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About Al Islam

Last updated: 1 July 2026

A comprehensive companion for authentic Islamic knowledge.

Al Islam (com.pakdeen.alislam) is a comprehensive Islamic platform designed from the ground up to bring authentic Islamic knowledge and daily Islamic practice together in one intuitive, powerful, beautifully designed application. Built by Lymrah, Al Islam pairs infrastructure-first engineering with user-centric convenience — making Islamic scholarship accessible to everyone, everywhere, and keeping the essentials of the Islamic day within reach.

Currently on version 4.5. See what's new in the Changelog.

Our Mission

To make authentic Islamic knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere, in the language that speaks to them — while providing complete convenience, multiple possibilities, and full control. Free at its core, and continually evolving.

What Makes Al Islam Different

Philosophy: Systems Over Features

We don't stack features on top of each other. We build systems — cohesive, interconnected infrastructure designed to absorb complexity while staying intuitive on the surface.

That philosophy runs through everything in Al Islam:

  • Prayer Times — not static calculations, but a complete Islamic time system: 11 calculation methods, multiple Asr standards, high-latitude rules, location profiles, solar and lunar almanac views, and full offline operation
  • Qibla Finder — not a lone compass needle, but five independent ways to find and verify the direction: compass, map, augmented reality, the sun itself, and a full scientific breakdown
  • Hijri Calendar — not a date grid, but a complete calendar environment: occasions, moon phases, fasting logs, personal events, date conversion, and reminders
  • Search — not a keyword matcher, but a custom full-text engine built in-house and optimized for mobile: advanced query syntax, diacritic handling, and intelligent filtering
  • Collections — not bookmarks, but a file-manager-grade library: unlimited nesting, rich notes on every item, cloud sync, and conflict resolution
  • Notes — not a text box, but Qalam: a full rich-writing system with live formatting, Quran and hadith references, Arabic script support, drawings, and a plain-text format that keeps your notes yours forever
  • Tasbeeh — not a tap counter, but a dhikr companion: a managed library, routines, goals, streaks, and long-term statistics
  • Intelligence — not a chatbot bolted onto the side, but a layer sitting underneath every reading surface, running on models you own and keys that never leave your device
  • Text Customization — not preset themes, but unified, per-language, per-section typography control

Every system ships with sensible defaults so it's useful the moment you open it — and deep customization for those who want control.

Technology & Architecture

Modern Foundation

Al Islam is built on modern, industry-standard frameworks with a highly modular architecture and no legacy technology underneath.

Performance Optimization

Performance-critical paths are heavily optimized at the architectural level so the app stays smooth everywhere:

  • Custom search engine — millisecond results across 232,559 hadith
  • Dynamic memory management — scales with device capability, runs smoothly on low-end hardware
  • Pagination & lazy loading — millions of items without lag
  • Concurrent operations — searches, syncs, and calculations run in parallel without ever blocking the interface

Security & Privacy

Security is a first-class concern:

  • Local data encrypted on your device, protected by keys sealed in your device's hardware-backed secure keystore — keys that cannot be extracted from the device
  • Encrypted search indices — searching never compromises privacy
  • Encrypted transport — everything that does travel to our servers travels over TLS, and server-side data sits behind strict per-account access controls that make your records reachable by your account alone
  • Zero server calls for local features — your location, reading history, notes, tasbeeh records, and calendar data stay on your device, and there is no version of the app in which they don't

Your privacy, concretely:

  • Local by default — the overwhelming majority of the app never contacts a server at all. That is a structural guarantee, not a policy one: the features simply have no network path.
  • Optional cloud backup — only your Collections, only if you explicitly enable it
  • No tracking — we don't track what you read or study, and we don't build profiles
  • Your AI keys never leave your device, and AI requests never pass through our servers — see Intelligence
  • Every permission is optional and explained — see the Privacy Policy for a line-by-line account of every one

Data Integrity & Reliability

Before every release, all content passes through:

  • Regression testing — ensuring nothing breaks
  • Structural validation — verifying data consistency
  • Data integrity pipelines — catching corruption before it ships

Resilient by design:

  • Transactional indexing — interrupted mid-index, the previous index stays valid
  • Conflict resolution — concurrent edits across devices merge automatically
  • Progressive syncing — changes queue offline and sync on reconnection

What You Get

Content

Quran:

  • 6,236 verses (ayahs)
  • 122 translations across 62 languages
  • 95 works of tafsir
  • Complete offline access

Hadith:

  • 33 major collections (the Sihah Sittah and beyond)
  • 232,559 narrations
  • 5 languages (Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Bangla)
  • Comprehensive metadata — grading, authenticity, narrators

