Islamic Apps & Quran Resources

The Islamic app landscape is mostly free for the core practices: Quran.com is the canonical Quran app and website, Sunnah.com hosts the Hadith collections, and dozens of prayer-times apps compute salah times for your location. Paid apps cluster around Quran memorization (Tarteel) and lifestyle / community.

Sister sections: Sacred Reading & Lectio Divina, Online Courses & Dharma Talks, Sangha & Community, Retreats, Meditation Apps, Mental Health Journaling.

Quran apps

• ★ ★ Quran.com — completely free; ad-free; the canonical Quran web + app; multiple translations (Sahih International, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, etc.), tafsir (Ibn Kathir, etc.), word-by-word, audio recitations from many qaris, transliteration, search.
  • https://quran.com/
  • Source: open / available.
• ★ Quran.com (mobile) — free; the official mobile app of Quran.com; inherits the website features.
• Quran Pro / Quran Majeed — paid + free; long-running mobile Quran apps; ads in free tier.
• iQuran — paid + free; Guided Ways.
• Greentech Quran — free + paid translations; Android-strong.
• Al Quran (Tafsir & by Word) — free Android.

Quran memorization (hifz)

• ★ Tarteel — paid (~$60/yr) + free tier; AI-assisted Quran memorization; voice-recognition correction (it listens and tells you when you misrecite); the standout 2023-26 hifz app.
  • https://www.tarteel.ai/
• ★ Quran Companion — paid + free; gamified memorization; one of the long-running pre-Tarteel choices.
• Ayat (KSU) — free; King Saud University; classical memorization tool.
• Hifz Quran (various) — many free / paid; quality varies.

Hadith collections

• ★ Sunnah.com — completely free; the canonical online Hadith library; Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud, Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Muwatta Malik, etc.; Arabic + English; chain-of-narrators search.
  • https://sunnah.com/
• Hadith of the Day — free; daily push.
• Sahih Al-Bukhari (standalone apps) — free / paid; multiple publishers.

Prayer times / salah

• Athan — paid + free; long-running prayer-times app; calculates salah times by location.
• Muslim Pro — paid + free; very widely installed; note: privacy concerns (data-sharing controversies in past years); verify current state before installing.
• Salah Times / Pillars / SalahNote — paid + free; minimalist alternatives.
• ★ My Prayer (FOSS) — free; Android FOSS prayer times.
• Prayer Watch — free + paid; for Apple Watch.

Companion / lifestyle

• Pillars — paid + free; minimalist Muslim lifestyle app; well-designed.
• Muslim Pro / Athan — also do qibla, dua collections, Islamic calendar.
• HalalNavi / Zabihah — free + paid; halal restaurant finders.

Tafsir + scholarship

• Tafsir.app — free; multiple tafsir collections.
• IslamQA — free; question-and-answer scholarship; note: leans toward specific schools / scholars; cross-reference for balance.
• SeekersGuidance — free + paid; online courses; classical Sunni curriculum (Hanafi-leaning).
• Yaqeen Institute — free; research-leaning, cross-school; English-language scholarship for Western Muslim audience.
  • https://yaqeeninstitute.org/
• Bayyinah / Nouman Ali Khan — paid + free; Quran Arabic + tafsir; widely watched.

Recitation (audio)

• ★ Quran.com audio — free; many qaris (Mishary Alafasy, Abdul Basit, Sudais, Maher al-Muaiqly, etc.).
• MP3Quran — free; long-running site; downloadable mp3s.
• Tarteel — see above; recognizes your recitation.
• Quranic — paid + free; Arabic vocabulary from Quran for non-native speakers.

Sufi / mystical Islam

• Naqshbandi resources — various sites; sufiorder.org and naqshbandi.org; free.
• Mevlevi (Rumi tradition) — Threshold Society; some free, some paid.
• Sufi poetry: Hazrat Inayat Khan, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, Rumi (Coleman Barks paid; Reynold Nicholson public-domain) — text resources.
• Apps for dhikr / wird — many free Android dhikr counters.
• Honest framing: Sufi practice is conventionally taken with a sheikh / master; apps and books introduce, not transmit.

Cost / license honesty

• Quran.com / Sunnah.com / Tafsir.app / Yaqeen / IslamQA / SeekersGuidance free tier — free, donation-funded.
• Tarteel — ~$60/yr Premium; free basic tier.
• Athan / Muslim Pro / Quran Pro — free + paid Premium (~$30-50/yr); ads in free tiers.
• Pillars — paid (~$30/yr).

Privacy notes

• Muslim Pro had documented data-sharing issues in 2020-22; verify current privacy posture before installing.
• Prayer-times apps need location — pick one that doesn't aggressively share that.
• Quran.com is the privacy-respectful canonical option for Quran reading.

Honest limits

• The Quran is meant to be recited, not just read. Apps help; recitation under a teacher (talaqqi) is still the traditional standard.
• Hadith authentication is technical. Sunnah.com gives you the hadith with grade; understanding the grading tradition takes study.
• Different schools (madhabs) disagree on practical fiqh; an app's fatwa may not match your imam's. Defer to your local scholarly community.
• Sufi paths require teachers; apps cannot substitute.

Pick this if…

• One Quran app forever: Quran.com.
• Quran memorization with AI feedback: Tarteel.
• Hadith study reference: Sunnah.com.
• Prayer times, privacy-conscious: My Prayer (FOSS) or Pillars.
• Daily companion + qibla + calendar: Athan or Muslim Pro (with privacy caveat).
• English-language Islamic scholarship: Yaqeen Institute + SeekersGuidance.
• Tafsir / Arabic language depth: Bayyinah + Tafsir.app.