Frequently asked questions

Yes. The Quran with its translations, tafsir and recitations, all 33 hadith collections, prayer times, reminders, the Qibla finder, the Hijri calendar, Tasbeeh, the Divine Names, notes, search, collections, reading history, text customization and the home screen widgets are free.

The free plan shows advertising, with at most five full-screen ads a day. Al Islam Premium is an optional monthly or annual subscription that removes advertising and adds backup and sync for your collections, the insights in History, unlimited prayer-time locations, and Intelligence. See the Premium page.

No. Everything in the app works without signing in.

Signing in lets you back up and sync your Collections, including the notes inside them, with Premium, and manage your subscription. Your reading history, tasbeeh records, reminders, calendar data and settings stay on your device either way.

The app's screens are in English. The Quran is available in 122 translations across 62 languages, and hadith in 5 languages.

Open a surah and tap Listen to this surah, or open a verse and tap Recitation. Choose from 126 recitations by named reciters; many highlight each word as it is recited. Four recitations are included with the app, and Save offline keeps a surah on your device to play without a connection. See Recitation.

Yes. The Arabic can be shown in eleven scripts, including IndoPak (Nastaliq and Naskh), Uthmani and the Madinah Mushaf with colour-coded tajweed. Tap the script's name under the surah title to change it. See Ways of Writing the Arabic.

Yes. The Quran and the Hadith Library both let you put as many translations on screen as you like, each as its own card, in the order you arrange them. One is marked primary — the source of references and details.

Use Go to Verse in the Quran, or in the Search menu. Type 2:255, a verse number from 1 to 6,236, or juz 3 — or choose the surah and move along the bar to the verse.

Yes. Long-press a verse and the copy sheet shows the text exactly as it will be copied. Choose which parts to include — the Arabic, a translation, the transliteration — how the Arabic is written, and whether to add a reference in the style you prefer, then Copy or Share. See Copying and Citing a Verse.

Yes. Tap a word in Word by word and open its root to see every word the Qur'an builds from it, with where each occurs. See Word Roots.

Use Go to Hadith, on any hadith screen or in the Search menu. Type bukhari 52, muslim 3:7 or the library's own number, or choose the collection and chapter. The dialog shows the narration's opening words before you go.

It is the chain of transmission printed in the collection, drawn from the compiler's end to the narrator nearest the Prophet ﷺ. Tap a name to see the other narrations in your library that carry it. See the chain of transmission.

Often, yes. Also narrated in, beneath a narration, lists the other collections that record the same report, with how closely each is worded and its grading where that collection gives one. Tap one to read it. In Search, the same reports appear beneath a match, marked SAME REPORT. See Also Narrated In.

Yes. When a narration quotes the Qur'an, The Qur'an quoted here shows where each verse sits, drawn on the mushaf, with the verse itself a tap away. See The Qur'an Quoted Here.

Yes. Long-press a narration and choose the parts to copy — the Arabic and any rendering — how it is laid out, and a reference with the collection, number, chapter and grading. See Copying and Citing a Narration.

Open Tools → Reminders. Reminders for the five daily prayers are already on. The first time, choose how reminders should reach you — from an ordinary notification to a full-screen alarm — and follow the steps for your phone's settings. Tap Add a reminder to add your own or a ready-made one. See Reminders.

Delivering a reminder at an exact minute depends on how each phone manages apps in the background, and manufacturers differ. The label says the feature is still being refined across Android phones. Tap it to report a problem; the report includes your phone model and app version.

In the Reminders settings, make sure notifications and exact-time alarms are allowed, that Al Islam is excluded from battery optimisation and, on phones that have one, that it may start on its own. Delivered shows what each reminder did.

Open Delivered in Reminders: it records what each reminder did, and when a phone setting is responsible for a late or missing reminder, it names the setting and offers to open it. Most often the answer is to allow exact-time alarms and exclude Al Islam from battery optimisation. To tell us about a problem, tap the Experimental label and choose Report a problem.

A reminder can play any sound on your device. Choose From my files under the reminder's sound and pick an adhan recording you have.

No advertising; backup and sync for your Collections and the notes inside them; the insights in History and the Studio without limits; unlimited prayer-time locations; and Intelligence — AI translation, listening, questions and dictation using your own AI provider. Every font and display option is free.

At most five full-screen ads a day, at least three minutes apart, and never on the first screens after you open the app. After each one, the app tells you which of the day's five it was. There are also banners in a few places. Premium removes all advertising.

Premium is billed through Google Play. Cancel at any time under Subscriptions in the Play Store; Premium continues until the end of the period you have paid for.

Uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription. It belongs to your Google account and must be cancelled through Google Play.

Nothing is deleted. Notes, collections, saved translations and settings stay on your device. Premium features stop, and subscribing again restores them.

AI tools that work on what you are reading: translate a verse or narration into any language, ask about it, listen to it read aloud, pin a translation to your reading, and dictate into notes. The tools sit beneath the passage itself, so the model works on the app's own text. See the Intelligence documentation.

