MENA & Gulf app growth

I grow Arabic apps in the markets most growth teams get wrong.

Seven years running paid, lifecycle and AI-search growth for health and fintech apps across Saudi, the Gulf and Egypt — in Arabic, not translated.

Numbers from shipped work
$0.15
CPI at scale on a $3M+ MENA launch
2,162
Arabic articles restructured for AI search
7yrs
Mobile growth across GCC & MENA
4
Channels run in-house: Meta, Snap, TikTok, ASA
Trusted by
LabayhEva PharmaBasataWebEngage
Services

Four things I do, end to end.

1App growth in MENA

Positioning, ASO and channel mix built for Gulf app stores and Arabic search behaviour.

2Performance marketing

Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and Apple Search Ads run to install cost and downstream retention, not clicks.

3Lifecycle & CRM

Onboarding, push, WhatsApp and win-back journeys built in WebEngage and wired to real events.

4AI visibility & AEO

Getting your brand cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity in Arabic — schema, entities, answer structure.

Selected work

Proof, by category and market.

HealthtechSaudi Arabia

Labayh — لبيه

Scaling a mental health platform in a category where ad platforms restrict the message and users won't tap a public CTA.

2,162
Articles re-architected
4
Paid channels in-house
HealthtechEgypt & MENA

Eva Pharma — Limitless Naturals

A pharma-wellness launch taken to scale without letting install cost drift as volume climbed.

$3M+
Launch scale
$0.15
Cost per install
FintechEgypt

Basata

Moving a payments app from install volume to activated, transacting users.

Activation lift (add real number)
Free · 2 minutes · 9 questions

Where is your app actually leaking growth?

Answer nine questions about your acquisition, activation and retention. You get a scored breakdown and the three fixes worth doing first — sent to WhatsApp or email.

Acquisition → Activation → Retention → Your score
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Insights

What I actually think about this market.

Benchmarks · Gulf

Real Saudi app CPI benchmarks by category — from spend I ran, not a vendor deck

POV · AI search

Arabic AEO is not translated SEO, and treating it that way is why you're not cited

Teardown · Healthtech

How three Gulf health apps handle onboarding — and which one keeps its users

FAQ

Before you get in touch

Do you work with apps outside health and fintech?

Yes, but the published case studies are the categories where I have proof. If your category is different, the transferable part is the Arabic-market growth model, not the category playbook.

Do you run the ads yourself or advise?

Both. Some engagements are hands-on-keyboard across Meta, Snap, TikTok and Apple Search Ads; others are advisory with your team running execution.

Which markets do you cover?

Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, plus Egypt and North Africa. Work is delivered in Arabic and English.

What does an engagement usually look like?

It starts with the growth audit, then a scoped diagnostic on your data, then either a fixed-scope project or a monthly retainer.