IQRA Privacy Policy

This policy explains how IQRA (“the app”), made by RZ TechStudios (“we”, “us”), handles information. It applies to the IQRA app on Android and iOS, including IQRA’s home-screen widgets on Android. It does not cover this website, which has its own practices.

The short version: IQRA has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no trackers, and we run no backend for it; the one thing it fetches from us is a public file on this website. Everything you enter stays on your device, except your location, which is used as explained under Location. The app goes online only to fetch content: weather, your city’s name, Quran recitation, translations, hadith collections and app updates. Your city’s name is looked up by your phone’s operating system, not by IQRA itself. None of IQRA’s own requests say who you are.

We do not sell, rent or share your personal information. IQRA never sends us anything you have entered. When it checks for essential updates, our website host (Vercel) sees the IP address of that request as part of serving the file; we do not use it to identify anyone.

IQRA keeps the following in the app’s private storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us, and we have no way to see it.

Your location and city

Prayer times, the Qibla direction, and your city shown at the top of the app.

Settings

Theme, language, prayer calculation method, madhab and reminder times.

Dhikr log and your own adhkar

The tasbih counter, its history and the per-dhikr statistics.

Salah and fasting trackers

Your record of prayers and fasts.

Zakat

Payments you record, your haul date, and the Zakat calculator’s figures — kept until you tap Reset, so a calculation can be finished later.

Quran

Bookmarks, reading position, reader settings, and your memorisation (hifz) plans and revision schedule.

Hadith

Narrations you save and where you left off reading.

Home shortcuts

The shortcuts you pin to the home screen.

Downloaded content

Recitation audio, translations and hadith collections you chose to download. This is public text and audio, not information about you.

App housekeeping

A copy of the data the widgets display, the result of the update check, and (on Android) a count of app opens used to time a single review request.

Uninstalling IQRA deletes all of it.

IQRA asks for permission to use your device’s precise location. It is used to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction, and to show your city. Your coordinates are saved on your device so the app works without asking again; your phone’s operating system turns them into the city or region name you see.

Location is optional. If you decline, IQRA keeps working without weather and without detecting your location automatically. You can grant or withdraw the permission at any time in your phone’s settings.

Your location leaves your device in two ways:

• The weather lookup described below. IQRA sends your coordinates rounded to about 5 km, never your exact position.
• Your city’s name. When you set or update your location, your phone’s operating system sends your precise coordinates to its geocoding service, which returns the city or region name. That service is Apple’s on iPhone and iPad, and usually Google’s on Android. The request is made by the operating system, not by IQRA’s own code, and only at that moment, never in the background.

IQRA never links your location to your identity, never uses it for advertising and never uses it to track you. Apple’s and Google’s handling of the city-name request is covered by their own privacy policies, linked below.

IQRA reaches the network in the seven situations below; the city-name lookup is made for it by your phone’s operating system. Each one is a request for content or an update, not a report about you, and none of IQRA’s own requests contains an account, a name or a device identifier. As with any internet request, the server that answers can see your device’s IP address. For the essential-update check, that server belongs to our website host, Vercel, which sees the IP address as part of serving the file; we do not use it to identify anyone.

1. 01Weather

   Open-Meteo · api.open-meteo.com

   When

   To show the temperature and conditions next to prayer times. Results are reused for about 30 minutes rather than fetched repeatedly.

   Sends

   Your coordinates, rounded to about 5 km. No key and no account.

   Open-Meteo privacy policy↗

2. 02City name

   Apple (iOS) / Google (Android)

   When

   When you set or update your location.

   Sends

   Your precise coordinates, sent by your phone’s operating system.

   Apple privacy policy↗Google privacy policy↗

3. 03Quran recitation

   Islamic Network CDN · cdn.islamic.network

   When

   Only when you play or download a recitation.

   Sends

   The reciter and the verse number.

4. 04Quran translations

   AlQuran.cloud · api.alquran.cloud

   When

   Only when you choose a translation other than the built-in Saheeh International. Each translation is downloaded once, then read offline.

   Sends

   The name of the translation — never which verse you are reading.

5. 05Hadith collections

   jsDelivr · cdn.jsdelivr.net

   When

   Only when you download a collection. Browsing, reading and search are offline afterwards.

   Sends

   The collection, language and book number. A whole book is fetched at a time, so the request cannot reveal which narration you read.

   jsDelivr privacy policy↗

6. 06App updates

   Expo (EAS Update) · u.expo.dev

   When

   Once when the app starts, in the background. It never delays opening the app.

   Sends

   Your platform (Android or iOS), the app’s runtime version and release channel, and the ID of the update already installed. No location and no usage data.

