Hieroglyphics Name Cartouche

The Egyptians ringed a name in an oval — the cartouche — when they wanted it to last. Type yours and watch how a scribe would have carved it: sign by sign, on stone or papyrus, ready to save or share as an image.

You don't just walk away with a picture. The app tells you why each sign turned up: why your V ends up as a foot (the sign that sounds like B), why H can be a courtyard or a wick, why the vowels mostly vanish. That's the part almost nobody explains, and it's what turns a decoration into something you actually understand.

WHAT'S INSIDE
◆ A real cartouche drawn on stone or papyrus, not a row of loose little pictures.
◆ A note on every letter: the sound it carries and the sign that matches it.
◆ Three readings of the same name: Spanish pronunciation, English pronunciation, and the letter-by-letter academic table. The same word gives different signs depending on how you say it, and the app shows you exactly where they split.
◆ A catalog of 70 signs, each with its own card: phonetic value, what the drawing depicts, how it was used. Fully searchable.
◆ Save your cartouche as an image and share it.
◆ Works offline. No account, no sign-up, no permissions.

GOOD FOR
Getting ready for a museum visit or a trip to Egypt, so you can read the cartouches in the cases yourself. Writing a name the old way for a gift, a dedication, or a tattoo idea. Or simply seeing what your name looks like in a script four thousand years old.

HOW IT WORKS (AND WHAT IT ISN'T)
This is not a translation. Ancient Egyptian did not write vowels and had no V or Z, so every letter is matched to the sign whose sound comes closest — exactly what a scribe did when a foreign name had to be written down. What you get is a phonetic transliteration following the standard academic convention, the same one used in Egyptology handbooks and museum labels. It is faithful to the method, not an archaeological fact about your name.

Nobody knows precisely how spoken Egyptian sounded. This app does what a scribe did: approximate — and tell you how.