Knowledge Features

  • Quran Section — complete Quranic content with tabbed navigation, verse jumping, translation and tafsir browsing, and comprehensive referencing
  • Hadith Section — 33 collections with rich metadata, sorting, language selection, progress tracking, and polished reading screens built as a reading stack, so moving between a chapter, a narration and its commentary never loses your place
  • Search — text and reference matching, advanced query syntax, intelligent filtering — entirely offline
  • Collections — file-manager-style organization with unlimited nesting, rich notes, cloud backup, and automatic sync
  • History — detailed reading logs and a dashboard of metrics, streaks, activity graphs, and habit analysis
  • Text Customization — per-language typography, custom fonts, color control, all previewed in real time

Daily Practice Tools

  • Prayer Times — 11 calculation methods, location profiles, offline calculation, plus Sun, Sky, and Hijri views: a solar almanac, a live twilight ladder, moon data, and a crescent visibility forecast
  • Qibla Finder — compass, map, AR, sun-and-shadow verification, and a scientific insights view, with sensor-accuracy and magnetic-interference awareness built in
  • Hijri Calendar — the full Islamic calendar with occasions, moon phases, fasting logs, personal events, a date converter, and a Hijri birthday finder
  • Tasbeeh Counter — dhikr counting with a customizable library, routines, daily goals, streaks, and detailed statistics
  • Notes — Qalam — a complete rich-text writing system: live formatting, task lists, tables, drawings, validated Quran and hadith references that open the readers directly, honorifics, full Arabic support, voice dictation, and portable plain-text storage
  • Home Screen Widgets — prayer times, the Hijri date, upcoming occasions, a fasting planner, a daily companion, and a full Hijri month grid, visible without opening the app

Intelligence — Your Own Models, Throughout the App

Introduced in version 4.5, Intelligence is a layer that sits underneath every reading surface in the app, so the models work on the app's own content — the ayah, the narration, a scholar's translation, your own notes — rather than on text you had to copy somewhere else.

It runs on a bring-your-own-key model. You connect accounts you already have; the app never resells model access, and your keys never leave your device.

  • Translate — any passage into any language, presented as a scholar-style card laid out exactly like a published translation, and saved to your Library so you never pay twice for the same passage
  • Listen — readings, answers, and your own notes read aloud in a natural voice, with the player following you between screens
  • Ask — a conversation about the passage in front of you, appearing inside the screen you are already reading, with follow-up questions that keep their memory
  • Standing translations — pin a language to stay, and every hadith or ayah you open arrives with it already beneath the text
  • Your own commands — write an instruction once and run it over any passage in the app
  • Dictation — speak into the notes editor, with the words landing exactly at your cursor
  • Thirty-five services across ten provider protocols, including local models running on your own machine with no key at all

The full guide lives in the Intelligence documentation.

Design & User Experience

Modern, polished design:

  • A clean, consistent visual language across every screen
  • Smooth animations and transitions
  • A refined, glass-inspired aesthetic that stays out of your content's way
  • Accessibility-minded throughout

Convenience first:

  • Smart defaults that work for most users out of the box
  • Minimal setup required to get started
  • Quick actions and shortcuts exactly where you need them

Transparency:

  • Every feature documented comprehensively
  • Clear explanations of how things work
  • Complete metadata visible in the app
  • Every content source clearly labeled

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Al Islam app associated with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community?

No. The Al Islam app by Lymrah is entirely independent and has no affiliation, connection, or relevance to the Ahmadiyya community, its teachings, or its perspective. None of our content is derived from or influenced by it.

What Islamic perspective does Al Islam represent?

Mainstream Islamic content: the app hosts a vast library of Islamic resources, predominantly the works of recognized Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah (Sunni) scholars.

Clear labeling and metadata: every resource, book, and item is meticulously labeled so you always know the source and context of what you are reading.

Inclusive yet classified: where mainstream Shia content is included to broaden the library, it is always explicitly categorized and clearly classified, so you can navigate with total clarity and confidence.

Is the app free?

Yes. Al Islam is free at its core. All core features — Quran, Hadith, Prayer Times, Qibla, the Hijri Calendar, Tasbeeh, Notes, Search, Text Customization, History, and Collections — are free, forever.

Al Islam Premium is an optional subscription, available monthly or annually, that adds:

  • Cloud Backup for Collections — automatic sync across devices
  • Unlimited location profiles — free users can keep 5 Prayer Times location profiles; premium removes the limit
  • Intelligence — the full AI suite described above
  • No advertisements — the free plan shows ads, capped at five full-screen interstitials a day; premium removes them entirely

Premium unlocks the Intelligence suite. The models themselves run on your own provider account and its billing — see the question below.

