Comparison

Nourania vs Rasm

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nourania

Features
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Apprenez à lire l'arabe pas à pas, avec la Qa'ida Nourania : la méthode utilisée dans les mosquées et les écoles coraniques pour passer des premières lettres à la lecture du Coran. Gratuit, sans publicité, sans abonnement et sans compte. POUR QUI ? • Les enfants, accompagnés d'un parent • Les adultes qui partent de zéro • Ceux qui ont appris la Qa'ida il y a longtemps et veulent la revoir Les explications et les menus sont en français ; tout ce que vous lisez et entendez est en arabe. 17 LEÇONS, DE L'ALPHABET À LA LECTURE Les lettres isolées, puis liées, les voyelles (harakat), le tanwin, le soukoun, la chadda et le madd, jusqu'à la lecture de mots et de versets. Chaque leçon s'appuie sur la précédente et se débloque quand vous êtes prêt. ÉCOUTER CHAQUE SON Chaque lettre, syllabe et mot s'écoute, en voix masculine ou féminine, avec une lecture lente pour bien distinguer les sons proches. S'EXERCER EN JOUANT 10 types d'exercices : reconnaître une lettre, trouver le son entendu, associer, assembler des mots, reconnaître les voyelles, lire des syllabes, remettre dans l'ordre, cartes mémoire, compléter, prononcer. PRONONCER À VOIX HAUTE Lisez au micro : l'application écoute et vous indique si c'est juste. RÉVISER SANS OUBLIER Les lettres qui vous posent problème reviennent plus souvent (répétition espacée). Un défi chaque jour, une série de jours, des niveaux et des badges pour garder le rythme. VOTRE VIE PRIVÉE Votre progression reste sur votre appareil. Aucun compte, aucune publicité. Pour la prononciation, un modèle vocal facultatif (environ 140 Mo, à télécharger une fois) permet une reconnaissance directement sur l'appareil. Sans ce modèle, l'application utilise la reconnaissance vocale d'Apple, qui peut nécessiter Internet et transmettre l'audio à Apple. Les exercices sans micro restent accessibles sans ces autorisations. Disponible sur iPhone et iPad.

About

Rasm

This app focuses solely on teaching the skill of reading Arabic script aloud. It teaches letter shapes in different positions and identifies mistakes based on dot placement. Vowel marks are gradually faded to prepare users for real text.

Highlights
  • Teaches positional letter forms
  • Identifies dot-based mistakes
  • Gradually fades vowel marks
  • Spaced repetition learning algorithm
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Nourania4 screens
Rasm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Nourania at every 2 days against Rasm's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nourania ships an update every 2 days, Rasm weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Nourania versus Rasm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNouraniaRasm
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevRushITLuca Rizzello

In-app purchases

None

Nourania

No in-app purchases

None

Rasm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nourania free?
Nourania is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rasm free?
Rasm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Nourania or Rasm have ads?
Neither Nourania nor Rasm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nourania or Rasm?
Nourania ships an update every 2 days, and Rasm weekly. Most recently, Nourania was updated on November 5, 2026 and Rasm on November 6, 2026.

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