An iQuran alternative that adds prayer times, adhan, and Qibla to your Quran app.

iQuran has served Muslims as a straightforward Quran reader for many years. It loads the text, plays audio, and gets out of the way. If reading the Quran is all you need from your phone, it does that job respectably. But it stops there, and for most practicing Muslims, the Quran is only half of the daily picture.

The other half is prayer: knowing when to pray, hearing the adhan, and staying accountable to each of the five daily prayers. iQuran offers none of that. No prayer times. No adhan alerts. No Qibla compass. No phone-lock when the call to prayer arrives.

Here's the short version: FivePrayer is the app for users who want the Quran reader and the prayer app in one place, all free, no account, no ads. The Quran reader covers all 114 surahs with Arabic text, translation in 8 languages, and audio recitation. The prayer side adds accurate times, adhan notifications, a gentle phone-lock at prayer time, and an offline Qibla compass.

Why iQuran users look for more

iQuran users typically start looking for a replacement or an addition when they realize their daily Islamic practice requires tools beyond the Quran reader. The patterns we hear most often:

• No prayer times or adhan. You have to open a separate app to know when Fajr or Asr starts. The two core parts of Muslim daily life, Quran and prayer, require two separate apps.
• No Qibla compass. Traveling, moving into a new home, or praying somewhere unfamiliar means reaching for a different tool.
• No push notifications at prayer time. iQuran doesn't know when it's Maghrib. Your phone won't remind you.
• No phone-lock at adhan. Even if another app sends a notification, it's trivial to dismiss. FivePrayer's optional phone-lock gives the adhan some weight.
• Premium features cost money. iQuran Pro is not free. Additional translations and audio are behind a paywall.
• No cross-platform parity. iQuran's iOS and Android experiences are maintained by different developers in some versions. FivePrayer ships identically on both platforms.

If any of this matches why you're searching, the comparison below shows exactly where FivePrayer fills the gaps.

Feature-by-feature comparison

What iQuran provides, and what FivePrayer covers in the same categories, plus what FivePrayer adds that iQuran doesn't attempt.

What FivePrayer's Quran reader includes

When we built the Quran reader into FivePrayer, the goal was simple: every feature that people actually use, free, with no paywall between the user and the text.

What's included:

• All 114 surahs with clean Arabic text, fully vowelized (with harakat).
• Translations in 8 languages: English, Arabic (Tafseer mode), French, Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish, Urdu, and Malay. Switch languages from within any surah.
• Audio recitation from curated reciters. Listen to the full surah or individual ayahs.
• Bookmarking to save your place across reading sessions.
• Offline access once the app is loaded. No internet required to read or listen.
• Calm reading mode with a dark background option, good for night reading after Isha or before Fajr.

This covers what the vast majority of iQuran users rely on daily. The reading experience is intentionally calm and distraction-free, no ads between surahs, no upgrade prompts in the middle of a page.

If you use iQuran primarily for memorization tools, word-by-word translation, or very specialized tajweed color-coding, those features are available in dedicated apps like Tarteel AI or Quran.com's word-by-word mode. FivePrayer's Quran reader covers reading and listening comprehensively; the memorization toolset is a separate category.

What changes: better and worse

What gets meaningfully better

• Prayer and Quran in one app. No more switching between iQuran and a prayer times app. Everything lives together, and they reinforce each other. Finishing a recitation before Fajr and seeing the countdown to prayer start in the same app is a different experience than flipping between two.
• No premium tier. Every feature is free. Translations, reciters, widgets, family mode, the Quran reader, and the prayer tools are all one tier.
• You'll actually know when to pray. The biggest gap in using iQuran alone is that you're responsible for monitoring the time. FivePrayer handles that entirely with notifications and the optional adhan lock.
• The phone-lock is genuinely different. A notification is something you process and dismiss. The phone-lock creates a brief, quiet moment where the adhan plays and the screen softens. Users who switch from iQuran plus a prayer app consistently say this is the feature that changed their habits the most.
• Android support matches iOS. FivePrayer ships identically on both platforms. If some of your household uses Android and some iOS, everyone gets the same app.

What you'll miss

• Advanced memorization tools. If iQuran Pro's repetition and memorization features are central to your daily practice, you may want to keep a dedicated app alongside FivePrayer. Tarteel AI is the strongest option in that space.
• Word-by-word translation display. FivePrayer shows full-verse translation, not word-by-word alignment. Quran.com's mobile app is the best option for this specific feature.
• Very large reciter libraries. FivePrayer includes a curated set of reciters. If you rely on a niche reciter not in that set, you may need an additional app.

How to switch in 5 minutes

1. Install FivePrayer from the App Store or Play Store.
2. Allow location during onboarding. FivePrayer uses this to calculate your local prayer times. No account is needed at any point.
3. Set up prayer notifications. Go to Settings and choose which of the five prayers play adhan aloud and which use the phone-lock. Many users start with Maghrib and Isha, where it's easiest to notice the difference.
4. Open the Quran reader. It's the Quran tab at the bottom. Browse or search by surah name or number. Pick your translation language from the settings inside the reader.
5. Set a bookmark where you left off in iQuran. FivePrayer's bookmarks sync across sessions.
6. Keep iQuran for a week if you rely on features outside FivePrayer's reader. After a week, most users have worked out what they need.

FAQ

Does FivePrayer's Quran reader work offline?

Yes. Once the app is installed and you've opened the Quran section, the text and translations are available offline. Audio recitation may require an initial download, but once cached it also works without a connection.

Which translation languages are available in FivePrayer's Quran reader?

English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Indonesian, Turkish, Urdu, and Malay. Arabic and Urdu display right to left. All eight are free with no paywall.

What if I use iQuran mainly for Quran memorization?

FivePrayer's Quran reader covers reading and listening. If memorization tools (repetition mode, verse highlighting, tracking memorized verses) are central to your practice, keep a dedicated memorization app alongside FivePrayer. Tarteel AI is the strongest option for this purpose.

Is the adhan phone-lock optional?

Yes. You can turn it on for individual prayers. Many users enable it for Maghrib and Isha and leave Fajr as a regular notification. You can disable it entirely if you prefer standard notifications.

Does FivePrayer require creating an account?

No. The full app works without signing up, no email, no social login, nothing. Location is used only to calculate local prayer times, on-device, not stored.