# A $9 English textbook app charts #6 in Saudi education paid: before you look at it, look at how shallow this chart is > Source: https://stringers.io/en/apps/ios_6822159727.html (Stringers / 什么值得做, generated 2026-11-08) > Stringers answers one question every day: what small product can one or two people build in a few months and actually make money from. Numbers come from 15 databases we collect daily, each with source and date. > For agents: these verdicts and the underlying databases (verified revenue, App Store / Google Play charts, ad libraries, GitHub, Product Hunt…) are queryable live over MCP — tools today / hot / products / directions / direction / data. Setup: https://github.com/komako-workshop/stringers (the user logs in at stringers.io → "配置 agent" to get a personal URL). Site index: https://stringers.io/llms.txt > It didn't really take off. In Saudi Arabia, it sat around #100+ on Top Paid, and the bar for the top 10 in Education is very low. A handful of downloads in its first few days got it charted. Most of the apps around it had zero ratings. [Mobile App](https://stringers.io/en/apps/index.md) · iOS · written 11-6 S Super Goal 1 دليل المعلم · SHAKIR ALOTAIBI # A $9 English textbook app charts #6 in Saudi education paid: before you look at it, look at how shallow this chart is **What it is** It packages the textbook, workbook, answer keys and listening audio of Saudi grade-7 English textbook Super Goal 1 into a 34.99-riyal paid app, pitched for teachers to project directly from their phones in class. **Why it took off** It hasn't really taken off: the Saudi paid chart's bar is extremely low at #100+, and the top 10 in education is easy to reach; in its first few days it sold a single-digit number of copies and charted, with almost every app around it having zero ratings. **C** **How you could follow it** Don't copy the move of packaging free content and charging for it. The strategy of "one national textbook × one app per volume" to capture long-tail store search terms is worth learning, and in markets where you can get licensing, sell the tools teachers actually need: projection, annotation and lesson plans. C grade: demand is unproven, the content is free elsewhere, and the rights aren't yours, so copying it isn't worth it; but the store-matrix tactic of "one app per national textbook" and the low paid-chart bar in small countries are both worth learning from. Almost nobody knows about it yet Data (updated daily) · First released 2026-11-02 · Saudi rating 0 · 11-08 charted in 1 stores iOS · Top Paid overall rank · By store Saudi Arabia #135 Data day 2026-11-06, only 1 days so far. Lower rank is higher; gaps are days it wasn't charted iOS · rating count · Saudi Arabia Data 2026-11-06 → 2026-11-08 (3 days, 3 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads. "Super Goal 1 Teacher's Guide" (Super Goal 1 教师指南) went live in Nov 2, and by Nov 6 it was #135 overall on Saudi App Store Top Paid and #6 in Top Paid Education. At first glance it looks like teachers will pay 34.99 riyals (about $9.3) for a textbook app. But it has zero ratings, the Android version shows 1+ downloads, and its own Telegram channel has 3 people. It didn't break out. What's worth looking at is the "one textbook, one paid app" play, and how low the Saudi Top Paid bar is. ### A Telegram channel aimed at teachers, 3 people watching The maker runs a Telegram channel called "مناهج APP" (Curriculum App). The pinned post is basically the product spec: "This channel provides teachers with a mobile app covering the full curriculum: complete textbooks, standard answers, audio materials." It gives two reasons: "no need to carry a laptop every day" and "no more hunting around for scattered files." The last line is the roadmap: "We'll start with English and add other subjects after that." As of Nov 6, the channel had 3 subscribers (t.me, 11-06). ### What it is Saudi Arabia uses one nationwide English textbook series: Top Goal for primary, Super Goal for intermediate, Mega Goal for secondary, one book per grade. This app bundles the Grade 1 intermediate Super Goal 1 student book, workbook, standard answers and listening audio, 124.8 MB total, works offline, no sign-up. The store pitch is one scenario: teachers project the textbook and answers onto a classroom