Kitabi vs BeeApp Quran
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kitabi
Learn Arabic by reading actual books, stories, and dialogues. Tap any word for instant meaning, or a sentence for translation. Practice vocabulary with smart flashcards and import your own content for interactive lessons.
- Read actual Arabic books and dialogues
- Tap words for instant meaning and roots
- Tap sentences for full translation
- Smart flashcards for vocabulary practice
- Import YouTube videos and articles
- Track vocabulary progress
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Kitabi is a different kind of Arabic learning app. Instead of endless multiple-choice quizzes, you read and watch real Arabic — books, stories, dialogues and videos. Tap any word to see its meaning instantly. Tap a sentence to see the full translation. It's the closest thing to having a tutor sitting beside you. YOUR OWN ARABIC LIBRARY Browse a growing collection of Arabic books: stories of the prophets, the life of the Prophet Muhammad saw, hadith, supplications, everyday dialogues and more. Every word is tappable — meaning, root and related forms, one tap away. Save the words you want to remember and watch them highlight across every book you read. WATCH REAL ARABIC Cartoons, stories and vlogs in Arabic, with live subtitles that follow the video. Tap any word as it's spoken to see what it means. Pick a topic, or search for a word and jump straight to the moment it's said. TAP TO TRANSLATE Read naturally. When you hit a word you don't know, tap it. A clean panel shows the meaning, the root and related words. Tap the sentence for the full translation. No switching apps, no copy-pasting into a translator. HEAR EVERY WORD Native-quality audio throughout. Tap to hear a single word pronounced correctly, or listen to a whole passage read aloud while you follow along. EXPLORE ARABIC ROOTS Arabic is built from three-letter roots, and once you see them the language stops feeling random. The Explorer maps any word back to its root and shows you the family it belongs to — the verbs, the nouns and the patterns that connect them. VOCABULARY THAT STICKS Every word you meet is tracked. Practise with flashcards that adapt to your level, plus listening, matching, scramble and speed-match exercises. Words you struggle with come back more often. Picture Words teaches everyday vocabulary with animated illustrations across 35+ topics, and the built-in dictionary is always a tap away. START FROM ZERO Never seen the Arabic script before? The alphabet course takes you letter by letter — the shapes, the sounds, and how each one changes at the start, middle and end of a word. IMPORT YOUR OWN VIDEOS Paste a YouTube link and Kitabi turns it into an interactive Arabic lesson, with word-by-word translation and playback synced to the text. LEARN IN YOUR LANGUAGE The app speaks your language: English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay and more. FREE AND PREMIUM Kitabi is free to start. You get free chapters in every book, daily flashcard practice, the dictionary, Picture Words, exercises and the alphabet course. Kitabi Premium unlocks everything: • Every book and every chapter • Watch — the full Arabic video feed • Unlimited flashcards and practice • The full root and word-family Explorer • Import from YouTube • Everything we add later SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Kitabi Premium is available as an auto-renewing subscription. The annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal at any time in your Apple ID account settings. In some regions Kitabi Premium is also available as a one-time purchase that does not renew. Whether you're a complete beginner or an intermediate learner who wants to understand real Arabic, Kitabi gives you the tools to actually understand what you're reading and hearing — not just memorise words in isolation. Start reading Arabic today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kitabi.space/privacy
BeeApp Quran
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BeeApp is a new way to learn to read the Quran from scratch. Even if you have never seen the Arabic letters before, in just 7 days you will start reading the Quran on your own. • START READING IN 7 DAYS 41 short video lessons, from the first letter to the rules of tajweed. Just 6 lessons a day, each only a few minutes long. In one week you will master all the letters, the harakat and the rules of nun, mim, qalqalah and madd. • AN INNOVATIVE METHOD: THE TEACHER LISTENS TO YOU In an ordinary video lesson, only the teacher speaks. In BeeApp, the teacher waits for you: the video pauses and asks you to say a letter or a word out loud. Artificial intelligence listens to what you said: if it is right, the lesson goes on; if not, the teacher says the word again. You don't just watch — you learn by speaking, repeating and remembering. Speech recognition runs entirely on your phone. Your voice is never sent anywhere. • PRACTICE AFTER EVERY LESSON Short questions: how a word is read, which word the teacher said. Your correct answers, your streak and your path on the lesson map — all in front of you. • THE QURAN WITH TRANSLATION All 114 surahs in clear Uthmani script, with translations in English (Saheeh International), Kazakh (Khalifa Altay) and Russian (Elmir Kuliev). Tap any word to hear it and see its transliteration and the verse translation. Pick up where you left off and start each day with a verse. • IN YOUR LANGUAGE The whole app is available in Kazakh, Russian and English. • FREE. NO ADS. NO SIGN-UP. No subscription, no advertising, no account needed. Start today — in a week you will be reading the Quran in your own voice. Quran text, translations and word audio: Quran Foundation (quran.com). Speech recognition: NVIDIA model, licensed CC-BY-4.0.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BeeApp Quran at none against Kitabi's 2. BeeApp Quran also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). Kitabi's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price 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. Kitabi sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. BeeApp Quran asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitabi ships an update every 3 weeks, BeeApp Quran every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Kitabi | BeeApp Quran |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 160 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zani Dobruna | MEIIRZHAN TASHTAY |
In-app purchases
Kitabi
- Kitabi Premium$12.991 Month
- Kitabi Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
BeeApp Quran
No in-app purchases









