Abjad vs Arabic.app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Abjad
This app makes learning Arabic letters fun and engaging for young children. It uses colorful visuals, songs, and interactive games to teach reading, writing, and letter recognition.
- Interactive Arabic letter learning
- Songs for each letter
- Picture-to-letter matching test
- Connect-the-dots letter drawing
- Word building with letter dragging
- Memory game for letter recognition
- Learning letter shapes in words
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Abjad makes learning the Arabic alphabet joyful for young children aged 2–5. Follow a guided adventure map through 4 magical worlds — the desert, the oasis, the sea, and the mountains — collecting stickers and coins while learning to recognize, trace, and remember all 28 Arabic letters, through play, not pressure. WHY PARENTS LOVE ABJAD • A story-driven Adventure Map turns the whole alphabet into one guided journey • Covers all 28 Arabic letters, including harakat (vowel marks) • Built for ages 2–5 — simple, intuitive, distraction-free • Combines audio, visuals & hands-on interaction for deeper learning • Child profiles with parental controls — tailor which letters & games each child sees • Milestones, streaks & detailed progress tracking keep kids motivated • No reading required — fully icon and audio-driven • All 28 letters and all 4 worlds are free — nothing is locked behind a paywall THE ADVENTURE MAP • Explore 4 themed worlds — الصحراء (Desert), الواحة (Oasis), البحر (Sea), الجبال (Mountains) — each covering 7 letters, with chests, stickers, and a boy/girl explorer character to dress up • Collect letter stickers and coins in every world, then spend coins on wardrobe outfits • Unlock a themed video song when your child finishes each world 37 INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE EXERCISES MENU Short guided activities for everything your child is learning: • Arabic letters — tracing, spelling, listening, memory games, letter forms & harakat • Colors World — matching, mixing, sorting & coloring • Numbers World — counting, patterns & tracing, in Arabic or Arabic-Indic numerals • Countries — a quiz and a spin-the-wheel, unlocked as your child meets countries on the map • Careers World — Doctor, Chef, Builder, Farmer, Pilot, Teacher & Police, with outfits to unlock Plus Alphabet Explorer, the Alphabet Song, Speed Rounds & bonus mini-challenges on the map THE ARCADE • Whack-a-Mole, Sliding Puzzle, Match 3, Memory Match & Catch the Fruit • Play with tokens exchanged from the coins you've earned • Leaderboards in every game, plus pause & mute controls STORIES • Illustrated stories read aloud, in two fully vowelled reading levels — read together or read by myself • Branching endings, a hidden sticker to find on every page, and a short quiz at the end • Folk-tale favorites like Juha beside original animal stories, with new ones every month ABJAD PREMIUM One simple annual subscription unlocks child profiles, parental controls, milestones, detailed progress tracking, and every premium game — with a 3-day free trial included. BONUS WORLDS Premium subscribers can unlock themed bonus worlds — like عالم البلدان (Arab Countries), Colors World, Numbers World, and NEW Careers World — by spending coins earned in-app, through the same map, sticker, and wardrobe system. Questions or feedback? Email admin@nativemelon.com — we respond promptly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nativemelon.com/abjad-privacy-policy/
Arabic.app
Learn to read Arabic script and Quranic verses step-by-step with native-speaker audio. This ad-free app offers a structured learning path with no shortcuts, ensuring mastery before advancing. It supports multiple users and works offline.
- Step-by-step Arabic script learning
- Native-speaker audio for pronunciation
- Hard-gated progression for mastery
- Offline functionality
- Multiple user profiles
- Progress tracking with streaks and achievements
- Light and dark mode
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Read Arabic from your first letter to your first verse of the Quran. Arabic.app teaches you the Arabic script the way it should be taught: step-by-step, with clear native-voice audio for every letter, harakat, and word — and a hard-gated progression that won't let you advance until you've actually got it. 10 lessons (27 audio sessions in total) take you from Alif all the way to short suras from the Quran. Free. No ads. No subscriptions. —————————————————————— WHAT YOU'LL LEARN • Foundations — the 28-letter alphabet + fatha, kasra, damma • Long vowels — extensions with Alif, Ya, and Waw • Sukoon — silent consonants and word shape • Shadda — doubled consonants with all three harakat • Letter Forms — isolated → initial → medial → final • Tanween — the three -an / -in / -un endings • Special Cases — Hamza variants, Ta Marbuta, Alif Maksura, Alif with Madda, Lam-Alif, Alif Wasla • Sun & Moon letters — when the "L" in "al-" is silent • Words → Sentences → Quran — two- to five-letter words, full sentences, and short suras Every quiz requires 80% to unlock the next lesson. No shortcuts. —————————————————————— WHY ARABIC.APP IS DIFFERENT • Saudi-native audio — clear pronunciation from native voices, recorded fresh for clarity. • Hard-gated progression — you can't skip ahead; each lesson actually sticks. • Focused, not bloated — 10 lessons, 27 audio sessions, zero padding. • Works fully offline — every audio file is bundled. No internet required, ever. • Multiple profiles — share the app with your kids, your spouse, anyone. Each profile tracks its own progress, streak, stars and achievements. • Streaks, stars and achievements — earn stars on every lesson and unlock 24 achievements as you progress. • 13 UI languages — the app speaks English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, Malay, Turkish, Indonesian, Urdu, Bengali, Hindi, Chinese and Russian. The Arabic content stays Arabic; the UI follows you. • Light + dark mode — clean, modern design built for long study sessions. • Full accessibility — Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, RTL. —————————————————————— PERFECT FOR • Adults learning to read Arabic for the first time • Muslims who want to read the Quran in its original script • Heritage learners reconnecting with their roots • Parents teaching their kids • Anyone curious about one of the world's most beautiful scripts —————————————————————— PRIVACY • No account, no sign-up, no email required • Works fully offline after install • No personal data sold or shared Start your first lesson today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arabic.app at none against Abjad's 1. Abjad's advantage is ratings volume (63 vs 8) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Abjad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Arabic.app asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Abjad against 4.3 for Arabic.app. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Abjad has 63 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Abjad | Arabic.app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (63 ratings) | 4.3 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Native Melon Consulting LLC | Aaratus, inc. |
In-app purchases
Abjad
- أبجد المميز سنوي3 Days trial$4.991 Year
Arabic.app
No in-app purchases









