The Best Free Quran App in 2026 — An Honest Comparison

A confession before we start: we make one of the apps in this comparison.

We’re going to compare Get Quran honestly against the three apps most South Asian and Gulf Muslims actually download — Muslim Pro, Quran Majeed, and Islam360. We won’t pretend we win on every metric. We don’t. But the picture is clearer than most “best Quran app” listicles want it to be, because most of those listicles are written by people who haven’t actually opened a paywall and counted the locked features.

Here’s what we found.

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The Quick Answer

If you want the short version: download Get Quran if you want a Quran app that is genuinely free forever, has Roman Urdu translation, and won’t show you a casino ad in the middle of Surah Yasin. Download something else if you want a deeper hadith library or a feature we haven’t built yet — we’ll be honest about which ones.

For the longer version — and the part where we explain why “free” usually isn’t free — keep reading.

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Get Quran in Numbers

Before the comparison: a few honest stats about where Get Quran stands right now.

The app crossed 1,100 downloads on Android in its first four weeks on Google Play — organic, no paid installs, no incentivized downloads. It currently holds a 5.0 star rating across 12 reviews (as of April 2026, verified on the Play Store).

Here’s what people are actually saying:

“Amazing app! The word-by-word translation is exactly what I needed to understand the meaning of the verses better. The interface is clean and easy to navigate. Highly recommended for daily reflections.” — Raina Naz, Google Play review

“I really appreciate this initiative. Translating the Quran into 45 languages allows non-Arabic speakers to connect with its teachings and better understand its meaning. It’s a meaningful step toward spreading knowledge and unity.” — Sonia Hassan, Google Play review

We’re a new app. 1,100 downloads isn’t Muslim Pro’s 150 million. But it’s an honest number from real users who found us without advertising, and a 5.0 rating means every person who left a review was satisfied. We’ll take it.

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The Comparison

We put four apps side by side using prices from the App Store and Play Store in India and the UAE in April 2026. We installed all of them on a fresh device and noted what each showed.

A few things to flag before we go through them one by one.

The “Cost” row is the price for the full experience. Most of these apps are technically free to download. The cost we listed is what you pay to actually unlock all features without ads — about $11 a year for Muslim Pro Premium, around $50 one-time for Quran Majeed, around $79 lifetime for Islam360. Get Quran is $0. Always.

“Inappropriate ads” means we saw them. When we tested the free tiers of Muslim Pro and Islam360 on Indian and UAE App Store accounts, we saw ads we wouldn’t want anyone to see while opening the Quran. Quran Majeed’s ads are served by a generic ad network with no filtering for Islamic context. We’re not going to describe specific ads. You can imagine.

The Roman Urdu row matters more than it looks. More on that below.

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Muslim Pro — Polished, Popular, and the Privacy Story Nobody Forgets

Muslim Pro is the most-downloaded Muslim app in the world — roughly 150 million downloads. The Adhan voices are beautiful. The interface is clean. If you grew up with Islamic apps, you’ve probably opened it at some point.

Two things to know.

One: the free version costs you in attention and privacy. Free Muslim Pro shows ads. Some are tasteful, many are not. Offline Quran reading sits behind Premium. So does ad removal. So does Hifz mode. Premium runs about $10.99 a year, give or take by region.

Two: the X-Mode story. In November 2020, Vice Motherboard published an investigation showing that Muslim Pro had been sending user location data to a broker called X-Mode Social, which then sold that data to defense contractors — including the U.S. military, specifically U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The story was picked up by Al Jazeera, Religion News Service, and Vice itself.

Muslim Pro disputed the framing. They acknowledged sharing anonymized location data with X-Mode but said reports they were “selling personal data to the U.S. military” were “incorrect and untrue.” Within days they terminated the X-Mode relationship and announced a privacy review.

That was over five years ago. Muslim Pro today is a different product. We mention this not to drag them — but because the question “what does this app do with my prayer times and my location?” is one Muslims should ask of any Islamic app, ours included. We have no ad networks, no analytics SDKs, and no location brokers in Get Quran. We have nothing to sell, because we’re not the kind of business that monetizes users.

If you’re already a happy Muslim Pro Premium user and the price doesn’t bother you, there’s no urgent reason to switch.

