Fusha
Every Arabic word you meet deserves a second look.
Most people learn Arabic around a full life: a lesson at the weekend, a verse at night, a word in a lecture. Fusha exists so that those words do not get lost.
Named after the clearest Arabic.
الفُصْحَى, fuṣḥā, means the most eloquent, the clearest. It is what Arabic speakers call the standard language of the Quran, of literature and of the news: the Arabic that is understood from Morocco to Oman.
We named the app after it because that is the Arabic it teaches, and because clarity is the point. A word you looked up once and forgot is not clear to you yet. A word you have seen five times, in context, with its root and its family, is.
Looking a word up is not the same as learning it.
Words scatter
A notebook, a screenshot, a sticky note, three dictionary apps. Most words a learner meets end up somewhere they will never look again.
Translations are thin
"Kitab means book" tells you nothing about the root, the plural or how the word behaves in a sentence. Arabic needs more than a pair of words.
Memory needs a schedule
Recognising a word feels like knowing it. Real recall comes from seeing it again at the right moment, and few people keep that bookkeeping up by hand.
How we build Fusha.
A few choices we made early, and keep making.
- Useful without paying
- Every feature works on the free plan. Plus gives more room for new words, nothing more.
- No advertising
- No ads in the app, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
- Standard Arabic first
- Fusha teaches the Arabic of the Quran and of reading, the form that is understood everywhere.
- Honest about AI
- Word cards are generated with AI. We say so, and every card has a report button that puts a person on it.
- Only the data we need
- No name, age, location or contacts. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app.
Generated once, shared with everyone, checked when it matters.
When you look up a word that Fusha does not know yet, a new card is generated with AI and saved. From then on it loads instantly for every learner who looks up the same word.
AI is sometimes confidently wrong. That is why every card carries a report button: it tells us exactly which card and which language, and a person looks at it. A shared card that gets fixed is fixed for everyone.
A small team, and the people who use it.
Fusha is made by a small team that believes good education should be within everyone's reach. We build it together with the people who use it.
Much of what is in Fusha today exists because someone asked for it. Every message to [email protected] is read by a person, and feature requests are welcome.
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