QURANEYE

A distraction-free Quran reader: the text set as one continuous passage, your place kept, and everything that usually clutters a mushaf app left out. Built, owned and operated by Tothiq.

The problem it addresses

Most Quran apps break the text into one verse per block, wrap each block in its own controls, and surround the lot with menus. The page reads like a database listing rather than a page of a mushaf, and the thing people came to do — read — becomes the hardest thing on the screen.

QURANEYE sets the verses beside each other as one passage, each closed by its numbered medallion, the way the printed page does. Your place is kept, the page turns where the Madinah mushaf turns, and the controls appear only when you reach for them.

What building it taught us

Arabic typography here is not a font choice, it is three of them. The Quranic face carries the mark glyphs the scripture needs but draws ordinary punctuation as dotted placeholders, so no prose can be set in it. And neither face gives usable Arabic-Indic digits — the Quranic one maps them to verse ornaments — so the numerals had to be cut as a typeface of their own.

Offline has to include the code, not only the pages. Caching the HTML of a surah and leaving its scripts behind produces a page that renders and then does nothing, which is worse than having no offline mode at all, because it looks like it worked.

And identity is avoidable more often than people assume. Accounts here are passkeys only: no email, no password, no name — so there is nothing to reset, nothing to deliver and nothing to leak. Two devices reconcile by merging whole sections with the newer side winning, rather than comparing saved items one by one.

Where it is

Live at quraneye.com, Arabic first with English alongside. It is where most of our practical experience with bilingual applications that have to be right in Arabic before they are right in English comes from.