Quran by Quranly

Review by eFreeware

Most Quran apps are libraries: you open them, find a surah, read, and close them again. Quranly takes a different angle. The developer describes it as a habit-building app first and a reader second, and the whole design follows from that idea. Streaks, reminders and a daily progress view sit at the center rather than being bolted on.

That framing tells you who it is for. If your goal is to read a little every day and you keep losing the thread after a few weeks, an app that treats consistency as the main feature makes more sense than one that simply holds the text. Readers who already have a routine and just want a clean reading surface will find the emphasis lands elsewhere.

It is free to download, carries no ads, and offers in-app purchases. More than a million people have installed it, and it holds a 4.5 average across 19,103 ratings. The app first appeared in April 2021 and was updated in September 2026, so it is an actively developed project rather than a static one.

Streaks, reminders and the daily nudge

The core mechanism is the streak. The app keeps a running record of your reading days. For anyone who responds to that kind of visible chain, it is a simple motivator that costs nothing to maintain and is easy to understand at a glance.

Reminders back it up. Reminders are part of the feature set. A Daily Reading Indicator is included. Together these two features are part of the habit layer.

Challenges add a second layer for readers who want a defined target rather than an open-ended daily habit. The developer also points to a balanced design as one of the app's benefits, which in practice means the habit tools are meant to sit alongside the reading rather than crowd it out. Whether that balance works for you depends on how much structure you want around the text itself.

Tracking progress and reading the text

Quranly gives you a visual picture of your progress, updated daily. A tracker is included alongside the streak. If you like seeing a month of reading laid out rather than a single number, the tracker is where that lives.

On the reading side, the recent update added Auto Next. That is a small thing, but it matters if you read in longer stretches and would rather not tap the screen between every verse.

Translations are handled with a limit of two at a time, which suits readers who want a single rendering alongside the Arabic or who want to compare two side by side. Search has been improved, and chapter search has been added. The developer lists fixes to font size, the Arabic Rub al Hizb star indicator, the calendar, the leaderboard and notifications in the same update, along with a minimum supported app version of 3.0.76.

What it costs and what the purchases are

The app is free to download. The developer does offer in-app purchases, so there is a paid element somewhere in the product.

I would treat that combination as a reasonable one. Whatever the purchases cover, they sit alongside a free experience.

One practical note is version support: the minimum supported app version is 3.0.76.

How it compares with a plain Quran reader

The obvious alternative is a general-purpose Quran reading app: text, translations, audio, bookmarks, and not much else. Those tend to be broader in raw reading features and neutral about how often you open them. Quranly inverts that. It is narrower in focus and much more interested in whether you came back today.

There is also the paper-and-notebook approach, which costs nothing and has no streaks, reminders or tracker at all. If accountability is something you supply for yourself, that works fine and always has. Quranly is for the reader who wants the app to hold some of that weight instead.

A third option is a general habit-tracking app paired with a separate reader. That gives you flexibility, but it splits the two halves of the task across two places. Quranly's argument is that keeping the habit tools and the text in one app makes the daily decision simpler. For readers who have bounced off that split setup before, that is a real difference.

A habit app for readers who need the nudge

Quranly is worth installing if your difficulty has never been access to the text but consistency in returning to it. Streaks, reminders, a daily indicator and a tracker are all pointed at the same problem, and the app is free with no ads.

The trade-off is focus. This is a habit tool built around reading, not an exhaustive reading environment, and the translation limit of two at a time reflects that narrower intent. If you want a deep reference library, a general reader will serve you better. If you want something that notices when you skip a day, this is built for exactly that.

My suggestion is to install it, set a reminder for a time you can actually keep, and give the streak a couple of weeks to mean something. The reading features are there when you need them, but the habit layer is the reason to choose this over the reader you already have.

What's new in version 3.0.76

✨ New & Improvements 1) Auto Next: Automatically moves to the next verse when enabled. 2) Daily Reading Indicator: See whether you’ve read today. 3) Multi Translation: Choose up to 2 translations. 4) Improved Quran Search. 5) Added Chapter Search. 🛠️ Fixes & Improvements 1) Fixed user name and font size issues. 2) Fixed Arabic Rub al Hizb star indicator. 3) Fixed calendar, leaderboard, and logout issues. 4) Fixed notification issues. Any feedback or help please email us 😊 [email protected]