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Quran Gallery Changelog

September 2026

Madrasah began teaching from the first letter and opened live lessons with teachers. Listen put the surah first and turned the khatmah into a Quran challenge, the player gained read-along on the printed mushaf, and Home, Blog, Prayer Times and the Quran app were redesigned.

Madrasah opens its doors, and Listen puts the surah first

The biggest change this month was Madrasah, which began as Hifz, opening to learners. It starts where a madrasa starts, with the Noorani Qaida: twenty lessons from the Arabic letters to the rules of tajweed. Teachers can hold live lessons on a shared mushaf page, anyone signed in can start a course without waiting for approval, and students can invite their own teacher. Every lesson is kept on record for learners, teachers and parents.

Listen was reshaped around the way people actually choose what to hear: by surah. The home page and the All surahs page lead with surah cards, a Shelf view shows the Quran as 114 books, and the listening khatmah became the Quran challenge, with a daily goal, rest days and a streak. The player that runs across every app gained read-along on the printed tajweed mushaf, one-tap reciter and surah switching, a repeat button, and a full-width bar with a proper phone version.

Much of the site also got a new look. The home page opens on a printed page over a living reading room, the blog became a study with essays grouped into collections, every Prayer Times page is set in a mosque room at the hour it is about, and the Quran app was rebuilt from its front page to its help pages. The blog also published its last 39 planned essays.

Languages got a lot of care. The language menu names each language in its own script, your choice now follows you from app to app, a translated link someone shares with you opens in that language, and Madrasah is translated into all seven languages.

In short

  • Madrasah teaches reading from the very first letter, and teachers can run live lessons on a shared mushaf page.
  • Listen leads with the surah, and the listening khatmah is now a Quran challenge with a daily goal and a streak.
  • The player can show the printed tajweed mushaf and highlight each ayah as it is recited.
  • Home, the blog, Prayer Times and the Quran app all have new designs.
  • Your language now stays with you across every app, and shared translated links open in that language.

A new Quran app front page, and a player that spans the screen

Quran Reader

  • The Quran app has a new front page. Search for a surah from the top, start from six popular surahs or the verse of the day, pick up where you left off, and browse by juz, hizb or page from the division cards further down. A new All surahs page lists all 114, and your reading activity chart now lives on My Quran.
  • Every other page in the Quran app now shares that design: the reader and its surah pages, the lists of surahs, reciters, topics and roots, your reading plans and collections, and the About and help pages. Shared collections now show the verse text itself, and your old links still work.
  • If you read in Arabic or another language, the reader no longer slips into English. The offline panel, verse actions, toolbar, keyboard help, settings and the page for a surah that does not exist are all translated.
  • On a root’s page, each word form now has a copy button, so you can copy the exact Arabic in one tap.
  • While a recitation plays, the reader turns to the playing page only when you are following along. Open a panel or move to another surah and it leaves you where you are.

Across the suite

  • The player now runs the full width of the screen, with the reciter on one side, the surah on the other and the controls in between. Speed and sleep timer have their own buttons that show a small badge while they are set, and a headphones button takes you to the recording’s page in Listen.
  • On phones the player becomes a small mini-player that opens into a full sheet you can drag down to close. After you close it, a Continue strip lets you pick up where you stopped.
  • Every row in Up next has its own menu to play it next or add it to a playlist, and the playlists you build in Listen can be played and added to from the player in any app.
  • The top bar now follows your light or dark theme and has an Ask AI link on every page. Its main links are Quran, Chat and Prayer times; Listen is in the Apps menu, and a Listen button in the footer reopens a player you have minimised or closed.
  • Pages, tab bars and pop-up messages now sit above the player instead of hiding beneath it. In Listen, Quran, Adhkar and Madrasah, the row of tabs now starts with a Home link back to the app’s front page.
  • Surah names now come from our own Quran text in every app, written in Arabic when you use the site in Arabic, so a surah is spelled the same way wherever you meet it.

Listen

  • Playlists are easier to build: name a new one in its own dialog, then add surahs from a panel on the playlist’s page. Each item remembers the recording you chose.
  • On phones, Listen’s home page now opens with its artwork instead of a dark band, followed by the surah search, your reciter and the surahs. A surah’s page is easier to read on a small screen, and tapping a surah or reciter shows straight away that it is loading.
  • A reciter’s page now lists their surahs exactly like the All surahs page, with the same sorting, filters and shelf view.
  • Live TV has been retired. Old Live TV links now take you to Radio.

Quran Gallery

  • On phones, the home page now has a tab bar along the bottom, like Listen and Quran, with the player resting above it.

