Fanar
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Productivity
Boost creativity & productivity with Fanar, the AI assistant for Arabic language
- Downloads
- 6.7K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 21
- 2026 · v1.2.2
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About Fanar
As a comprehensive family of language models, Fanar is specifically designed to understand and generate both written and spoken Arabic, including various dialects. Fanar can engage in natural conversations in English and multiple Arabic dialects, generate culturally aligned content including text, speech, and images. What sets Fanar apart is its comprehensive suite of services covering core language processing, speech recognition, image generation, and specialized knowledge retrieval.
Key Features:
Arabic-First Approach. Built from the ground up with Arabic language and culture at its core.
Comprehensive Agentic Suite. Encompassing two Fanar models (Fanar Star, fully built from scratch, and Fanar Prime built on Gemma2 9B through continual learning), Fanar Speech, Fanar Translation, and Fanar Image Generation models for comprehensive user experience.
Bilingual and Arabic dialectal support. Interact with Fanar in English, Arabic MSA, or Arabic dialects either in written textor speech.
Islamic RAG: Specialized system for accurate religious content.
Fanar Attribution: Wikipedia-backed revision and fact-checking system.
MultiModal: Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, Image Generation.
Fanar is developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. It is sponsored by the Qatari government through the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Read Fanar’s Terms of Service at https://fanar.qa/
What’s new
Version 1.2.2 · Updated September 21, 2026
- Text displays in the app's own fonts again - Arabic text and Qur'anic quotations render correctly - Answers are clearer to read, with better headings, emphasis and spacing - Tap a citation to open its source, or hold your own message to copy it - Search across all your chats, not only those already on screen
User reviews
حقيقة نريد تطوير هذا التطبيق لأنه يحتاج الكثير من الميزات ودك قراءة الصور وأريد اضافة التفكير العميق إضافة إلى تحسين الأجوبة غير ذلك أنا ممتن لقطر على تطبيقها
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