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Quran Gallery Changelog

April 2026

April brought Prayer Times with Qibla, a moon-sighting calendar and a prayer tracker; reading plans and a redesigned mushaf gallery in Quran; seven languages across the apps; one menu for every app; and Quran.com sign-in.

Prayer Times opens, reading plans arrive, seven languages

The biggest arrival this month was Prayer Times. It opened with a live countdown to the next prayer, a Qibla compass, a mosque finder and reminders. By the end of the month it also had pages for thousands of cities, an Islamic calendar that follows official moon-sighting announcements in your country, and a prayer tracker where you can log each prayer as offered, made up (qaza) or missed, and note whether you prayed in congregation.

The Quran reader became more personal. The Quran homepage now shows your reading streak and activity, a surah suggestion for each day of the week, and a reading plan you build yourself. Inside the reader, the audio player gained a repeat window for a verse or a range, its sleep timer now survives a refresh, and a gentle check pauses recitation if you have walked away. At the end of the month the mushaf gallery was redesigned to show its 21 editions as books, and the scanned-page reader gained zoom and follow-along recitation.

Across the site, more than 800 pieces of text that used to appear only in English were translated into Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, French, Indonesian and Turkish. One menu in the shared top bar now links every app, signing out works reliably and asks before it acts, and dark mode only turns on when you choose it. Chat conversations got their own lasting links, Listen was rebuilt around reciters, radio, TV and tafsir, and Nazira became a step-by-step course built from real Quranic phrases.

In short

  • Prayer Times opened with a live countdown, a Qibla compass, a mosque finder, prayer reminders and city pages around the world.
  • The Islamic calendar now follows official moon-sighting announcements from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Oman, Malaysia and Morocco.
  • Quran reading plans let you finish the Quran in 30 days, six months or a year, with rest days you choose.
  • The mushaf gallery now shows its 21 editions as books, and scanned pages can be zoomed and followed along with the recitation.
  • More than 800 pieces of text across the apps now appear in all seven languages, and you can sign in with your Quran.com account.

A redesigned mushaf gallery, and Quran.com sign-in

Quran Reader

  • The mushaf gallery at /quran/mushaf now shows its 21 editions as books — hover over one and it opens to a real spread. Editions that are still being prepared are marked "Coming soon".
  • The scanned-page reader adjusts to your screen, switching to a single page on narrow windows, and you can zoom from 50% to 200%. Every page has its own link to share, and a Page tab in the chapter picker takes you straight to any page number.
  • Pressing Play on a scanned page starts the recitation at the first verse you can see. The verse being recited is highlighted on the page, and playback carries on into the next surah.
  • If you have not touched your device for a while, recitation now pauses at the end of the surah and asks "Are you still listening?" instead of playing on into an empty room.
  • On a computer you can drag the verse study panel wider or narrower, and opening a verse for deep study from the mushaf now takes a moment instead of several seconds. When you are signed in, your reading preferences and where you stopped listening follow you to your other devices.

Prayer

  • Signed-in visitors can log each prayer right under today’s times with one tap: offered, made up (qaza) or missed. You can also mark whether you prayed in congregation and where — mosque, home, travel, work or a place you add yourself. Your streak now saves reliably.
  • Settings now open in a side panel from the gear button on every page, so you never leave the page you were on. If you saved a location, it is used instead of a guess based on your internet connection, and city names in Arabic, Urdu and other scripts no longer come back garbled after a refresh.
  • The calendar now keeps the dates officially announced by each country’s authority separate from predictions. Saudi history is built from cited past announcements rather than estimates.
  • Cities far north, above about 48° latitude, no longer show "Invalid Date" for prayers on summer nights. Pages also show a trail back to Quran Gallery at the top.

Accounts

  • You can now sign in with your Quran.com account, alongside Google and email. Connect, change or disconnect it under Settings → Login methods.

Quran Gallery

  • The homepage has a new opening section with a searchable list of every surah and juz (para), so you can find one by number or name and open it in the reader. Below it, a "Choose your script" band shows the mushaf editions with their real covers.

