Learn to read
hieroglyphs.
One beautiful glyph each day. Build your knowledge of ancient Egyptian writing through daily reveals, flashcard review, and two structured paid courses. Five minutes a day.
How it works
A glyph a day. A writing system for life.
No overwhelm. No firehose of information. Glyphs unlock daily, ordered by frequency so you learn the most useful signs first.
Reveal
A new glyph unlocks at midnight. Learn its sound, meaning, and see it used in a real word.
Learn
Progressive articles teach how hieroglyphs actually work - phonograms, ideograms, determinatives.
Review
Swipe-based flashcards with spaced repetition. Glyphs you struggle with appear more often.
Track
Streaks, progress bars, and a calendar heatmap keep you coming back. Build a daily habit.
Features
Museum quality. Scholar-grade accuracy.
Every glyph rendered by JSesh, the academic standard for Egyptological typesetting. Every fact verified against the scholarly literature.
212 Glyphs and Counting
Starting from the most common signs in ancient texts. Uniliterals, biliterals, triliterals, determinatives, and ideograms - all properly classified.
9 Educational Articles
From "What Are Hieroglyphs?" to phonetic complements and reading direction. Progressively unlocked as you advance.
Flashcard Review
Swipe right for "got it", left for "review again". The app prioritises glyphs you've struggled with. Session summaries show your accuracy.
Streaks & Progress
Daily streak counter, longest streak record, calendar heatmap, and category breakdowns by Gardiner classification.
Example Words
Every glyph comes with an attested Egyptian word showing the sign in context, with transliteration and translation.
Gardiner Classification
Browse by category - Body Parts, Birds, Plants, Sky & Earth. Filter your collection and see progress per category.
See it in action
Designed to feel like a museum, not a classroom.
Warm tones, scholarly typography, and hieroglyphs that glow against the dark. Built for focused, beautiful learning.
iPhone
Today's glyph
Cartouche course lesson
Interactive exercises
iPad
Glyph detail on iPad
Course lesson on iPad
Exercises on iPad
Paid Courses
Two structured paths into reading.
Cartouche Reading Course - read the names of pharaohs from Ptolemy to Ramesses. Greco-Roman phonetics through New Kingdom throne names, with real temple photography and JSesh-rendered cartouches throughout.
Reading Real Words - the bones of the writing system itself. Biliterals, triliterals, determinatives, and the offering formula every Egyptologist learns first. Capstone: read a real offering formula on a stela photograph.
80 exercises ยท 80 quiz questions
Discoveries
Latest from the world of ancient Egypt.
Excavations, exhibitions, and research, reported from verifiable institutional sources. Every story cites where it came from.
Six hieroglyphs that work like letters
Most people think every hieroglyph is a picture-word, but about two dozen common signs each write a single consonant, working much like letters. Learn six of them and you can start sounding out real inscriptions.
2 min read
Skeletons suggest ancient Egyptian princesses used the weapons buried with them
An article in The Conversation argues that some ancient Egyptian princesses buried with bows, arrows and daggers may have used those weapons in life. The case rests on physical evidence found on the women's skeletons rather than the grave goods alone.
2 min read
Original mud-plaster sealings from Tutankhamun's tomb go on display for the first time
The original mud-plaster sealings that secured the burial chambers of Tutankhamun's tomb have gone on public display for the first time, according to Current World Archaeology. Made of a Theban material, they preserve traces of the moment the burial was closed in the Valley of the Kings.
2 min readFree tool
Your name, the way pharaohs wrote theirs.
Type any name and see it spelled in real Egyptian hieroglyphs inside a royal cartouche - the same signs Champollion used to read Cleopatra's name on the Rosetta Stone. Free, instant, and yours to download and share.
Academic Foundations
Built on serious scholarship.
Every glyph, transliteration, and example word is cross-referenced against the standard Egyptological references. This isn't a novelty app - it's a genuine learning tool.
Start reading the
words of the pharaohs.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
Learn to read hieroglyphs in 5 minutes a day.