What is Intelligence, and do I have to pay extra for AI?

Intelligence is the app's AI layer, and it works differently from most.

Al Islam does not sell you model access. There is no shared account, no token bundle, and no markup. You connect your own provider account with your own key, and whatever your provider charges you is between you and them. A premium subscription unlocks the suite; the usage runs on your terms.

This has three consequences worth understanding:

  1. You are never locked in. Change providers whenever you like, or run several at once.
  2. You can pay nothing at all. Several supported options run entirely on your own machine, with no key and no bill.
  3. Your content does not pass through us. Requests go from your device straight to the provider you chose. We operate no proxy and no relay, so your prompts and their responses never travel anywhere we could read them.

Which AI providers are supported?

Thirty-five services across ten provider protocols — major labs, Arabic-first services, inference platforms, dedicated translation services, voice services, and local models running on your own machine. There is also a general connection for any OpenAI-compatible gateway, so a service that did not exist when the app shipped can still be used today.

The full catalogue is in the Intelligence documentation.

Are my API keys safe?

Keys are encrypted on your device with a hardware-backed key that cannot be taken off it, and are held separately from everything else the app stores. They are shown once, then only as a masked hint (••••3kfa). They never appear in logs, usage records, backups, or exports, and removing a connection removes its keys first.

Al Islam's AI connection has no default destination — requests reach the providers you configured and nowhere else.

Can I trust what the AI says about Quran and Hadith?

Verify it. AI models can produce confident, fluent, and completely fabricated output — including invented rulings, invented attributions, and citations that look authentic but are not. This is a known limitation of the technology and not something any app can fully eliminate.

Al Islam takes it seriously in three ways:

  • The instructions behind Ask are written specifically for Islamic source material: stay faithful to the text, invent no rulings and no attributions, preserve honorifics, and say plainly when something is uncertain rather than smoothing it over.
  • AI output is always presented as what it is, alongside the authentic sources it was derived from — never in place of them.
  • The app carries 232,559 hadith and 122 scholarly translations offline, so the authentic reference is always one tap away.

AI output is not a religious authority and must never be treated as a fatwa or a substitute for qualified scholarship. For anything consequential, consult a scholar.

Does the app work offline?

Yes. Everything essential works completely offline once your chosen content is downloaded:

  • Reading Quran and Hadith
  • Calculating prayer times
  • Finding the Qibla
  • Following the Hijri calendar and logging fasts
  • Counting dhikr and tracking statistics
  • Writing and reading notes
  • Searching your library
  • Managing Collections, customizing text, and reviewing History

Intelligence is the exception: models require a connection, unless you are running one locally on your own machine — in which case that works offline too. Translations you have already produced are kept on the device and remain readable offline.

Can I sync my Collections across devices?

Yes. With the optional premium Cloud Backup, your Collections — including the notes attached to them — sync across your devices:

  • Changes sync in real time when online
  • Offline changes queue and sync on reconnection
  • Conflicts resolve automatically
  • Everything travels over encrypted connections, and your records are reachable only by your own account

Cloud Backup covers your Collections and account details. Notes, tasbeeh records, reading history, calendar data, fasting logs, imported fonts and AI keys are not part of backup — they stay on your device whether backup is on or off.

What languages are supported?

Quran: 62 languages, 122 translations

Hadith: 5 languages today (Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Bangla), with more added regularly

Notes: full Arabic writing support — right-to-left text, Arabic headings and tags, and a dedicated Quranic typeface for Arabic passages

Prayer Times: calculation methods covering regions worldwide

Interface: English, with more languages planned

With Intelligence connected: effectively any language your chosen model supports, on any passage in the app, saved and reusable afterwards.

Can I customize how text appears?

Completely. The Text Customization system lets you:

  • Adjust font size (8pt–32pt)
  • Control line height and letter spacing
  • Choose built-in fonts or import your own TTF fonts
  • Set text and prefix colors by hex code or color picker
  • Customize each language independently
  • Preview every change in real time

Your choices apply everywhere that content appears in the app — including translations produced by your own models, which adopt the same per-language typography as published ones.

What can the notes system actually do?

More than we can fit in a FAQ answer. Qalam supports live rich-text formatting, headings, task lists with tappable checkboxes, tables, quotes, code blocks, callouts, collapsible sections, freehand drawings, custom colors, and tags — plus Islamic writing tools no general editor has: validated Quran references and hadith citations that open the readers directly, a one-tap honorifics library (ﷺ, ﷽, and more), and first-class Arabic script support.

