The best Quran apps, compared honestly

Quran.com, by Quran Foundation, Inc. (501(c)(3) nonprofit), is the pick if you want a completely free, ad-free, open-source mushaf and audio app from a nonprofit.

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• Price: Free. Their about page: "free of charge and without commercial interests". Both apps free; the iOS listing shows no in-app purchases and the Play listing carries no in-app-purchases label.
• Ads: iOS app describes itself as "a beautiful, and ad-free mushaf app". No "Contains ads" label on Play.
• Mushaf: Yes, from real page images. Android: "crystal clear Madani compliant images". iOS v2.6.8 release notes add "Madani Mushafs 1439 and 1441" and an "experimental IndoPak 15-Line layout in the Naskh style", stating "Page images are from the King Fahd Quran Printing Complex".
• Word by word: On their website, yes. The footer of their own about page describes Quran.com as providing "translations, tafsir, recitations, word-by-word translation, and tools for deeper study". For the mobile apps their materials claim only "follow along word by word" as part of audio recitation, and neither store listing claims a word-by-word translation display. Searching the Play listing for the phrase returns two hits and both are user reviews asking for it, one of them saying "Need word by word English translation like on your website".
• Tajweed: Not stated. Neither current store listing nor their about page claims tajweed colouring for the mobile apps.
• Habit features: Their about page lists "Reading Progress Tracking and Goals" as a WEBSITE feature; the current iOS description offers read, memorise and listen, and neither mobile listing mentions streaks, goals or khatm plans.
• Languages: iOS app UI: 15 languages (English and 14 more, listed on the App Store page). Website: 19 site languages. Android: translations and tafsir "in over 20 different languages".
• Offline: Not stated. Neither current store listing uses the word "offline" or "download", and their about page names no offline feature. The iOS release notes list "audio streaming" among the advanced audio options.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On cost and independence, comprehensively. Quran.com is free with no in-app purchases at all, describes itself as "free of charge and without commercial interests", is open source on both platforms, and is run by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that takes donations. Quran Habit is a product with in-app purchases behind it, and it is closed source. Their mobile app also renders page images from the King Fahd Quran Printing Complex, which is the same kind of page-accurate reading we build around, so that is not a difference between us either.

Feature table, 16 rows: 6 that Quran Habit states and Quran.com's materials do not, 1 the other way, 6 both state, 3 neither states.

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Tarteel AI, by Tarteel Inc., is the pick if you want real-time, word-level AI feedback while you recite from memory, for hifz revision.

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• Price: Freemium, with the prices on their App Store listing, linked in the sources below. Their listing states what Premium unlocks: "Live Memorization Mistake Detection", "Peeking & Hidden Verses Mode", "Goal Planning & Advanced Analytics" and "Historical Mistake Tracking".
• Ads: No ads advertised or flagged; no "Contains ads" label on Play; no explicit ad-free claim either.
• Mushaf: Madani or Indo-Pak scripts ("Adaptive Mushaf"), "with options to hide Ayah markers for a true test of memory". Page-accuracy to a printed mushaf not stated.
• Word by word: Not mentioned in their materials as a translation feature (word-level applies to mistake detection, not translation).
• Tajweed: Yes, as colouring in the mushaf. Their help centre article "Understanding Tajweed Colors in the Tarteel Mushaf", which their site dates 5 May 2026, describes a Show Tajweed Colors toggle under Quran Appearance and an in-app colour guide. Whether their AI flags tajweed errors while you recite is a separate question their current materials do not answer.
• Habit features: Smart goals, "streaks and heatmaps", groups and leaderboards. Goal planning and analytics are listed under Premium. No khatm-plan wording found.
• Languages: App UI in 12 languages. Their App Store page lists English and 11 more, and their help centre article "Multi-language Support", dated 4 September 2025, names the same twelve. Translation language count not stated.
• Offline: Reciter audio downloads for offline listening, per their help centre article "How to download reciters’ audio for offline listening?", which their site dates 25 September 2025 and which describes a Download All option for the whole mushaf. The AI side still needs the network: their App Store listing says Tarteel "requires microphone access and a stable internet connection in order for its voice features to function properly".

