Miqaمِيقَا
On Google PlayPrayer times in a ring around your phone's camera, worked out on the phone and shown without ads.
About MiqaMurooah Studio
Islamic apps for prayer, recitation and study, and the research behind them
We make apps for the Muslim community and study the audio and text of the Quran, so that what we build can be trusted in daily life.
Our applications
Miqa, our prayer times app, is on Google Play, Mirtal is in closed testing, and Sijill, a place to keep the record of what you study, is on the way.
See all our apps
Mirtalمرتل
In testingAn Android app that follows a Quran recitation on your phone and helps you share it by ayah.
About Mirtal
Sijillسِجِلّ
Coming soonA study platform for students of Islamic knowledge and their teachers, to keep the record of what they study.
About Sijill
Our promise
We hold every Murooah Quran app to a written promise. The Quran is copied exactly from a trusted source that we name, it is never typed or made by a machine, and if we ever find a mistake, we correct it from the source and say so openly.
See where our research standsResearch
We study Quran audio, the Quran text and what people need from Quran apps, and we publish a result only once we have checked it.
See our researchPlanning
Quran Audio Engine
Can AI listen to Quran recordings and say what was recited, without ever changing the text, sending a recording away, or passing off a guess as a fact?
Read about this studyIn progress
What people want from a Quran app
Why do people leave the Quran apps they have, and what would make them install a new one?
Read about this studyIn progress
Murooah Quran Library
What open Quran data exists today, what is missing from it, and what small, checkable tools could fill the gaps?
Read about this studySoftware
These are the tools we built for our own work, shown as they are, with what each one can do and what it cannot do yet.
See our softwareAudit tool · Building
Master Auditor
A tool that checks our websites and apps before release, and asks for proof behind every claim it makes.
9 of 9planted faults found, with 99 of 99 tests passing
About Master AuditorModel and skill · In useReview sorter, built on Laya
A small open model we trained to sort Quran app reviews by their main complaint, in English and Arabic.
73% righton 301 test reviews, against 47% for counting keywords
About Review sorter, built on LayaComing soon
About Murooah AdvisoryMurooah Advisory is coming soon
We will also offer systems and careful advice to business owners in Australia, North Africa, the Gulf, Europe and Asia, and this page will say when it opens.
From the blog
Plain notes from our work on Quran apps, prayer times and AI, written from what we have built and checked ourselves.
Read the blogPrayer times and privacy
Prayer times without the internet: how it works
A prayer times app has no need to go online. Here is how the times can be worked out on your own phone, and what that means for your privacy.
Read the noteApp reviewsWhat thousands of Quran app reviews tell us
We read the low-star reviews of Quran and Islamic apps to learn why people give up on them, and what that teaches anyone who builds one.
Read the noteAI and recitationOn-device AI for Quran recitation
How an app can use AI to follow a recording of Quran recitation on your phone alone, match it to a trusted text, and tell you when it is unsure.
Read the noteWrite to us
If you would like to write to us about one of our apps, our research or this website, we would be glad to hear from you. We read every message and reply as soon as we can, إن شاء الله.
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