About Hieroglyph Pro
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,...
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 now 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 14, 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!
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Hieroglyph Pro since it was posted on our website on 2023-03-04 06:31:44.
The latest version is 2.68 and it was updated on 2026-06-21 12:52:09. See below the changes in each version.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.68
Updated At: 2026-05-26
Changes: Version History 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 This new version (2.37) incorporates a significant effort to consolidate the main dictionary of its synonyms & duplicates.
We have also added a few hundred new lemma links to the on-line TLA database. Roughly one third of the dictionary has been processed, more will follow in the coming weeks.
The iPad layout of the TabBar was been restored to its original form.
In this version we have also added the "swipe left" to lemma links in the English -> Egyptian Results.
Finally, we have updated the Aviametrix Software catalog to include the new Pharoah Finder app and the Transliterator App. Check them out and Enjoy! 2.37 01/15/2025 Fixed an incompatibility with iOS 18.2 which was causing crashes. 2.36 12/22/2024 A maintenance release for iOS 18.2
Fixed a bug in the cursor editing system! 2.35 12/17/2024 A maintenance update:
77 new hieroglyphs
55 new phonetics
Squashed a very rare bug which could cause the App to unexpected quit. 2.33 11/14/2024 1000 new words, 7000 new lemmaID links!
Now over 50% of the dictionary has lemma links to the TLA database!
There is now a link on the Help Page to see the Latest Version News 2.32 08/21/2024 New Feature: Wild card Search! Use a '?' in place of a Gardiner Code or an MdC to match any number of glyphs in a word.
- very handy for working around lacunae!
Added 18 new glyphs to support the big Dictionary
New Dictionary Feature: Tap on the App Version at the bottom of the Settings View and see the current contents of the Dictionary
improved the Right to Left script direction views
Dictionary maintenance: Added a few, removed a few redundant entries.
Updated the internal Help files to include wild card and IWS searches 2.31 08/01/2024
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.62
Updated At: 2026-03-02
Changes: Minor Bug fixes
Improved Dark mode legibility
Enhanced iOS 26 effects
Refined iPad glyph interfaces
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.50
Updated At: 2026-01-10
Changes: The Gardiner Shape Categories (low broad, low narrow, and tall narrow) have been added to the Pro level Glyph Select panel.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.46
Updated At: 2025-08-19
Changes: Aug 19, 2025
Version 2.46
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.45
Updated At: 2025-06-02
Changes: Jun 2, 2025
Version 2.45
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.43
Updated At: 2025-04-16
Changes: Apr 16, 2025
Version 2.43
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.42
Updated At: 2025-04-11
Changes: Apr 11, 2025
Version 2.42
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.41
Updated At: 2025-03-28
Changes: Mar 28, 2025
Version 2.41
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.40
Updated At: 2025-02-25
Changes: Feb 25, 2025
Version 2.40
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.
Hieroglyph Pro version 2.38
Updated At: 2025-01-31
Changes: Jan 31, 2025
Version 2.38
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!
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