Learn to read Arabic script.

the problem

An alphabet chart teaches you the wrong thing.

Arabic letters change shape depending on where they sit in a word. The chart shows you one form; running text shows you the other three. So you learn twenty-eight names and still cannot read a street sign.

Rasm trains the pair that actually matters — this letter, in this position — across all 34 letters and their 115 forms.

what makes it hard

Most letters differ only by dots.

Five different letters share this skeleton in the middle of a word. Nothing but the dots tells them apart, and nobody teaches you to look at the dots on purpose.

what happens when you get one wrong

It shows you what you actually read.

Get a letter wrong and the dots you read lift off, the bare skeleton holds still for half a second, and the right dots come down. No red, no buzz, no sound — the half-second of bare skeleton is the whole point.

It only does this when the two letters genuinely share a skeleton. Any other mistake gets a plain answer — otherwise it would stop meaning “you misread the dots”.

the part nobody prepares you for

Real text has no vowel marks.

Beginner material is written with harakat. Books, signs and messages are not. Most people learn to read the training wheels and stall the first time they meet the real thing.

Rasm fades them away shape by shape, on a schedule, until you are reading what is actually printed.

how it decides what to show you

From what you do, never from what you say.

A proven spaced-repetition algorithm schedules every shape from your own answers — whether you got it right, and how long you took. It never asks you to rate yourself, because people are poor judges of what they have just remembered.

The session length never changes. Learning faster means finishing the alphabet sooner, not sitting there longer.

what it costs, and what it takes

Free. Offline. Collects nothing.

• No purchases, no subscription, no advertising, no paid tier — now or later.
• No account. Nothing to sign up for.
• No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no push token.
• No network requests at all. The app has none, and a test in the source fails the build if one ever appears.
• Works with the phone in flight mode.

Arabic script should not be behind a paywall. That is the reason, and it is not a launch promotion. The details are here.

Coming to the App Store