How FeelQuran works

FeelQuran teaches one thing: the meaning of the words you already read and recite. It starts with what you say in salah, and it works one word at a time, inside the ayat themselves.

Salah first

The first words you learn are the ones you say most: al-Fatiha, the opening and closing words of the prayer, the tasbih of ruku' and sujud, the tashahhud, the salawat, and the short surahs recited most often, such as al-Ikhlas. When you know every word of them, you understand everything you say in your salah. After that the course moves on to the ayat you hear most in recitation, and in the long run to every word of the Qur'an.

One word at a time, in real ayat

Every exercise is about a word in an ayah or a line of the prayer. The words around it show their meanings, so you always see the word in its place. There are many kinds of exercise: choosing a word's meaning, hearing a word and choosing it, catching a word in a recitation, matching words and meanings, sorting words of the same root into their family, and completing the meaning of a whole ayah. Short notes point out a piece or a pattern of a word when it helps, and mnemonics help with the words that are hard to keep.

The app chooses every exercise

There are no lessons to pick and no fixed order. FeelQuran decides each next exercise for you, from everything you have answered: a new word when you're ready for one, a word you are about to forget, or an ayah you can now understand completely. It uses spaced repetition (the FSRS method), so a word comes back just before you would forget it, and it judges how well you know a word from how you answer, so you never have to rate yourself.

It can do this because the Qur'an is a closed, fully known text: 6,236 ayat and about 77,000 words, each already analysed into its root, its form and its parts. For any learner and any ayah, the app can compute which words they know and which they don't. "The app always knows what to do next" is a calculation, not a promise.

Hearing, not only reading

In salah and in the mosque you hear the Qur'an more than you read it. So FeelQuran also teaches you to recognise words in recitation, word by word, with the recording of a reciter. The recitation only plays when you ask for it, and nothing is ever played over it.

Progress you can feel

Progress is counted in what you understand: the words you know and the ayat you can follow completely, shown on a map of the mushaf. When you understand a whole passage, such as al-Fatiha, the app marks the moment. There are no daily goals, no streaks of days, no points for worship and no public leaderboards. You use it as little or as much as you like.

Respect for the text

• All Qur'anic text appears in the Uthmani script of the mushaf you read, in its verified form. It is never misspelled, scrambled, broken up for a game, or used as a wrong answer.
• FeelQuran doesn't generate or rearrange Qur'anic text, doesn't write its own translations of ayat or tafsir, and gives no rulings.
• The tone is reverent but warm: the app is about understanding and presence in salah.

Where it runs

FeelQuran runs on iPhone, on Android and in the browser. On phones it works without a connection: the content and the learning happen on the device, and your progress is kept in sync when you're back online. It is being built now. Leave your email address to hear when it opens.