iDhammapada vs Bagan Keyboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDhammapada
Access and read the Dhammapada with 423 "Dhamma sentences" in four languages: Pali, English, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Features Pali text-to-speech functionality for an enhanced reading experience.
- Read Dhammapada scripture
- 423 Dhamma sentences
- Pali, English, Chinese, Vietnamese languages
- Pali text-to-speech
- iOS compatible
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iDhammapada is a free iOS application which use to read Dhammapada. You can view 423 "Dhamma sentence" by four languages such as Pali, English, Chinese and Vietnamese with Pali text to speech.
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)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iDhammapada at 100% against Bagan Keyboard's 44%. iDhammapada also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.2 vs 4.0). Bagan Keyboard's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (853 vs 6). On price, 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.
iDhammapada holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bagan Keyboard has 853 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of iDhammapada's written reviews are positive against 44% of Bagan Keyboard's.
iDhammapada ships an update every 15 months, Bagan Keyboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 24, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDhammapada | Bagan Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) — better | 4.0 (853 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 44.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 853 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mai The Hung | Wun Zinn |
Customer experience
iDhammapada
Bagan Keyboard
Bugs and requests
iDhammapada
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
iDhammapada
No in-app purchases
Bagan Keyboard
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is iDhammapada free?
Is Bagan Keyboard free?
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