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Quran Gallery Changelog

August 2026

Chat began quoting classical books with volume and page. The Quran app learned to work offline and gained similar verses and reading circles. Prayer times now follow each country’s own authority, Listen was redesigned, and the blog grew to nearly 240 articles in seven languages.

Checkable citations, an offline Quran and one shared player

August opened with Chat learning to cite its sources properly. Instead of recalling references from memory, it now looks answers up in a library of more than 8,500 classical books and shows the book, author, printed volume and page, with the original Arabic you can open and read yourself. The same library became available to developers who want to connect their own AI assistant to it, and the help centre at /docs opened with more than 100 guides to the suite.

The Quran app had its busiest month. It now keeps the whole Quran on your device so you can read without a connection, opens scanned mushaf pages inside the reader, adds colour highlights, lets you browse the Quran by its 1,651 roots and 2,511 themes, and adds a Similar verses tab for anyone memorising and reading circles for groups.

Listening became one experience across the suite. A single player now follows you from app to app, looks the same everywhere and lets you read along with the recitation. At the end of the month Listen began keeping your favourites, history and playlists in your account, and got a full new look for reciters, surahs and stations.

Prayer times became far more accurate: every city now uses its own country’s calculation authority, with fixes for Malaysia, Indonesia, the far north and local dates. And the blog went from a handful of posts to nearly 240 sourced articles, each in English, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Turkish and French.

In short

  • Chat now quotes classical books with volume and page, and you can open the cited page yourself.
  • The Quran app saves the whole Quran to your device, so you can keep reading with no connection.
  • Prayer times now follow each country’s own calculation authority, fixing times that were up to 19 minutes off.
  • One player now follows you across every app, and you can read along with the recitation verse by verse.
  • Listen was redesigned and now keeps your favourites, history and playlists in your account.
  • The blog grew to nearly 240 sourced articles, each in seven languages.

Listen gains a library and a new look, and the blog fills its shelves

Listen

  • When you’re signed in, your favourites, listening history and playlists now follow you to any device, and a Recently played row on the landing page picks up where you left off. Anything you saved before signing in is merged in when you do.
  • Start a khatmah: choose to finish the whole Quran by listening in 30, 60 or 90 days, or at your own pace, with a reciter you pick. Listen splits it into a daily portion, tracks your progress and keeps a gentle count of the days you listen, and new collections gather recitations for occasions such as Sūrat al-Kahf on Friday and the morning.
  • Repeat now works properly, you can line up surahs with Play next and Add to queue, and your phone’s lock screen shows what’s playing with working controls. Reciters now start on their Ḥafṣ recording by default — 38 of them used to open on a different riwayah.
  • Listen now fits phones without sideways scrolling and its buttons are big enough to tap comfortably. Reciter pages gain Play, Shuffle and Favourite buttons and a row of similar reciters, and the full player shows the reciter’s artwork softly blurred behind it.
  • Listen has a new look throughout. Every surah now has its own cover with its name in a gold medallion, the landing page opens on a rotating line-up of five featured reciters, and on phones a tab bar along the bottom keeps the main sections in reach with the player just above it.
  • Each reciter now has a proper page with a large framed portrait and their recitations listed like an album. The reciters, radio, TV, tafsir and collections pages all open as an A–Z index you can jump through by letter, and a new Ten Readings page lets you browse reciters by the qirāʾah they recite in.
  • All 114 surah pages now show the number of verses and rukūʿ, the surah’s place in the order of revelation and a one-line summary of its theme — before, only 21 surahs had this.
  • Radio stations now name the reciter behind the voice and link to their page. Your favourites, listening history and playlists sit together on one Library shelf, where you can play or shuffle all your favourites at once and see your history grouped into today, this week and earlier.
  • Search now sits in the navigation row on every Listen page, and typing a riwayah such as “Warsh” brings up that riwayah first. Surah names on the landing page now appear in your language instead of always in English.

Knowledge Hub

  • The blog grew from 14 articles to nearly 240 this week, every one available in English, Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Turkish and French. New series walk through Hajj and ʿumrah step by step, prayer and khushūʿ, duʿāʾ, dhikr, fasting, the hereafter and knowing Allah.
  • Every reference in these articles was checked before publishing against the printed book or the Quran it cites, so each citation points to a page that really says what the article claims.

Across the suite

  • The audio player now looks and works the same in every app. The bar holds what you reach for most — previous surah, play, next surah, the progress line and volume — and the full player, which opens directly above the bar, gathers every setting in one list: repeat (surah, all, one ayah or a range, with a pause between plays for memorising), speed, a sleep timer that can stop at the end of the surah, recitation, read-along, up next and volume. You can also tuck the player against the edge of the screen and bring it back with one tap.
  • Open the full player while any surah plays to read along: the Arabic and a translation in your language, verse by verse. For 11 popular recitations the current verse highlights in time with the audio, and tapping a verse jumps straight to it.
  • Share and Open page in the player now point to the page for whatever is playing, and the player’s buttons are labelled in your language instead of falling back to English.
  • Every app now sends less to your browser on a first visit, so pages start sooner, most noticeably on a slow phone connection. The sign-in page at accounts.qurangallery.com now opens in about a tenth of a second instead of nearly half a second.
  • Sign in with Quran.com has been removed: your bookmarks and reading history already live in Quran Gallery, so it no longer did anything for you. Signing out now always clears your session on the device you’re using, and other websites can no longer sign you out.

