Privacy Policy
Mashallah: Scroll The Quran has no ads and no accounts. Your reading progress, streaks, notes, saved ayahs, plans, memorization reviews and settings are stored only on your device. We keep only what you type into Rafiki, cards you choose to share as a link, anonymous usage events and crash reports, with nothing that identifies you (see below). We never sell your data.
What stays on your device
- Reading progress, streaks, notes, saved ayahs, reading plans, memorization reviews and settings.
- Downloaded Quran text and audio for offline use.
- Your approximate location, if you turn on a reminder that is timed by prayer times (see below).
Deleting the app deletes all of this. We have no copy of it.
Location (reminders timed by prayer times)
The app only asks for your location if you turn on an optional reminder that is timed by prayer times, and only while you're using it. Your location is rounded to about 1 km and used on your device to work out the time of day for the reminder. To show your town's name, the app uses your phone's built-in geocoding service (Apple's on iPhone, Google's on Android), which follows Apple's or Google's privacy policy. Your location is never sent to us. You can turn off the reminder or revoke location access at any time in Settings.
Memorization and the microphone
On the Memorization screen you can tap the microphone and recite a passage from memory, and the app checks each word. The app asks for microphone and speech recognition access only when you first tap it, and you can use Memorization without it.
While you recite, your voice goes to your phone's own speech recognition service, which turns it into text: Apple's on iPhone, under Apple's privacy policy, and Google's on Android, under Google's privacy policy. Depending on your phone, this may happen on the phone or on their servers. The app compares the text with the passage on your phone. Nothing you say is recorded, kept or sent to us. Your memorization progress stays on your device. You can turn off microphone access at any time in Settings.
Rafiki
When you type a question into Rafiki, the question and the earlier messages in that conversation are sent to our server. Our server passes them to Anthropic's Claude model to write an answer, then returns the answer to you. To improve Rafiki's answers, we keep a copy of each question and its answer for 90 days, with your rating if you tap 👍 or 👎, your device type (iPhone or Android) and the app's language. Nothing you ask is linked to your identity: we don't store your IP address, an account or a device ID with it. After 90 days it's deleted automatically. To limit abuse, our server counts requests from each IP address for up to a day. That count isn't kept with your questions. Anthropic processes the request under its privacy policy and commercial terms.
Rafiki is optional. Don't type personal information into it.
Quran text, translations and audio
The app downloads Quran text, translations, tafsir and recitations from public Quran services: AlQuran Cloud, Quran.com, QuranEnc and Islamic Network. Like any website, these services see your device's IP address when it requests content. We don't send them anything else about you.
Subscriptions
If you subscribe, the purchase is made through Apple or Google, who handle your payment details. We never see your card or bank details. The app uses RevenueCat to check your subscription with the store. RevenueCat receives a random ID the app makes, your purchase history from the store and your device type and country, under its privacy policy. The random ID isn't linked to your name or email.
Android beta
If you sign up for the Android beta on our website, we keep the email you give us, when you signed up and a random ID the website makes, so we can add you to the beta's tester list on Google Play and send you the invite. We don't use it for anything else. To be taken off the list, email us at the address below.
Sharing
When you share an ayah, the app opens your device's share sheet. What you share, and with whom, is up to you. Sharing text or an image sends nothing to us.
If you tap Share link on a card, the app uploads the card to our server so the link can show it. We keep the card image, a wide copy of it for link previews, which ayahs it quotes, any words you added to it, and when it was made. Anyone with the link can see the card, and apps like WhatsApp and iMessage show it as the link's preview. The card isn't linked to your identity: we don't store your IP address, an account or a device ID with it. To limit abuse, our server counts uploads from each IP address for up to an hour. That count isn't kept with the card.
We keep shared cards so their links keep working. To have a card deleted, email us its link at the address below. We may also take down cards that misuse the Quran or the app. Don't add personal information to a card you share as a link.
Notifications
Reminders, such as the optional daily reminder (Surah Al-Kahf on Fridays), are scheduled locally on your device. We don't send push notifications.
Usage events and crash reports
To learn what helps readers and what to fix, the app records anonymous events about how it's used:
- Which parts of the app you open and roughly how long you spend in each, and features you use, such as Explain, sharing, saving, listening, paths, Memorization and Rafiki.
- Which ayahs you view, as references like 2:255, so we can see how far readers get. Never the text of an ayah, a note or a Rafiki question.
- Settings you change, onboarding steps, subscription screens you see and the plan you pick, and when a free trial starts or a purchase is restored.
- The daily reminder: it comes quietly early each morning, and at 11:00 on Fridays for Surah Al-Kahf. We record which reminder time the install has, when the reminder is turned on or off or scheduled, when you tap one, and when you open the app.
- Errors that stop the app working, with a technical description of what went wrong, so we can fix them.
Each event is stored on your device and sent to our server with a random ID the app makes when it's installed, your device type, the app's version, whether you're subscribed, how many days since you installed it, and the time. Events contain no name, account, email or location, and the random ID isn't linked to you. We don't store your IP address with them. We keep them for 90 days, then delete them automatically. Deleting the app deletes the random ID.
Children
The app does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the effective date above.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email sigfigs789@gmail.com.