What has changed, newest first.
Two things that made the app harder to trust on a phone. A saved verse now takes you to the verse itself, and the Menu drawer stays shut once you have left it.
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- Opening a saved verse lands on the verse. Tapping one from your dashboard, a reading plan or a journey opened the right surah and then left you at the top of it — in al-Baqarah that is two hundred and eighty-six verses away from the one you asked for. The verse now scrolls into view and lights up briefly, the way a saved hadith already did.
- The Menu drawer no longer reappears on its own. Opening it, tapping through to something and then coming back brought the drawer with you, sitting over the page you had just asked for. It closes when you leave and stays closed until you open it again.
[ QURAN ]NEW
- A reading plan now opens in its own reader. Tapping today's portion used to drop you into the ordinary surah reader near the right verse, with the rest of the surah around it and nothing to say where the day ended. The plan reader shows that day's verses and only those — it crosses into the next surah when the portion does, and it stops where the portion stops.
- It remembers where you stopped inside the day. A juz is 208 verses and few people read that in one sitting, so putting it down and coming back later picks up where you were rather than at the top. Reading to the last verse marks the day finished on its own.
- The plan reader does everything the Quran reader does. Recitation with follow, tafsir, bookmarks, memorisation and the translation picker are all there, and translations render in the right font for their script rather than whatever the device happened to have. Listening to a portion counts as reading it: hear it through to the end and the day is marked done. The recitation stops at the portion's last verse rather than carrying on into tomorrow's.
- You can mark exactly where you stopped. Progress was tracked by what had scrolled past, which overshoots — four verses on screen counts all four even if you read two — so resuming could skip text you never read. Every verse now has a “stop here” control, and what you mark wins over what was guessed.
- Verses you have finished are marked. Each one behind your place carries a tick and sits back slightly, and the verse you stopped on keeps a line down its edge, so where you left off is visible as you scroll rather than only a percentage at the top.
- Follow now works in the plan reader. It was on, and did nothing — the page sat still while the recitation moved down it.
- A missed day is no longer skipped. Plans used to show only the portion scheduled for today, so a day you missed simply vanished while the plan still claimed to cover the whole Quran. You now always get the oldest portion you have not finished, and it says which day it is rather than calling it today.
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- Every page now has the compact heading the home page got. The landing surface was tightened for phones and tablets and nothing else was, so headings on Quran, Hadith, Prayer, your dashboard and the rest kept their full-size titles and pushed the actual content down the screen. The density is the same everywhere now, and still responds to Editorial and Study.
- The navigation bar stays put as you scroll on a computer. Reading down a long surah used to carry it off the screen, so getting to your dashboard meant scrolling all the way back up first.
- A back-to-top button appears once you are a screen or so down any page, in the bottom-right corner. It steps above the navigation bar on a phone, and above the player while a recitation is going.
Text across the whole site is drawn more solidly. Yesterday's change fixed the translations; reading the rest of the page beside them made it obvious the same problem ran everywhere — headings, labels, dates, verse counts and the small print under everything.
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- The prayer times table is drawn evenly. The five prayers that were not next were set lighter than the one that was, so most of the table read faint against the page. The next prayer is still marked — by colour, its tinted row and the word beside it — rather than by being the only solid line among six.
- Choosing a prayer calculation method now opens the same panel the translation and tafsir pickers use. It was the browser's own dropdown before — unstyled on a computer, and replaced entirely by the phone's built-in picker on iOS and Android. Each method also says where it is followed, since the institution's name alone rarely tells you whether it is yours.
- Tafsir and hadith text keep their paragraphs. The commentary in the Quran reader ran as a single unbroken block — Ibn Kathir on Ayat al-Kursi is seventy-five paragraphs and every break was being swallowed. Long hadith had the same problem. Both now read the way they were written.
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- Headings, labels, dates and the small print are drawn more solidly. They were all being set at the same weight as a paragraph, which is too light for something that size — large text and small text both need more weight than body text, for opposite reasons.
- The Quran, its translation, the commentary and the hadith text stay at reading weight. Everything around them is heavier now, and the text itself deliberately is not: a passage read from start to finish wants less weight than a label you glance at.
- The reading typeface no longer loads a light cut at all. Nothing uses it, and leaving it out means it cannot quietly come back.
- Study mode stays on white. It spent part of today on a grey background, which was tried to stop the text looking thin and did the opposite — a darker page lowers the contrast of everything printed on it. Grey is now used only where something should sit below the page, like a search field. Night mode is unchanged.
- The translation under each ayah is slightly smaller, in both reading layouts. It sat close enough to the Arabic to compete with it; the commentary below is unchanged, so the verse, its translation and its tafsir now read as three distinct voices.
- The Editorial and Study labels are drawn alike. The one you were not using was set lighter than the one you were, which made a single control look like two different things.
