Apps and websites for learning Arabic

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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Quranic and Classical Arabic4

Quranic

BusyPeople LLC

App

Teaches the vocabulary and basic grammar of the Quran in short spaced-repetition lessons built on the stories of the prophets; works offline.

  • Arabic taught: Quranic Arabic
  • Level: Beginner to intermediate
  • Explained in: English, French, German, Indonesian, Malay, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu
  • Runs on: iPhone, Android
Free, with paid options Visit site

Understand Quran Academy

Understand Al Quran Academy (Hyderabad)

App and website

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.

  • Arabic taught: Quranic Arabic
  • Level: Beginner
  • Explained in: English, Urdu, French, German
  • Runs on: iPhone, Android, Web browser
Free, with paid options Visit site

Arabic Unlocked

Universal Tarbiyah

App

Game-style lessons from the alphabet upward, with a Quran mode that reads verses word by word alongside everyday phrases.

  • Arabic taught: Quranic Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic
  • Level: Beginner, from the alphabet
  • Explained in: English
  • Runs on: iPhone, Android
Subscription Visit site

Dream Arabic — Bayyinah TV

Bayyinah Institute

App and website

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.

  • Arabic taught: Quranic Arabic, Classical Arabic
  • Level: Beginner to advanced
  • Explained in: English
  • Runs on: iPhone, Android, Web browser
Subscription Visit site

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