The vowels Fasaha adds are more accurate. • Captions on your own videos, added vowels in My books, and the offline Arabic voice now use a new vowel model. In our tests on video captions, it gets about a quarter fewer words wrong.

Watch now has videos ready to start with, and on iPad a word’s meaning opens right beside the word. • Ready to watch: videos chosen for learners, with vowels and translation already on. Just press play. • Your videos: add any YouTube video with Arabic captions. Captions and word meanings are always free, and vowels and translation are free on three videos. Premium turns them on for every video. • While you watch, the line being spoken is large and easy to follow, with its translation underneath. Tap a word to look it up: the video pauses, then resumes from the start of the line. • iPad: tap a word and its meaning opens in a small window pointing at it, so the page stays where it is. Also: the plans stay on screen while a purchase goes through.

The Vocabulary Course has a calmer board, and you can now set a word goal with a date. • Vocabulary Course: each level is one board, with a ring for lessons done and your lessons on shelves by topic. The course page shows what you remember and what is due for review. B1 and B2 now open their first two lessons free. • Your goal: choose how many words a day you want to learn, and Fasaha shows the date you’ll reach your goal. Profile and Path show how far you are, and the goal is saved with your account. • Word card: tap an Arabic word and its meaning sits right beside it. Switch between its other meanings, and touch and hold the save button to keep it in a collection. • My books: search now works in PDFs too, and every match is marked on the page. Also: video subtitles follow the speech more closely, and vowel marks above and below Arabic letters are no longer cut off.

You can now start learning straight away, without an account, and My books lets you select words and phrases the way Apple Books does. • No account needed: close the offer and you’re in. Your saved words and progress stay on this device, and you can add an account any time to keep them on every device. • My books: press and hold a word to select it, then highlight, add a note, look it up, translate or copy. Translation happens on your device. • Path: extended lessons are now optional extras, so they no longer hold up your next step. • A smaller app: Fasaha takes much less space. Lessons in your language download once, right after you open the app.

This update brings My books to iCloud, completes the Vocabulary Course with its C1 and C2 levels, and lets you write your own words in Write. • My books: your books, reading places, highlights and notes now sync through your own iCloud across your iPhone, iPad and Mac. Fasaha's servers never receive them. • Vocabulary Course: the C1 and C2 levels are here, with one free lesson in each. • Write: practice your name in Arabic and the words you saved in Memory, then print a practice sheet to copy them by hand.

This update gives My books a cleaner page, and Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek now read more naturally across the app. • My books: a book now opens exactly as it was written. Added vowel marks are there when you want them, and the reader shows which chapter you are in. • Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek: the interface has been rewritten so it reads naturally in each language.

Fasaha now speaks Kyrgyz, and Explore has a new place to learn to write Arabic by hand. • Kyrgyz: choose Кыргызча in Settings → App Language. The app reads in Kyrgyz, and anything not yet translated appears in Russian. • Write: in Explore → Write, start the Naskh road. Watch a letter being written, trace it, copy it beside the model, then write it from memory. Each check names at most two things to fix and lays the model over your writing. Every stop is free, and your sheets stay on your device. • My books: the vowel marks a book leaves out are now added for you.

Read your own Arabic in Fasaha: add a book, a PDF or any text, and every word is one tap from the dictionary. • My books: in Explore → Read, add an EPUB, a PDF or pasted text. Pages turn like a book, and you can search the text, keep bookmarks, highlight sentences with a note, and tap Listen to hear it read aloud. Your files stay on your device. • Arabic type: articles, stories and your books now read in Noto Naskh, the style of printed books, with lines justified the way printed Arabic is, by lengthening letters. Choose another face in Settings → Arabic Font. • Updates: Path and Settings now tell you when a newer version of Fasaha is in the App Store. Also fixed: if the app closed on the offer at the end of setup, it now opens normally the next time, and VoiceOver reads lengthened Arabic words as they are written.

A tapped word now opens a clearer card, and Memory shows what is ready to review and which words keep slipping. • Word card: tap an Arabic word to see its meanings and a Save button at a glance. Open the full entry for How it’s built, its root, and the family of words it belongs to. • Memory: each collection shows how many words are ready, with a review button on every row. Choose what to review lets you start with everything ready, only New, Learning or Strong words, one collection, or words you pick yourself. • Look closer: Memory now gathers your Tricky words, the ones you keep forgetting, and groups your saved words into Root families. Also fixed: if the offline dictionary hits a damaged file, it now checks and repairs itself instead of leaving lookups empty.

