“You open the same news article on three different phones,” says Leila Haddad, the 34-year-old founder of , “and the letters break, the kashida (tatweel) vanishes, and the hamza floats in the wrong place. We’ve accepted a broken digital mirror for too long.”
The platform also offers a reverse feature: type Arabic script, get Arabizi. This is popular with linguists studying phonetic shift and with game developers building Arabic-themed mobile games on Latin-keyboard-only engines. In early 2025, Arabic-Text.com launched its commercial API. Pricing is tiered, but a free tier handles up to 1,000 requests per day—a deliberate choice to keep the tool accessible to students and indie developers. Arabic - Text.com
By Nora Al-Mansouri
Arabic-Text.com’s is its crown jewel. Unlike older tools that simply inserted random fatha/damma/kasra , this engine uses a bidirectional LSTM model trained on a 10-million-word corpus of fully vowelized classical and modern texts. It achieves 94% accuracy—higher than any open-source alternative. “You open the same news article on three
Moreover, monetization is delicate. “We will never paywall the core text tools,” Haddad insists. “Arabic belongs to everyone. We make money from API calls, font licensing, and enterprise support. The web-based converter is a public good.” In early 2025, Arabic-Text