboard, Unicode Myanmar Keyboard. Bagan Keyboard is compatible with Zawgyi Font, Unicode Font, Myanmar Font, Burmese Font. The user can type Myanmar Unicode or Zawgyi using Bagan Keyboard and there is a setting in the keyboard to change as user preferred. Bagan Keyboard is also nominated by Telenor Myanmar as a Best Myanmar App in Asia for the year 2014, the Digital Winners event. (http://www.telenor.com.mm/pressReleasedetail/Bagan-Keyboard-nominated-for-Best-App-in-Asia-by-Telenor/7)

Screenshots

Karen keyboard4 screens
Bagan Keyboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bagan Keyboard at Free against Karen keyboard's $0.99. Bagan Keyboard also leads on ratings volume (859 vs 128). Karen keyboard's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (65% vs 44%). On rating, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bagan Keyboard is free to download; Karen keyboard costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Karen keyboard against 4.0 for Bagan Keyboard. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagan Keyboard has 859 ratings behind it against 128, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Karen keyboard's written reviews are positive against 44% of Bagan Keyboard's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Karen keyboard versus Bagan Keyboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKaren keyboardBagan Keyboard
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (128 ratings) — better4.0 (859 ratings)
Positive reviews65.3% of reviews — better44.3% of reviews
Number of ratings128859 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
Best chart rank#192 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLE SANGWun Zinn

Customer experience

Karen keyboard

All ratings127 ratings
Positive78.7%
Neutral4.7%
Negative16.5%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive65.3%
Neutral12.2%
Negative22.4%

Bagan Keyboard

All ratings853 ratings
Positive71.3%
Neutral11.5%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive44.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative30.7%

Bugs and requests

Karen keyboard

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Bagan Keyboard

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Keyboard hiding 'Done', 'Post', or 'Upload' buttons
  • Backspace key not working correctly
  • Unexpected font and capitalization changes while typing
  • Keyboard disappearing or not showing up as expected

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add English keyboard support
  • Improve keyboard customization options
  • Implement better cursor and text selection controls
  • Introduce more keyboard themes and styles

In-app purchases

None

Karen keyboard

No in-app purchases

None

Bagan Keyboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Karen keyboard free?
Karen keyboard costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bagan Keyboard free?
Bagan Keyboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Karen keyboard or Bagan Keyboard?
Karen keyboard is rated higher. Karen keyboard averages 4.1 out of 5 from 128 ratings, while Bagan Keyboard averages 4.0 from 859 ratings.
Do Karen keyboard or Bagan Keyboard have ads?
Bagan Keyboard shows ads; Karen keyboard does not.

Other comparisons