The whole Madinah mushaf
604 pages in the King Fahd Complex script, one page per view, with the same line breaks as the printed copy.
No account · no server · works offline
The Madinah mushaf, for readers of English
The page is shown exactly as it is printed — same fifteen lines, same words on each line. The translation, the transliteration and a short tafsir run beside it in a panel that is always open.
- Nothing leaves your device
- No sign-up, no account
- The page and its text work offline
604pages, laid out as printed
114surahs across 30 juz
13reciters, gapless
2translations, with footnotes
4transliteration schemes
What the app does
Six things, each built rather than described.
Translation beside the page
Two English editions: Rowwad — literal, with footnotes — and Itani, plainer prose. Switch mid-verse without restarting the recitation.
Four ways to read it aloud
From "as recited", which shows idgham and madd the way a reciter says them, to letter-by-letter with or without scholarly marks.
A short English tafsir
An abridged explanation at every ayah, bundled per page so the panel answers immediately rather than fetching a whole surah.
Thirteen reciters
Gapless: the surah streams as one file and the highlight moves by timestamp, so you never hear a join between two ayat.
Works offline
The page, its font, its translation and its tafsir are all cached on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account.
Reading
The page as printed, not as the screen happens to wrap it
Each line is measured before it is drawn, so no word is pushed onto a line it does not belong to. Three of the four display modes keep the printed layout exactly.
Zoom widens the column
60% to 170% changes the column width, not the letter size — so the line breaks stay correct at every setting.
Right is forwards
The whole interface runs left-to-right, so the next page is to the right and a swipe travels left. The arrows and the keys always agree.
Five paper colours
Cream, sepia, white, green and night. Every text colour is checked for WCAG AA against every surface in its own theme.
Built for a phone too
No text field below 16px, 44px touch targets on any coarse pointer, and the bars are sized so a control added to them is never a control taken off the page.
Understanding
Three readings of the same verse, side by side
On a wide screen the panel is a column beside the page. On a phone it is a one-line strip you expand — carrying whichever single reading you prefer, because two at once came straight off the mushaf.
Two translations
Rowwad is literal and carries 2,566 footnotes across 2,215 ayat; Itani reads more smoothly and has none. Both are credited permanently, as their licences require.
Transliteration, honestly labelled
It is a word-recognition aid, not a recitation guide — the app says so permanently and never shows it without the audio control in reach. The ear corrects the eye.
A short tafsir at every ayah
Enough to answer "why does it say that" without leaving the page. Where the source has no entry for an ayah, the app reports the gap rather than hiding it.
Its own text size
The Latin text scales separately from the Arabic, because Arabic at 130% and Latin at 130% do not look like the same size.
Listening
Continuous recitation, not stitched-together ayat
The surah file streams and the highlight moves by timestamp. Turning the page does not stop playback, and the recitation can carry on past the bottom of the page.
Thirteen reciters
Complete recordings rather than per-ayah clips, which is the only way to get a seamless join.
0.5× to 1.5×
Seven speeds, for following along slowly or covering ground. The setting survives loading the next surah.
Repeat an ayah or a passage
One to twenty times, or without end. Mark a passage with two taps and the repeats apply to it.
Follow the reciter
Let the page turn itself to keep up, and let the recitation continue past the page — two separate switches, because they are two separate wishes.
Searching
Search the Arabic, or search the English
Two indexes, each folded the same way the build script folded it — so a search can never silently return nothing because the two disagreed.
True totals, not the render cap
The count tells you how many ayat matched AND how many times the word occurs. They genuinely differ, so both are reported.
A looser second pass
If the exact spelling finds nothing, a skeleton pass tries again — Uthmani and modern orthography disagree on long vowels, and a reader types the modern spelling.
Keyboard through the results
Arrow through the hits and open one with Enter without ever leaving the search field, so the query stays editable.
Notes and bookmarks
A note on any ayah, saved on your device as you type. Bookmark, copy or share a verse with its reference attached.
Tajweed
Seventeen rules, each taught where you meet it
Tap a rule in a verse and everything that does not carry it dims, while a card explains what the mouth actually does and for how many counts.
The official colour font
The King Fahd Complex colour script, colouring every letter precisely — alongside an approximate per-word mode, which is presented as the approximation it is.
Rules in this verse only
A legend of what actually occurs here, each rule in its own colour, rather than a reference chart you have to map onto the page yourself.
