Hidaya: Quran & Reflection

Hidaya is a Quran app for English-speaking Muslims. No ads, no tracking, no account. Just somewhere quiet to read, reflect, and build a daily habit.

Reading

The full Quran is bundled in the Madinah mushaf typesetting, the same one you'd see if you opened a physical copy. Read it page-by-page like a real mushaf, or switch to ayah-by-ayah view with the translation right under the Arabic. Pinch to zoom into any page; the zoom carries over when you swipe to the next. Sahih International, Pickthall, and Yusuf Ali are all included; more on the way. The Arabic uses a real Uthmanic font, never the system fallback.

Daily, without the guilt

The Today screen shows your reading streak, where you are in the Quran, and an Ayah of the Day. The khatm tracker only counts when you tap to confirm. No silent auto-fire from background sync. Reading plans give you a 30-day, 60-day, or self-paced path through. Streaks only reset when you actually open the app again, so a quiet week doesn't crater a 30-day run.

Reflect

Write a reflection on any ayah; it stays on your device. Bookmark anything that moves you. There's a memorization deck for hifz with spaced-repetition scheduling.

Discover, daily

A rotating feed of cards: du'ās with their context, hadīth from Bukhārī and Muslim, sirah moments, recitations, and prompts to reflect. Du'ā cards flip to reveal meaning and source. Hadīth always come with the chain of narration and grading (Sahih, Hasan, Da'if). The isnād is never collapsed.

Prayer

Five-prayer notifications using the major calculation methods (MWL, ISNA, Egyptian, Makkah, Karachi, Tehran, Jafari), with Shāfi'ī / Mālikī / Ḥanbalī and Ḥanafī options for Asr. Qibla compass, tasbih counter, daily adhkār. Use your phone's GPS or set a location manually.

Private by default

Every reflection, bookmark, and streak lives on your device. No account required to use anything. No tracking, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. No ads, ever. No paywall.

What's next

v1.1 brings audio recitation, side-by-side tafsīr comparison across classical scholars (Ibn Kathīr, al-Jalālayn, al-Sa'dī, Ma'ārif al-Qur'ān), tajweed feedback, prayer-time notifications, and an Apple Watch app.

Why I built it

Hidaya is built by one person who wanted the Quran app he couldn't find: calm, scholarly, modern, and respectful of the text. Sacred content is never paraphrased or AI-summarised. Translations and ayāt ship as-is from their sources; classical references stay attributed.

May Allāh accept it.

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