Where it beats Quran Habit: On checking a memorisation from your own voice, completely. Tarteel listens while you recite from memory and flags word-level errors, skipped words and incorrect tashkeel as they happen. Quran Habit has no speech recognition of any kind, so if hifz revision is the job you are hiring an app for, nothing on our side substitutes for that.

Feature table, 16 rows: 6 that Quran Habit states and Tarteel AI's materials do not, 1 the other way, 6 both state, 3 neither states.

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Muslim Pro, by Bitsmedia Pte Ltd (Singapore), is the pick if you want one free all-purpose Islamic companion: prayer times, Azan, Qibla, duas, community and a Quran reader.

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• Price: Freemium. Their help centre: "we have decided to keep the application free with an optional Premium upgrade", and their tier table lists a separate "Muslim Pro 'No Ads'" product alongside Premium. Their App Store listing states an annual Premium plan at $34.99 a year; the current prices of every tier are on that listing, linked in the sources below.
• Ads: Yes on the free tier, and they publish the rules. Google Play carries the "Contains ads" label and their App Store page declares "Contains Advertising". Their help centre article on interstitial ads, dated 27 February 2025, says the app is sustained "through advertisements" and describes a daily interstitial limit shown on the home page from version 16.1. Their tier table lists a paid "No Ads" option, so the ads are removable.
• Mushaf: Page and List display modes. Their help centre article "How to read Quran in Page view?" says the interface aims "to recreate the experience of reading a physical copy of the Quran", and their tajweed article names three Arabic scripts: Indopak, Uthmani and "Mushaf Al-Qur'an Standards". Like most apps in this list they make a reading-experience claim, not a page-for-page claim: no printed edition is named and no line count is given.
• Word by word: Not advertised in their materials. Neither current store listing contains the phrase at all.
• Tajweed: Yes, free, and on three scripts. Their help centre: "Tajweed will be available on three scripts include as Indopak, Uthmani, Mushaf Al-Qur'an Standards", with a Show Tajweed Colours toggle and a tap-to-explain "What is Tajweed?" panel.
• Habit features: Khatam planner with personalised deadlines, group khatams and daily reminders; their help centre also lets a khatam be read "either through our app or a physical Quran". Prayer and fasting tracker with streaks.
• Languages: App interface in 22 languages, listed on their App Store page as English and 21 more. Their current listings give no Quran translation language count: the Play description says "multiple translations" and names no number.
• Offline: Partly, and Premium decides how much. Their help centre offers "Streaming" or "Download for offline listening", and says offline recitation download is for Premium users: "for Premium users, you may download the entire Quran audio recitation on your phone and listen to the recitations offline", a file "more than 400MB". Translations are downloadable too, per their article on downloading and changing Quran translations.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On breadth, and on reach. One Muslim Pro install also gives you prayer times, Athan notifications, Qibla, an Islamic calendar, duas, a prayer and fasting tracker and a community feed. Quran Habit does one job. Their reach is ahead of ours and the two numbers now measure the same thing: their App Store listing is published in 22 languages, English and 21 more, ours in 8 (English, Turkish, Russian, German, French, Indonesian, Malay and Arabic, measured 8 September 2026). If you want a single app for the whole day, we are not it.

Feature table, 16 rows: 5 that Quran Habit states and Muslim Pro's materials do not, 1 the other way, 7 both state, 3 neither states.

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Quran Majeed, by Pakistan Data Management Services (Pakdata), Karachi, is the pick if you want a long-established all-in-one app across phone, watch, car and web, with tafsir and live Makkah/Madinah streams.

