# Rasm: Read Arabic Script — Alphabet, dots and vowel marks

> Alphabet, dots and vowel marks (iPhone/iPad app by Luca Rizzello.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rasm-read-arabic-script/id6811901016 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Luca Rizzello](https://appshunter.io/developer/1886623122)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 45 MB
- Languages: American English, Bangla, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Malayalam, Russian, Filipino, Tamil
- Released: 2026-10-02
- Data updated: 2026-10-20

## What is Rasm?

Rasm teaches exactly one skill: reading Arabic script out loud.

Not the language. You will not learn what the words mean, and that is on purpose — decoding the script is a separate skill, and it is the one most people never get around to.

IT TEACHES THE SHAPES, NOT THE ALPHABET SONG
Arabic letters change form depending on where they sit in a word, so the thing you actually have to know is the pair: this letter, in this position. All 34 letters across their 115 positional forms, grouped by the shapes they share rather than by alphabetical order.

IT KNOWS WHAT KIND OF MISTAKE YOU MADE
Most letters differ only by dots. When you misread one, Rasm can tell you that you read two dots above where there was one below — and it shows you, by lifting the wrong dots off and leaving the bare skeleton on screen for half a second before the right ones land.

IT WEANS YOU OFF THE VOWEL MARKS
Beginner material is written with harakat; real text is not. Rasm fades them per shape, on a schedule, until you are reading what is actually printed.

IT SCHEDULES THE PRACTICE FOR YOU
A proven spaced-repetition algorithm (FSRS) decides what comes back and when, from how you actually answer — never from asking you to rate yourself.

Five to ten minutes a day.

No advertising, no account, no tracking of any kind. Nothing leaves your phone, and it works with the network switched off.

## Is Rasm safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Rasm.

## Is Rasm legit?

Rasm: Read Arabic Script has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Rasm is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.6 — 2026-10-11

A small one. The only change inside the app: Rasm may ask you once, and only once, whether you would like to rate it.

The rest of this update is the App Store page catching up with what the app already does — new screenshots and an updated description.

### 1.0.5 — 2026-10-04

The daily lesson now fits a small iPhone. On an iPhone SE its last answer sat below the bottom of the screen, which meant the card could not be answered at all.

New: read a whole sentence aloud. Twenty-six sentences, each one built only from words you have already met, with the notation to check yourself against afterwards. Nothing in it is graded.

Three times the vocabulary — 141 words — chosen for the rules that had only two examples: the sun and moon letters, tāʼ marbūṭa, the hamza seats.

Words now carry their vowel marks while they are new, and lose them as you get solid, the same way the letters already did.

Pick the app's language yourself, under Settings, or let it keep following your phone.

Large text sizes work throughout, VoiceOver reaches every screen and reads out the feedback after an answer, and the chapter texts are written for the reader rather than for the code.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-02

No release notes.

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All apps by Luca Rizzello: https://appshunter.io/developer/1886623122

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