Hear the example
Every rule carries an exemplar word and plays its verse in your chosen reciter. The exemplars are pointers into the corpus, verified by a test — never typed from memory.
A reference page
All seventeen rules in teaching order, in full, in the same wording the panel uses — one shared component, so they cannot drift apart.
Four ways to display the page
Three of them keep the printed layout exactly, because they draw the same word glyphs. The fourth reflows the lines — and the app says so in the option’s own description, rather than leaving you to discover it.
Mushaf (black and white)
The original mushaf script
Mushaf with tajweed
The King Fahd colour font — precise, letter by letter
Word colouring
Approximate: one colour per word
Text with tajweed
Reflowed text — does not match the printed page
Five paper colours
Every text colour in every theme is checked for WCAG AA against every surface in that theme, and the check runs as part of the build rather than as a review someone remembers to do.
Cream
Sepia
White
Green
Night
Four ways to transliterate
They are not interchangeable. “As recited” is the only recitation-aware one — it shows idgham across a word boundary and the pausal form. The letter-by-letter schemes follow the written script faithfully and cannot do those things, which the app says rather than implies.
Off
Arabic and translation only
As recited
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem — shows idgham and madd as a reciter says them
Letter by letter
bismi llahi r-rahmani r-rahimi — follows the written script exactly
Letter by letter, with marks
bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi — precise, but assumes you read the marks
Seventeen rules, in teaching order
Each rule has a card: what the mouth actually does and for how many counts, when it occurs, the common mistake, and an example from the mushaf recited in the reciter you chose.
Madd lāzimMadd wājibMadd jāʾizMadd ṭabīʿīQalqalahGhunnahIqlābIkhfāʾIkhfāʾ shafawīIdghām with ghunnahIdghām without ghunnahIdghām shafawīIdghām mutajānisaynIdghām mutaqāribaynLām shamsiyyahHamzat al-waṣlSilent letter
These are the app’s own colours, used by the text and per-word modes. The official colour font’s palette is baked into the font and is not restyled.
Your data
There is no server, so nothing is uploaded
No account, no sign-up, nothing storing your reading on someone else’s machine. Your notes, bookmarks and the pages you have read live in your browser; moving them to another device is a file you export yourself.
No account, no server
No sign-up, no sync, no tracking. There is nothing to send because there is nothing to receive it.
Works offline
The shell is precached; pages, fonts, translations and tafsir are kept as you visit them, so you can come back with no network.
Your file is yours
Export everything as JSON whenever you like. An import is fully validated and replaces your data in one transaction — never half-applied.
Audio is never cached
Recitation streams and is not stored by the app, so it cannot quietly fill your device.
Two readers, one mushaf
The same 604 pages and the same recitation in both. They differ in the language of the interface, and in what runs beside the page.
altanzil — in English
You are hereAn English interface with the translation, the transliteration and a short tafsir beside every verse. For readers who do not know the script.
Open the mushafالتنزيل — in Arabic
An Arabic interface with seven tafsirs, iʿrāb and the full hifz trainer — scheduled review, memorisation programmes, the daily ward and the self-test drills. None of that is in the English app.
Open the Arabic versionQuestions you might have
Do I need an account?
No — there is no sign-up at all. You open the link and read, and everything you create is saved in your browser on that device.
Does it work offline?
The page, its font, the translation, the transliteration and the tafsir are all cached on first visit, so they come back with no network. Recitation audio streams and is deliberately never cached, so that part needs a connection.
Can I read the Arabic if I do not know the script?
That is what this fork is for. Every verse carries a translation and, if you want it, a transliteration — with a standing reminder that the transliteration helps you recognise words rather than recite them correctly. For reciting, use the audio.
Which translations are included?
Two. Rowwad is literal and carries footnotes; Itani is plainer prose without them. Both are displayed with the credit their licence requires, permanently and not behind a disclosure.
Is this the memorisation app?
No. Hifz mode, review scheduling, memorisation programmes and the self-test drills are not in this app — they live in the Arabic one. Marking a passage and repeating an ayah or a passage are here, because those are audio features.
Do my notes move between my devices?
Not automatically — that would need a server, and there is not one. Export a JSON file on one device and import it on the other. The import replaces all current data, and is checked before it is applied.
Open the page you left off at
No sign-up, no install, no permission prompt. One link and you are reading.
Open the mushaf