# Abbjad \| أبجد — School life, even offline > School life, even offline (iPhone/iPad app by Adam Al-Rashdi.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abbjad/id6798607997 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Adam Al-Rashdi](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789119712) - Category: Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 77 MB - Languages: American English, Arabic - Released: 2026-09-05 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/abbjad/id6798607997/reviews.md ## What is Abbjad | أبجد? Abbjad is the school app for families and staff — built to work where the school day actually happens: car parks, basements, and bus routes with weak signal. WORKS WHEN YOUR CONNECTION DOESN'T Most school apps are a website in a wrapper: lose the network and you lose everything. Abbjad is a native app that keeps your child's data on your device, encrypted. Open it in a lift, on the bus or in a school corridor, and the timetable, homework, attendance, fees and bus route are there straight away. Anything you do offline is saved and sent automatically when the network returns. Report an absence from the car park and it arrives once you're back on the road. Nothing is lost and nothing needs retyping. FOR PARENTS • Your day at a glance — current lesson, attendance, homework due and amounts owed • Live bus map during the trip, with an alert when the bus is near home • Choose the morning and afternoon bus separately, or tell the school you'll bring your child yourself • Request an early pickup • Chat with your child's teachers and the school office • Homework, subjects and lesson summaries, with teachers' notes, photos and videos • Fees, invoices and payment history, including paying by uploading a transfer receipt • Report an absence, and undo it if plans change • Home Screen widgets for today's timetable and the bus, plus a Live Activity during the trip • Switch between your children with one tap FOR TEACHERS • Attendance in a few taps, with one shared register per class and day • Send a lesson summary to several classes at once, with photos and videos • Chat with parents • Class lists, timetable and daily summaries • Staff who are also parents use one account for both FOR BUS SUPERVISORS • Boarding stop by stop: tap the child, or use face recognition, a QR card or an NFC card — whichever methods your school enables • A loud safety alarm if the bus moves while a child at the stop is still unaccounted for • Confirm each child's hand-over at the school gate • Manage your route's stops, with change history and undo • Everything is recorded offline and synced later, because the bus is exactly where the signal drops BUILT FOR ARABIC Abbjad is not an English app with Arabic added on. Arabic and English are both first-class: correct right-to-left layout, Arabic numerals where they belong, and text written by fluent speakers. PRIVACY AND SECURITY Your child's data is stored encrypted on your device and sent only to your school. Sign in with a passkey or Face ID instead of typing a password. Abbjad is sold to schools — your family's data is never sold, and there are no third-party ads. WANT A LIGHTER VERSION? Abbjad Lite is a smaller, web-based version that runs on a wider range of devices. It needs a connection, but it installs in seconds and supports older phones: https://apps.apple.com/om/app/id6789119708 Abbjad requires an account from a participating school. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.9.3 — 2026-10-07 What's new since 1.9 Bus supervisors • The trip card with its main button is always at the top of the trip screen. • Student names are never squeezed on the lists. • A green message confirms each student is logged, so you can scan the next one. • To record a child by hand, tap their photo. The separate Manual button is gone. • End a trip in one step ("Submit and end trip"). The trip home has no school-arrival step, and afternoon drop-off is a single tap with Undo. • Alarms go quiet after 30 seconds. Red and green show who is still on the bus. • Trips are more reliable: the app refuses yesterday's trip, restarts location tracking on its own and says when it is lost, checks camera and motion permissions before the first child, and explains why Face ID did not record a child. • The Face ID camera no longer clicks its shutter over and over. • Add a first photo for a child who has none while you wait at school. • Student photos appear on more lists. Parents • The bus screen shows only your child's own stop. • The school's Instagram on Home shows for every parent and stays up to date. Teachers • Preview a video before sending it, and send long videos. Everyone • To report a problem, shake the phone or use Send a report in Settings. ### 1.9 — 2026-10-05 What's new in 1.9 Teachers • Exchange a period: from your timetable, ask a colleague to swap lesson times or cover each other's lessons, see your day before and after, and accept or decline the requests sent to you. Available when your school turns it on. • "I will be absent": tell the school from your timetable that you will miss today, part of today or a coming day. See the absences you reported and cancel one if your plans change. • New "My performance" tile and page: how much of your attendance, homework and summaries is done, by day and by class, with the items still missing. • Daily Questions now has its own tile on Home, and the More menu no longer repeats the Home tiles. • A short key at the top of the attendance screens explains what each button means. • Unread counts on Home and on Messages. • Videos start compressing as soon as you pick them, and each video shows its size and its own progress bar. Parents • Unread counts on Home for summaries, attendance, announcements and messages. • Abbjad Friends shops now show their location and their social media links. • The weekly timetable marks exchanged lessons and lists upcoming changes. Bus supervisors • Reminders to check that the bus