Bagan Keyboard vs ShanKeyboard
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)
ShanKeyboard
This app provides a native-feeling keyboard experience for the Shan language on iOS. It offers two layout options and basic text auto-completion, prioritizing simplicity and privacy.
- Native iOS keyboard feel
- SIL Standard layout
- Panglong layout
- Basic auto-complete
- Auto-suggestion for Shan language
- Privacy-focused design
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This project aims to make customizing the Shan language keyboard layout for iOS much easier—until native support by Apple becomes available. **Just Type** This project aims to replicate the native iOS keyboard layout experience for the Shan language. It prioritizes simplicity: - No fancy themes (though they could be added later). - No cluttered settings buttons (which can also be added later). - No privacy concerns—just type! **Features** - Two available keyboard layouts: SIL Standard, Panglong - Feel native - Basic text auto-complete, auto-suggestion for Shan language
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShanKeyboard at 100% against Bagan Keyboard's 44%. ShanKeyboard also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). Bagan Keyboard's advantage is ratings volume (853 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, 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.
ShanKeyboard holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagan Keyboard has 853 ratings behind it against 5, 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 100% of ShanKeyboard's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bagan Keyboard | ShanKeyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (853 ratings) | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 853 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 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 | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wun Zinn | Norhsangpha Boonhse |
Customer experience
Bagan Keyboard
ShanKeyboard
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
ShanKeyboard
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bagan Keyboard
No in-app purchases
ShanKeyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bagan Keyboard free?
Is ShanKeyboard free?
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