Ancient Maya App vs Ancient Arabian Scripts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Ancient Arabian Scripts
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This app can help you learn a few ancient writing systems of Arabia including Ancient South Arabian (the Musnad), Zabuur (the cursive style for Ancient South Arabian), Ancient North Arabian, and Nabataean. All but Zabuur use the unicode standard default font. Scroll through the letters and study their shapes and sounds. Practice tracing each one until you're familiar-- then quiz yourself on the letters! Read about each system and try the word scramble game for different languages. We provide transliteration equivalents for each letter in Latin, Arabic, and other semitic scripts.
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Verdict
Ancient Maya App and Ancient Arabian Scripts are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Ancient Maya App | Ancient Arabian Scripts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen McDonald | Ethan Hartzell |
In-app purchases
Ancient Maya App
No in-app purchases
Ancient Arabian Scripts
No in-app purchases
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