# Learn to read Arabic — user reviews > 24 indexed App Store user reviews of Learn to read Arabic by Big Languages Ltd, rated 3.70/5 from 9 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-to-read-arabic/id673710080/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-to-read-arabic/id673710080.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (4 of 24) ### 4/5 — Great app *2014-05-30* I'd already learnt the alphabet a couple of years ago but the tests in this app were really useful for revising after I got a bit rusty. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2013-09-29* Really useful app, very good for learning Arabic! ### 4/5 — Glad I found this! *2013-09-01* Glad I found this! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2013-08-17* Very easy to use, a really good looking app! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No functioning pronunciation examples *2019-08-09* Currently the ‘listen’ buttons don’t work... makes it a bit useless - can they be updated?! ### 1/5 — No sound *2018-07-09, version V1.2* While the actual Lessons make sense and are good, but the “listen” button doesn’t work. Makes the whole thing useless. ### 1/5 — Sound doesn't work *2017-05-25* Cannot hear the pronunciations on this app **Developer response:** Please make sure your phone is not on silent. The audio won't play if it is. I know it sounds obvious but others have made this mistake. ### 3/5 — A few annoying bugs *2017-10-23* Overall, a very nice app aside from a few bugs: - progress does not persist between sessions. There are only 13 lessons so it's not too difficult to remember where you left off, but still a bother - as another reviewer mentioned, the sound does not work unless headphones are used Edit for developer response: no, that does not stick when opening and closing app or sometimes even when leaving the app open **Developer response:** You should be able to swipe across the lesson title in the lessons menu, to mark it as complete. Does that tick not stay when you open and close the app? ### 3/5 — Ehh.... *2013-07-23* It's ok but if do not know anything about arabic letters than this is not the app for u. ### 4/5 — Good apart for audio *2019-10-14* Great app, good explanations although listen buttons don’t work, how can I fix this? ### 4/5 — Great tool ! *2019-08-19, version V1.2* Works well (you must unmute your phone for the “listen” button to work). I like it a lot because I can read words the same way they are written in a real text (with all letters linked together). And there are a lot of practice exercises ! I’m an absolute beginner and I’m sure it’s gonna help me a lot in my arabic reading ! ### 4/5 — Great!! *2019-02-03* Truly love this program. Great for beginners!! I wish they had more like this. ### 4/5 — Easy to use *2017-02-25* Easy, great for beginners. ### 4/5 — Useful *2015-04-04* This is a genuinely useful app. Just hope I have the will power to stick with it and get through all the lessons. What would make it even better is if it did voice recognition to tell you if you were pronouncing right. You kind of have to mark yourself on whether you got it right. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app *2017-12-23* I couldn’t find better app! ### 5/5 — Well thought out *2017-03-04* I frequently refer to this app when I use it in conjunction with Memrise. ### 5/5 — Very helpful *2016-12-24* This app makes learning the alphabet quite easy. It is clear, aesthetically pleasing and the flashcards and quizzes are so helpful. ### 5/5 — Very smooth *2016-05-08, version V1.2* This is a simple way to learn to read Arabic phonetically. In the course of the lessons you go from admiring pretty squiggles to being able to sound out Arabic words. The interface is really easy to use, and the course has audio, too. As the author says, it's not a vocabulary course, but when you're done you will be able to recognize names of people and countries, and words like hijab and halal. I hope in future versions there will be one page that shows the whole alphabet in order so we can 1. learn the recitation order and 2. look up what a particular squiggle is when we forget one. I would pay for an elementary grammar course of this quality. Follow the Facebook feed for more practice words. It is spam-free. ### 5/5 — Arabic reading course *2015-04-05* Found this really helpful. Well explained and easy to use. ### 5/5 — Excellent for beginners to reading Arabic *2015-02-16* Great simple program that is great for a supplement to other programs or classes. There are free programs that give you the letters in their simple forms, but the letters sound different in words and this program helped me greatly when learning to read Arabic. The only 'complaint' that I have is that the words used as examples are often irrelevant words that would never be used by a speaker learning letter sounds. That being said, they seemed to really try using words with only the letters learned according to the progress made in the program. Excellent for beginners. ### 5/5 — Lots of detail and tests *2015-02-14* I've downloaded a lot of apps for learning Arabic but this is one of the best. It's so much more in-depth. ### 5/5 — Sehr gut *2015-02-10* und verständlich aufgebaut - mit klaren Bildern, Erklärungen und Ton. Sehr gut nachvollziehbar! ### 5/5 — Good idea *2014-06-30* Great app, by far the most effective technique I've tried to learn the alphabet, using application to help memorize the pronunciation and reading of words ### 5/5 — Arabic course totally easy ... *2014-05-28* ... to understand. Thanks so much for developing an app which is so much comprehensible. I finely got the courage to draw down letter by letter of this beautiful language with the help of your great App. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟❗️ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-05.*