   Expo (EAS Update) privacy policy↗

7. 07Essential-update check

   RZ TechStudios, served by Vercel · www.rztechstudios.com

   When

   At most once per app session, to find out whether your installed version has been withdrawn and must be updated from the store.

   Sends

   Nothing beyond the request for one public file, which is identical for everyone, plus a cache-busting number that is the same for every device in the same 5-minute window. Your app version is compared on your device, not sent.

   Vercel privacy policy↗

Except for the essential-update check, which is served from our own website, these services are run by others and we have no access to their records. Their own privacy policies are linked where they publish one. For the update check, we have added no analytics, logging or log forwarding. Vercel’s dashboard shows us requests to our website from the past hour only, the limit of our hosting plan, and we do not copy or keep them. Anything Vercel itself retains is covered by its privacy policy.

• Your name, email address, phone number or contacts.
• Any account or sign-in — there is none.
• Advertising IDs or device identifiers used for tracking.
• Usage analytics, crash reports or other telemetry.
• Your photos. IQRA does not ask for access to your photo library.
• Your clipboard. IQRA only ever writes to it, when you tap to copy something — it never reads what you have copied elsewhere.
• Payment details. IQRA has no in-app purchases, no subscription and no card entry.

Some features hand something to another app — but only when you tap them, and always through your phone’s own share sheet, mail app, store or browser. We never see what you pick or whether you sent it.

Backup file

Settings → Your data creates a single file containing everything IQRA has stored, including your saved location, so you can move to a new phone. The file is plain, readable text on purpose — it is yours to open and keep. Store it as you would any personal document.

Sharing a reading as a picture

The share button on the verse or hadith of the day creates an image of that reading, its translation, its reference and — for a hadith — its grade. It contains nothing about you: no name, location or timestamp. The image is made on your device and cleared before the next one.

Rate and Share IQRA

These open the store listing, or your share sheet with a short message and a link to the app.

Emailing us

The contact option opens your mail app with a draft that includes the app version and your operating-system version, to help us with support. You can see it before you send. We use what you send only to reply to you.

Support IQRA

This screen shows how to contribute to the app’s development. Tapping a detail copies it to your clipboard; the website link opens your browser, where that website’s own privacy practices apply. No money changes hands inside the app, and IQRA never learns whether anyone contributed.

On Android, IQRA opts out of Android’s automatic cloud backup, so your data is not silently copied to your Google account. Moving your data is always your decision, made with the backup file above.

When you restore a backup, IQRA reads only the file you pick in the system file picker. The file is checked field by field, and anything it does not recognise is ignored.

Widgets show information the app already holds, such as prayer times, today’s readings and your trackers. IQRA keeps a copy of that information in its private storage for the widgets to read. Widgets never connect to the internet.

The Salah, Fasting and Tasbih widgets can record an entry when you tap them, without opening the app. They write to the same on-device records the app uses and nowhere else. The Qibla widget shows a fixed direction worked out from your saved location; it does not use your location live.

Location

Asked for in the app, and optional. Used as described above.

Vibration (Android)

For haptic feedback, such as each count on the tasbih. It reads nothing.

Run at startup (Android)

Lets the widgets reschedule their prayer-time updates after your phone restarts. It raises no prompt and reads nothing.

Your data stays on your device until you delete it or uninstall the app. You can also:

• Delete a downloaded translation in Quran Settings.
• Delete a downloaded hadith collection in Settings → Daily readings → Downloaded collections, or from the Hadith section.
• Clear the Zakat calculator with Reset.
• Delete any backup files you have exported, wherever you saved them.

Because we hold none of the data you enter in IQRA, there is nothing for us to look up, correct or delete on request. You are still welcome to contact us with any question.

• Your data is kept in the app’s private storage, which other apps cannot read on a phone that has not been rooted or jailbroken.
• App updates are cryptographically signed, and IQRA refuses to run an update that we did not sign.
• Downloaded translations are checked against a fingerprint recorded when the app was built, and hadith collections come from a fixed version, so the text you read cannot be changed without a new app release.
• Backup files are not encrypted — that is what lets you open and keep them yourself. Treat them like any document containing your location.

IQRA does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. It has no accounts, no advertising and no way to contact other users.

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA give you the right to access, correct, delete or take a copy of your personal data, and to object to how it is used. With IQRA you can exercise these directly: everything IQRA stores is on your device, the backup file gives you a complete and readable copy, and uninstalling the app deletes it. We do not sell or share personal information.

If a change to IQRA affects how it handles information — for example a new online service — we will update this policy and the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in IQRA? Get in touch with RZ TechStudios and we’ll reply.