Study Buddy vs Qalam

StudyBuddy is an offline-first study helper for school. Ask questions, look up words, and review math — even in airplane mode after a quick setup. Use AI-powered answers, tools, and games designed for K–12 and intro college. Study anywhere without needing a constant internet connection. ◆ Ask questions your way • Type a question and get a clear, age-appropriate answer • Use on-device voice input to ask out loud • Point the camera at a problem and let OCR turn it into text • See answers grounded in a built-in study library ◆ Math help • Arithmetic solver for step-friendly answers • Math formulas: fill in known values and solve for the one you’re missing • Standard and scientific calculator with angle modes • Graphing calculator to visualize expressions • Programmable calculator for custom routines • Math flashcards to drill core skills • Math tricks and exercises to practice ◆ Language & reading tools • English dictionary for quick word lookups • Thesaurus to find synonyms and related words • Idioms and phrases bank to understand common expressions • Word puzzle helper to reason through tricky puzzles ◆ Study organization • Subjects tab with core subjects ready to go • Add, rename, reorder, or remove subjects to match your classes • Create quick notes inside each subject • Study library with indexed curriculum-style content • Planner for upcoming work and study blocks • Study timer to stay focused in short sessions ◆ Camera, files, and QR • Scan printed questions or notes with the camera • Import images, PDFs, and text from Photos and Files • Generate and scan QR codes to share notes and StudyBuddy content ◆ Slam Book & share cards • Create a personal Slam Book share card • Share your card by QR code or import a friend’s card • View cards by grade and subject ◆ Teacher tools (optional role) • Switch into Teacher Tools from the app • Add classes with names and sections • Upload a CSV or Excel roster with standard headers • Add students one by one if you prefer • See your teaching load and active class • Take attendance • Quickly make random student groups for activities • Build simple lesson plans with objectives, activities, and homework ◆ Designed for real devices • Fully functional offline after initial knowledge setup • Works in airplane mode with on-device AI and retrieval • Light, dark, and system themes • Adjustable in-app text size on top of Dynamic Type • Remembers the last tab you were using Start using StudyBuddy to ask questions, look up words, and organize your schoolwork — online or offline. Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Qalam (قلم — "pen") teaches children to read and handwrite the Arabic alphabet, one letter at a time. Arabic script is beautiful — and genuinely hard to write. Each of the 28 letters changes shape depending on where it sits in a word, and the only way those forms become natural is by writing them by hand, with the right strokes and proportions. Most apps skip this and settle for flashcards or videos. Qalam puts a pen back in your child's hand. Designed for ages 4–10 and built for iPad and iPhone with Apple Pencil support. • TRACE EVERY LETTER Tap any letter to open a guided tracing canvas. A faint guide letter sits on lined paper; your child traces over it with a finger or Apple Pencil, and the app rewards a completed trace with a clear tick. • ALL FOUR FORMS — مفردة · أول · وسط · آخر Real Arabic isn't just isolated letters. Qalam teaches all four positional forms of every letter — isolated, initial, medial, and final — because that's what a child meets in a real book. • REAL RECORDED AUDIO Every letter and word plays a genuine recorded Arabic pronunciation — not a robotic voice — so listening and writing stay connected. • 84 ILLUSTRATED WORDS TO COLOUR Each letter comes with three example words and a hand-drawn illustration — a camel, a star, a lion — that your child can colour in, then trace the word beneath in large Arabic script. • TASHKEEL (DIACRITICS) Add fatha, damma, kasra, tanwin, sukun, and shadda to practise fully vowelled letters. • SAFE AND PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No third-party tracking. No accounts. No data leaves the device. Everything runs fully offline. Qalam is built to meet Apple's Kids Category standards, so you can hand it to your child with confidence. 28 letters · 4 forms each · 84 illustrated words · 112 recorded audio clips. Qalam is the first app from Sedrah AI's handwriting platform — a calm, focused, screen-native way to learn a script that has always been taught with pen and paper.