Hieroglyph Pro2.76 - App Store

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!

Version History Updated for ios 27 including Dark & Tinted AppIcons
Added Siri shortcuts (See below)
Updated Glyph database and added 11 new glyphs
Many improvements to the user experience with Right to Left (Reverse Direction) results
Added 2000 new names to Dictionary from Ranke's Die Ägyptischen Personennamen.
Added 2000 new words from Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache by Erman & Grapow, and from R. Hannig's Großes Handwörterbuch
Merged or removed over 3,000 outdated, synonym or duplicated dictionary entries 2.76 4d ago Added 585 new names to Dictionary from Ranke's Die Ägyptischen Personennamen.
Fixed incorrect O36A, O36B, O36C glyphs. 2.75 Aug 29 Dictionary tuneup!
Bug Fixes.
Widget Font Update.
Update software catalog 2.74 Aug 22 Bug fix. 2.72 Jul 22 Fixed a critical bug!
Added 1000 new personal names from Ranke's Die Ägyptischen Personennamen to the dictionary.
Made several significant speed ups in the generation of the side indexes.
Made the dictionary statistics (Easter Egg!) more accurate in classifying parts of speech. 2.71 Jul 21 Removed the search results limits. Now you can see the full search results, even if there are thousands. To make it easier to scan the results, we have added a side bar index to help navigate the result table.
Major improvements in the English (reverse) dictionary lookup and in the MdC Transliteration Search. More accurate whole word matches and much faster searches. English and Transliteration searches also get a fast lookup side index.
The MdC Transliteration Search is also updated with smarter matching.
Further improvements and new words added to the main Dictionary! 2.70 Jul 15 Enhanced the new search modes (English translation, MdC transliteration, lemmaID) to include clipboard saving and direct Wörterbuch access.
Many little user experience enhancements.
Search results Gardiner Codes that start with a wild card "?" now are listed at the bottom of the search table.
Many Dictionary enhancements: More vocabulary, more parts of speech, more lemmaIDs to existing words, reduced redundancy.

Based on legal counsel, because of differences in international copyright laws, we are required to limit access to the internal copy of the Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache by Erman & Grapow to certain regions including the US, Egypt, China and other "life + 50" countries. The EU recognizes "life + 70" as protected so the WB is not yet public domain. We apologize and are pursuing legal workarounds. 2.68 Apr 24 For iPadOS 18 users only: a fix to the Glyph Select page. 2.66 Apr 14 Just in time for the ARCE Annual Meeting: The full Wörterbuch of Erman and Grapow with links to over 100,000 words in our dictionary!

Enhanced saving results on the Clipboard: Now Hiero Pro preserves the quadrat (graphical) layout of Egyptian words and save the entire result in PDF format.

Fixes a potential crashing bug in the English to Egyptian translation copy to clipboard 2.65 Apr 7 Just in time for the ARCE Annual Meeting: The full Wörterbuch of Erman and Grapow link to over 100,000 words in our dictionary!

Many small user experience tweaks and improvements.

A hieroglyphic Easter Egg (for Easter!). 2.64 Apr 5 Bug Exterminations 2.63 Apr 1 Minor Bug fixes
Improved Dark mode legibility
Enhanced iOS 26 effects
Refined iPad glyph interfaces 2.62 Mar 2 Bug fix! 2.61 Feb 25 Major New Feaures:
Transliteration Search (MdC format)
TLA LemmaID Search
New Tab bar item consolidates the English reverse search, Hieratic, and the new searches
Improved English to Egyptian Search
Refined and consolidated Dictionary
Added 150+ new glyphs (common US-type variants)
Improved App security
Add more travelogue images from GEM
Improved iOS 26 experience 2.60 Feb 17 The Gardiner Shape Categories (low broad, low narrow, and tall narrow) have been added to the Pro level Glyph Select panel. 2.50 Jan 10 Added 2,200 new Royal names and spelling variants.
Updated custom fonts with additional new hieroglyphs, now totaling 4126.
Caught and squashed a potential bug when simultaneously typing and scrolling too fast. 2.49 12/31/2025 Improved iOS26 compatibility! Many tweaks for better user experience. Added over 220 new personal Egyptian names. Dictionary now has 218,890 entries, all onboard! 2.48 11/06/2025 New massive expansion of the Dictionary!
The Dictionary is now over 218,000 words and phrases! All in the offline internal database.
Thousands of new LemmaID links to the online TLA, and thousands of updated links for older dictionary entries.
Updated a bunch of archaic or clumsy translations.
Removed a bunch of redundant dictionary entries.
Added many missing parts of speech. 2.46 08/19/2025 Massive additions to the dictionary and the hieroglyph database!

We have added over 33,000 new entries to the internal dictionary. That's a 33% increase in the total number of Egyptian words and phrases! All the new entries have been matched to LemmaIDs in the online Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae reference site.

To support all these new spellings, we have also added nearly 1,200 new hieroglyph symbols to our custom font and database. Many of these glyphs are somewhat obscure and many other dictionaries only represent them as their respective Gardiner codes. In HieroglyphPro, you can see these words now as originally written. The total number of hieroglyphs in the App now is 4078. 2.45 06/02/2025 User-defined dictionaries can now be imported from the Clipboard. You can now share new words by Email!
Added about 400 new words to the base dictionary, all with lemmaID links to the TLA!
Tweaks and code improvements. 2.43 04/16/2025 You can now create and edit your own custom dictionary supplement - add new words and phrases!
Many minor tweaks to improve the user experience.
More efficient use of device memory. 2.42 04/11/2025 Expanded the Phonetics/Transliteration table and harmonized it with J.P. Allen's Middle Egyptian text.
We now support 595 Phonetic/Transliteration pairs.
Improved the sort order of the Phonetics/Transliteration table.
Added 150+ more words to the Dictionary.
Added more (non-canonical) descriptions to Glyph data for searching
Updated travelogue photos. 2.41 03/28/2025 Version (2.40) continues the dictionary refinement with more consolidation of synonyms & duplicates. LemmaID links have been added to more than 500 new entries. Some minor bugs found and eliminated! About 100 new words added. 2.40 02/25/2025 Minor bugs removed. Code refinements too! 2.39 02/12/2025 More Dictionary consolidation of synonyms and duplicates.
More dictionary entries now have LemmaID links to the on-line TLA database.
Minor bug exterminations and code optimizations.
Remember to check out the Hieroglyph Pro iOS Widget included in the App! 2.38 01/31/2025