Comment on This Hieroglyph vs Hieroglyph Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Comment on This Hieroglyph
Explore 1071 Egyptian hieroglyphs and share your thoughts on Twitter. This app allows you to view and comment on ancient symbols, with a special keyboard for easy input into other applications.
- View 1071 Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Post comments to Twitter
- Included hieroglyph keyboard
- Large image display for comments
- Write hieroglyphs in memo apps
- Paste hieroglyphs into photos
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The Egyptian hieroglyphs will make you laugh with just looking. (Note: It is personal impression.) It is interesting to think what the mean of the hieroglyphs. With this application, you can observe every 1071 kinds of Egyptian hieroglyphics one by one carefully. And let's post to Twitter with comments. Your inspiration will be tried! Since it is designed to be able to post with large images, you can see even models that can not display real characters. This Egyptian hieroglyph is a type of characters that can be displayed on the iOS 9 or later, and can also be written to the memo app. By adding the included "Egyptian Hieroglyphics Keyboard" from the iPhone settings, you can enter Egyptian hieroglyphs in any application. Please enjoy the world of Egyptian hieroglyphics which can be said to be the oldest emoji. ※ Egyptian hieroglyphics are characters that can be displayed on iOS 9 or later. In other models, OS, etc., there are things that are displayed well and others are not, so please use it after recognizing the neighborhood. If you use "Egyptian Hieroglyphics Keyboard" in another application "EmojiStamp", you can paste hieroglyphs into photos etc.
Hieroglyph Pro
Unlock the secrets of Ancient Egyptian language with a comprehensive dictionary and translator. Explore thousands of hieroglyphic signs, words, and phrases, with multiple search and input methods. Offers beginner to professional modes for all learning levels.
- 4124 hieroglyphic signs
- 221,120 words, phrases, titles, epithets, and locations
- Beginner, Student, and Pro modes
- Glyph search by frequency of use
- 6 ways to enter hieroglyphs for translation
- Supports Hieratic glyphs and evolution
- Custom word storage and transmission
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Read and understand Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs with a professional-grade dictionary and translation tool used by students, researchers, and Egyptologists. This powerful App is simply the best interactive, most complete, self contained dictionary and translator between English and Ancient Egyptian! Our dictionary is vetted against modern professional references, including the popular online Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, and standard references including Hannig, and the Worterbuch. Hieroglyphics Pro has been developed and evolved in consultation with professional Egyptologists. This app explains what the ancient symbols mean, how they may have been pronounced and how they formed words and phrases. The App contains: - 4282 hieroglyphic signs - 224,587words, phrases, titles, epithets, and locations used in Ancient Egypt. - The Horus, Birth, and Throne names of all the known Pharaohs and Queens of Egypt. Our dictionary has almost triple the content of any other smartphone dictionary/translation apps. Hieroglyphics Pro has several modes: - Beginner mode simplifies the App with a minimal set of 200 glyphs for easy searching and an easy pronunciation guide. - Student mode show the standard Middle Egyptian Gardiner set of about 700 glyphs, organized by shape, and standard transliteration. - Pro mode uses all 1,071 glyphs in Gardiner's classic categories plus more than 3200 additional signs used in the dictionary. A unique, powerful feature of Hieroglyphics Pro is the ability to find glyphs by how often they are used in inscriptions. This makes adding common signs to a phrase or word a snap! Egyptian words and phrases in the dictionary are drawn graphically in quadrat groups, in the artistic style of the ancient inscriptions. The App offers 6 ways to enter Hieroglyphs for translation: • Graphically from Gardiner groupings, or in Beginner Mode, plus Gardiner's/Manley's Groupings by shape - A unique feature allows finding glyphs sorted by their frequency of use! • Direct keyboard text entry of Gardiner codes (i.e., A1, D21, Aa2) • Typing in phonetic shortcuts as defined by the MdC (i.e., Htp, nTr, r, etc.) • By transliteration symbol from the Phonetic shortcuts table • Searching for keywords in a glyph's description or determinative words Text entries of Gardiner Codes and MdC can now be edited with a cursor and finger swiping, just like other text editing apps! Very quick and convenient! Egyptians wrote Right to Left, Left to Right, and Top to Bottom. The App allows you to enter Left to Right, and then view the Glyphs in reverse direction if you wish. HieroglyphPro allows you to add/store/transmit their own custom words to the dictionary. Hieroglyph Pro is the first and only mobile App to introduce Hieratic (a style of cursive, handwritten Egyptian) glyphs, and illustrate how they evolved over the centuries. Hieroglyphics Pro is a modern iOS 27 App, back compatible back to iOS 18, Dark Mode and all. It contains help files and links to both on-line references and to printed books for advanced study. The app and its dictionary data are entirely self-contained. No internet or cell phone required. The new optional link to the Thesaurus-Linguae-Aegyptiae (TLA) academic database does, however, require wifi or cell connection. When you have found the translation your were seeking, with a tap it is copied on to the clipboard and can be pasted into another App, an Email, message, etc. Hieroglyph Pro is a one-time purchase! No ads! No subscriptions!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Comment on This Hieroglyph at Free against Hieroglyph Pro's $4.99. Comment on This Hieroglyph also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). Hieroglyph Pro's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume 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
Comment on This Hieroglyph is free to download; Hieroglyph Pro costs $4.99 up front. Comment on This Hieroglyph sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hieroglyph Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hieroglyph Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 58 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Comment on This Hieroglyph's written reviews are positive against 88% of Hieroglyph Pro's.
Comment on This Hieroglyph ships an update every 3 months, Hieroglyph Pro every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Comment on This Hieroglyph | Hieroglyph Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (58 ratings) | 4.6 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.6% of reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #119 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 342 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | tadashi atoji | Aviametrix, LLC |
Customer experience
Comment on This Hieroglyph
Hieroglyph Pro
In-app purchases
Comment on This Hieroglyph
- Remove Ads$2.99
Hieroglyph Pro
No in-app purchases
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