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Notes from our work
Articles on Quran apps, Islamic software, prayer times and AI, each written from what we have built and checked ourselves.
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Building an Islamic website: what we hold ourselves to
The standards we follow when building an Islamic website, from where sacred text comes from to tracking, pictures, honesty and access for every reader.Read the article - Quran research, Quran apps
What is missing from open Quran data
Our research into Quran technology found ten gaps. Two stand out: almost nothing outside the Hafs reading is open, timed and checked, and few publish a way to check their text.Read the article - AI, Privacy
Offline dictation on Windows: how we built ours
How we built a voice typing tool for Windows that works without the internet, cleans up its words with fixed rules, and keeps Arabic terms in Arabic script.Read the article - AI, Quran apps, Privacy
On-device AI for Quran recitation
How an app can use AI to follow a recording of Quran recitation on your phone alone, match it to a trusted text, and tell you when it is unsure.Read the article - Prayer times, Islamic apps
Prayer time calculation methods, and why times differ
Why two apps, or an app and your masjid, can show different prayer times, and what the settings for method and Asr actually change.Read the article - Prayer times, Privacy, Islamic apps
Prayer times without the internet: how it works
A prayer times app has no need to go online. Here is how the times can be worked out on your own phone, and what that means for your privacy.Read the article - Quran apps, Privacy, Islamic apps
Questions to ask before you trust a Quran app
A short guide to choosing a Quran app you can rely on, built around six questions that anyone can ask of any app, including ours.Read the article - Quran research, Islamic apps
The Quran in Braille: what software still gets wrong
A desk check across six readings of the Quran found that Braille software handles none of its marks beyond the basic vowels, two readings have no published key, and one stored mark would cause thousands of misreadings.Read the article - Quran apps, Quran research, Islamic apps
What thousands of Quran app reviews tell us
We read the low-star reviews of Quran and Islamic apps to learn why people give up on them, and what that teaches anyone who builds one.Read the article