Credits
Our sources
Everything in the app comes from somewhere, and that somewhere is named here. This page lists the same sources as the app does under You › About, with each credit line as the app shows it and the licence it is used under.
The Quran text
Tanzil Quran Text (opens in a new tab)
A verified Unicode Quran text from the Tanzil project, checked by hand against the Medina Mushaf.
Quran text from the Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani, version 1.1). Copyright (C) 2007-2026 Tanzil Project. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Quran text is used unaltered. https://tanzil.net (opens in a new tab)
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (opens in a new tab)
Tanzil Quran Metadata
Each surah’s ayah count and order, and where each juz, hizb and page begins, from the Tanzil project.
Juz, hizb, rub el-hizb and page divisions, each surah's ayah count, revelation place and order, and the sajdah types (recommended or obligatory) from the Tanzil Quran Metadata, version 1.0. Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Tanzil.info. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by). https://tanzil.net (opens in a new tab)
Translations, transliteration and word by word
Quran Foundation (opens in a new tab)
Translations in many languages, each shown with its translator, from Quran Foundation.
Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
More than 140 translations in 80 languages, synced to read offline.
Each translation in the app names its translator.
Transliteration
The ayat in Latin letters, from Quran Foundation.
Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
Word by word
Each word’s English meaning, from Quran Foundation’s word-by-word data.
Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran
Marmaduke Pickthall’s 1930 English translation, built in so a translation is always on your phone.
Marmaduke Pickthall · Public domain
Tafsir
Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
By Hafiz Ibn Kathir.
Sunni · Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Abridged), Hafiz Ibn Kathir. Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
Ma'arif al-Qur'an
By Mufti Muhammad Shafi.
Sunni · Ma'arif al-Qur'an, Mufti Muhammad Shafi. Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
Classical tafsir is written on passages, not single ayat. When a passage covers several ayat, each of them shows the same commentary.
Tafsir from Shia sources is on the way.
Recitation
Mishary Rashid Alafasy
Mishary Rashid Alafasy, a Kuwaiti reciter and an imam at Kuwait’s Grand Mosque.
Recitation by Mishary Rashid Alafasy, streamed from Quran.Foundation. Quran data provided by Quran.Foundation.
Prayer times and qibla
Prayer times and the qibla direction are calculated on your phone, offline, from your location or the city you choose. No prayer-time service is ever called.
Places
GeoNames (opens in a new tab)
The cities you can choose for prayer times, built into the app.
City data from GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0. Selected fields, with region and country names joined.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
Mosques nearby
The list of mosques and imambargahs near you.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (opens in a new tab) · Overture Maps Foundation
Overture's rows from Foursquare are under the Apache License 2.0.
Licences: OpenStreetMap: Open Database License 1.0 (opens in a new tab); Overture Maps: Community Data License Agreement – Permissive 2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Fonts and icons
Amiri Quran
Copyright 2010-2022 The Amiri Quran Project Authors (https://github.com/aliftype/amiri (opens in a new tab)).
Newsreader
Copyright 2020 The Newsreader Project Authors (http://github.com/productiontype/Newsreader (opens in a new tab))
DS Transliteration
Copyright (c) 2003-2022 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/ (opens in a new tab)), with Reserved Font Names "Gentium" and "SIL". · Modified from Gentium Book Plus
DS Tafsir Arabic
Copyright 2010-2022 The Amiri Project Authors (https://github.com/aliftype/amiri (opens in a new tab)). · Modified from Amiri
DS Tafsir Ayn
Copyright (c) 2003-2022 SIL International (http://www.sil.org/ (opens in a new tab)), with Reserved Font Names "Gentium" and "SIL". · Modified from Gentium Book Plus
Material Symbols
By Google. The sunrise icon in the Android Prayer times widget (wb_twilight).
This website uses Newsreader, Inter and Amiri Quran, also under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
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