Kitaba vs Slimsend
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kitaba
Design stunning visuals with over 1,000 Arabic fonts and text effects. Create invitations, cards, and social posts quickly using ready-made templates and AI tools. Offers features like letter stretching and background removal for unique designs.
- 1,000+ Arabic, English, and Persian fonts
- Maad 'مدّ' letter stretching
- Text effects and artistic textures
- Ready-made templates for various occasions
- AI-powered image editing (background removal, upscaling)
- Stickers and cut-outs for PNG creation
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Write on photos with 1,000+ Arabic fonts, and design wedding invitations, greeting cards and social posts in minutes. New: Maad «مدّ» stretches Arabic letters as far as you choose, plus new school templates. Kitaba is an Arabic-first design app. Choose from more than 1,000 fonts in Arabic, English and Persian, type on any photo, and share the result in a few taps. WRITE ON PHOTOS • Add text in Arabic, English or Persian • Maad «مدّ»: stretch Arabic letters to fit your design • Control size, colour, opacity, spacing, alignment, shadow and outline • Apply gold, silver and artistic textures to your lettering • An exclusive library of hand-designed Arabic and English calligraphy and text art, made by professional artists ARABIC FONTS AND CALLIGRAPHY • 1,000+ fonts, sorted by style so you find the right one fast • Classic scripts: Diwani, Kufi, Thuluth, Naskh, Ruqaa and Maghribi • Fonts for writing on photos and designing images DESIGN AND EDIT • Crop, rotate, resize and blur photos • Stickers and cut-outs: make your own transparent PNGs • Ready-made templates for social posts, invitations, greeting cards and business ads • Seasonal templates for Ramadan, Eid and other occasions CREATE WITH AI • Turn a text description into an image • Remove or replace a photo's background • Upscale a photo for sharper results SIMPLE AND FAST • Your designs save automatically • Share straight to your social apps • Full Arabic language support Kitaba Premium Kitaba Premium unlocks new exclusive content as it arrives, an ad-free experience and all advanced features. بالعربية: كتابة على الصور هو التطبيق العربي للكتابة على الصور وتصميم الصور وتعديلها بالذكاء الاصطناعي، مع أكثر من 1000 خط عربي وإنجليزي وفارسي، وقوالب جاهزة للمناسبات والدعوات والبطاقات. Terms of Use: https://kitaba.app/en/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://kitaba.app/en/privacy/ Apple EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Slimsend
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Slimsend makes a video smaller. You pick how small; it works out the rest. Pick a video, then a compression level — High quality, Balanced, Small or Smallest. Each one shows the size it will make before you start. Need it under a limit instead? Pick email, Discord, WhatsApp, or a size you type in, and Slimsend solves for the resolution and bitrate that land under that ceiling. There is no resolution dropdown to guess at. That guess is the app's job, not yours. MEGABYTES THE WAY THE LIMIT MEANS THEM A 25 MB email limit means 25,000,000 bytes. Aim at 26,214,400 instead — which is what "25 MB" means to a lot of software — and the file goes over and the send fails. Slimsend works in decimal bytes from end to end. Under the limit means under the limit. IT TELLS YOU BEFORE, NOT AFTER A ten-minute video inside a 25 MB email is 360p. That is arithmetic, not a bug, and no app can talk its way out of it. Most warn you and carry on, and you find out when you watch it back. Slimsend says so first — and offers the alternative: trim to a length that fits at a higher resolution, or carry on at 360p. Your call, made before the encode instead of discovered after it. IT REFUSES WHEN IT SHOULD • Already under the limit — there is nothing to gain, so it says so instead of re-encoding your video for no reason • So close to the limit that re-encoding would cost quality and could make the file larger • Impossible — when the limit is below the smallest this video can become, it tells you that size before compressing, not after YOUR ORIGINAL IS NEVER TOUCHED The compressed copy is saved separately, to its own album, with the creation date and location intact. The original stays exactly as it was. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR IPHONE No account. No upload. No server. No ads — not before the compress, not after it, not anywhere in the app. Nothing to close and nothing to wait for. Free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Slimsend at none against Kitaba's 10. Slimsend also leads on ads (none vs shown). Kitaba's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and iOS requirement 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. Kitaba sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Slimsend asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitaba ships an update fortnightly, Slimsend every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kitaba | Slimsend |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (18K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 3rabapp LTD | YOTEZIC LTD |
Bugs and requests
Kitaba
Reported bugs
2 issues- Slow image/font loading times
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to import custom fonts
- Option to disable app logo watermark
- Multi-layer text support
- More advanced editing tools
Slimsend
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kitaba
- Premium AI Weekly$2.997 Days
- Premium AI Monthly$9.991 Month
- Monthly Premium Subscription$9.991 Month
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- AI Pro Monthly$22.991 Month
- Annual Premium Subscription$59.991 Year
- English Fonts$20.99
- Pro Version$29.99
- مجموعة خطوط النخبة$29.99
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- 2,000 Credits$34.99
- اشتراك مدى الحياة$179.99
Slimsend
No in-app purchases









