A traditional North African & Saharan board game
ZammaApp
A 3,000-year-old Saharan strategy game, reborn for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Play against an AI opponent on the classic 5×5 or larger 9×9 board.
Pick a board, mode and difficulty.
Captures mandatory, any direction.
Two minutes from new to playing.
What's inside
AI opponent, three difficulties
A focused single-player experience. The AI is calm and deliberate — easy for learning the rules, hard once you've internalised them.
Two boards: 5×5 and 9×9
The classic 5×5 for short games and quick rounds, the larger 9×9 for full evening sessions with deeper strategic positioning.
Five languages
English, Arabic (RTL), Deutsch, Français, Português. Switch from the top of every screen.
Prayer-time aware
An optional, gentle reminder woven into the game loop — computed from your device's timezone, never from GPS or location.
45-minute daily play limit
A built-in nudge towards intentional sessions instead of endless scrolling. Local-only, you stay in control.
Offline. No accounts. No ads.
No network calls. No tracking. No in-app purchases. Nothing leaves your device.
A game older than chess
Zamma is a traditional North African and Saharan strategy game played for over 3,000 years on an Alquerque-style point-and-line board. Pieces sit on intersection points, captures are mandatory and can happen in any direction, and a piece that reaches the far row promotes to a Mullah — moving any distance along any line. It is an ancestor of modern checkers.
ZammaApp brings the rules untouched into a quiet, modern interface — designed for a cup of tea and a calm afternoon, not for endless engagement.
Privacy is the default
We collect nothing. We have no servers. The app makes no network requests. Your game state, profile, and preferences live on your device only — and disappear when you uninstall.
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