Works offline, collects nothing, needs no account. Rasm teaches one thing properly: reading Arabic script aloud, including the unvocalised text nobody prepares you for.
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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A small one. The only change inside the app: Rasm may ask you once, and only once, whether you would like to rate it.
The rest of this update is the App Store page catching up with what the app already does — new screenshots and an updated description.
Version 1.0.6
The developer, Luca Rizzello, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
Sufficient Contrast
Information
Seller
Luca Rizzello
Size
47 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 8 more
English, Bengali, French, German, Hindi, Malayalam, Russian, Tagalog, Tamil