Quran Reader

  • Each surah now opens with a row of clearly labelled buttons — Listen, Translation, Tafsir, Surah info, Reflections and Reading preferences — so the reader’s tools are easy to find, including with a screen reader.

Similar verses, reading circles and a live arena

Quran Reader

  • A new Similar tab beside each verse shows the verses that repeat it or share its opening or ending — the near-identical verses that trip up anyone memorising.
  • Reading circles let a group read together: join with a six-character code, get one shared verse each day, and see what each member wrote about it.
  • The Scan view now lets you choose which printed mushaf edition you see, and tapping a word on a scanned page shows the same meaning and transliteration pop-up as the reading view.
  • Tapping the page no longer hides the toolbar by accident, the surah introduction folds away so the Quran starts higher on the screen, and the side panel with tafsir, notes and word study is now translated into all seven languages.

Across the suite

  • When you click through from one app to another, you now see straight away that the next page is opening.

Knowledge Hub

  • The blog now speaks all seven languages, and its first 11 researched articles went live in every one of them. When an article cites a classical book, you can open the cited page right there and read it for yourself.

Prayer

  • The mosque TV board, opened from the downloads on any city page, now scales cleanly from a phone to a 4K screen, with a clock that no longer shifts every second and times that never wrap onto a second line.
  • City pages now have a single monthly timetable that opens on the days around today, with Show all for the rest of the month, and every time on the page follows your 12- or 24-hour choice.
  • Prayer pages in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Turkish and French no longer slip into English: the tracker, monthly tables, Qibla page, calendar and embeddable widget are now translated as well.

Nazira

  • Your XP and streaks are now saved to your account rather than only in the browser. The new live arena lets you open a room, share its six-character code and race friends to name the verse that comes next — no account needed.

Prayer times that match your local authority

Prayer

  • Prayer times now use the calculation method of each country’s own authority instead of one method for everyone — Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, Diyanet in Turkey, ISNA in North America and so on. Before this, Isha in Makkah could be 17 minutes off, Fajr in New York 19 minutes and Maghrib in Istanbul 7 minutes.
  • Malaysia and Indonesia now follow JAKIM and Kemenag, Asr follows each country’s usual school, and cities in the far north such as Oslo get sensible summer Isha times. Every page now uses the city’s own date, so Dubai no longer showed yesterday’s times for four hours a day.
  • New tools: a prayer-times widget you can embed on your own website, with a page that builds it for you; a Hijri–Gregorian date converter; a zakat calculator; and a full-screen mosque TV board for any city.
  • Pages in other languages are now translated in full, country and city names included — Pakistan reads باكستان on an Arabic page — and the FAQ is visible again.
  • When you’re signed in, your prayer settings follow you to your other devices. If you travel, a banner offers to switch to the city you appear to be in, without asking for GPS. Tables, the calendar and the converter now fit on a phone, and busy city pages load faster.

Quran Reader

  • Reading preferences — mushaf, translation, word-by-word and font size — can now be opened on phones, where the button used to be hidden. Every pop-up panel on mobile can now be closed, and the Scan view keeps your place and fits a phone screen.
  • Topics, Roots, Reciters, Radio and Plans now have a place in the menu, and the next surah starts loading before you tap it. The reader no longer switches tabs on its own, and tafsir loads the first time you open it.

Across the suite

  • You can now switch surah or riwayah from the player in any app, not only in Listen.
  • On phones the footer folds into tap-to-open sections instead of running nearly two screens long.

Listen

  • Browse reciters by riwayah straight from the landing page — all 21 riwayat, each with how many reciters recite it — and the reciters page is now grouped A–Z with letter shortcuts that stay in view as you scroll.

AI Chatbot

  • Sources now appear as a row of small book cards under each answer, the same on every screen size. The numbered markers in the answer are buttons: hover one for a preview, or click it to read the cited page beside the conversation.

Quran Gallery

  • You can now set your location for the prayer times on the homepage without leaving it — search for your city right there or tap Use my location.

Knowledge Hub

  • The rebuilt blog is now live at qurangallery.com/blog, replacing an older version that had not changed for months. It shares the top bar and footer of the other apps, and opens with “Why AI invents Islamic citations, and what it took to stop it” — the story of how Chat learned to quote real pages. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) to search posts.

