Tools for learning Arabic on your own: apps, websites, dictionaries and reference tools, each checked against its official site or app-store listing. Each shows its level, the language it explains in, whether it is free, and the devices it runs on.
This section lists Modern Standard and Quranic Arabic only, as the whole site does: anything that also teaches colloquial dialects is left out. Prices are not given — only whether something is free or paid — because they change; the official site has them.
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Duolingo, Inc.
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic as used in everyday conversation, in short game-like lessons, free on phone and web.
Memrise Limited
Over 400 topic-based lessons built on everyday phrases, with short videos of native speakers.
ATi Studios SRL (part of Pearson)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic in short daily lessons, with speech recognition, a verb conjugator and a virtual conversation partner.
Rosetta Stone LLC (a division of IXL Learning)
Teaches Modern Standard Arabic through immersive lessons without translation, and checks pronunciation with speech recognition.
BusyPeople LLC
Teaches the vocabulary and basic grammar of the Quran in short spaced-repetition lessons built on the stories of the prophets; works offline.
Understand Al Quran Academy (Hyderabad)
Teaches the most frequent words of the Quran through the daily prayer and the short surahs; its first course is nine hours in 19 sessions.
Universal Tarbiyah
Game-style lessons from the alphabet upward, with a Quran mode that reads verses word by word alongside everyday phrases.
Bayyinah Institute
A self-paced video curriculum for understanding the Qur'an in Arabic, from grammar and morphology to rhetoric and surah analysis — for comprehension, not conversation.
Ankitects Pty Ltd and open-source contributors
A spaced-repetition flashcard program that shows each card just before you would forget it; learners build their own vocabulary decks with audio and images.
LoreBrain
Free graded Arabic stories sorted by CEFR level from A0 to B2, with audio narration, vocabulary help and a quiz per story.
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