projector or smart board, "no need to lug heavy notebooks to school every day." Behind it is a small platform called كودات (codatedu.com). The site headline is "Explanations and answers for English lessons in Saudi schools," with download links by grade. Primary Grade 4 Top Goal 1 is already up (iOS launched Oct 29, same 34.99 riyals, zero ratings), Top Goal 2 says "available to download," and the rest are "coming soon." The iOS developer account is SHAKIR ALOTAIBI and the Android account is STM-QA, and both link back to the same website. Most likely one person or a small team (inference). ### Ranked #6 in Top Paid, but how many copies? Look at who's around it. In Nov 6, Saudi's overall Top Paid ranked #125 through #141 are almost all obscure paid apps with 0 ratings: EASA FTL Calc, JRemote, TVSnap, Pocket Mac Lab… Even #142, Procreate Pocket, has only 256 ratings in total, and it didn't rise that day (App Store Saudi storefront, 11-06). Top Paid is sorted by downloads, and at that position a few sales a day is enough to get in. The top 10 in Top Paid Education are established paid apps like AnkiMobile, PhET and driving-test apps, and #6 has the same low bar. Later that same day its store page already showed "#10 in Education." It wasn't on the chart on Nov 2–5, and only appeared on Nov 6. On Android: the matching "إنجليزي أول متوسط SuperGoal 1" shows 1+ downloads, and the primary Top Goal 1 shows 0+ (Google Play, 11-06). Searching TikTok for "تطبيق سوبر قول دليل المعلم" turns up tutoring centers and other teacher tools, none of them its own. On X, nobody has mentioned codatedu in nearly 30 days. So my estimate: it sold single digits of copies in its first few days, probably to friends or the first few teachers (inference, unverified). That doesn't count as proof that teachers will pay. ### What it sells is free everywhere else The Saudi "textbook + standard answers" space is crowded with free players: | Product | Scale (App Store, Saudi storefront) | How it differs | |---|---|---| | واجباتي(Wajibati) | Launched 2020, about 37k ratings, free | All subjects and grades, answers, ad-supported | | مدرستي (Madrasati, official Ministry of Education) | Launched 2020, about 27k ratings | Official platform with e-textbooks built in; teachers already have to use it | | حلول كتبي / حلول | About 17k / 13k ratings, free | All-subject answers | | منهجي(mnhaji.com) | About 2,900 ratings, free | Web pages with Super Goal 1 answer PDFs for this semester | | PDF sites like hulul.online, beadaya | Years, heavy search traffic | Textbooks, teacher's books and answers free to download | | English teachers' Telegram / X channels | Small niche | Someone posts the teacher's book PDF at the start of every semester | Its difference is only in form: one app per book, offline, no sign-up, paid, pitched for projectors. The content itself is free for teachers on the Ministry platform and on several answer sites. There's a more direct risk too: copyright for the textbook belongs to the Ministry and publisher McGraw-Hill, so packaging it for money could easily get it taken down (inference). ### What's worth noting It didn't break out, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to learn. Three points: - **A nationwide textbook = a precise set of search terms.** Gulf countries have one book per grade, so "textbook name + grade" is exactly what teachers and parents search. One app per book means English alone is 9 apps, and expanding to other subjects gives each one its own long-tail term. The cost is just swapping content into the same template. - **Use "teacher edition" to get around free answer sites.** Students look for answers; teachers want an easier time in class. Packaging the same content as "for projector use in class" is one way to find a reason to charge in a market where everything is free. It's just not proven that anyone will buy it yet. - **Small-country paid charts are shallow.