The vocabulary course is now a board of short lessons, and you build every Arabic answer from letters, so you no longer need an Arabic keyboard. • Vocabulary Course: levels A1 to B2 are taught in short lessons, with more words, everyday phrases and pictures. A new word gets its own moment the first time you meet it, and Path tells you when you’ve finished the free lessons. • Answers: in reviews and dictations, you build written and spoken answers by tapping shuffled letters into place instead of typing. • Path: one next step leads, chosen for your level, and the rest wait under Up next. Choose your level from A1 to C2 in Settings; Word of the Day and Explore follow it. Also in this update: redesigned widgets, including a new Lookup widget; speaking scenes on one board in Explore; revised Naḥw lessons in Grammar; episodes 9 to 12 of A Root’s Story; and a choice of day for your free-trial reminder. A free trial or Premium Pass no longer ends early when your subscription can’t be checked, for example offline.

This update fixes how Fasaha chooses its language, and a wait in setup. • Welcome and setup: they now appear in the language you pick on the welcome screen, or in your device language when Fasaha has it. Before, they could stay in English. • Settings: when the app language is set to follow your device, it now stays that way. Before, it could switch to English the next time you opened the app. • Study reminder: when you switch it on during setup, you can continue right away. Before, that step could keep you waiting the first time you opened the app.

This update makes reading along steadier and the dictionary more dependable. • Read-along: the highlight now moves through each line in step with the voice, and stays in step when you pause, change speed or skip. • Dictionary: after you change the app language, words keep opening without restarting the app. In Lookup, each word type (noun, verb, adjective and the rest) now has its own color in every app language. • Reminders: switching on the study reminder now asks for notifications in one clear step and shows when the next reminder will arrive. Reading Key lessons are now also in Simplified Chinese and Azerbaijani.

Fasaha now works in Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Simplified Chinese, and Explore has a new Grammar section. • Azerbaijani, Kazakh and Simplified Chinese are full app languages. Choose one in Profile, under Language, and the interface, dictionary meanings and search, and the translations of articles and stories appear in it. • Grammar, new in Explore, opens with Naḥw: a road of 58 short lessons on how an Arabic sentence is built, taken one level at a time and taught in your app language. The first lessons of each level are open to everyone; the rest are part of Premium. • The Vocabulary Course now shows a picture beside many of its words, and review can ask you to recall a word from its picture.

Fasaha now works in Kazakh, and stories catch up with new translations. • Kazakh is a full app language. Choose it in Profile, under Language, and the interface, dictionary meanings and search, the translations of articles and stories, Reading Key and the vocabulary course appear in Kazakh. • Articles and stories you opened before now show translations added since. • Tapping a verb shows its dictionary form with the final vowel intact.

Fasaha now works in Bengali, and Explore scrolls without freezing. • Bengali is a full app language. Choose it in Profile, under Language, and the interface, dictionary meanings, and the translations of articles and stories appear in Bengali, along with Reading Key and the vocabulary course. • Section pages in Explore no longer freeze while you scroll.

Reviewing saved words and learning to read are both rebuilt. • Reviewing your saved words in Memory is redesigned: one question at a time, the answers at the bottom of the screen, and a single tap to answer. • Reading Key now has 29 shorter lessons with listen-and-pick sound checks, and a short placement check lets you skip what you already know. • A review now offers answer choices even when you have saved only one or two words.

Explore is rebuilt around one front page. • Explore now opens on a single front page, and reading, listening, watching and speaking each have their own page, so it is easier to find what to study next. • Fixed a crash that could close Fasaha right after opening Path. • Corrected translations and speaker names in several speaking scenes.

Fasaha now speaks Italian and Portuguese. • The whole app is available in Italian and Portuguese, from every menu and Path to Compass and the Classical Books. • Before you subscribe, the plan screen shows the dates and the amount you will be charged, and Fasaha offers to remind you before your first charge.

