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Murooah Quran Library

What open Quran data exists today, what is missing from it, and what small, checkable tools could fill the gaps?

Our research into what open Quran data exists and where the gaps are, from timed audio for every reading (رواية) to access for blind readers. We found ten gaps, a Braille problem that affects thousands of places in one official file, and we are writing a promise for our own apps.

At a glance

Where we are

We have mapped ten gaps in open Quran data and made our first private checks, and the promise for our own apps is at its first draft.

What we are aiming for

  1. Find what open Quran data exists, and check it carefully.
  2. Fill the holes we find by working with the people already doing part of the work, rather than starting from nothing.
  3. Make small tools that anyone can use to check a Quran text for themselves.
  4. Hold our own apps to a written promise about the text and the data of the people who use them.

What we are doing

The Murooah Quran Library is a set of research projects asking where Quran technology still falls short, and what small tools, which anyone can check, could help fill those gaps. We look at what open Quran data already exists, check it carefully, and look for people already doing part of the work whom we could work alongside.

Ten gaps we found

In October 2026 we looked closely at ten gaps, from timed recitation audio for every reading to sign-language meaning for Deaf Muslims. Each one is listed on this page in the words of our research, and each has its own full report behind it.

The gaps, counted

  1. Audio of each reading, with ayah timings
  2. Open, checkable text and a verifier
  3. Learning and checking tools beyond Hafs
  4. Offline masjid recognition
  5. Audio-first Quran for offline, old phones and low literacy
  6. Blind and low-vision access
  7. Trust: privacy, ads and AI misquoting
  8. Spoken translations and missing languages
  9. Quranic schools and children
  10. Sign-language meaning

What we concluded

Every one of the ten gaps is real, and in each one somebody is already doing part of the work, so our role is mostly to partner, check and fill holes rather than start from nothing. Two threads run through all ten, which are that almost nothing outside Hafs is open, timed and checked, and that almost nobody publishes a way for a stranger to check the text they are given.

The Braille problem

We made a desk check of how Braille software copes with the marks used in the Quran across six readings. The software we looked at handles none of the Quranic marks beyond the eight basic vowel marks, and nobody has published a Braille key for two of the North African readings.

We also found that one official Hafs file stores the round zero as the character for the sukun (سُكون), the mark of a letter with no vowel, so a screen reader would read 3,988 places wrongly. Our plan is to check these findings with volunteer blind testers before we build anything.

A way to check the text

Most people who use a Quran app have no way to check the text it shows them. We have made a small offline tool that compares two Quran texts, place by place, and it has 26 tests of its own. A draft rulebook sits behind it, setting out which differences are harmless and which are not, and it is still a draft.

The promise we are writing

We are writing a promise that our Quran apps will keep, about where the text comes from and what happens to the data of the people who use them, and the first draft is written. On 22 October 2026 we checked Mirtal 1.4 against it, without changing the app, and found no permission to use the internet, no tracking or ad code, and none of 428 known tracker signatures.

The same check found three places where the wording in the app falls short of what the promise asks.

What comes next

Next we will look for volunteer blind testers for the Braille work and release version 0.3.2 of the text comparison tool. The promise will have its own page on this website, so that anyone can read what our Quran apps hold themselves to.