Keytaba

The Arabic language is spoken by more than 400 million people across 22 countries and is the liturgical language of roughly 1.9 billion Muslims worldwide. Yet the digital infrastructure for serious, long-form Arabic writing the kind of focused, multi-stage craft that English-language novelists take for granted remains conspicuously thin. Authors who write in Arabic are forced to assemble fragmented workflows from generic word processors, English-centric grammar tools that mangle Arabic morphology, ad hoc spreadsheets for character planning, and a patchwork of social messaging apps for accountability. None of these tools were designed with the Arabic author in mind, and the friction compounds across the 60,000 to 120,000 words a typical novel requires.

writing studio built to fill this gap. Ketaba consolidates the three activities that a working author returns to every day planning the story, writing the prose, and tracking progress against personal goals into a single, right-to-left (RTL), culturally calibrated workspace. The product is deliberately modelled on the proven feature surface of mature English-language tools such as Reedsy Studio and Novlr, but every component is re-engineered around the structural realities of Arabic script, Arabic grammar, and Arabic literary tradition. Where those tools bolt Arabic on as a locale switch, Katib treats Arabic as the architectural primitive.

Built With

• lexical
• next.js
• postgresql
• typescript