Listen leads with the surah, and the player learns to read along

Listen

  • Listen now starts from the surah. The home page opens on six popular surahs with your chosen reciter beside them, and the search box shows its results as the same surah cards. The All surahs page shares that header and adds a Makkan or Madinan filter, sorting by order, name or length, and a Shelf view that lays out the Quran as 114 books, with a gold ribbon on the ones you have heard.
  • The listening khatmah is now the Quran challenge. Set one up in three short steps — how many days, when to start and which days to rest, and whose voice — and run up to three at once. Surahs count in any order, Continue picks up mid-surah, and your daily goal and streak adjust as you go.
  • Each part of the home page now has its own job: Continue listening cards show the reciter and how far you got, history cards can be removed in place, and the readings wall and a row of 24 radio stations fill the rest.
  • Tap +N beside a reading’s reciter faces to see every recording of it, with search and a riwayah filter, and play whichever voice you like.
  • Tafsir moved from the top bar to the end of the All surahs page, where it links straight to the explanation. On Reciters, Radio and Tafsir the search box now sits beside the page title.
  • If you have picked a reciter before, the home page no longer flashes the default reciter before showing yours, and the reciter on the page always matches the one in the player.

Across the suite

  • Switching is now one tap on the player: tap the reciter’s face to move to another recording of the same surah, filtered by riwayah if you like, without losing your place, or tap the surah name to jump to another surah.
  • A book button on the player opens read-along on the printed tajweed mushaf. The ayah being recited is highlighted and kept in view, you can tap any ayah to jump to it, and you can scroll through the whole mushaf while the recitation carries on.
  • Repeat moved to its own button on the player: one tap cycles Off, Surah and All, with ayah and range repeat in the same menu. Playback speed and the sleep timer now accept your own values — any speed in small steps, or a timer from 5 to 180 minutes.
  • Up next now tells you what you are playing from — a reading, a playlist, your favourites or a challenge — and plays that list through to its end, with anything you add yourself played first.
  • If a phone call or another tab pauses the audio, the player now shows it as paused instead of still playing. Its panels open one at a time in the same frame, as a sheet from the bottom on phones, so they never stack or change size.
  • Surah lists in the Quran reader, on the home page, in Studio and in the player now use the same surah cards as Listen.

Madrasah opens to learners, prayer pages are set at their hour, and the player steadies

Madrasah

  • Madrasah, which began as Hifz, is open to learners. It is built for learning to read the Quran from the first letter, with a course ladder at its centre: the Noorani Qaida is open now, and Nazira, Tajweed and Understand the Quran are marked coming soon. Nothing is locked, so you can start on whichever rung you are on.
  • The Noorani Qaida has 20 lessons. They walk from the Arabic letters and their joined forms through the short vowels, tanween, sukun and shadda to the rules of tajweed, and Madrasah remembers which lessons you have finished.
  • Teachers can hold live lessons, one to one or as a study circle. Everyone sees the same mushaf page, the teacher can point, draw, mark a mistake on an ayah and leave notes, and there is a chat beside the page.
  • Anyone signed in can start a course from a single screen, with no approval needed, and invite students by email or a shareable link. As a student, you can invite your own teacher. A course can have a daily or weekly schedule and a co-teacher, and the next lesson is always shown up front.
  • Teachers and schools can choose to be listed. The Teachers and Schools pages are open to browse, and they fill as teachers opt in.
  • Your Madrasah home puts learning first, with teacher and parent tools behind a simple switch. The app is translated into all seven languages, and it adds a personal library, plus a certificate when you complete the Quran.
  • Every lesson you have had now lives in one archive under My sessions, showing who taught it and linking to the lessons before and after. Teachers can look back over every lesson in a class, and parents can read what their child was taught.
  • A live lesson that nobody ended is now closed after two hours instead of sitting in Upcoming forever.

Listen

  • Surah covers now show where each surah was revealed: the Kaaba for a Makkan surah and the Green Dome for a Madinan one. In the All surahs list, the surah’s calligraphic name leads each row, with Makkan or Madinan written beside it and a thin bar showing its length.
  • On the Qira’at pages, every reciter’s face is now its own play button, and +N shows the rest with their portraits, so you can compare the readings by ear.
  • Reciter search puts the closest match first — “afasy” now finds Mishary Alafasi at the top — and recognises reciters’ names written in Arabic.
  • Your listening khatmah now has a place in the Library, and you can remove single entries from your history or clear it all. If you started a khatmah before signing in, the one you used most recently is the one kept. Noreen Mohammad Siddiq also has a verified portrait now.
  • Reciter, radio and tafsir pages in languages other than English had been failing to open; they load normally again. A black band that sat under the footer is gone.
  • The homepage list of readings no longer includes a recitation style among them, and a letter heading with a single entry on the readings pages says “1 reciter”.