Across the suite

  • Dark mode now only turns on when you choose it, rather than following your device setting. Shadows and dimmed backdrops use a warmer tone in every app.
  • The top bar’s menu is now a single, simpler "Explore" list of every app. Clicking the app name next to the logo takes you back to that app’s front page.

One menu for every app, and chat conversations get lasting links

Across the suite

  • The shared top bar now looks and works the same in every app. One menu in it lists all of Quran Gallery’s apps with shortcuts into each, and it works on phones and in all seven languages.
  • Signing out now really signs you out of every app, and it asks you to confirm first so a stray tap cannot log you out.
  • Headings, text sizes and buttons were brought in line across all apps, so moving between them feels like one site. Announcement banners now load once and are remembered, instead of being fetched again on every page.

Quran Reader

  • Reading Preferences now has Arabic, Translation and Word-by-word tabs, with a live preview of Al-Fatihah that changes as you pick a script, font, size or line layout. Tajweed colours also switch to a dark palette in dark mode.
  • All audio controls now live in the player bar: seek, volume, speed, download, and markers on the progress bar showing where each verse starts. A repeat window lets you loop one verse, a range or the whole surah, with a pause between repeats. Your repeat and sleep-timer settings are kept even if you refresh the page.
  • Hover over a word to see its translation and transliteration; the word lights up the same way it does during recitation. Each word’s menu now offers play from here, tafsir, save, copy, notes, share and more.
  • The surah page opens straight to the text, with study links in one menu next to the title. The chapter picker is a single panel with search. Its hizb divisions were wrong — almost all sat in the first six surahs — and now follow the standard Madinah mushaf.
  • Arabic fonts no longer flash in a plain style when you move between pages. On phones, the Ask AI button no longer covers the audio player.

AI Chatbot

  • Each conversation now has its own link that you can bookmark or come back to, and /chat/new always starts a fresh one. Old links still open the right conversation.
  • You can rate answers again, regenerate one and watch the new version appear as it is written, then step back to earlier versions. If a regenerated answer comes back empty, your earlier answer is kept.
  • Sources now show the book a quote comes from, with links only where a real page exists. Follow-up suggestions show in full, and answers no longer sometimes appear as a block of code. A feedback button was added too.

Listen

  • Listen was rebuilt as a full-screen player. You can browse reciters, live Quran radio stations, live TV channels and tafsir recordings, while the player stays fixed at the bottom. Reciter pages have readable addresses such as /listen/reciter/ibrahim-al-akdar.

Nazira

  • Nazira is now a step-by-step course where every exercise uses real phrases from the Quran. The Iqra and Tilawah levels each have five units, and there are seven kinds of exercises — such as putting words in order or filling in a missing word. The app has a bold new look of its own, and you can sign in and switch to dark mode from its header.

Accounts

  • Under Login methods, Settings now shows which Google address is linked to your account. A new display name now updates straight away in the top bar of every app.

Daily Adhkar

  • Category and daily adhkar pages now scroll as one page instead of having a second scroll area inside, which was confusing on touch screens.

Seven languages across the apps, and feedback is one tap away

Across the suite

  • More than 800 pieces of text that used to appear only in English are now translated into Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, French, Indonesian and Turkish across the apps. The footer follows your language too.
  • A feedback button now floats in the corner of every app, so you can tell us what is wrong or what you would like without looking for a contact page. When we have important news, a banner you can dismiss appears under the top bar.
  • The footer now says plainly that anything on the site is free for anyone to use, personal or commercial, with no permission or credit needed. It also shows the Bismillah in calligraphy.
  • The top bar now shows your name and email next to your picture, so you can see which account you are signed in with.

Accounts

  • When you upload a profile picture, you can now drag, zoom and frame it in a circle before saving, or fit the whole image on a background colour.
  • Your profile and settings are now one page with a side menu. Sign-up checks your name as you type, and you can resend the verification email after a short countdown.
  • Account emails have a new design with the Quran Gallery logo and an Arabic greeting.

Quran Gallery

  • The contact, support and feedback forms and the newsletter sign-up now save every message, so nothing gets lost if an email fails. The top bar on the homepage now links straight to Quran, Listen, Prayer and Adhkar.

Design Studio

  • The Studio editor now keeps all its tools in one left-hand panel, with file, export and help controls in a slim bar at the bottom. This leaves much more of the screen for your design.

