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Questions parents ask

• What is Sanabel?

  Sanabel (سنابل, Arabic for “ears of wheat”) is a learning app for children aged 4 to 10, made for Muslim families. Children learn the Quran, the Arabic letters, maths, Muslim life and animals. Right answers earn coins, which they spend on a garden of animals and on play time their parent controls.

• How does Sanabel motivate children to learn?

  It makes learning the way to what children already want. Each right answer earns a coin, and coins buy food for the animals in the child’s garden and tickets for a few minutes of games. Learning also wakes the garden’s sleeping animals, so the child can see their progress.

• What age is Sanabel for?

  Children aged 4 to 10. Maths has a level for each age from 4 to 10; it starts at the child’s age, and the parent can change it.

• Is Sanabel free?

  Sanabel is free to start, with no ads: the free version gives a taste of every subject, 10 of the 28 games and one child. Sanabel+ opens the rest, including every lesson, all 28 games, all 23 animals and up to four children. It is an optional subscription that only a parent can buy, behind the passcode: monthly, with a 7-day free trial where Google Play offers it, or yearly, paid once for a year. Google Play shows the price in your currency. A child never spends money: the market inside the app spends only coins earned by learning.

• How much play time does my child get?

  As much as you allow. Out of the box, a play ticket costs 10 coins and opens 5 minutes of a game, and a child can use up to 3 tickets a day. In the parent area, behind your passcode, you can change the price, the minutes and the number a day, give a free ticket, or switch play off. Sleep time also closes play at night, from 9:00 PM to 7:00 AM unless you change it.

• Can my child earn coins by answering the same question again?

  No. A question pays a coin only the first time it is answered right; answering it again pays nothing. Listening to a whole surah pays one coin per surah per day.

• Is Sanabel only for Muslim families?

  It is made for Muslim children: the Quran and Muslim life are two of its subjects, and the garden’s land animals are all mentioned in the Quran. Parents choose which subjects their child sees, and the Arabic letters, maths and animal lessons stand on their own.

• What does Sanabel do with my child’s data?

  The free version needs no account. Progress, the garden and voice recordings stay on the phone, and the child’s name is optional and stored encrypted on the device. The app sends crash reports and basic diagnostics through Google’s Firebase so problems can be fixed. Sanabel+ asks the parent, never the child, to sign in with Google; the server keeps a one-way hash of the Google account’s id, never the email, and saves each child’s progress once a day under a random number, never with their name, voice or recordings. The privacy policy has the details.

• Which languages is Sanabel in?

  The app is in Arabic, English and Spanish. The Quran is always shown in Arabic; each ayah’s explanation is Tafsir al-Muyassar in Arabic, or a verified English or Spanish translation.

• Where can I get Sanabel?

  Sanabel is coming soon to Google Play and the App Store.