# Quran reader — the Madinah Mushaf, with audio and read-along [ All docs ](/docs) Aug 25, 2026 # Quran reader — the Madinah Mushaf, with audio and read-along Nedaa's Quran reader ships three Madinah Mushaf editions from the King Fahd Complex, a reflowable text mode, verse and word-level read-along audio, bookmarks, highlights, similar-verse tools, and a tajweed reference. Free, open source, offline after download. --- # Quran reader — the Madinah Mushaf, with audio and read-along Nedaa is a free, open-source prayer-times and Islamic-companion app for iOS and Android. The Quran reader is the largest feature in the app: the printed Madinah Mushaf on your screen, recitation that follows the page word by word, and the reading tools you keep using years later. ## What a Quran app has to get right You already have a mushaf you know. You may have memorised from it, and if you did, the position of a verse on its page is part of what you memorised. The end of page 5 _is_ the end of a specific verse. That narrows the design problem. A Quran app should reproduce the printed page, put recitation beside it, then stay out of your way. Everything below follows from that. ## What Nedaa’s Quran reader includes ### Three Madinah Mushaf editions The reader ships three editions of the Madinah Mushaf, produced by the **King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex** in Madinah: | Edition | In the app | Character | | ------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | QCF v1 | Madinah Mushaf 1405 | The classic black-and-white Madinah print | | QCF v2 | Madinah Mushaf 1420 | Refined letterforms — the everyday standard | | QCF v4 | Madinah Mushaf 1439 | Full-colour tajweed for recitation rules | All three keep the standard 604-page layout, so page numbers, juz boundaries, and line positions match the printed copy you already own. You pick an edition, download it, and can switch or delete editions later. ### What makes the Madinah Mushaf different Fifteen lines to a page, 604 pages, and every page ends where a verse ends. No verse is split across a page turn. The first two pages are the exception: al-Fatiha and the opening of al-Baqarah sit in a decorative frame of eight lines. That last property is why huffaz memorise from this mushaf rather than another. ### A text mode that skips the edition download Alongside the page-image mushaf there is a text mode that renders the Quran as live text, using the Tanzil Uthmani text in the King Fahd Complex’s UthmanicHafs face. It needs no edition: none of the page images, and none of the space they take. What it does need is the verse text and metadata, which the app fetches once as a small content file and both modes share. Text mode keeps the same 604 page boundaries as the printed mushaf; the verses are reflowed, not re-paginated. Its reading size runs from 20 to 48 points, adjustable with a side-mounted stepper or by pinching the page. This is the mode to use if the printed mushaf’s fixed type is too small to read. ### Recitation, with word-level read-along Pick a reciter and press play. The reader follows along: it can tint the whole verse as it is recited, or the individual word, and it turns pages for you as the recitation moves. Word-level highlighting depends on published word timings for that recitation; where they do not exist yet, read-along falls back to verse level. * Reciters come in Murattal, Mujawwad, and Tajweed styles where they exist. * Hold a verse to play it on its own, or to play from it onward. * Download a surah’s audio so it plays without a connection. Reader playback is a companion to reading rather than a listening session of its own, so it stops when you leave the reader or send the app to the background. There is also a separate Listen surface for recitation without the page, in the app since before the reader shipped. It keeps playing when you leave the app, and it drives the native media controls on the lock screen, AirPods, and Bluetooth. It also holds the controls that belong to listening rather than reading: a sleep timer that stops playback after a set time or at the end of the surah, a choice of continuing, repeating, or stopping when a surah ends, and downloading a reciter’s whole catalogue with a running storage total and a delete-all. ### Reading tools Bookmarks are four coloured ribbons you can name and move. Printed mushafs solved this with sewn ribbons; we kept the idea. Highlights come in seven colours, and you rename the colours themselves to mean whatever you need them to mean. A colour’s name is shared across the whole Quran, so “verses to memorise” stays “verses to memorise” everywhere you use it. Then there are the _mutashabihat_, the near-identical verses that trip up anyone memorising. The reader marks them, shows the pair side by side, and lets you write your own memory aid against them. Any verse can be shared as a mushaf image or as plain text. ### A built-in reference guide The reader carries a short reference for the marks printed on the page, so you can tap one rather than look it up: * The tajweed colour key used by the v4 edition: ghunnah, idgham with and without ghunnah, and the rest. * The waqf marks. You can tap any stop sign in the text on its own. * The prostration verses, where sujood al-tilawah applies, with the supplication and its hadith reference. ### Navigation Browse by surah or verse, search surah names, or jump to a surah, juz, hizb, or page number. The running header carries the surah name and the juz you are in. ### Reading themes and layout Reading themes are **separate from the app’s own appearance**. You get Light, Sepia, Dark, and