is empty after the last drop-off, until the check is done. • A teacher supervising a bus trip returns straight to the trip if the app is reopened during the trip. • The trip screen shows which children's records are still saved on the phone or need your attention. • Smoother Face ID on the way home: the camera no longer restarts for each child. Staff • A new staff space with the work clock, messages and announcements. Start and end work by scanning the school's code, with a location check where your school requires it. Everyone • Change your email or phone number from Account security. • Messages show when they were read, and you can mute a conversation. • The app icon shows your unread count. • Fixes for sign-in and file uploads, plus stability and performance improvements. ### 1.8 — 2026-09-30 What's new in 1.8 Important fix • Fixed the grey "Bus Trip" screen that never finished loading. In 1.7, supervising a bus trip from a teacher account could leave the trip screen stuck on grey boxes, and your phone could stop sending the bus's live location. The trip now opens normally and the location keeps updating. Please update before your next trip. Teachers • Homework and summary uploads now show a progress bar with a percentage, and videos are compressed so they upload and process faster. • Unsent homework and summaries stay saved, even after you close the app. • The "Attendance" item in Settings opens the daily register directly and shows how many items are waiting to send. Bus supervisors • Trips are now organised by homes instead of stops, making supervision easier. • You can correct a student's recorded status (boarded, not boarded, absent), with a log of corrections. • On the afternoon trip, the app returns to the school pickup screen and "Start drive" even after you leave the screen. Everyone • Staff can clock in and out from the app. • Tapping a notification opens the item itself (homework, summary, …). • Stability and performance improvements. ### 1.7 — 2026-09-27 What's new in 1.7 School administration • New "School overview" for school administrators: today's indicators, attendance, academics, finance, staff, communication and transport at a glance, plus a live bus map and student search. It is view only; changes are still made from the school's web dashboard. Parents • If your school has not turned on bus notifications, the bus screen now says so clearly. You can still open the live map during a trip. • A refused Undo now tells you why. • Lists of children, teachers, subjects and contacts are sorted alphabetically in the app's language. Teachers • Photo and video uploads are much more reliable: videos are compressed on the phone before sending, and progress shows each stage (preparing, uploading, processing) with a percentage. • If an upload is cancelled or interrupted, the app tells you exactly what happened and whether to check your sent media before trying again, even after you leave the screen. • Teachers who are also parents can switch to the parent view straight from a bus alert. Bus captains • Fewer false movement alarms: the app now needs stronger evidence before it decides the bus moved with a child still at the stop. • During a trip the screen stays on the trip. "Need help?" lets you call the school or leave the trip screen. • Mark each child at home stops with one tap, with 5 seconds to undo. • At school pickup and arrival, check children in with the live camera, one after another, or choose Manual and give a reason. • New "Manage stops": add, edit, reorder and undo your bus's stops, with a change history. • If a trip is left idle, the app reminds you before it ends automatically, and "Keep the trip open" keeps it running. • Movement alarms show the school's answer and the incident number. The stop header shows the real arrival time. • QR and NFC scanning appear only when your school has turned them on. Everyone • Clearer error messages: every problem now explains what happened, how to fix it, and gives a reference code. Tap "Send to Abbjad team" to report it; we only send it after you confirm. • Two-step verification at sign-in for accounts that use it, with an authenticator app or a recovery code. • Accounts with more than one role can switch between all of them, and notifications open in the right role. • Fixed a crash that could happen when signing in or out. • Stability and performance improvements. ### 1.6.1 — 2026-09-24 What's new in 1.6.1 • Parents: set your home location right from the Bus screen, and ask the school to approve any later change. • Bus supervisors: update a child's face-recognition photo during a trip, so recognition keeps working without waiting for the office. • Teachers covering as substitute bus supervisor now share the bus's live location for the whole trip. • Stability and reliability improvements. ## Apps similar to Abbjad | أبجد | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [أكاديمية عبقري](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id1566134347) | — | Free | Education | | [UPS school](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ups-school/id6469032127) | — | Free | Education | | [Learn With Spanish Games](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-with-spanish-games/id6794401950) | — | Free | Education | | [Shadowly: English Shadowing](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shadowly-english-shadowing/id6789863404) | — | Free | Education | | [PipWords: Learn English Daily](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pipwords-learn-english-daily/id6785174262) | 5.0 (5) | Free | Education | | [LearnzPlus](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learnzplus/id6753829848) | — | Free | Education | ## More apps by Adam Al-Rashdi - [ابانة](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6799175482) All apps by Adam Al-Rashdi: https://appshunter.io/developer/6789119712 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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