Quran Reader 2
It's been just over a year since we first released Quran Reader for the iPhone and alhamdulillah we are very pleased to announce Quran Reader 2, a free update to all existing Quran Reader users. Completely re-written to take advantage of capabilities in iPhone OS 3.0 we improved upon every aspect of the original Quran Reader. Just a quick rundown of what you can find in Quran Reader 2:
High resolution pages was one of the first requests we got upon releasing the original Quran Reader. This was a tricky one to do, because you want to keep the file size of the app from getting too high. Thankfully we did find a way to double the resolution of the pages and actually lower the file size of the app (png is such an awesome format).
And of course with better resolution comes landscape mode. Once the pages had better resolution landscape mode was an obvious next step. To keep things simple we removed pinch to zoom and now you simply rotate the device to enter landscape mode and zoom in on the page. Reading the Quran like this is a real treat, even if your eyesight isn't all that.
So with those requests taken care of we decided to add something really cool, full text search in English and Arabic. This feature we're really proud of, just start typing in your search term in English or Arabic and you will see a list of words to complete your search term. Tap "Search" or choose one of the options and then you will see a list of results, showing the text of the Ayah in either English or Arabic based on the language of your search term. Definitely try this out, we think you're going to love it.
We also recognize that a lot of our users are non-English speakers, so we added complete user interface localization in English, Arabic and French. We hope this makes the app even more accessible for our users. You can also enable Arabic surah names without having the entire app in Arabic. Simply tap the settings button on the home screen and then toggle Arabic surah names.
We're not done yet, alhamdulillah Quran Reader 2 is a great update, but we definitely have more planned. Plus, stay tuned for Quran Reader HD, coming soon to an iPad near you...
So if you don't have it yet, go grab Quran Reader from the App Store.
with better resolutions also comes ipad support out of the box. this app is incredible on ipad (too bad ipad still missing arabic support but sure this will soon change).
would love to see a sync last page read feature (like amazon kindle app) - then read on iphone, continue on ipad and vice versa becomes a very convenient feature for those of us who use this wonderful app is main quran for reading.
Any chance there will be colour coded tajweed rules?
We are looking into adding this feature, but do not have a timeline for it as of yet.
Do you have any Android plans? my whole family uses Android devices and I would love to see this for my phone!