Waqfah - Quran before apps
* Words carrying the Quranic madda sign (as in 2:5) drew with letters
split apart on Android 12 and below. They now join correctly, with the
sign drawn as the standard madda mark; Android 13 and up are unchanged
Waqfah does not block apps, set limits, or track usage. There are no accounts and no servers: everything works offline except the optional download of an extra translation.
READING
• Sequential reading — resuming at your lowest unread ayah — or random reading, with progress tracked across all 6,236 ayat.
• Indopak and Uthmani scripts, two bundled Arabic fonts, and adjustable text sizes.
• Optional transliteration and translations in English or Bengali, with more available as downloads.
• Browse any surah, see your per-surah progress, and jump to any ayah.
THE PAUSE
• You choose exactly which apps get a pause.
• A per-app cooldown — or Off — sets the gap before the same app is paused again.
• One reading screen per app open. Never during calls, never on quick switch-backs. Share-sheet and "Open with" entries never count.
• Skipping is one tap, and never held against you.
LOOK AND FEEL
• Seven themes, five accent colours.
• English and Bengali interface, or follow the system language.
PRIVACY
Waqfah collects nothing and sends nothing anywhere. Monitored apps, reading progress, and preferences stay on the device. There are no ads, no analytics, and no trackers. The only network request is an optional translation download that you explicitly start, fetched over HTTPS and verified against a pinned checksum before use.
Waqfah cannot read what is inside other apps: it requests no accessibility or screen-content permissions.
PERMISSIONS
Usage access tells Waqfah which app moved to the foreground, so the reading screen appears at the right moment. Display over other apps lets the reading screen appear over the app that is opening. Notifications keep the required background-service notification visible. Run at startup restarts the monitor after a reboot, but only if Waqfah is toggled on and its permissions are still granted.
CREDITS
The Quran text and the bundled translations come from the Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), used under Tanzil's terms with attribution. The bundled Arabic fonts, Amiri and Digital Khatt Indopak, are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; their licence texts ship inside the app.
Waqfah is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
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* The Digital Khatt Indopak font now loads everywhere it is offered,
including a device that silently fell back to a system font — diacritics
landed on the wrong letters, and Quranic annotation marks drew as empty
boxes
* Matte Black, Material Light and Material Dark replace the Cream,
Midnight and Indigo themes; an old choice falls back to System