- The cards on the home page carry a small mark each — one for memorising, one for the verse recited at night, one for the Day the site is named after, one for the Friday reading.
- The footer is quieter than the rest of the small print. The attribution to the Quran Foundation and sunnah.com has to be on the page and does not have to compete with what it credits.
- The documentation sidebar reads evenly. The page you were not on was set lighter than the page you were, which made one list look like two.
- Documentation card summaries match the labels around them.
- The cards on the home page keep the same two-column shape every day. They used to spread to three across when the Friday card was not showing, so the section changed size overnight and the cards were one width on Friday and another on Saturday.
The home page asks something of you now. Where it used to end in a list of the seventeen hadith collections, it offers a few places worth starting — including two verses you can set about memorising without an account, and a reminder to read Surah al-Kahf on a Friday.
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- Two memorisation journeys, open to everyone. The first ten ayahs of Surah al-Kahf, and Ayat al-Kursi — each one verse at a time, on repeat, with the translation beside it. No account, nothing saved, and nothing added to your memorisation list. Ayat al-Kursi is broken into six parts, each ending where a reciter pauses, so you are not waiting out the whole verse to practise its opening.
- On Fridays the home page says so, with Surah al-Kahf a tap away. If you have given the app your location for prayer times, the day turns over at Maghrib as it should, rather than at midnight.
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- The home page opens with what is on offer rather than a directory. The seventeen collections still have their own page, at Hadith, which is where a list of them belongs.
- On a phone, the landing page fits. The heading, the summary and the three shortcuts were using the whole screen before anything else appeared; they are tighter now, and there is something to read without scrolling.
- The bar across the top of every page is gone on phones and tablets. It held only the wordmark and your account picture, and both now live in the Menu drawer at the bottom right — which is a thumb's reach away rather than the far corner of the screen.
- Every page has a way back. Until now the only route up was the browser's own back button, or — on a phone — the Menu and then Home. Each page now offers the step above it: a surah goes back to all surahs, a hadith collection to all collections, a memorisation journey to the home page. It goes to the same place whether you tapped your way here or opened a link somebody sent you.
- Translations and hadith text are set a little heavier. The English was thin enough to be tiring to read for long, particularly at night, and on some screens it looked faded rather than light. The text is the same size — the letters themselves are simply drawn more solidly.
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- Translations now render in a typeface chosen for their script rather than whatever your device happened to have installed. Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Thai, Hebrew, Amharic and a dozen more all had this problem, and on a computer with no font for the script the text could fail to appear at all. Nothing extra is downloaded unless you read in one of those languages.
- An Arabic tafsir is no longer set in the Quranic face. Commentary on the text and the text itself should not look like the same kind of writing.
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- The memorisation journeys were showing the default English translation no matter which one you had chosen. They now read in your language, like everywhere else in the app.
- The looping player on your dashboard had the same problem, and is fixed with it.
- Each memorisation journey now carries the tafsir for the verse you are on, in your preferred edition, in a card below the player. It stays shut until you open it.
You can read the Quran in your own language. Translations in 66 languages were always there in the data — the reader just never offered them, and quietly ignored the setting if you had one.
[ QURAN ]NEW
- Choose your translation from the reader. A control under the surah name opens a list of 66 languages — searchable, each shown in its own script — and picks the translation within it. Languages with a single translation select in one tap rather than two.
- Choose your tafsir the same way, from the commentary panel itself: twenty editions across Arabic, Bengali, Urdu, English, Russian and Kurdish.
- Your choice is remembered. Signed out it stays on this device; signed in it follows your account to every device you read on.
- Arriving with your browser set to a language we have a translation for, you are asked once whether you would like it. Declining is remembered, and nothing ever switches on its own.
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- Your dashboard has a “How you read” section: reading layout, theme, translation and tafsir together in one place, for setting up a new device rather than adjusting mid-passage. Everything there is still changeable while reading.
- Reading plans are finishable. You can stop a plan you no longer want, change its pace without losing your place — you carry on from where you left off, not from the beginning — switch between plans, and see the ones you finished or stopped before. Nothing you have already read is ever thrown away.
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- The saved translation setting now actually applies. It had been stored on the account and sent back correctly all along, but the reader never passed it when fetching a surah — so everyone read the default no matter what they had chosen.
Memorisation is a journey now, not a quiz. Add a verse, hear it on loop until it is yours, mark it memorised, and watch a bar fill against the whole Quran. Tafsir is also readable again.
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- Memorising a verse is simpler. The old flow hid the verse and asked you to grade your own recall from four buttons. Now the ayah you add sits in a Learning list, opens into a player that repeats just that verse so you can listen over and over, and moves to a Memorised list the moment you say the words are yours — where you can always go back and hear it again.