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Quran Majeed — A Veteran with Old DNA

Quran Majeed has been around since the early smartphone era. The translations bundled in the app are genuinely good — classical tafsir alongside the Arabic.

The trade-offs: heavy ads in the free tier, no curation for Islamic context, roughly $50 to unlock everything permanently. No Roman Urdu.

If you’re a paying Quran Majeed Premium user who loves the tafsir integration, fair. It’s a solid app for that.

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Islam360 — The Strong Competitor

Islam360 is the app we respect most among the three. The hadith library alone is worth the install — nine major collections bundled. The tafsir collection is deep. They have Roman Urdu.

Where it falls short: it’s not free. A lifetime unlock is roughly $79, and the free tier carries ads that aren’t curated for Islamic context. Translations cap at 30+ versus our 45+.

We’ll be plain: if you want depth in hadith and you’re willing to pay, Islam360 lifetime is a fair purchase. We don’t match them on hadith breadth. We bundle three books — Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and The Sealed Nectar. For most users that’s enough. For serious students of hadith, Islam360’s library is better.

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Get Quran — What We Built, and Where We Don’t Measure Up

We’ll skip the marketing voice.

What we got right:

45+ translations, all bundled offline. Open the app on a flight, in a basement, with no signal — the translation is there. Including Roman Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Indonesian, Turkish, French, Spanish, Persian, Russian, and dozens more.

Roman Urdu translation. The feature we’re proudest of, and the reason the app exists. Read why it matters — it’s a documented literacy gap affecting hundreds of millions of South Asian Muslims, and it’s the one thing Muslim Pro and Quran Majeed still don’t offer.

Prayer times with full Sunnah/Fard/Witr rakah breakdown. Most apps tell you when Dhuhr starts. We tell you that Dhuhr is 4 Sunnah + 4 Fard + 2 Sunnah = 10 rakat. For people who’ve drifted from regular prayer, this is the difference between “I’ll figure it out later” and “I can do this right now.”

Hifz mode with verse-loop repetition. Free.

5.0 rating, 1,100+ downloads in first four weeks on Android. Zero paid installs. Just people finding it and staying.

Zero ads. Ever. No “Premium” tier. No subscription.

What we don’t have yet:

Tasbeeh counter. Coming soon. Every other app in this comparison has one. We don’t yet. If this is essential to you, keep another app alongside us for now.

Wider hadith library. Three books versus Islam360’s nine. Genuine gap.

Community / social features. By design — we don’t need to know who you are.

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Why Get Quran Stays Free Forever

Quick honest answer: Get Quran the app is the digital arm of a physical Quran distribution organisation. We’ve shipped over 1,000 free physical copies of the Quran with Roman Urdu translation, funded by sponsors who donate toward distribution. The app is built and maintained by the same team on the same model.

Because we’re not advertiser-funded, we have no reason to sell ad space. Because we’re not subscription-funded, we have no reason to lock features. Because we’re not data-funded, we don’t run analytics or location brokers.

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Which App Should You Actually Use?

You’re a South Asian Muslim and you struggle with Urdu Nastaliq script. Get Quran. The Roman Urdu translation is the reason we built the app, and Muslim Pro and Quran Majeed don’t have it.

You want a deep hadith library and you’ll pay for it. Islam360 lifetime. We can’t match nine collections yet.

You’re already a happy Muslim Pro Premium user. No need to switch. The product is fine, the price is fair, the privacy controversy is years old.

You want zero ads, zero subscription, all features free. Get Quran. None of the other three offer this.

You want the absolute simplest free app with no extras. Quran.com is open-source, free, no ads. No Roman Urdu, no prayer times, no Qibla — but if pure reading is all you want, they do that well.

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Try Get Quran

Free on the App Store and Google Play. 5.0 stars, 1,100+ downloads in four weeks, rated for everyone.

If after a week you don’t like it, delete it. We’d rather you read the Quran in any app than not at all.

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This comparison was researched and written by the Get Quran team. Verified pricing and feature data was collected from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store in India and the UAE in April 2026. The Muslim Pro X-Mode reporting cited was originally published by Vice Motherboard in November 2020, corroborated by Al Jazeera, Religion News Service, and Middle East Eye.