Learning Phoenician vs Rasm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learning Phoenician
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The 22 letters of the Phoenician alphabet — the ancestor of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and the Latin letters you are reading right now. See a letter, tap its name. Tap "reverse" and it flips: see a name, tap the letter. Tap "table" to study the alphabet one letter at a time. That's the whole app. No account, no ads, nothing collected.
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.
- Teaches positional letter forms
- Identifies dot-based mistakes
- Gradually fades vowel marks
- Spaced repetition learning algorithm
- Offline functionality
- No ads or tracking
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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.
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Verdict
Learning Phoenician and Rasm are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Learning Phoenician | Rasm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sungjun Kim | Luca Rizzello |
In-app purchases
Learning Phoenician
No in-app purchases
Rasm
No in-app purchases
Questions
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