About

Two brothers, and a long list of small annoyances.

KHBROS is Mohammad and Ali Abu Khalifa. Between us we bring more than 55 years of design: 35 and 20. We build the tools we wished existed.

We both came up through creative and brand work, in agencies and in events. Mohammad spent two decades finishing high-stakes presentations. Ali spent three and a half decades in design and marketing, from Arabic calligraphy to running creative marketing for events. In that kind of work you learn exactly what slows people down: the same fifty clicks in PowerPoint, a chat that shows too much on a shared screen, a calculator that cannot handle a date or an Arabic paragraph.

So we built the tools we wanted. Most began as helpers for our own work, and every feature exists because a real deadline needed it. When friends and colleagues asked for them, we cleaned them up, gave them a home and made a free BASIC edition of each.

Today KHBROS is a small family of apps for Mac, Android, iPhone and PowerPoint. They are private by design, they work in Arabic and English, and they are held to the standard we hold our own decks to: clear, calm and finished to the pixel.

The people

Meet the founders

Portrait of Mohammad Abu Khalifa

Mohammad Abu Khalifa

Co-founder · Product & Design

For 20 years, Mohammad has designed and finished high-stakes presentations across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan — for government entities and some of the region's best-known brands — at agencies including J. Walter Thompson, Wunderman, TBWA\Raad, Saatchi & Saatchi and Y&R. The KPT PowerPoint tools grew straight out of that daily work: every feature exists because a real deadline needed it. Every KHBROS app is held to the same standard as his decks — clear, bilingual (Arabic & English) and finished to the pixel.

Portrait of Ali Abu Khalifa

Ali Abu Khalifa

Co-founder · Business & Brand

Ali has spent 35 years in design and marketing. He began as an Arabic calligraphy artist in 1991, designed for agencies across the region including Team Y&R, and for the past 17 years has led creative marketing in the events industry — brand identity, advertising, typography and the business development that turns good work into lasting partnerships. That depth, and a calligrapher's eye for Arabic type, shapes how every KHBROS app looks, reads and reaches the people who need it. Ali is completing an MBA at SBS Swiss Business School and holds a Diploma in English Language and Literature from National College, Amman.

How we work

Four things we hold ourselves to

  • Finished to the pixel

    Alignment, spacing and wording get the same attention as the features.

  • Arabic and English from day one

    Right-to-left is designed in from the start, not retrofitted.

  • Private by default

    No accounts, no ads, no tracking inside the apps.

  • Honest about free and paid

    BASIC is genuinely useful and free. ADVANCED is clearly labelled, and we will say when it is ready.

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