Read. Listen. Memorize.
Criterion for Android. Follow recitation word by word, cover the page and test your memory, and choose the reading view that suits you.
Coming soon to Google Play
For Android. Madinah or IndoPak script, your choice. Works offline. Free, with no ads and no account.
Three modes
One page carries all three modes.
- Read. The app opens right where you left off. No home screen, no extra taps.
- Listen. A reciter reads aloud and the page follows along, word by word.
- Memorize. The page starts covered. Recite from memory, then lift the bands to check.
Listen
The page follows the reciter, word by word.
Pick a reciter and a range, then press play. A gold outline moves from word to word as it is recited, and the page turns by itself when the recitation reaches it.
- Word timing is tuned most carefully for Al-Husary and Al-Minshawi, so you can follow every sound while you learn tajweed or work on your own recitation.
- Loop a single verse or a whole range, at whatever speed suits you.
- Download a reciter once, and both playback and word timing work offline after that.
Al-Isra 17:105 · Al-Husary
وَبِٱلۡحَقِّ أَنزَلۡنَٰهُ وَبِٱلۡحَقِّ نَزَلَۗ وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَٰكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرٗا وَنَذِيرٗا ١٠٥
In the app, this box follows the reciter. Here, it follows your scroll.
Memorize
Let the page test your memory.
Cover hides the words. Peek leaves a faint guide. Reveal checks your recall. You practise on the same page you read, with the line arrangement you already know.
- The recitation loops with a pause after each verse, timed to give you room to recite it back before the next one starts.
- Mark a page once you have it down, and your progress is tracked by juz.
- Bands sit on the real page lines, so what you memorize is the same page you read from.
Tajweed
The colours stay clear in daylight and on true black.
Switch to the dark theme and the page turns true black. Each theme has its own tajweed palette, chosen so every rule stays distinct whether it is day or night.
- Idgham / Silent
- Madd Tabi'i (2)
- Madd Munfasil (2/4/6)
- Madd Muttasil (4/5)
- Madd Lazim (6)
- Ghunnah / Ikhfa'
- Qalqalah
- Tafkhim
Scripts & views
Read the way
you know best.
Choose Madinah or IndoPak, then Mushaf, Translation or Large Print. Script and view are independent choices, and your page stays exactly where you left it.
- Mushaf keeps the printed page, line for line.
- Translation pairs each verse with its meaning.
- Large Print gives the words more room, flowing like a book.
Index
One tap back to the page you were reading.
The Index holds every surah and juz, plus your saved and recent pages, and you can search by surah or verse. A "You are here" row takes you straight back to the page you were reading.
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Made for daily readers, and for those who have already memorized the Qur'an.