Bagan Keyboard vs Bear
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Enhanced Myanmar typing system
- Smart suggestions
- Predefined shortcut phrases
- Supports Zawgyi and Myanmar Unicode
- Customizable font settings
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# 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)
Bear
Enhance your typing with an AI-powered keyboard that integrates web search, synonyms, and text refinement tools. Access AI chatbots and use saved templates without leaving your current app.
- AI Chat (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity)
- Auto Synonyms
- Built-in Browser
- AI Rewrite
- Templates
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The ultimate AI-powered keyboard designed to supercharge your typing. Access web search, synonyms, rewrites, and templates instantly—no app-switching required. • Stuck on a word? Smart synonyms appear as you type. • Polishing an email? Ask AI to refine it in one tap. • Fact‑check an Instagram comment? Instantly look it up with the built-in browser. 【Features】 1. AI Chat Talk to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity without leaving the keyboard. 2. Auto Synonyms Live suggestions turn “love” into “passion,” “adore,” “cherish,” and more. 3. Built‑in Browser Perform web searches from any app—Instagram, Gmail, Notes, and more—thanks to the integrated keyboard browser. 4. Rewrite Shorten, formalize, expand, or rephrase any sentence with AI. 5. Templates Save and sync your favorite phrases; insert them with one tap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bagan Keyboard at none against Bear's 1. Bagan Keyboard also leads on ratings volume (853 vs 50) and iOS requirement (15 vs 18.0). Bear's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price 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
Both are free to download. Bear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bagan Keyboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bear holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagan Keyboard has 853 ratings behind it against 50, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Bagan Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 64% of Bear's.
Bagan Keyboard ships an update every 2 months, Bear fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bagan Keyboard | Bear |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (853 ratings) | 4.3 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.3% of reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 853 — better | 50 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Wun Zinn | kimihiro kubota |
Customer experience
Bagan Keyboard
Bear
Bugs and 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
Bear
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bagan Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Bear
- Direct WebSearch from Keybaord$19.99
Questions
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