A Quran you can carry offline, and audio that follows you

Quran Reader

  • The Quran app now works without a connection. After your first visit it quietly saves all 114 surahs to your device — only on a good connection, and never with Data Saver on — so you can keep reading on a plane or with no signal.
  • The Quran homepage is now a launcher with all 114 surahs on the first screen. Surahs open with the text already on the page instead of grey placeholders, and a long surah like Al-Baqarah downloads a fraction of what it used to.
  • Scanned mushaf pages now open inside the surah reader as a Scan view, on the page you were reading.
  • You can now highlight a verse in a colour, and bookmarks, highlights and notes work from the Scan view as well as the Reading view. Saved verses are marked so you can spot them. My Quran gains a Highlights tab, Reading plans are in the menu, and you can share a collection privately with a link you can withdraw later.
  • Continue reading now takes you to the exact verse you stopped at, and your reading time and verse counts reflect what you really read. Your bookmarks, notes, collections and streak are now kept by Quran Gallery itself rather than synced through Quran.com.
  • Tap a word to study it in the same script and size as the page, now with its grammar and root. From there you can browse the Quran by any of its 1,651 roots or 2,511 themes, with a filter that ignores accent marks so “qaf” finds qāf.
  • Each verse’s tafsir page now shows the commentary for that verse rather than the whole surah, every mushaf font now shows its own letterforms, and a recitation that stalls can be retried instead of hanging.

Across the suite

  • Audio now keeps playing as you move between apps, and only one thing plays at a time — starting a recitation in the Quran app pauses Listen, even in another tab.
  • The top bar in every app now has direct links to Quran, Chat, Listen and Prayer times, plus an apps button that opens a grid of all 14 apps with the one you’re in highlighted. Hovering a link prepares that app in the background, so the click opens it almost instantly.
  • Sharing a link to any Quran Gallery page now shows a proper preview image.

Listen

  • The Listen landing page was rebuilt so you can start a recitation in one click, with a Continue listening card that resumes where you stopped. Plays from favourites, tafsir and reciter pages that used to stay silent now work, and Quran radio — which wasn’t playing in most browsers — plays again.
  • 158 of the 242 reciters now have a portrait, each checked against reliable sources; the rest keep their artwork rather than risk showing the wrong face.

Quran Gallery

  • The homepage now looks just like Chat’s start screen, with three example questions you can tap for a real cited answer. Below it the whole Quran is one click away — browse by surah, juz, hizb or page — with a Today’s Selection of verses.
  • A prayer band shows live times for your area on your very first visit, worked out from your time zone with no location prompt, along with a countdown to the next prayer.

Prayer

  • The Prayer times landing page now explains what the app does, and a menu on every page leads to Qibla, the Hijri calendar, mosques and prayer tracking. The countdown ticks live and rolls over to tomorrow’s Fajr after Isha, a guessed location says so and offers Change, and city pages use your saved calculation method.

MCP

  • Developers can now connect an AI assistant to the same classical Islamic library Chat uses, at qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela. It can search more than 8,500 books, open their pages, follow chains of narration, look up narrators, and turn a printed reference such as “vol. 4, p. 405” into the pages that carry it.
  • Keys you create for it in your account now start with qg_sk_, so a key pasted somewhere by mistake is easy to spot.

Docs

  • The Quran Gallery help centre is now open at qurangallery.com/docs. It has more than 100 step-by-step guides to the suite’s apps, including 18 for your account — signing up and in, passwords, two-factor authentication, active sessions, API keys and deleting your account.
  • Many guides, all 18 account guides among them, are also in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Turkish and French. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) on any page to search every guide, and on a phone the menu opens from a button that names the section you’re in.

Chat starts quoting the books

AI Chatbot

  • Chat now looks up the classical library instead of answering from memory. Each citation names the real book, its author and the year he died, the printed volume and page, and quotes the original Arabic.
  • Tap a citation to read the whole page it came from, and step to the pages either side. Several quotes from one book now appear as one card, with numbered chips that match the footnotes in the answer.
  • If your conversation follows a madhab, fiqh answers now come from that school’s own books. When the library has nothing on a question, Chat says so rather than presenting an unsourced answer as sourced.
  • Answers now type in smoothly in about a second instead of appearing all at once after a long silence, Stop ends a reply cleanly, and a stuck request ends with a clear message instead of an endless wait. The separate warning boxes became one notice that turns amber only when caution is needed, and you can choose a quick or a balanced answer.
  • Classical Arabic text is set in Amiri with more space between lines so vowel marks stay clear, and long conversations get navigation to jump between messages.

Quran Gallery

  • The homepage now leads with one real question, its answer and the source card naming the printed edition, volume and page, so you can see at a glance what Chat does. A short walkthrough video plays only when you press play, and on phones the source sits right under the headline.

Across the suite

  • Arabic and Urdu interface text now uses Noto Sans Arabic in every app instead of whatever font your device happened to have.

Design Studio

  • The canvas background can now layer a colour, a pattern, a texture and an image at the same time, each with its own opacity, and pictures from the library now apply instead of quietly falling back to a plain colour.