Recite, and the app follows
Tap the microphone and the ayat hide until you recite them, while the app follows you word by word. It all runs on your phone, and your voice never leaves it.
For the Quran · Android, iPhone, Mac and web
How many times
did you unlock your
phone today?
Most of them for no reason. Verse & Meaning puts an ayah from the Book of Allah in front of you each time, with its tafsir underneath. You pause on it for a moment, then carry on with your day.
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At one ayah each time, read and understood through its tafsir, you will have reflected on:
You set the pace: every unlock, or once every few minutes.
The web version has the mushaf, tafsir and recitation. The ayah on your lock screen needs the phone app.
- The whole mushaf, offline
- Seven riwayat
- Tafsirs and translations in dozens of languages
- Recitations by well-known reciters
- Recite from memory, followed word by word
- Tajweed colours
- Find any ayah with your voice
Your day
The words of Allah, with you all day.
You choose where an ayah appears and how many times a day, in your waking hours only.
Choose the ones that suit you.
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Always On Display
The phone is on the desk with its screen off, and the ayah is there under the clock on the Always On Display.
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Lock screen
The ayah is your lock-screen wallpaper, below the clock and never behind it. It changes every time you lock the phone.
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When you unlock
You unlock and the ayah is there, with its tafsir below. Read it, tap “I read the ayah”, and carry on.
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Home screen
The same ayah as your lock screen stays on your home screen wallpaper, above your apps.
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Widget
An ayah on your home screen, among your apps, to read whenever you pass it.
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Notifications
A notification with an ayah, on your lock screen, as many a day as you set. Nothing arrives while you sleep.
And the ayah never comes at the wrong moment.
An ayah deserves to be listened to, and you decide when it stays away on unlock:
And when you can't give it your attention, Snooze pauses the ayat everywhere: the lock screen, the unlock and the notifications. You pick how long, and they return on their own.
Meaning
Touch the ayah. Its tafsir opens.
The tafsir opens under the ayah itself, and you swipe from one tafsir to the next while the ayah stays where it is.
- The meaning in two linesAl-Muyassar and Al-Mukhtasar, with As-Saadi when you want a little more.
- When you want depthIbn Kathir, At-Tabari and Al-Qurtubi, and Ibn Ashur for the eloquence and structure of the ayah.
- Translations of the meaningsDozens of translations, and the app itself speaks more than sixty languages.
- CreditedEvery tafsir and translation carries its author and source.
Listen
Listen to the Quran from the reciter you love.
More than 300 reciters in their own recordings, across different riwayat: Hafs, Warsh, Qalun, Ad-Duri and more. With many of them, the word being recited lights up as you listen.
- Reciters for each riwayahYou read Warsh or Qalun? You get reciters in your riwayah.
- OfflineDownload the surahs you play most and listen on the road.
- Sleep timerThe recitation stops on its own after the time you choose.
Recited by
Memorize & reflect
A full mushaf for memorising and revising.
Recite from memory and be followed word by word, tajweed colours, seven riwayat, and voice search for any ayah.
Tajweed colours
Tajweed rules in colour for Hafs. Press and hold a coloured letter and it names the rule.
Press and hold the grey letter
The text at the size that suits you
Spread two fingers on the ayah to enlarge it, pinch to shrink it. The tafsir resizes the same way.
Seven riwayat, each in its own script
Each riwayah in the text of its own mushaf as printed by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran, and in its font.
- Reader
- Asim ibn Abi al-Najud, Kufa
- Narrator
- Hafs ibn Sulayman
- Where it is read today
- Most of the Muslim world
Search by voice
Remember an ayah but not where it is? Recite the part you know and the app finds it.
Try it: tap the microphone
Niyyah
Start with a niyyah.
You write your niyyah as one sentence: what you intend, how, and by when. The app orders the ayat around it. Try it here: tap any coloured word to change it.
Set a niyyah
You can change any part of it later.
Take the ayat on my screens from this niyyah
Lock screen, widget, notifications, on unlock
On your phone, from its sources
Your voice never leaves your phone.
Offline
The full text of the mushaf is stored on your phone, so you can read with no connection.
On the device
Recognising your recitation, and noticing when you unlock, both run on the phone itself.
Your backup is yours
One file with your progress and niyyat. Keep it wherever you like and restore it any time.
The text, from its sources. The text you read is that of the mushafs printed by the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran, in all seven riwayat and set in the Complex's own fonts. Every source, from the text to the tafsirs, translations and recitations, is named with its licence on the sources page inside the app.
Devices
On your phone, and at your desk.
The lock-screen and unlock ayah belong on the phone. The mushaf, tafsir, recitation and reciting from memory go with you to any screen.
Web
Opens in the browser on any device. Nothing to download.
Open the web appAndroid
The full version: lock screen, unlock and widget.
iPhone and iPad
After the Android version.
Mac
The iPhone app, on your Mac.
Give the ayat of Allah
a share of your day.
The web version opens in your browser, and the app is coming soon on Google Play and the App Store.