The best Modern Standard Arabic tools

Matthew Aldrich's catalogue is the deepest independent source of written Egyptian and Levantine material: verb references, vocabulary books and graded readers with Arabic script, phonemic transcription, English translation and audio, plus matching Anki decks. For dialects that barely exist in print, this fills a real gap. Books are paid (though inexpensive), the audio is streamed free on their YouTube channel, and the presentation is functional rather than polished.

A free root-based interface to page scans of the major Arabic dictionaries — Hans Wehr, Lane's Lexicon, Steingass and more — which is how serious readers of classical and literary Arabic look words up. Indispensable if you are reading Qur'anic, poetic or pre-modern prose. It assumes you can derive the root yourself and read dictionary conventions, so it is useless as a beginner tool, and the scanned-page interface feels ancient.

Enter a verb and it returns the complete paradigm with full diacritics across tenses, moods and voices — the fastest way to check whether you have the right pattern when reading or writing. Free, open source and no account needed. It handles Modern Standard Arabic only, the interface is bare, and it tells you the forms without explaining the underlying verb-form system.