Bagan Keyboard vs Kawthoolei Keyboard
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)
Kawthoolei Keyboard
This utility app provides a keyboard designed for typing in the Sgaw Karen language. It offers multiple keyboard layouts to facilitate easy input of Karen characters. The latest version includes additional keyboard options for enhanced typing experience.
- Sgaw Karen language support
- Multiple keyboard layouts
- Enhanced typing experience
- Additional keyboard options
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Version update with more keyboards
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Kawthoolei Keyboard at none against Bagan Keyboard's shown. Kawthoolei Keyboard also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Bagan Keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (858 vs 19) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kawthoolei Keyboard holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagan Keyboard has 858 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Bagan Keyboard's written reviews are positive against 33% of Kawthoolei Keyboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bagan Keyboard ships an update every 2 months, Kawthoolei Keyboard every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bagan Keyboard | Kawthoolei Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (858 ratings) | 4.5 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 858 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wun Zinn | Naw Ka Nyaw Will |
Customer experience
Bagan Keyboard
Kawthoolei Keyboard
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
Kawthoolei Keyboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bagan Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Kawthoolei Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bagan Keyboard free?
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