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• Price: Free with in-app purchases. Their US App Store list shows a "Quran Majeed Full Upgrade" at $49.99, described there only as "Upgrades to the full version of Quran Majeed," alongside weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions from $0.99 to $29.99. What any of the paid items changes is not stated anywhere in their materials, and their own website states no prices at all. Eight reciter audio packs are listed free.
• Ads: Yes. Play carries the "Contains ads" label and their App Store age rating declares "Contains: Advertising". Whether any of the purchases removes them is not stated.
• Mushaf: Uthmanic, Mushaf and Indo-Pak scripts, "proofread by a Muslim Islamic scholar (Alim)" (Play); the App Store names "the elegant Uthmanic script". Their iOS release notes add a "17 lines Quran Indopak view" and later a "New 18-lines Indo-Pak Quran view". No page-for-page match to a named printed edition is claimed.
• Word by word: No word-by-word translation claimed. Their App Store listing does claim word-level HIGHLIGHTING, "Quranic Aya and word highlighting during recitation", which is the same feature Quran Habit runs for 11 of its reciters, and a root and affix SEARCH ("search exact word, affixes or all roots"). Neither is a word-by-word reading display.
• Tajweed: No first-party tajweed-colouring claim found on their site or either store listing. Searching both listings for the word on 7 September 2026 returned nothing.
• Habit features: Bookmarking of ayah, translation and tafsir "supports iCloud synchronization", and "advanced audio options to help with memorization (repetition of ayah, Surah, number of repetitions, interval, and recitation speed)". No streaks, goals, khatm planner or reminders are stated in their current materials.
• Languages: 45 translation languages, listed by name on the Play page, plus four English translations (Pickthal, Dr. Mohsin, Mahmood and Yusuf Ali). In-app interface language count not stated; Apple lists their App Store page in 22 languages, English and 21 more.
• Offline: Not stated. Neither their site nor either store listing claims an offline mode in their own description.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On how long it has been running, and on where it runs. Quran Majeed has been shipping since the first years of the App Store and reaches phone, watch, car and desktop. Quran Habit is new, and it runs on phones only.

Feature table, 16 rows: 9 that Quran Habit states and Quran Majeed's materials do not, 0 the other way, 3 both state, 4 neither states.

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Quranly, by Quranly Ltd (UK), is the pick if you want one thing done simply: a daily reading goal, a streak and a weekly leaderboard, in English.

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• Price: Free to start. Their US App Store in-app purchase list shows $4.99/month, $29.99/year and two lifetime entries, at $79.99 and at $199.99, with nothing on the listing distinguishing the two. Google Play shows a range of "$4.99 - $194.99 per item". What the paid tier unlocks is not described anywhere in their materials.
• Ads: No ads, and they claim it outright. Their own feature article carries a section headed "No Ads": "An outstanding feature of Quranly is the complete absence of advertisements." Google Play carries no "Contains ads" label either, and their App Store page carries no advertising declaration.
• Mushaf: One format is named and no edition is. Their feature article lists a "Classic Mushaf Format": "A beautiful feature allows readers to recite the Quran using the classic Mushaf." No script, no printed edition, no line count and no page-for-page claim appears there, on their site, or in either store listing.
• Word by word: "Word by Word Verses" appears in their App Store release notes; it is not in the current listing description and no languages are named.
• Tajweed: Their release notes mention "Tajweed Fixes"; no colour-coding claim found. In their feature article the word appears once, as something listening to the qaris helps you correct.
• Habit features: The core of the app: a daily reading goal from "2 mins all the way up to an hour plus", "Daily Streaks", a weekly leaderboard, a tracker and reminders. Their site says what the leaderboard ranks on: "The leaderboard will rank you based on your reading for the week", among the family and friends you invite or accept. Their App Store description names what it tracks, "verses, pages, time and hasanat", and their App Store version history carries "Streak Improvements" in all eleven releases listed from 3.0.42, of 28 July 2025, to 3.0.55, of 22 January 2026, and in none of the fourteen listed since, the current 3.0.74 included. Their feature article describes the same pages tracker as working "by keeping count of the number of pages you recite", and adds "Quranic Challenges", four levels with badges for completing them. No khatm plan is mentioned in any of the four documents.
• Languages: App Store lists one app language: English. Their own feature article claims "Translation in 18 Languages"; neither store listing gives a count.
• Offline: Not stated in their materials.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On focus. Quranly does one job and keeps to it: a goal, a streak, a weekly leaderboard and the reading under them. Quran Habit puts a great deal more on the screen, and more is not free, because every surface is one more thing to learn or ignore. If the streak is the only thing you want from an app, theirs is the smaller one to carry and that is a real argument for it.

