Hieroglyph Pro vs Ancient Maya App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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: - 4124 hieroglyphic signs - 223,111 words, 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 3000 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 26 App, back compatible back to iOS 16, 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!
Ancient Maya App
Explore Mayan language and culture with this educational app. Create, share, and decode glyph blocks, convert calendar dates, and learn to recognize glyphs through interactive games and a comprehensive syllabary. Discover ancient artifacts and hear Mayan pronunciations.
- Create and share glyph blocks
- Decode Mayan glyphs
- Convert between Long Count and Gregorian calendars
- Navigate Mayan syllabary
- Explore Stela 11 from Yaxchilan
- Listen to Mayan pronunciations
- Learn glyphs with a game
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With the Ancient Maya App you can create glyph blocks, share glyph blocks, decode glyph blocks, learn to read phonetic glyphs, convert dates between the Long Count calendar and the Gregorian calendar and easily navigate the Mayan syllabary. Explore the famous Stela 11 from Yaxchilan and even listen to a Mayan read it. The app includes nearly 800 glyphs, their definitions and over 600 dictionary entries and a game to help learn to recognize glyphs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ancient Maya App at Free against Hieroglyph Pro's $4.99. Hieroglyph Pro's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and review sentiment (88% vs 67%). On update cadence, ads, 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
Ancient Maya App is free to download; Hieroglyph Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hieroglyph Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Hieroglyph Pro's written reviews are positive against 67% of Ancient Maya App's.
Hieroglyph Pro ships an update every 10 days, Ancient Maya App every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hieroglyph Pro | Ancient Maya App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (26 ratings) — better | 4.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 260 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aviametrix, LLC | Stephen McDonald |
Customer experience
Hieroglyph Pro
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In-app purchases
Hieroglyph Pro
No in-app purchases
Ancient Maya App
No in-app purchases
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