Prayer

  • Every page in Prayer Times now stands in the same mosque room, painted at the hour the page is about: the qibla finder at midday when shadows point the way, the Hijri calendar at night under the moon, and each city’s page at that city’s own time of day.

Across the suite

  • Keyboard shortcuts in the player keep working after a mouse click, every track menu offers Download and Share, radio has a Stations tab so you can change station without leaving the page, and Up next can be shuffled with an Undo.
  • Switching reciter now keeps your place by ayah when both recordings have verse timings, and no longer jumps past the end of a short surah. An ayah you set to repeat no longer follows you onto the next surah.
  • Tapping the minimised player now opens it and it stays open, instead of snapping shut again. Quick hops between apps no longer flash a loading screen.

AI Chatbot

  • Answers keep their citations far more often, because the assistant now fetches its library pages together instead of one at a time. Deep research mode, which had quietly stopped searching, searches the library again.
  • Readers in some regions, such as Hong Kong, were being turned away without an answer; that is fixed. Every question now ends with an answer, a clear “Generation stopped” note or a visible error — never a blank.
  • Quoted passages that were cut off mid-sentence are now widened to the full sentence on the printed page.

MCP

  • If you connect an AI assistant to our Islamic library, a search limited to certain shelf names the library doesn’t have used to quietly search every book instead. It is now turned away like any other unknown shelf.

A new face for the home page and the blog, and a language menu that names itself

Quran Gallery

  • The home page now opens on a printed page laid over a living reading room. Below it, a numbered tour — Read, Listen, Pray, Ask, Explore — shows each app with something real: the day’s Madinah page, reciters you can play in place, live prayer times and a verified citation from Sahih al-Bukhari.
  • The About, Developers, Contact, Support, Feedback and legal pages now match the home page, and the home page loads faster wherever in the world you open it. The browser tab no longer keeps spinning after the home page has loaded.

Knowledge Hub

  • The blog published its final 39 essays, completing all 275 planned. A last careful review corrected a vowel in one quoted verse, two essays that said the fast begins at sunrise (it begins at dawn), and two hadith citations that opened on the wrong page.
  • The blog is redesigned as a study. Essays are grouped into 28 collections you can read in order, each essay shows its part, reading time and number of sources, and an index beside the text follows you as you read. Instead of dates, each essay carries the Hijri month it belongs to, so what is in season comes first.
  • Essays open much faster, because each one now loads on its own instead of with the whole blog. Long lists come in pages of 24 with a Load more button, and an Archive page lists every title by month.
  • Searching the blog or the help pages in another language now finds pages in that language and opens them in it.
  • Essays no longer break a paragraph in two around an inline citation.

Across the suite

  • The language menu now names each language in its own script, with a flag and its English name, so you can always find your way back. Your choice stays with you on every link and in every app, and a translated link someone shares with you now opens in that language.
  • A new footer sits beneath every page, listing all the apps in groups and marking the one you are in; on phones every app is shown instead of being folded away. The top bar also now marks which app you are in, and progress charts show month names in your language.
  • Up next in the player is now a list you can arrange: drag to reorder (a finger works too) or use the arrow keys, remove items, and use Play next or Add to queue from any app, not only Listen.

Prayer

  • The Prayer Times home page now opens on a column for the whole day: a sky from dawn to dawn with the sun, or the moon in its real phase, at the current minute and the next prayer marked. On a wide screen it stays in view as you scroll, and you can switch on extra times such as Ishraq, Duha and the last third of the night.
  • City pages open faster, and their default Asr setting now follows the city’s own country rather than the visitor’s.

AI Chatbot

  • The assistant is redesigned as a reference desk: your question appears as a request slip and the answer as a sheet, with extra depth folded into sections you can open. Answers are now sized to the question — a greeting gets a line, a follow-up a few paragraphs — and a second message no longer shows only its “At a glance” summary.
  • It also finds hadith more reliably when Arabic spellings differ, so asking with one wording still reaches the version printed in Sahih al-Bukhari.

Accounts

  • The sign-in, sign-up and account settings pages have a new look to match the rest of the site. Settings shows your recent account activity again, and the profile photo cropper now closes with Escape.

Quran Reader

  • The Quran app’s ⌘K / Ctrl+K command palette now works fully from the keyboard and with screen readers. Arrow keys, Enter and Escape do what you expect, and Arabic surah names and references like 2:185 still find their match.