Aratools Arabic-English

I got this app in 2014 and it hasn’t change since then. This is the best Arabic dictionary app, it just needs an overhaul. Perhaps the developer has retired permanently.

This app has been very useful in my journey to to learn Arabic. Thank you Aratools for creating such an amazing by app.

Make sure you download this app as not only does it have all the words available for offline use, but you can add prefixes and suffixes to a word and it’ll still show you the word. And it’ll show you the root, it’s translation and other words like it. Also, if you go to the “browser” section, you can search a word in English and most of the time the word shows in Arabic. As I know many were asking for this feature and it’s available! But in order to see the root you have to input that Arabic word in the “dictionary” section. Some people were complaining about not being to remove the keyboard from the screen, but there’s an option at the bottom right hand of the keyboard you can remove it from your screen. Another app to help you see the mudaari’ ‘amr, and all the forms is if you download an app called “ACON Arabic Conjugator” and you can also download the “Hans Wehr” dictionary to see the masdar and all the different meanings of the verb, and much more.

By far the best Arabic app on the market! Worth every penny. Would be awesome to have an iPad version!

Great, simple and easy to use. One of the best arabic apps out there. Highly recommended.

Excellent app. Wish there was English to Arabic translation. The customer service is excellent. They fixed the update very quickly. Very responsive via email.

I have been using this app for nearly four years now. In my opinions is the best Arabic-English dictionary I have ever used. The dictionary with its ability to recognise words in their context form then tell you about their inflections, prefix, suffixes and roots is fantastic. With a recent update there was a bug that stopped the dictionary function working. After informing support, I got an immediate response then a couple of follow up update emails over the next day. Within two days there was an update that solved the problem. I was so impressed with the developers’ response. It's been fantastic to see new features being added too. This is a great app and I would highly recommend it. A number of reviews mention problems to do with the keyboard; these should all be ignored because to make the keyboard go away you just have to hit the return or الرجوع key. Overall, it’s a great app with great support and response from the developers.

Please fix this app as i spent alot of money new update keeps crashing it plz i love and need this app for my arabic studies

This is one of the best Arabic apps available, giving grammatical details (gender, prefix, suffix etc) of Arabic words that most of the others miss out. The update is welcomed but, once text has been entered, there doesn't seem to be any way of dismissing the keyboard (iPhone 6 plus) and accessing the new options on the home screen, without quitting the app (via the multitask screen) and reopening. Please fix ASAP! Beyond this, what would make it a truly great app would be the ability to search for an Arabic word using English text… complete with singular and plural (something that seems to be completely missing from any Arabic app, which appear to be mainly geared towards Arabic speakers learning English – a bigger market, I guess) forms of the Arabic nouns... and (the big ask) root, perfect, imperfect and other tenses etc of verbs.

I really wish they would add English to Arabic searching, but even without this functionality this app is the best I've used. I tried many, but the ability to type in any word without knowing the root or base word is unique to this app, and the addition of vocalisation/vowelisation is also extremely useful. For future improvement, English to Arabic lookup is a must, and inclusion of different forms of the same word when you look it up would also be great.