Feature table, 16 rows: 8 that Quran Habit states and Quranly's materials do not, 0 the other way, 4 both state, 4 neither states.

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Ayah, by Ayah App (App Store seller: Abdullah Bajaber), is the pick if you want a fast, clutter-free Madinah Mushaf reading and listening experience, Arabic-first.

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• Price: Free, with an "Ayah Membership" subscription listed on the US App Store at $1.99 and $12.99. Their help centre: "Ayah Membership is a monthly or annual subscription that offers members exclusive features", and names them: a Quran theme that "mimics the printed Quran", playback speed, pinned recitations, page picker styles, page history, translation fonts, alternate app icons and Family Sharing.
• Ads: Not stated in their current materials; no "Contains ads" label on Play.
• Mushaf: "The latest edition of the Madinah Mushaf" (App Store); Play adds "the most crisp and clear text of the Quran in the original Uthmani font". Rendering mechanism and page-accuracy not stated.
• Word by word: Not mentioned in their materials.
• Tajweed: Not mentioned in their materials.
• Habit features: Their Play listing: "There is only one bookmark that moves from a verse to another to help you easily track your progress", plus reminders. No streaks, goals, leaderboards or badges are mentioned.
• Languages: App languages: English and Arabic. Translation list not published.
• Offline: Not stated in their materials.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On restraint. Ayah has one bookmark and no streaks, no goals and no leagues, on purpose, and for a reader who finds all of that a distraction from the page that is the better design. Everything Quran Habit adds is something Ayah has decided not to add.

Feature table, 16 rows: 10 that Quran Habit states and Ayah's materials do not, 0 the other way, 2 both state, 4 neither states.

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Al Quran (Tafsir & by Word), by Greentech Apps Foundation (UK charity no. 1178251), is the pick if you want deep meaning study: word-by-word, grammar and tafsir across dozens of languages, free and offline.

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• Price: Free. Their Play description says "Completely free & no ads!"; their own site says "No hidden charges and completely free." The App Store lists eight fixed-amount purchase tiers from $4.99 to $999.99 with no feature attached to any of them, which reads as a donation mechanism rather than an unlock.
• Ads: No ads, and all three of their own documents say so in their own words. Their site heads a panel "Completely Ad Free" and adds "No Ads, no distraction while reading the Quran." Their App Store description says "Completely free and ad-free, with support for 66 languages!" Their Play description says "Completely free & no ads!" No "Contains ads" label on Play and no advertising disclosure on their App Store page.
• Mushaf: Mushaf mode in Madani, Naskh IndoPak, Qaloon, Shemerly and Warsh. Their claim is a reading-experience one, "the same experience when reciting from a hard-copy Mushaf"; a page-for-page match to a named printed edition is not stated, and no line count is given.
• Word by word: Core feature, and the deepest in this list: "word by word translations of the Quran in 15+ languages", with "Word Root/Lemma, Grammar, Morphology, Occurrences in different forms and Verb Forms", plus reciters tagged by type including "WBW".
• Tajweed: Colour-coded tajweed, per both store listings and their site.
• Habit features: Daily reading goals, daily and weekly activity tracking, "badges for completing streak milestones", and a "Quran Planner" khatmah plan with a standard 29 or 30-day schedule or a custom one, plus multi-device sync.
• Languages: 90+ translations and tafsirs in 60 languages, which is the LOWER of their two figures: both store listings say "170+ translations & tafsirs in 60+ languages" while their own site says "90+ translations & tafsirs in 60 languages". Their marketing prose also claims "support for 66 languages".
• Offline: "All features can be used offline" (Play); "All feature supports offline" (App Store). Recitations downloadable.

Where it beats Quran Habit: On word by word, which is the thing most people come to this app for. Their materials claim word-by-word translation in 15+ languages against our 14, and they carry root and lemma, grammar, morphology, occurrences and verb forms for each word, none of which Quran Habit offers. They are also free with no ads, work fully offline, and run a khatmah planner, streak badges and daily goals of their own. If word-level meaning is your main reason for installing anything, install theirs.

Feature table, 16 rows: 2 that Quran Habit states and Al Quran by Greentech's materials do not, 1 the other way, 10 both state, 3 neither states.

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