Aaou Hieroglyph Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad

4.2 ( 4672 ratings )

Reference Education
Developer: jf.dumon

14.99 USD

Current version: 2.5, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 24 Sep 2009
App size: 22.85 Mb

Hieroglyphic dictionary Aaou

Jean-François Dumon © 2009-2017
Development Alamanga © 2009-2017

(23 100 words)

No internet connection required. Carry a dependable hieroglyph dictionary in your pocket.
Change your manner to visit museums. The louvre in Paris, the metroplitan museum in New York, or the museo egysio in Turin. Visit Egypt without heavy dictionaries.

Aaou is a hieroglyph dictionary, which currently contains more than 23 000 words. It is useful to find the most frequent words. Other words are added regularly (collaboration by email welcome).
You can search by hieroglyphs, transliteration or translation. The number of matching words is displayed on the screen top left. To avoid too many words, it is recommended to select at least 2 hieroglyphs or 2 transliteration letters.
Search by transliteration must be done in alphabetic order.
Search by hieroglyph does not depend on the order of hieroglyphs. After selection add a hieroglyph with + button or remove a hieroglyph with the – button.
The number of words displayed is limited to 50 to avoid having too long list. With 3 hieroglyphs the number of words found is very limited.
Settings
The choice of French or English is automatic. It is set by the language used on your device. To change the language, go to settings / general / international / language
To modify the transliteration mode (mode j & q or i & k) go to settings / Aaou / choose the transliteration mode.

Pros and cons of Aaou Hieroglyph Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad

Aaou Hieroglyph Dictionary app good for

It is great! Im learning a lot with it. But I think that it could have more expressions, though it is really great.

I liked this app on iPhone very much during a visit in Cairo museum. Lot of fun even for a non-Egyptologist. On iPhone there are some strange details: - long names are not visible with all characters. - some of the most common names are missing despite 20.000+ entries One detail I really dont like: the price for the iPad app. Hey, I aleeady bought one app. Why should I pay another 15€ for the iPad version without having real advantages in vocabulary????

Like everything about the app except that it can be difficult to find a common, simple word. It took me a minute or two to find the word "day," 3 minutes to find the word "type, kind, fashion" because it lists every entry including the word. Would be cool of it would list the words according to relevance to the word given ( ie, if youre looking for "day" it will give you entries that only have the word "day" in it first).

Best money I have ever spent on an app. So far I am extremely pleased with this app and the only thing I can say negatively about it is that it types a little slow. Otherwise this is amazing! I use it all the time and can find words easily. I love this app :)

It is a relatively useful tool. Certainly it has all the limitasions of a dictionary without sentences, examples and other lexical details, that in this field are by far the most relevant. But if you cant have at hand Wörterbuch (in print or pdf), its versatility may solve you some doubts. I just wonder if it would be possible to have an upgrade to an iPad version for those who purchased the iPhone program, when the pad one was not yet developed (if any difference exists beside graphic quality): I would find pointless spending twice for the same thing. Keep up the updates! ;-)

Fantastic application! Traveling is a very useful. When the Mac version?

Some bad moments

Version 1.3.2 would not install at all on my iPhone iTouch. Apparently Mess. Dumont doesnt want to be contacted either since he didnt provide any sort of e-mail address for support. Avoid.

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