AI Chatbot

  • Copy, regenerate and version controls under each answer are now always visible, not only when you hover. After you regenerate, you can switch between the versions straight away.

Prayer Times opens, and the Quran homepage learns your habits

Prayer

  • Prayer Times is a new app at /prayer. It shows a live countdown to the next prayer, with a background that follows the sun through the day. You can turn on prayer reminders and add it to your phone’s home screen.
  • The Qibla page has a compass that turns with your phone and settles smoothly, plus a map view on computers. The mosques page finds mosques near you. When you are travelling, the app suggests shortened and combined prayers (qasr and jam‘), and you can share prayer times with others.
  • Search for any city, town or neighbourhood to see its times. Thousands of countries and cities have their own pages with a full monthly timetable, and you can click any date to see that day’s times. Ten major events, such as Ramadan and Eid, have pages comparing their dates across countries, with suhoor and iftar times for big cities.
  • The Islamic calendar shows Hijri and Gregorian dates side by side in a traditional layout, with the moon phase, key events and the last ten nights of Ramadan marked. You can add it to your phone’s calendar app.
  • Calendar dates follow the authority your country uses. Official announcements from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan’s Ruet-e-Hilal committee, Oman, Malaysia and Morocco are picked up automatically, and you can choose a different authority yourself. A sighting card estimates where and when the new crescent can be seen.
  • Signed in, you can track your five daily prayers and sunnah prayers, go back up to a week to fill in missed days, and see a daily score, streak, monthly heatmap and a plan for making up missed (qaza) prayers. There is also a Ramadan mode with suhoor and iftar countdowns and fasting and taraweeh tracking.

Quran Reader

  • The Quran homepage now changes once you start reading. You see a calendar of your reading days, your streak, cards to continue where you stopped, and a surah suggestion for each day of the week — Yasin on Thursday, for example. First-time visitors still start with the four reading paths.
  • Reading plans are here. Choose 30 days, six months or a year, or set your own dates and rest days, and the app splits the Quran into daily portions. You can mark each day done, and the homepage shows what to read next. Your reading goal also shows your pace over the last seven days, and missing one day does not break your streak.
  • The player bar can now be swiped up to expand, and it adds verse markers on the progress bar, a list of verses you can tap to jump to, and quick switching of surah or reciter. Reading Preferences now open from the top bar on any page.
  • Browsing surahs is more compact, with surah names in Arabic calligraphy, juz shown as cards listing their surahs, and groupings for pages, hizb, manzil and sajdah. In the IndoPak script, verse-end markers show again and words are better spaced. Fonts now load faster, and long verses wrap properly on small phones.

Daily Adhkar

  • The Adhkar homepage was redesigned. When you are signed in, it shows your progress and recent adhkar. Each day brings a du‘a of the day, with an archive of earlier ones, and a guided daily practice walks you through your adhkar.
  • You can save favourite adhkar and see your streak and a heatmap of your practice. Every page now uses the full width of a computer screen, and search and the tasbeeh counter are linked from the top bar.

Listen

  • Listen — a new place just for hearing the Quran recited — opened at /listen, with a profile for each reciter listing all 114 surahs ready to play.

Nazira

  • Nazira is a new app for learning to read the Quran in short, game-like lessons. It starts with a placement test and a winding path of lessons, and you earn points and keep a daily streak.

Quran Gallery

  • The homepage now puts AI chat up front with a clear button to ask a question, and a scrolling line of Quran verses and hadith. The list of apps is grouped more clearly. Prayer Times was added to the top bar and footer.

Design Studio

  • Studio now opens straight into the editor instead of a landing page, so you can start designing right away.

AI Chatbot

  • A new menu at the bottom of the chat sidebar lets you manage your account, sign out and switch themes. On phones the sidebar starts closed, and the language list no longer opens behind the page.

Accounts

  • Signing in now takes you back to the Quran Gallery homepage instead of a separate account dashboard.

Across the suite

  • Quran Gallery has a new logo across every app, and clicking it always brings you to the homepage. On short pages the footer now stays at the bottom of the screen instead of floating halfway up.