** Saudi Top Paid has about a hundred-odd entries and the category top ten can be reached with a few sales. For a new app wanting a "Top 10 in category" showcase slot, that bar is cheap. For anyone reading charts to find opportunities, the rank here should be discounted heavily. ### If it were you **My verdict:** This product isn't worth copying as is. The content is free, you don't own the copyright, and demand hasn't been proven. What's worth learning is the store long-tail play of "unified textbook × one app per book." **Who it suits:** People in markets with nationwide textbooks (Egypt, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.) who already have teacher networks and can get licensing from publishers or schools; or teams already building K12 tools who want to use store search to acquire users cheaply. **Who it doesn't suit:** Anyone who can't get content licensed and just wants to package PDFs from the web for money. That path has free sites undercutting you on one side and takedown risk on the other. **How to do it:** Don't sell content. Sell what teachers actually need beyond the content: split-screen projection, annotation, lesson plans organized by period, and an audio player. Get the textbook content through an official platform import or a publisher license. Start with one book and one grade, watch ratings and search rankings, then expand across the matrix. **How to acquire users:** Store search terms (textbook name + grade + دليل المعلم) are the main channel, followed by teachers' Telegram and WhatsApp groups, where word of mouth spreads. TikTok accounts making teacher tools (for example, المعلم الذكي with one video at 54k views) show short video can reach teachers too. **When to move:** Before the second semester of the Saudi 1448 school year starts (check the Ministry calendar for exact dates, not verified). Two or three weeks before school is when teachers hunt for materials most intensely. Miss that and you wait a whole semester. **What would show you got it wrong:** If by December, codatedu's apps start picking up ratings, and the Super Goal 2/3 version stays in the top 10 of Top Paid Education, then "teachers will pay for the projector version" holds up, and this call should go up. If they get pulled from the store, it means the copyright constraint is tighter than it looked. [iOS store page ↗](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822159727) **Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report** Competitors | Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one | |---|---|---|---|---| | واجباتي - حلول المناهج الدراسية | iOS | 2020-07 | About 37k ratings in Saudi, free | Free all-subject, all-grade answers monetized by ads; this one covers a single book, is paid, and pitches teacher projection | | مدرستي (Madrasati, Ministry of Education) | Big-company features | 2020-09 | About 27k ratings in Saudi, free, official | Official platform with e-textbooks built in; this one is a third-party offline bundle | | حلول كتبي | iOS | 2021-04 | About 17k ratings, free | Free all-subject answers | | حلول | iOS | 2017-03 | About 13k ratings, free | Free all-subject answers | | منهجي / mnhaji.com | iOS | 2023-01 | About 2,900 ratings, free, web pages with SEO traffic | Free answer PDFs | | PDF sites like hulul.online/beadaya, salisedu, hisatii, mta.sa | Web | Years | Heavy SEO traffic | Teacher's books, textbooks and answer PDFs free to download; this one is paid, offline, with audio | | المعلم الذكي / تحضيري and other teacher tools | iOS | 2022–2025 | About 1,700 / 5,200 ratings | Lesson prep, activities and records, no textbook content | Where users come from - **Verified** **Official SEO landing page codatedu.com** : iOS / Android download links by grade, headline targeting "حلول وشرح دروس اللغة الإنجليزية" (English lesson solutions and explanations) - **Verified** **Telegram channel t.me/teachers_friend** : only 3 subscribers - Inference **Store search (textbook name + grade keywords)** : naming pattern of one app per book; no search volume data - Inference **TikTok / X / ads** : TikHub and x-radar searches found no content of its own; no ads found ## Super Goal 1 Teacher's Guide (iOS 6822159727) research report Date: 2026-11-06 | Store: iOS (Saudi store) | Developer: SHAKIR ALOTAIBI (developer id 6818843594) ### One line A paid app for the Saudi grade 1 English textbook Super Goal 1, priced at 34.99 SAR (about $9.3): it includes the student book, workbook, answer keys and listening audio, pitched as a phone teachers can project straight to the class. It belongs to the platform "كودات / codatedu.com", which releases one app per textbook volume. **Verdict: it didn't take off.