Comparison

Hieroglyph Pro vs Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary

Explore over 10,000 ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic entries. Search by English, transliteration, Gardiner codes, or Unicode. Save favorites, quiz yourself, and expand vocabulary with a structured course mode.

Highlights
  • 10,000+ hieroglyphic entries
  • Search by English, transliteration, Gardiner codes, Unicode
  • Favorite entries
  • Quiz yourself on favorites
  • Course Mode for vocabulary expansion
  • Memorization algorithm
Features
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This app contains a dictionary of Hieroglyphic Egyptian with over 10,000 entries. You can use it to quickly look up words by searching in English, using transliteration, using Gardiner codes, or with unicode hieroglyphs. Within the dictionary, you can mark particular entries as favorites to view in a separate tab and quiz yourself on the favorited items. There is also "Course Mode," which you can use to gradually expand your vocabulary. It uses a special algorithm introduce new vocabulary and help you memorize new terms through various input modalities.

Screenshots

Hieroglyph Pro4 screens
Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary at Free against Hieroglyph Pro's $4.99. Hieroglyph Pro's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 2.8) and review sentiment (88% vs 50%). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary is free to download; Hieroglyph Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hieroglyph Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hieroglyph Pro has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Hieroglyph Pro's written reviews are positive against 50% of Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hieroglyph Pro versus Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHieroglyph ProEgyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (26 ratings) — better2.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews88.2% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings26 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAviametrix, LLCEthan Hartzell

Customer experience

Hieroglyph Pro

All ratings26 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative5.9%

Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hieroglyph Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hieroglyph Pro free?
Hieroglyph Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary free?
Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hieroglyph Pro or Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary?
Hieroglyph Pro is rated higher. Hieroglyph Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary averages 2.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Hieroglyph Pro or Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary have ads?
Neither Hieroglyph Pro nor Egyptian Hieroglyph Dictionary shows ads.

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