- Your dashboard shows how much of the Quran you hold. One bar, three parts: memorised, in progress, and everything still ahead — measured against all 6,236 verses, so it is honest about the size of the task and rewards every verse you finish.
- A Learning verse shows how long it has been in progress, so you can see your own pace — and tell when an ayah is taking long enough that it is worth asking someone for help with it.
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- Tafsir now keeps its paragraphs. Headings and sections were being run together into a single block — “Introduction to FatihahWhich was revealed in Makkah” — so a commentary that runs to tens of thousands of words had no structure at all to read by.
Qiyamah is properly usable on a phone and tablet. The controls beside each verse were only ever visible to a mouse, and there was no way to move around the site on a small screen at all.
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- Follow now scrolls the page as well as highlighting: the verse being recited glides into view and settles there, and the one after it stays visible so you can see what is coming. Scroll yourself to look ahead and it waits until the next verse before taking over again.
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- Text throughout the site is larger. Everything grew by the same amount, so headings, translations and captions keep their relative weight — and the Arabic is deliberately unchanged, since it was already sized for reading.
- Scrollbars are thin, follow the palette you are reading in, and fade away when you stop scrolling.
- New app icon across browser tabs, bookmarks and home screens — the qaf now has room to breathe instead of running to the edge behind a dark frame, so it stays legible at small sizes.
- Installing Qiyamah as an app now names it “Qiyamah” on every platform, rather than the name varying by which page you installed from.
[ FIXES ]
- The play, tafsir, bookmark and memorise controls beside each verse never appeared on phones or tablets. They now sit beneath the translation, always visible and sized for a finger.
- A saved verse showed an empty bookmark until the page was reloaded.
- Arabic surah and collection titles overlapped the line beneath them.
- Tablets were served the desktop layout — in landscape, and on larger iPads even upright — leaving the small hover-only controls on a screen with no mouse. Every tablet now gets the touch layout at any size.
- Opening a book of hadith on a phone appeared to do nothing — the hadiths now replace the list of books, with a way back to it.
- A band of empty space sat above the footer on longer pages. The footer now follows the end of the page.
- A further strip of empty space sat below the footer on every desktop page — room being held for the bottom bar, which only phones and tablets have. The footer now sits flush to the bottom.
- While a recitation is playing, the footer steps aside rather than sitting half-covered by the player.
- The list of search results stayed behind when you scrolled down a long hadith, so choosing another result meant scrolling all the way back up. It now stays beside what you are reading.
- The same was true of the list of books inside a collection.
- Lists and tafsir that continue past the edge of their panel now fade at that edge, rather than stopping mid-sentence as though something had failed to load.
- That fade now appears at the top of a panel as well as the bottom, so a tafsir scrolled half way through no longer runs hard into its own heading.
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- A navigation bar now runs along the bottom of the screen on phones and tablets, with the Quran, search, hadith and prayer times a thumb away.
- The Editorial and Study layouts can be switched on a phone, which previously offered only light and dark.
- Buttons, switches and links throughout are large enough to press accurately on a touchscreen.
- The recitation bar takes the place of the navigation while it plays, rather than stacking on top of it.
Qiyamah launches. The Quran with translation, tafsir and recitation; the full hadith corpus, searchable; and prayer times computed for wherever you are. Sign in and it remembers your place, your bookmarks and what you are memorising.
[ QURAN ]NEW
- Read any surah in full, with the translation beside the Arabic and recitation that carries on through the passage.
- Ibn Kathir's tafsir opens on any verse without leaving the page.
- 126 translation editions to choose between.
[ HADITH ]NEW
- 50,884 hadith across seventeen collections, with 29,312 scholarly gradings attributed to the scholar who gave them.
- Search runs over the whole corpus and ranks by relevance; results stay on screen while you read one.
- Sunan ad-Darimi is labelled Arabic-only throughout, and Arabic gradings are marked as such, so neither reads as something missing.
[ PRAYER ]NEW
- Prayer times and qibla for your location, computed on the spot rather than fetched — they work offline.
- Ten calculation methods and both Asr schools, because the difference between them is an hour, not a rounding.
[ READING ]NEW
- Three modes — Home, Editorial and Study — and light or dark, switchable independently.
- Follow dims everything except the verse being recited, in any mode and either theme.
- Your dashboard collects what the app remembered: where you left off in the Quran and in hadith, everything you saved, what is due to review, and how your reading plan is going.
- Save any verse or hadith with the bookmark beside it, and the app remembers where you stopped reading without being asked.
- Memorise verses on a schedule that brings each one back just before you would forget it.
- Reading plans split the Quran into daily portions — a juz a day reads it through in a month.
[ API ]NEW
- A free, keyless public API at api.qiyamah.com for hadith, prayer times and Quran metadata.