** Its only traction is a #135 spot on the Saudi Top Paid overall chart and #6 in Top Paid Education, but those ranks are very easy to hit, so it most likely sold a handful of copies in its first few days. ### 1. What the data actually shows - In our database (appstore.chart_rank), this app charted on **2026-11-06 only** : #135 on Saudi Top Paid overall and #6 in Paid Education (6017). It was off the charts from 11-02 to 11-05, with 0 ratings and version 1.0. - On the same day, the Saudi Top Paid overall chart ranks #125–141 were almost all obscure paid apps with **0 ratings** , such as EASA FTL Calc, JRemote, TVSnap, Pocket Mac Lab and A Fool's Errand (appstore.app_day, sa, 2026-11-06). Procreate Pocket, at #142, had only 256 ratings in total and didn't gain any that day. So the Saudi paid chart sits around the hundred-plus mark, and a few sales a day is enough to get there. - In Saudi Arabia's Top Paid Education chart, the top 10 are all long-running paid apps like AnkiMobile, PhET, Prepware, and Driving Theory Test (same library). #6 sits in the middle, and the bar to get there is just as low. By 11-06, the App Store page showed it had dropped to "Chart No. 10 Education" (scraped from apps.apple.com/sa/app/id6822159727,2026-11-06). - On Android, the same app is published under the developer account STM-QA (support email stmdev.qa@…). "إنجليزي أول متوسط SuperGoal 1" shows **1+ downloads** , and "Top Goal 1" shows **0+ downloads** . Both are priced at 34.99 SAR (play.google.com, scraped 2026-11-06). - The Telegram channel "مناهج APP" (t.me/teachers_friend), which it promotes itself, has only **3 subscribers** (t.me, scraped 2026-11-06). - The same developer also has an iOS app, "Top Goal 1 دليل" (id 6819582480,2026-10-29, launched at 34.99 SAR, 0 ratings). Our database shows it never charted. **Assessment:** A #135 overall paid ranking probably corresponds to single-digit daily sales (inferred, not verified). This looks more like scattered purchases from friends or the first few teachers than validated demand. The recall rationale claims "teacher willingness to pay has been validated", but the evidence doesn't support that. ### 2. Competitors The Saudi "textbook + answer key" niche is very crowded, and almost all of it is free: | Competitors | Where | Launched | Scale (rating counts from the appstore database, sa) | How it differs | |---|---|---|---|---| | واجباتي - حلول المناهج الدراسية(wajibatis) | iOS + web | 2020-07 | About 37k ratings, free | Covers all subjects and grades, monetized with ads; this one covers a single volume and charges for it | | مدرستي (Madrasati, official Ministry of Education) | iOS / web | 2020-09 | About 27k ratings, free | Official platform with e-textbooks and classroom tools, a must-have for teachers | | حلول كتبي | iOS | 2021-04 | About 17k ratings, free | All-subject answers | | حلول | iOS | 2017-03 | About 13k ratings, free | All-subject answers | | منهجي(mnhaji.com) | iOS + web | 2023-01 | About 2,900 ratings, free | Answers for all subjects; the website hosts full answer PDFs for Super Goal 1 for the first term of 1448 years | | PDF sites: hulul.online / beadaya.com, salisedu, hisatii, mta.sa (مؤسسة التحاضير الحديثة, sells lesson-prep packs) | Web | Years | Heavy SEO traffic | Teacher's books, student books and answer PDFs are free to download (mta sells lesson-prep materials) | | English teacher channels on Telegram / X (e.g. @saudienglish posts teacher's book PDFs every term) | Other | Years | Small niche | Free, already circulating among teachers | | Teacher tools: المعلم الذكي (2025-08, about 1,700 ratings), تحضيري (2022, about 5,200 ratings) | iOS | 2022–2025 | Medium | They handle lesson planning, activities and records, not textbook content | | The official iEN "عين" platform / publisher McGraw-Hill e-books | Web / big-tech features | Years | Nationwide coverage | Official textbooks and audio provided free | Its only difference is in form: **one paid app per volume, content packaged offline (124.8 MB), no sign-up, no data collection, and an emphasis on projecting from a phone** . The content itself (textbooks, answers, audio) is available for free elsewhere. ### 3. Growth tactics (evidence found) - **Website + store search** : codatedu.com is an SEO landing page titled "حلول