Frequently asked questions

Yes — and more of it is free than most people expect. The entire Quran, all 33 Hadith collections, prayer times, the Qibla finder, the Hijri calendar, the tasbeeh counter, notes, search, collections, reading history and home screen widgets are all free, forever.

Al Islam Premium is an optional subscription that removes ads and adds:

• Intelligence — the AI layer that translates, explains and reads aloud any passage in the app
• Cloud backup for your Collections across devices
• Unlimited location profiles and imported fonts
• Early access to new collections and features

Full details on the Premium page.

You can read without an account. Everything essential — the Quran, Hadith, prayer times, Qibla, the calendar, tasbeeh, notes and search — works fully without signing in.

Signing in lets you back up and sync your Collections, including the notes inside them, across your devices, and manage your Premium subscription.

Your reading history, tasbeeh records, calendar data and app settings always stay on your device, whether you sign in or not.

Yes — almost entirely. Reading the Quran and Hadith, prayer times, Qibla, the Hijri calendar, tasbeeh, notes, search, collections and history all work with no connection once your content is downloaded.

Downloading new collections, cloud sync, subscription checks and AI features need a connection.

The hadith are available in 5 including Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi and Bangla, and the Quran is available in 62 languages (122 translations and 95 tafsir works). We add more with every update.

You can see complete details here

• Hadith Collections
• Quran Resources Catalog

Not currently. Al Islam is built for Android phones and tablets, and since version 4.4 for the Android home screen through widgets.

This site hosts our documentation and resource catalogues. The app itself is Android-only for now.

The app itself is modest, and content is downloaded only when you ask for it. Each Hadith collection and Quran translation you download adds to that, so storage grows with what you choose to keep. You can remove any downloaded content at any time.

Premium unlocks four things:

• Intelligence — the full AI suite: translate any passage, ask questions about it, hear it read aloud, dictate into your notes
• No advertising — no interstitials, no banners
• Cloud backup — your Collections and the notes inside them, synced across devices
• No limits — unlimited prayer time location profiles and imported fonts, plus early access to new content

Everything else in the app is free and always will be. See the Premium page.

Premium is billed through Google Play. Cancel anytime under Subscriptions in the Play Store — access continues until the end of the billing period.

Note: uninstalling the app does not cancel a subscription. A subscription belongs to your Google account, so it must be cancelled through Google Play.

Premium unlocks the Intelligence suite — the interface, routing, library and dictation. The AI models themselves run on your own provider account, billed by that provider directly to you.

We do not resell model access, so there is no markup, no bundle of credits, and none to run out of. It also means the cost is yours to control — and can be nothing at all, since several supported providers run locally on your own machine with no key and no bill.

At most five full-screen ads per day, and that is a hard limit the app enforces rather than an intention. There is a minimum gap between them, and the first couple of screens after you open the app are never interrupted.

After each one, the app tells you which ad of the five it was. Premium removes advertising entirely.

Nothing is deleted. Notes, collections, saved translations, your own AI commands and every configuration stay exactly where they are. Premium features stop working; your data remains yours and stays on your device. Resubscribing restores everything.

Intelligence is Al Islam's AI layer. Rather than a chat window bolted onto the side of the app, it sits underneath every reading surface — so the models work on the app's own content: the ayah, the narration, a scholar's translation, your own notes.

It can translate any passage into any language, answer questions about it, read it aloud, and transcribe your speech into notes. Full guide in the Intelligence documentation.

Because it is better for you in three specific ways:

• Your content never passes through our servers. Requests go from your device to your provider directly — we run no proxy and no relay, so we cannot read your prompts or the responses.
• Your costs are itemised by your provider, not hidden inside our margin.
• Your model choice is not limited to what we negotiated. A model released this morning works this morning.

Thirty-five services across ten protocols — major labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek and others), Arabic-first services like Fanar, inference platforms (Groq, OpenRouter, Together and more), dedicated translation services (DeepL, Google, Azure), voice services (ElevenLabs, Deepgram), and local models running on your own machine (Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, llama.cpp, vLLM).

There is also a general connection for any OpenAI-compatible service, so a provider that did not exist when the app shipped can still be used today.

Yes. Five supported options — Ollama, LM Studio, Jan, llama.cpp and vLLM — run entirely on your own machine with no key, no account and no bill. Several hosted services also have free tiers sufficient for occasional use.

A Premium subscription is still required to unlock the suite itself.

Yes, and deliberately so. Keys are encrypted on your device with a hardware-backed key that cannot be taken off it. They are:

• Never transmitted to our servers
• Never written to logs, usage records, backups or exports
• Never shown in full again after you save them — only a masked hint
• Removed first when you delete a connection

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

No. Your device contacts your chosen provider directly. We operate no proxy and no relay, so your prompts and their responses never travel anywhere we could read them — not because we promise not to look, but because there is nothing to look at.

Once your request reaches your provider, that provider's privacy policy applies. Providers differ on whether they retain or train on submitted data, so it is worth reading theirs. If you want the capability with none of that exposure, use a local model.

Verify it. AI models produce confident, fluent and sometimes entirely fabricated output — including invented rulings, invented attributions, and citations that look authentic but are not. A fabricated chain of narration reads exactly like a real one.

