Comparison

Mudarris vs Rasm

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

Head to head
About

Mudarris

Learn Arabic from the alphabet to Quranic reading with interactive lessons and practice modes. Explore Quranic stories, duas, and prayer guides. Offers pronunciation practice and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • Arabic alphabet and writing practice
  • Quranic surahs with multiple reciters
  • Tajweed rule lessons
  • Stories of the Prophets from the Quran
  • Prophetic duas and prayer guides
  • Pronunciation practice
  • Progress tracking with streaks and achievements
Features
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Mudarris is a complete path from the Arabic alphabet to reading the Quran, in English or French. Free, with no ads. LEARN ARABIC, STEP BY STEP • The 28 letters: every form (isolated, initial, middle, final), how they connect, sun and moon letters • Writing practice: draw each letter with your finger and learn the real joining rules • Three scripts: see every letter in Naskh, Ruq’ah and Nasta’liq • Vocabulary in themes (family, food, places, time, colors and more), with flashcards and spaced-repetition review • Grammar lessons: articles, pronouns, sentence structure • Verb conjugation in every tense, with quizzes and writing practice • Numbers: digits, number words, ordinals and the rules of counting • Reading practice with and without vowel marks • The Islamic calendar: the Hijri year, the twelve months and today's date READ AND LEARN THE QURAN • All 114 surahs, by surah or by juz, with translation and transliteration • Seven reciters: Mishary Alafasy, Abdul Basit, Al-Husary, Al-Minshawi, As-Sudais, Al-Ghamdi and Ar-Rifai • A lesson on each tajweed rule • Learn mode: choose a range of verses, set the speed, repeat and advance on your own • Write and test modes to check what you have memorized • Recitations you play are saved on your phone, so you can listen again offline • Keeps playing in the background with the screen locked STORIES OF THE PROPHETS • 25 prophets and 16 stories from the Quran • Told only from the Quran and authentic hadith. Every conversation is quoted as the full verse in Arabic, with its translation • Listen as the story is read aloud, and tap any paragraph to read from there DUAS AND PRAYER • A collection of prophetic duas with Arabic, transliteration and meaning • Step-by-step lessons on how to pray • Quizzes on the surahs and on what you have learned PRACTICE YOUR PRONUNCIATION • Say a word in Arabic and see whether it was understood (optional, uses the microphone) STAY ON TRACK • Daily streaks, XP and achievements • Gentle reminders at your study time, a warning before a streak ends, and Surah al-Kahf every Friday Mudarris (مُدَرِّس) means "teacher" in Arabic. Begin with the first letter.

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

Mudarris4 screens
Rasm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mudarris at every 4 days against Rasm's weekly. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mudarris against 5.0 for Rasm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mudarris ships an update every 4 days, Rasm weekly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Mudarris versus Rasm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMudarrisRasm
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB45 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKAZTEK LLCLuca Rizzello

Customer experience

Mudarris

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rasm

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mudarris

No in-app purchases

None

Rasm

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mudarris free?
Mudarris is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rasm free?
Rasm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mudarris or Rasm?
Mudarris and Rasm are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Mudarris or Rasm have ads?
Neither Mudarris nor Rasm shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mudarris or Rasm?
Mudarris ships an update every 4 days, and Rasm weekly. Most recently, Mudarris was updated on November 10, 2026 and Rasm on November 10, 2026.

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