This update makes purchases and your Premium status read correctly. • Redeeming a promo code in Settings now tells you when Premium is already active on your account, instead of leaving you without an answer. • The badge on Path now shows Premium once your subscription has started, rather than counting down days. • Fixed: cancelling a purchase no longer leaves Fasaha waiting for it, and a purchase that is waiting for approval stays open until it is approved, even if you close the app.

Reading Key now reads to you in one clear, checked voice, and speaking scenes show how each word landed. • Reading Key plays one clear, checked voice for its letters, words and stories. Long words can be heard syllable by syllable, and a letter card can show where in the mouth its sound is made. • In speaking scenes, after each try the phrase colours word by word by what was heard, and Premium scenes let you hear their opening exchange before you unlock them. • The Vocabulary Course on Path now lays its lessons out on one board, level by level. • Long-form listening picks up where you left off, and the player shows where a story sits in its book. • Fixed: when something fails, the message now says what happened in plain words, empty screens suggest a next step, and signing back in syncs your data again.

Reading Key is now a course that takes you from the Arabic alphabet to reading real words, and Fasaha now speaks Indonesian, Malay and Urdu. • Reading Key has 21 short lessons in seven units. Each lesson opens with a quick review, checks your answers as you go, trains your ear with listening drills on short and long vowels, and ends with the words you can now read. It works offline, and your progress follows you to your other devices when you are signed in. • Choose Indonesian, Malay or Urdu as your app language to see the interface and translations in it; Urdu is set in Nastaliq. • Translation in Lookup is redesigned. Type or paste a sentence at the top, and it opens as a study card that shows each Arabic word with its meaning in that sentence. In the dictionary, Repeat plays a word or example sentence again and again, with a pause to say it back. • Widgets and Path now take the colours of the sky at your time of day, and study reminders suggest your next step in the course. • Fixed: Memory reviews now save to your account, including ones that had stayed on this device; articles keep your reading position; podcast translations line up with the Arabic again; and VoiceOver reads the subscription price and renewal terms.

Your downloads now have their own place in Explore, and they stay on your device until you remove them. • Downloads in Explore gathers the articles, stories and episodes you keep for offline, and one download control now works the same in the player, in lists and in story collections. • The Vocabulary Course now lives on Path, with a card that continues the session you left in one tap. Memory holds what you saved — words, sentences and collections — and removing a word can be undone. Lookup shows Search by root and your Recent Searches on its main view. • Privacy in Settings has a new switch for anonymous usage analytics, and speaking practice explains why it needs the microphone before the system asks. • Fixed: a rating request or translation download prompt could crash the app when it appeared over another open screen; leaving a page that was still loading no longer shows an error; and full-screen video on iPhone now turns to landscape.

A new Storage page shows what Fasaha keeps on your device, and lets you take the space back. • Settings now has Storage: see what your downloads, the offline dictionary, the Arabic voice, speaking practice and listening cache are using, then clear what you do not need. Fasaha downloads what it needs again as you use it. • Downloads are yours to remove — give back one article's audio and text from the article itself, or remove every download at once. • Repeat and Download now sit under the player controls, so you can loop what you are listening to or keep it for offline without leaving the page. • Fixed: in Lookup on iPhone, opening a word and going back works again; widgets draw on the system's widget background; and a purchase waiting for approval says what it is waiting for.

Search closes on the first tap again, and Fasaha remembers a purchase you already started. • Closing a search now works on the first tap, and the search field sits in the same place on every screen. • A purchase waiting for approval — from a parent or your bank — no longer shows a spinner asking you to wait, and an interrupted purchase is remembered: the paywall pre-selects the plan you chose and offers to pick it up. • Fixed navigation bars drawing under the status bar while the offline banner was showing, an English line appearing under a speaking scene in other languages, and rebuilt study reminders with clearer wording and actions.

Fasaha now speaks French and German. • Choose French or German as the app language and the whole app follows: the interface, graded articles from A0 to C2, Stories of the Prophets, the reading book, the vocabulary course, proverbs, idioms and speaking practice — with dictionary translations and your saved words in that language too. • The Word of the Day, Review, Arabic Wisdom and Continue Learning widgets have a new design that changes with the time of day. • Podcasts with an Arabic-only transcript now keep the spoken word on screen, and the dictionary no longer re-syncs every time you open the app.