Al Islam takes this seriously: the instructions behind Ask are written for Islamic source material specifically — stay faithful to the text, invent no rulings or attributions, preserve honorifics, state uncertainty plainly. AI output is always shown alongside the authentic sources, never in place of them.

But those measures reduce the risk rather than remove it. AI output is not a religious authority. Treat it as a study aid, and for anything consequential consult a qualified scholar.

Only with a local model running on your own machine. Translations you have already produced are saved and stay readable offline regardless.

Absolutely. Your privacy is our priority. Your reading history is handled with strict security measures:

• 100% Local Storage: Your history never leaves your device and is never transferred to any external servers.
• Full Encryption: Data is securely encrypted on your device, ensuring no one else can access it.
• Total Control: You can clear or delete your history at any time with a single tap.

Only your Collections — including the notes and drawings inside them — plus your account details and a record of which devices you are signed in on. Nothing else.

Your reading history, search history, tasbeeh records, calendar events, fasting logs, prayer settings, imported fonts, AI keys and saved AI translations all stay on your device, whether backup is on or off.

No. We do not track your reading, build profiles, or use your content for advertising. Your reading history, search history, notes, tasbeeh records and calendar data stay on your device.

Ad requests on the free plan carry no personal content of any kind. The complete account is in the Privacy Policy.

Only for the augmented-reality Qibla mode, which draws the direction over a live camera view. No photo or video is ever captured, saved or transmitted — the app has no capability to do so. The permission is optional, and every other Qibla method works without it.

Only for voice dictation in the notes editor. Recording starts when you press record and stops when you stop it — there is no wake-word, no background listening, and nothing that decides on its own that you have finished speaking. The permission is optional, and you can transcribe an imported audio file instead.

To calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction for where you are. Your coordinates are used on your device and are never stored on our servers or attached to your account.

To show a readable place name instead of coordinates, the app looks the location up with OpenStreetMap — a request that carries no name, email or account identifier. You can avoid it entirely by setting your location manually, and you can decline location access altogether.

Yes. The app's local database is encrypted on your device, protected by keys held in your device's hardware-backed secure keystore. Anything that does travel to our servers travels over encrypted connections, and your records are reachable only by your own account.

Absolutely. See the Account Deletion page for step-by-step instructions on requesting deletion of your account and associated data.

They are calculated using 11 established methods, and the right one is pre-selected for your region. Different schools and local authorities legitimately differ by several minutes, and you can choose the method, the Asr standard and the high-latitude rule yourself.

Where your local mosque or scholarly authority differs from the app, follow them.

The compass relies on your device's magnetometer, which is easily disturbed by metal, magnets, phone cases, electronics and vehicles. Move away from interference and calibrate your device — the app tells you when accuracy drops.

Al Islam offers five independent ways to find the Qibla — compass, map, augmented reality, the sun's position, and a full scientific view — precisely so you never have to trust a single needle. Cross-check with the sun method for the most reliable confirmation.

Android controls when background reminders may run, and battery optimisation, power-saving modes, Do Not Disturb, and manufacturer-specific app restrictions can all delay or suppress them. This varies considerably between phone brands.

Exclude Al Islam from battery optimisation in your Android settings to make reminders more reliable. Please do not rely solely on the app for a time-sensitive religious obligation.

Yes. Both the Quran and the Hadith reader let you put as many renderings on screen as you like — the Arabic and three English translations, or Urdu and English together — each as its own card, in whatever order you drag them into.

One is marked as the primary, which is where metadata and references come from. Where a rendering sits and which is authoritative are separate choices, and both are yours.

Yes. Import your own TTF fonts for Arabic and Urdu, and set size, line height, letter spacing and colours independently for each language. Font files stay on your device and are never uploaded.

Fully. Right-to-left text, Arabic headings and tags, mixed-direction paragraphs, and a dedicated Quranic typeface for Arabic passages are all supported. A note can be entirely in Arabic.

Widgets for prayer times, today's Hijri date, upcoming occasions, a fasting planner, a daily companion and a full Hijri month grid. They read your local data and transmit nothing.

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 them.

Our platform is dedicated to serving mainstream Islamic content through a highly transparent, organized, and structured approach:

• Mainstream Content: The application hosts a massive collection of Islamic resources, predominantly featuring the works of hundreds of recognized Ahl-al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah (Sunni) scholars.
• Clear Labeling & Metadata: To ensure complete transparency, every resource, book, and media item within the app is meticulously labeled with clear metadata so you always know the source and context of what you are reading.
• Inclusive yet Classified: While the platform may include mainstream Shia Muslim content to broaden the resource library, any such content will always be explicitly categorized and clearly classified, allowing users to navigate the app with total clarity and confidence.

From widely recognised and authentic references — classical Hadith collections and established published translations. Every resource, book and item is labelled with its source and metadata so you always know what you are reading and who produced it.

The app does not claim scholarly authority and is not a substitute for qualified scholarship. We welcome corrections at support.alislam@lymrah.com and take them seriously.

Continuously — new Hadith collections, new translations, new tools and refinements to existing features. Every update 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, and any inaccuracy is unintended rather than deliberate.