About
What Arabic Tools is, who makes it, and why most of it is free.
What this is
A catalogue of 60 working tools for teaching and learning Arabic. 48 of them run entirely in your browser and are free to use with no account at all.
Each one does a single job properly — handwriting sheets that join the letters correctly, a worksheet generator with a real answer key, a seating plan that knows about SEN and EAL. Nothing to install, no dashboard to learn. The handful of jobs that need a language model, such as adding harakat or levelling a text, sit on the paid plans because they cost money to run.
Your class list stays on your computer
The browser tools were built to run on your machine rather than on our server. So when you paste a class list into the seating plan, or type pupil marks into the marksheet, none of it is sent to us. There is no server copy to lose, and we could not hand it over if we were asked, because we do not have it.
Who makes it
This site is built and run from the United Kingdom, alongside a small family of related projects — a full learning platform, an Arabic newsstand, and a series of printed Arabic textbooks.
They exist for the same reason: there is far less good material for teaching Arabic as a foreign language than there should be. Every tool here started as something a teacher needed on a Sunday evening and could not find.
Get in touch
Requests for new tools are genuinely welcome — several of the best ones here came from a teacher emailing to ask. Say hello.