What’s new and what’s next
Changes to the app are written here. Features that are not ready yet are listed too, each marked for what it is: being built, or only being considered.
- In the app
- Being built
- Being considered
Version 1.0 · Android
In the app now
Being tested on Android. Not in any app store yet.
Read to unlock
Before an app you chose opens, you read a verse of the Qur’an. Read for at least 1 minute and you get as much app time as you read, up to 30 minutes per reading.
Prayer-time lock
Optional. Prayer times are calculated on your phone, and you can choose the calculation method. When a prayer time comes in, the apps you chose wait until you tap “I’ve prayed”. The lock lifts by itself after 60 minutes at the latest.
Emergency exit
One tap opens all apps for 1 hour. Phone, messaging, maps, emergency calls and Settings are never locked.
Daily streak and statistics
The Today screen shows how many days in a row you have read, the verses you read and the time you unlocked by reading, with a board of the week’s prayers.
Home screen widget
The next prayer time, your streak and the verses you read today, on your home screen without opening the app.
Prayer time notification
A notification when a prayer time comes in.
Daily reading reminder
A reminder once a day to read a verse.
Tablets and foldables
The layout adapts to tablets, foldables, landscape and split screen.
Eight languages
The app is in English, Turkish, Arabic, German, French, Indonesian, Persian and Urdu. Arabic, Persian and Urdu read right to left.
iPhone
Being built now
The iPhone version is being worked on.
iPhone version
Halal Phone comes to Android first. There is no date for iPhone, and no promise is made before there is one.
Later
Being considered
Ideas we are thinking about. They are not promises, and some may never come.
Unlock with dhikr
Opening an app with dhikr, as another way besides reading a verse.
Daily time limit
A limit on how long the apps you chose can be used each day.
Read a surah in order
Choosing a surah and reading it verse by verse, from beginning to end.
Meaning in more languages
Today the meaning of the verse is shown in English only. A translation in another language is added only from a licensed source; permission is still pending.
Get one email when it launches
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