Blue Tomato Studio
2026–

Hifz Quran

An iPhone app for memorising the Quran. Every page looks exactly like the printed Quran, so each line is where you remember it.

Who it is for

People memorising the Quran.

My part

All of it: design, the app and the website.

Numbers
  • pages, the same as the printed Madina Quran604
  • lines on each page, in the same places as on paper15
  • reciters to listen to10
    after the first listen, they play without internet
The work

Most Quran apps rearrange the text to fit the phone screen. This one keeps every page exactly as it is printed. Page 47 in the app is page 47 in the printed Quran.

This matters because people memorise the page, not only the words. They remember that a verse starts near the top, or ends halfway down.

To practise, you choose a verse or a passage and how many times to hear it. Then the words are hidden and you recite from memory. You mark each try as solid or shaky, and the app brings back the shaky ones sooner.

It is free. There is no account and no ads, and it never uses the microphone.

One problem: the first version showed Arabic letters without their dots. In Arabic, the dots are what tell many letters apart. The fonts store the dots separately from the letters, and the app was only colouring the letters. Once it coloured both, the pages matched the printed Quran.

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