Nedaa, so you can read on a sepia page while the rest of the app stays dark. Editions with dedicated dark-theme page images offer them as an optional extra download. Layout options cover a one-page or two-page spread (useful on tablets), horizontal page turns or vertical scrolling, and an auto-scroll at three speeds for hands-free reading. ### A Friday reminder for Surah Al-Kahf An optional weekly reminder for Surah Al-Kahf on Fridays. It is off until you turn it on, and it asks for notification permission at that point rather than up front. ## Downloading, storage, and offline use The mushaf editions are page images, so they are a real download rather than a few kilobytes of text. Nedaa is explicit about it: * The download runs in two steps, pages first and decorations second, with per-page progress. * You can **start reading while it downloads.** * Downloads pause, resume, and retry, and a failed page does not lose the rest. * Choose light-only or light-and-dark images. * The app checks free space first and tells you what it needs, and warns before a large download over cellular. * Delete an edition on its own to free the space. **Once an edition is downloaded, reading it needs no network.** The same applies to recitation you have downloaded. What still needs the network is fetching an edition or a reciter you have not downloaded yet. ## How Nedaa handles your data here No account, no cloud sync, no advertising, no third-party tracking SDKs. Your bookmarks, highlights, memory-aid notes, reading position, and downloaded files live on your device. Two things do leave the device, both controlled by a single **“Share anonymous usage stats”** switch in Settings, which you can turn off at any time: * When you play a recitation, the app sends the recitation’s id. It does not send who played it, when you read, or what you read. * When you install a mushaf edition, the app sends the edition version. Neither carries an account, a device identifier, or a user id, and each is rate-limited to once every thirty minutes. They exist so we can see which reciters and editions get used, and they are the numbers published on the operational ledger on our home page. Everything else about your reading stays on your phone. The full position is on the [Privacy page](/privacy). ## Frequently asked questions ### Which mushaf does Nedaa use? The Madinah Mushaf from the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex, in three editions: 1405 (QCF v1), 1420 (QCF v2), and 1439 (QCF v4, with full tajweed colouring). All three use the standard 604-page layout. ### Does the Quran reader work offline? Yes, once you have downloaded an edition. Text mode asks for no edition at all, only the small content file the app fetches once for both modes. Recitation works offline for surahs you have downloaded. ### Can I follow the recitation on the page? Yes. Read-along highlights either the whole verse or the individual word as it is recited, and turns pages as the recitation moves. Reciters are available in Murattal, Mujawwad, and Tajweed styles. ### Can I make the text bigger? In text mode, yes: from 20 to 48 points, by stepper or by pinching. The page-image mushaf reproduces a printed page, so its type is fixed; use text mode, or the two-page/whole-page layout options, if the print is too small. ### What are “similar verses”? The _mutashabihat_, verses that closely resemble one another and are a common source of error when memorising. Nedaa marks them, shows the pair together, and lets you attach your own memory aid. ### Where does the Quran text come from? The text is from the **Tanzil Project**, under CC-BY 3.0\. The UthmanicHafs font and the page layout are the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex’s work. Verse divisions and recitation timings come from the **Quranic Universal Library (QUL)** by Tarteel. Recitation audio comes from **QuranicAudio** and **quran.com**, mirrored via QUL. All of it is credited in the app’s Acknowledgements screen. ### Does Nedaa sell my data? No. Nedaa does not collect personal data and has nothing to sell. No advertising or tracking SDKs, no account. The anonymous play and download counts described above are the only Quran-related data that leaves your device, and you can switch them off. ### Is Nedaa free? Yes. Free, no ads, no paywalls, no subscriptions, no premium tier. The Quran reader is not a paid tier of anything. ## Get Nedaa * **iOS:** App Store — bundle id `dev.nedaa.app` * **Android (Google Play):** package `dev.nedaa.android` * **Android (Huawei AppGallery):** same package, separate `production-hms` build with no Google dependencies * **Source:** github.com/NedaaDevs/nedaa * **Support:** support \[at\] nedaa.dev ## Credit * **Tanzil Project** (`tanzil.net`) — Quran text in Uthmani script, CC-BY 3.0. * **King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex** (`qurancomplex.gov.sa`) — the UthmanicHafs font and the Madinah Mushaf page layout. * **Quranic Universal Library (QUL)** by **Tarteel** (`qul.tarteel.ai`) — verse divisions and recitation timing. * **QuranicAudio** (`quranicaudio.com`) and **quran.com** — recitation audio, mirrored via QUL. The tool we wrote to render the mushaf page images is open source too, at [NedaaDevs/quran-image-generator](https://github.com/NedaaDevs/quran-image-generator). It takes the King Fahd Complex fonts and the layout database and writes out the page images, which is the slow part of building a mushaf reader. If you are building one, take it. We took the idea from [quran/quran.com-images](https://github.com/quran/quran.com-images). --- _Last updated: 2026-08-25_