Premium turns on the Intelligence tools; the AI models run on your own provider account, billed by that provider directly. There are no credits to run out and no mark-up. Several supported options run on your own computer at no cost.

So that your requests go directly from your device to the provider you chose, your costs are itemised by that provider rather than hidden in a subscription, and you can use any model you like — including one released today.

Yes, with a model that runs on your own computer — several supported options need no key, no account and no bill — or with a hosted service's free allowance. Premium is needed to turn the tools on.

More than thirty services — major AI companies, Arabic-first services, translation and voice services, and models that run on your own computer. The full list is in the Intelligence documentation.

Keys are stored encrypted on your device. A key is sent only to the provider it belongs to, with your requests — never to our servers — and it is never written to logs or backups, or shown in full again after you save it.

No. Your device contacts your chosen provider directly, so your questions and the answers are not sent to us. Once a request reaches your provider, that provider's privacy policy applies; providers differ in what they keep. If you prefer, use a model that runs on your own computer.

With a model that runs on your own computer, yes. Otherwise it needs a connection. Translations you have already made are saved and stay readable offline.

Verify it. AI can produce fluent, confident text that is wrong, including invented rulings, attributions and chains of narration. AI output in the app is shown alongside the sources, never in place of them. It is not a religious authority; for anything consequential, consult a qualified scholar.

Most of what you do stays on your device: your notes, collections, reading history, tasbeeh records, reminders and AI keys. To keep the app reliable and improve it, it collects usage information, crash reports and basic device information, which are not linked to your name or email. The free plan's ads may use your device's advertising ID. We never sell your personal data. See the Privacy Policy.

Your reading history is recorded on your device, for you, and is not sent to us. To see how the app is used and where it can be improved, the app collects usage information — such as which features are used, and which verses and narrations are opened — together with crash reports. This is not linked to your name or email, and it never includes your notes, your collections, the words of your searches or your AI conversations. We never sell personal data. See the Privacy Policy.

Yes. What the app keeps on your device is stored encrypted, and anything sent to our servers — such as your collections, when you use backup — travels over encrypted connections and is available only to your own account.

Only your Collections — including the notes and drawings inside them — with your account details and the list of devices you are signed in on, when you use backup with Premium. Reading history, tasbeeh records, reminders, calendar data, imported fonts, AI keys and saved AI translations stay on your device.

To calculate prayer times and the Qibla for where you are. The calculation happens on your device. To show a place name instead of coordinates, the app looks the location up with a mapping service, without any personal details. You can enter your location manually instead.

The camera is used only by the augmented-reality Qibla mode, and nothing is recorded or saved. The microphone is used only for dictation in notes, and only while you are recording. Both are optional.

Yes. Delete your account from within the app, or follow the steps on the account deletion page. Everything held with your account is permanently removed from our servers. Data on your device goes when you uninstall the app.

For Reminders: exact-time alarms let a reminder arrive at the minute it is set for, and full-screen notifications let the full-screen alarm appear over the lock screen. Both are optional.

They are calculated with 11 established methods, with the usual one for your country selected. Methods legitimately differ by several minutes. You can choose the method, the Asr standard and the high-latitude rule, and adjust any prayer to match your mosque. Where your local mosque or scholarly authority differs from the app, follow them.

The compass depends on your phone's magnetometer, which metal, magnets, cases, electronics and vehicles disturb. Move away from interference and calibrate — the app tells you when accuracy drops — and confirm with the sun method, one of five ways the app offers to find the Qibla.

Yes. Once your content is downloaded, reading, saved recitations, prayer times, reminders, the Qibla compass, the calendar, Tasbeeh, notes, search, collections and history all work without a connection. Downloading, streaming recitations, backup, subscription checks and AI need a connection.

The app itself is modest; content is downloaded only when you ask for it. Profile → Downloads shows everything you have downloaded, largest first, and removes what you no longer need. Anything removed can be downloaded again.

Yes. Import TrueType, OpenType, font collections, WOFF and WOFF2 fonts, or a ZIP of them, in Text Customization. Each is previewed in your language before you add it. Imported fonts stay on your device.

Yes. Right-to-left text, Arabic headings and tags, mixed-direction paragraphs and a Qur'anic typeface for Arabic passages are all supported. A note can be entirely in Arabic.

Widgets for Prayer Times, Hijri Today, Hijri Month, Islamic Occasions, the Daily Companion and the Fasting Planner. They read the data on your device.

Not at present. Al Islam is made for Android phones and tablets.

This site hosts our documentation. The app is available for Android.

From recognised references — the classical hadith collections and established published translations and tafsir. Every resource is labelled with its author, language and script. The app does not claim scholarly authority and is not a substitute for qualified scholarship.

Regularly — new collections, translations, recitations and features. Every release is recorded in the Changelog.

Please tell us. Email support.alislam@lymrah.com with the collection, the reference number and what you believe is wrong. Content corrections are prioritised.