Support

A question, or found a problem? Email asimapps.dev@gmail.com, with your device model and iOS version if you can. We usually reply within a few days, and to reports and copyright requests within 24 hours.

The Circle: publish your poems to your friends

The Circle and the restore code (below) come with version 1.1. Update the app from the App Store if you do not see them.

In the Circle you publish your own poems to the friends who follow you; they see them in their friends feed, like the ones they like and comment on them. There is no public page and no people search: nobody can follow you without your own code.

• Getting started: open the Circle tab, tap “Start your Circle”, and pick your name, emoji and colour. No account, no email.
• Invite friends: “Invite friends” gives you a link, a QR code and an eight-character code. Send it to whoever you like; whoever opens it follows you. “New code” stops the old code at once.
• Have a friend’s code? Open their link, or in the Circle tap “Have a code?” and type it. You see your friend’s name before you follow, with a switch that lets them follow you back.
• Publish a poem: write it in the Notebook (from the Rhyme tab, or “Write a poem” in the Circle), then tap “Publish to my Circle”. Up to 30 verses, and ten poems a day. If you edit it in your notebook, you can update it in your Circle.
• Likes: double-tap a poem, or tap the heart. You can like your friends’ comments and profiles too.
• Comments: comment on a friend’s poem or reply to a comment. A comment is seen by whoever sees the poem (its author and their followers). Delete your comment at any time; a poem’s author can delete any comment on their poem.
• Notifications: inside the app you see who followed you, who liked what you published or your profile, and who commented or replied. We send no push notifications, and a notification is deleted after 90 days.
• Your followers and who you follow: in the Circle menu. You can stop following anyone, or remove anyone from your followers.
• Deleting a poem or your Circle profile: press and hold your poem and choose to delete it. “Delete my Circle profile” in the Circle menu deletes your name, poems, comments, likes, follows and notifications from our server at once. The poems in your notebook stay on your phone.

Circle rules

You agree to them before you publish your first poem:

1. Only your own poems. Publish poetry you wrote yourself. Do not publish other people’s poems, or poems by poets whose work is under copyright.
2. No insults and no hija’ (satire aimed at someone). No abuse or contempt for a person, a tribe or the people of a country.
3. No politics and no religious or sectarian polemics.
4. Nothing inappropriate, and no spam or ads.

The same rules apply to comments. We may remove anything that breaks them, and stop repeat offenders from using the Circle, without notice. Names, titles, verses and comments pass through a filter for inappropriate words before they are published.

Reporting and blocking

• Report a poem: press and hold the poem and choose “Report this poem”, then the reason: insult or hija’, not their own poem, politics or religious polemics, spam, or something else. The poem disappears for you at once.
• Report a comment: press and hold the comment and choose “Report this comment”.
• Report a person: from the same sheet, or from their profile or your followers and following lists, choose “Report this person”.
• Block: “Block” ends the follows between you both ways: neither of you sees the other’s poems, comments or profile, they cannot comment on or like your poems, and they cannot follow you again even with your code. We do not tell them you blocked them. You unblock from “Blocked” in the Circle menu.

After a report: we review every report ourselves within 24 hours. When three different people report a poem or a comment, it is hidden from everyone automatically until we review it. The reported person is not told who reported them. For anything urgent, email asimapps.dev@gmail.com.

Your poem posted under someone else’s name? (Copyright)

If you find your poem, or a poem whose rights you hold, published in the Circle under someone else’s name, email asimapps.dev@gmail.com with the subject “Copyright takedown request”, and include:

• the poem (its title or first verse) and the name of whoever posted it, as shown in the Circle;
• proof that it is yours: a link or the date it was first published, your diwan, or any other evidence;
• a statement that the information is accurate and that you hold the rights or are authorised to act for the holder.

We hide the poem within 24 hours while we check, then remove it if your claim holds, and we may stop repeat offenders. You can also report it in the app with “Not their own poem”.

The restore code: your profile on your new phone

• From version 1.1, the app keeps a backup of your profile, encrypted on your phone before it is uploaded, that only your restore code can open. If you are in the Circle, your Circle comes back with it.
• Save your code: in Settings, show your code, then “Copy code” and paste it in Notes, or “Save as image”.
• Never share the code. Whoever has it can open and change your profile, and our team will never ask you for it.
• On the new phone: choose “Have a code? Restore my profile” (at the start or in Settings) and type the code.
• Lost the code? We cannot recover it, because it never reaches us. Your iPhone backup and the “Move to another phone” file still work as usual.
• Deleting the copy: “Delete my cloud copy” in Settings deletes it from our server at once and retires the code. If someone saw your code or your phone was stolen: restore with your code on another phone, delete the copy, then back up again with a new code.

A verse is under the wrong poet

Tap the verse and choose “Report a wrong attribution”. Your mail app opens with a draft that has the verse, the poem number and its source; add your reason or source and send it. We review reports and fix the library in a coming update. “Source” shows where the poem comes from and how we checked who wrote it. Circle poems always show their author’s Circle name and a “From your Circle” badge, and never mix with the library’s poets.

Do I need an account? Where is my profile saved?

No account and no sign-in. Your profile (saved verses, lists, reading diary and notebook) is saved on your phone, and your iPhone backup includes it. From version 1.1 there is also a copy encrypted with your restore code that we cannot read, and only what you publish in the Circle is kept on our server, for your friends.

How do I move my profile to a new phone?

• With your restore code (above, from version 1.1).
• Or, if you move to the new iPhone with Quick Start or an iCloud backup, your profile comes along.
• Or in Settings: “Move to another phone”, then send the file to yourself (AirDrop, Files or a message). On the new phone, open “Restore from a file” and pick it.

How do I share my profile?

On your profile, tap “Share your profile”: a story image, a square image, your profile link or a QR code. Friends who have the app open the link in the app; others see your profile in their browser. Every verse also has a card you can share with one tap, always with its poet’s name.

A friend’s link opened in the browser

Long-press the link and choose to open it in Abyat (iOS remembers). Or copy the link, then in the app open “Friends” and “Open a copied link”. A Circle invite link that opens in the browser shows the code: copy it, then in the app choose Circle → “Have a code?”.

Something inappropriate on someone’s profile

On a friend’s profile you can hide it, block it (it disappears, and its link no longer opens for you), or choose “Report content”, which opens a ready email to us. Names, bios and list names pass through a filter for inappropriate words. In the Circle, use report and block (above).

Ads

A small banner on browse lists only; never in the duel, in your notebook or in the Circle. On the card screen, an optional ad opens the locked colours for a day, and it only starts when you tap its button. We ask for non-personalised, family-safe ads. If Settings shows “Ad and privacy choices”, you can change your choice there.

The duel (مساجلة)

We say a verse, and you answer with a verse that starts with its rhyme letter before the time runs out. A verse the library knows scores full points and we tell you who wrote it; your own verse is accepted for fewer points. Or duel with friends on one phone, 2 to 6 players.

Language

The app is in Arabic and English; change the language in Settings. The verses always stay in Arabic.

Sources and licences

The poem texts come from Arabic Wikisource under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the poems themselves are in the public domain. Details in Settings → “Licences and credits”. Circle poems belong to the people who wrote them.

Privacy

Read the privacy policy.

Contact

asimapps.dev@gmail.com