Kalam Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience33.4% of reviews
Neutral11.2% of reviews
Negative experience55.4% of reviews

~ Based on 383 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Kalam

Is Kalam Safe?

Kalam: Learn Arabic appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Kalam is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 6,801 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,801 App Store ratings for Kalam.

Is Kalam Legit?

Kalam: Learn Arabic appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Kalam is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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This is one of the best learning apps I’ve ever used for Arabic and was able to actually start conversing with people and they were shocked I sounded so natural. I wish I could’ve continued but I got to a part where the app would not allow me to go past a speaking exercise even though I was saying them correctly. This left me discouraged and delayed my learning. If you guys can add a way to bypass speaking to move on or fix the listening on it that would be great. Overall great app and worth the subscription.
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Bad Pronunciation, AI is Riddled with Errors

I speak enough Arabic to recognize when it is being spoken incorrectly. The AI constantly mispronounces words, pronounces them inconsistently, and sometimes even pronounces the numerals like “7” for “ha” as “seven” and not “H.” I suppose you could learn some Arabic from this, but you would sound like a lunatic if you used it in actual conversation. Disappointing. AI is not a replacement for actual human native speakers and teachers.
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I got charged for a full year when accepting the 7 day trial

I got charged for a full year when accepting the 7 day trial! It offered me a special gift offer for a 7 day trial and the moment I accepted to sign up for the trial subscription it took money out of my PayPal instantly! I can’t find how to even contact them for this issue.

Undue charge

They charged my card before the deadline to finalize the evaluation, without any communication. I want a refund and cancellation of my account.

No Trial End Notification

The app didn’t provide the promised notification before the trial ended. Guess I’m stuck with it for the next year!

Buggy. Not a finished product. Not helpful for intermediate speakers

I found out about this product from a YouTube creator who used to be sponsored by Kalam. This creator has since removed all archived advertisements with the app, and I can take a guess why.

I am an intermediate Egyptian dialect speaker. The ج should be pronounced G instead of J, but in many recitation exercises, the audio both pronounces things wrong and expects the user to say them back wrong in order to proceed. There are many other pronunciation errors like this that an intermediate speaker can catch, but a beginner may not notice. Also, many times the audio does not match the text, and the users are left wondering what is going on. For example, I as I was trying to practice verbs, the text was giving me family members.

The lessons after the first unit are slapdash at best. For example, the unit about ‘The Seasons’ only practices three seasons: spring, winter, and summer.

The chat bot feature is cool but very limited. After I answer one or two questions, the chat bot keeps trying to end the conversation. Other language learning chat bots will keep the conversation going, give suggestions, and ask the user more specific questions.

I am hopeful that the other dialects work a bit better than Egyptian. I am also hopefully that in a year, either this product will finally be finished, or there will be better ones on the market for learning dialectical Arabic. If you are a beginner learning a dialect, YouTube lessons are better than Kalam, but still should always be double-checked by another native-speaking source
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The range of dialects

Finally an app to learn darija :)

Full of bug

The concept is good and oriented to make you speak real spoken Arabic but full of bugs - need some serious updates

Trop d’IA

Alors si je peux me permettre une critique constructive. L’application en soi est géniale pour apprendre justement pratiquer la langue. Le problème c’est que la prononciation est mauvaise. On apprend au nom maghrébins des accents robotiques. On m’a déjà validé un mot alors que j’y mets l’accent. Très mauvaise application dans l’ensemble en soi si on prend ce problème en considération, honnêtement je ne recommande pas à des personnes qui essaye d’apprendre le dialecte marocain. Trop de robot
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Good idea, unfortunately bad performance

I wish it would work well, cause the idea is amazing. Please improve. 🙏
It‘s just frustrating at so many points. It doesn’t play well and some explanations are repeatedly, nonesense and doesn’t fit to the following phrases. It’s actually hilarious.

Potential

It could be great but the app is so glitchy and slow. There’s also no way to save progress during sessions. It also skips over a lot of information. It starts speaking on things we haven’t gone over yet but I’m expected to know or understand. Makes no sense.

Sad

Im young and im trying to improve my Arabic and I heard many good things about this app but sadly i cant use it because I don’t have money. :(

Pas intuitif

Trop de bug, impossible d’apprendre avec, les exercices de fin de leçon ne correspondent pas aux phrases appris dans la leçon. 48 exercices à répéter bêtement et à la fin il vous dis vous savez parler. Et la plus part du temps vous devez répéter phonétiquement donc pas du tout la bonne prononciation.
Trop d’ia, trop d’onglets….
Pas du tout simple ni intuitif.
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Misleading promotions

The app charged me the amount for subscription with no heads up, is supposed to be a free trial and then a subscription warning before taking payment. Do not recommended this app

Gute Idee, schlecht umgesetzt

Leider hängt sich die App ständig auf, manchmal erkennt sie die Aussprache nicht obwohl sie definitiv richtig ist und bei den Gesprächen hat man auch ständig Bugs was es super nervig macht. Ich glaub ich hätte sie sogar für 60€ abonniert wenn sie vernünftig funktioniert aber so ärgert man sich einfach nur noch mehr
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Worst app only making this 5 stars so you can see this

Only 4 units, bare minimum for Arabic, looks like it was made in a time crunch, do not get this app at all , it forces you to pay for sloppy work, ai recognition and more, never ever get this app worst ever

Nul impossible sans payer

L'app est inaccessible sans abonnement et elle a l'air fais a la va vite avec l'IA

App have a bug

I want to do my first lesson but after the question 27 it’s always loading and loading and not working anymore

Sooo many bugs

Audio playback mostly

Umsetzung verbesserungswürdig

Die Idee der App ist super. Ich suche schon lange nach einer guten App mit der ich den libanesischen Dialekt lernen kann. Wäre die App umsonst, würde ich sie sicherlich weiter nutzen. Ich werde sie aber aufgrund vieler technischer Probleme und einer etwas Eintönigen Gestaltung während des Probezeitraums kündigen.
Technisch hat die App einige Fehler: die Audios sind im „Dialog-Modus“ nicht abspielbar, teilweise werden andere Wörter angekündigt, als die die dann tatsächlich kommen (jetzt lernen wir, wie wir sagen „heißes Wetter“ und dann wird ohne Kontext „bared“ abgefragt). Die Video-Inhalte laden extrem langsam, und die Aussprache des Arabischen während der Animationsfilme ist mit einem amerikanischen Dialekt gesprochen- also komplett falsch - was für eine Sprachlernapp wirklich nicht gut ist. Ich persönlich finde das Design auch wenig ansprechend und auch den Aufbau der App (es werden Sätze angezeigt, vorgesprochen und man soll sie nachsprechen) nicht besonders abwechslungsreich. Für eine App für die ich bezahlen soll erwarte ich mehr abwechslungsreiche Lektionen, unterschiedliche Sprachlern-Methoden und keine so gravierenden technischen Fehler. Die Themen sind gut, ich persönlich würde mir aber noch Themen wie: Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft, etc. wünschen. Für das Beginner-Level ist „Einkaufen, Familie, Reisen, ..“ super, aber für advanced fänd ich die o.g. Themen spannend.
Was ich toll finde ist, dass man sich schwierige Vokabeln „merken“ kann und diese gezielt üben kann, dass in kompletten Sätzen gelernt wird und dass die Aussprache, soweit ich das als Non-Native beurteilen kann, außerhalb dieser Animationsfilme sehr klar und in einem guten Tempo ist.
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