وشرح دروس اللغة الإنجليزية للمدارس السعودية" that lists iOS / Android download links by grade. It has only been live a few days, so there's no sign of how much traffic it brings. - **Telegram channel** : t.me/teachers_friend has only 3 subscribers, so it hasn't gained much traction yet. - **TikTok** : searching "تطبيق سوبر قول دليل المعلم" returns videos from tutoring centers (alwafaacenter4) and other teacher tools (المعلم الذكي 54k views, منجز المعلم, تحضير360), **with none of its own content** (TikHub search, 2026-11-06). - **X** : x-radar searches for codatedu and "Super Goal تطبيق" turned up 30 posts in the last 0 days. - **Ads** : no evidence found. The AppInsider page only has model estimates, with no ad signals. - The only clearly identifiable timing factor is that Saudi's 1448 school year first term (2026 year, starting in August) is underway, so teachers have a real need for the textbook. ### 4. Why it charted (rather than why it took off) 1. The Saudi paid chart bar is very low: apps with zero ratings sit on either side of it, and a few sales can put an app in the top 150 overall and top 10 in paid education (appstore database). 2. Being newly launched, plus a price of 34.99 SAR, gives it no edge on the paid chart (which ranks by downloads, not price). Charting only shows that a few purchases happened that day. 3. No other driver was found. ### 5. Differentiation The "teacher projection version" pitch (no need to carry a notebook every day, just project the phone onto a smart board), combined with "no sign-up, offline, zero data collection", is an angle, but **it isn't what's driving growth** , because it hasn't grown yet. The real difficulty is content rights: the textbooks belong to the Ministry of Education and McGraw-Hill, and selling bundled textbooks and answers risks takedown complaints (inferred). ### 6. What to borrow - Gulf-state textbooks are nationally standardized, so releasing one paid app per volume (9 English volumes, later expanding to other subjects) lets each app capture exact "textbook name + grade" searches. This is a low-cost long-tail store SEO play. - Packaging it as a "teacher-side / projection" tool avoids head-on competition with free student answer sites, selling a paid app in a market dominated by free content. - The Saudi paid chart bar is low, so a handful of sales can earn a "top 10 in category" placement. ### 7. Visibility and copycats No press coverage, nobody on X is talking about it, 3 Telegram subscribers, 1+ Android downloads: **few people know about it yet** . No copycats either; if anything, it is itself a paid variant of the free content-site model. ### 8. Uncertain - How many copies it has actually sold (we only have 1 days of chart records). - Whether developer SHAKIR ALOTAIBI and Android account STM-QA are the same person or team (both link to codatedu, most likely yes). - Whether the content is licensed and whether it will be taken down. - Whether the later volumes (Super Goal 2/3, Mega Goal) can create a catalog effect after launch; check ranks and ratings again in a few weeks. ### Sources - Our database appstore: chart_rank / app_day / app_name / app_snapshot, Saudi store, 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-06 - [apps.apple.com/sa/app/id6822159727](https://apps.apple.com/sa/app/id6822159727)(2026-11-06) - [itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6818843594&entity=software&countr…](https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6818843594&entity=software&country=sa) - [codatedu.com/](https://codatedu.com/)(2026-11-06) - [play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codatedu.super_goa…](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codatedu.super_goal_one), com.gradefour.ebook (2026-11-06) - [t.me/teachers_friend](https://t.me/teachers_friend) (3 subscribers, 2026-11-06) - [x.com/saudienglish/status/1818432446506918049](https://x.com/saudienglish/status/1818432446506918049) (teacher's book PDFs circulating freely on Telegram) - [www.wajibatis.com](https://www.wajibatis.com), [www.mnhaji.com](https://www.mnhaji.com), [hulul.online/file/16582/](https://hulul.online/file/16582/), [www.mta.sa](https://www.mta.sa) - TikHub TikTok search, x-radar search (2026-11-06) This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.