As of version 4.5 it also gains voice dictation — record, pause, resume and stop entirely on your command, with the transcript landing exactly at your cursor — and Ask Intelligence on a selection or the whole note.

Underneath it all, every note is stored as readable plain text, so your writing is portable and permanent. The full guide lives in the documentation.

How is my data stored?

Locally by default:

  • Readings, history, collections, notes, dhikr records, fasting logs, customizations, AI keys and saved translations live on your device
  • Local data is encrypted, with keys sealed in your device's hardware-backed keystore
  • Nothing is sent to servers without your explicit permission
  • Everything works offline

Cloud, optionally:

  • Enable Cloud Backup and your Collections are backed up and synced
  • Data travels over encrypted connections and is reachable only by your own account
  • You can disable cloud backup at any time

The complete account — every permission, every third party, every piece of data that does and does not leave your device — is in the Privacy Policy.

How often is new content added?

Continuously. We regularly add new hadith collections, new translations, new tools, and improvements to existing features. The Changelog records every update.

Is there a desktop version?

Not currently. Al Islam is designed specifically for Android phones and tablets — and, since version 4.4, your Android home screen, through widgets.

How can I report bugs or suggest features?

Is there a community or support channel?

Our Commitments

To our users:

  1. Continuous improvement — we never stop refining the app
  2. Transparency — every change is documented
  3. Privacy — your data is yours; we don't sell it or track you
  4. Quality — everything is tested and validated before release
  5. Accessibility — the app works for everyone, on any device

To Islamic scholarship:

  1. Accuracy — content is authentic and properly sourced
  2. Completeness — diverse mainstream Islamic perspectives are represented
  3. Clarity — every source is labeled and categorized
  4. Respect — Islamic knowledge is treated with the reverence it deserves
  5. Humility — where a tool cannot be certain, it says so rather than guessing

Our Story

Al Islam began with a simple observation: Islamic life on a phone is scattered. One app for Quran translations, another for hadith, another for prayer times, another for the Qibla, another for a tasbeeh, a notes app that understands none of it — and nothing connecting any of them.

We set out to build something different: a single platform that treats Islamic knowledge and Islamic practice as the connected whole they really are, with infrastructure strong enough to carry that ambition and an interface simple enough that anyone can use it.

What has emerged is a professional-grade application with custom-built systems and continuously expanding resources: 232,559 hadith across 33 collections; 6,236 Quranic verses with 122 translations in 62 languages and 95 works of tafsir; a full Islamic time-and-direction toolkit spanning prayer times, Qibla, and the Hijri calendar; a dhikr tracker; a rich notes system built for study; and, most recently, an intelligence layer that puts modern language models to work on that library without ever taking your keys or your content off your device.

It grows with every release.

Philosophy in Practice

Example 1: Prayer Times

Instead of one calculation method, a system: 11 major methods (Muslim World League, Egyptian, Karachi, Saudi, Dubai, MWL, ISNA, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, Turkey), two Asr standards, four high-latitude rules, location profiles, time-zone control, Hijri offset, and offline calculation — plus solar and lunar almanac views for those who want to see the astronomy behind the times.

Most users never touch a setting, because the right method is pre-selected for their region. For everyone else, complete flexibility is waiting.

Example 2: Search

Rather than a text matcher, a custom search engine: advanced query syntax (exact phrases, required and optional terms, wildcards), automatic diacritic normalization, millisecond latency across millions of records, relevance ranking, multiple content types, concurrent queries — all offline.

And yet, basic search is still just typing a word.

Example 3: Qibla

Instead of a needle that could silently be wrong, a verification system: five independent methods — magnetic compass, map geometry, augmented reality, the sun's position, and a full scientific view — with the app actively telling you when sensor accuracy drops or magnetic interference is likely. You never have to simply trust the arrow; you can check it.

Example 4: Notes

Instead of a plain text box, Qalam — a complete writing system where formatting appears live as you type, Quran references validate themselves against the actual mushaf and open the reader when tapped, Arabic renders in a Quranic typeface, and drawings sit alongside text. And instead of a private format, every note is stored as readable plain text: portable, future-proof, and permanently yours.

Example 5: Intelligence

Instead of a chat window bolted onto the side of the app, a layer underneath it. The actions live beneath the passage you are reading, so the model works on the app's own content rather than on something you had to copy out. Translations come back looking like published translations, in your own typography, and are kept so you never pay for the same passage twice.

And instead of reselling model access at a markup, bring your own key: your accounts, your billing, your choice of thirty-five services — including ones that run entirely on your own machine for nothing. The app's job is to route the work and present the result well; the credentials and the content stay yours.

Perfect defaults mean most users never think about any of this machinery. The point is that it's there when they do.

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