About

Old tradition.
New hands.

We're making a digital Noorani Qaida with the same care and measure every Ottoman illumination deserves. No compromise — neither pedagogical nor aesthetic.

Story

Why
we exist.

Look at the App Store. All existing Qaida apps look like they were drawn in 2012, with garish gradients and kitsch illustration. The sacred text doesn't deserve that aesthetic. We built the app we want to use ourselves — and that we can give our children without apology.
01

The mushaf as a premium object.

In madrasas we learned from hand-printed Qaidas that looked like they were cast from mihrab light. Warm paper, serious typography, ornaments that serve the text — not dominate it. That's the violence we want to bring into digital. Premium isn't expensive — premium is restraint, measure, care for every millimeter.

02

16 lessons, not 116.

The traditional Noorani Qaida has 16 clear steps from harf to the first juz. We don't drift, we don't add "extra content" to pad a subscription. Sixteen lessons — with all the depth they deserve. Audio from a hafiz, exercises that test understanding rather than memorization, color-coded tajweed for visual minds.

03

Local first.

We're building the app for our own families first — with local transliteration, the terminology of the madrasa ("tajweed", not just "rules of reading"), and a hafiz whose voice sounds familiar. English and Turkish ship in parallel, not later.

04

No ads. No tracking.

Sacred text and ad analytics don't go together. The app is free to start (all lessons open), and later moves to a one-time family license — not a subscription, not a freemium dark pattern. Buy once, use it as a family.

Methodology

Four phases,
classical.

The Noorani Qaida method developed in India and spread through the Ottoman region in the 20th century. We didn't invent it or reform it — we just dressed it in a digital form that respects the original. The four phases follow the natural development of reading.
PHASE 01
ب

Harf.

Individual letters — 28 basic. Form, name, pronunciation. Without harakat, without context.

PHASE 02
بَ

Harakat.

Fatha, kasra, damma, sukoon, shaddah. The letter begins to sound — but still in isolation.

PHASE 03
بَدَ

Joining.

Letters join. Initial, medial, final positions. First words. First rhythm.

PHASE 04
بِسْم

Ayah.

Short ayat from juz Amma. All phases together. Tajweed in practice.

Team

The voice
of the app.

Every letter, every word, every ayah is pronounced by a qualified hafiz of the Quran with ijazah in qira'at — no synthetic TTS voice, no autotuned demo. That's a standard we can't and won't lower.

Our hafiz

Voice model · Pedagogical consultant
Ijazah
Hafs 'an 'Ãsim
Experience
14+ years in madrasa
Activity
Teaching Qaida and tajweed
Specialty
Tajweed for beginners

Our hafiz teaches Qaida to generations — from four-year-olds to adults reading the Quran for the first time. His record-breaking session (over 4× speed) became our reference: if he can pronounce it clearly, so can the learner. All audio in the app was recorded in a private studio over three months, with careful processing to preserve the warmth of the voice. We'll announce his identity together with the app's launch.

Roadmap

What comes
after v1.

The app is v1.0 — the full Noorani Qaida set. But that's just the start. Here's what we're planning, openly: no vaporware promises, only what's actually on the table.
Q1 · 2026

v1.0 · Noorani Qaida

16 lessons, hafiz audio, color-coded tajweed, Bosnian / English / Turkish. iOS + Android. What you're holding right now.

Q3 · 2026
Currently working on

v1.5 · Tahfiz mode

Memorization mode — starting with juz Amma. Spaced repetition, audio repetition, progress tracking. For children in madrasa and adults who want to begin.

Q4 · 2026

Arabic & Indonesian

Localizations for two of the largest Quranic-speaking regions. Arabic with adaptations (local transliteration not needed), Indonesian with a local hafiz.

2027

v2.0 · Family profile

Parent dashboard, lifetime family licenses, ability for a teacher from the mosque to track their students' progress.

Far

Mushaf companion app

A second product sharing the same DNA: reading the Quran with tajweed colors, smart bookmarks, ayah-by-ayah audio, no ads. When we're ready — not before.

Ready?

Try it
now.

Free to start, all lessons open. No ads, no tracking, no subscription for the first month.

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