Assalamualaikum wa rahmatullah,
Dear Brother/Sister,
We pray and hope that you are doing well. Please accept our heartfelt thanks for your continuous support. Jazak Allahu Khayr.
In this email, you’ll find the key updates about our apps and a few other highlights that have been accomplished in the first half of 2024.
With Allah’s permission, we’ve reached 4.8 million users worldwide during this period. They have spent an average of 18.5 minutes each week using our apps to better understand Islam and connect with Allah.
Product Updates
Quran App
- Added 5 new tafsirs: Tafsir as-Sa’di in Indonesian, Farsi, Turkish, Malayalam Tafsir Amani, French Tafsir Ibn Kathir.
- Added French Word by word translation and Roman Urdu translation.
- Made improvements in a lot of places and squashed several bugs.
- Quran app is released on Linux. Get the app here
- Behind the scenes, we are working hard on developing the Quran app for iOS from the ground up to provide a better user experience. We are halfway through the process and hope to release an iOS update by Q4, in sha Allah.
- We interviewed many users for our Quran app from January to June, which helped us extract many valuable insights that are often overlooked. If you’re interested in sharing your experience and feedback directly with us, you can book a user interview session from this link.
Hadith App
- Added Muslim scholars’ data. You’ll get it under the menu.
Introduced ‘Explore By Topics’ to find many hadith related to a topic.
- We interviewed several users to improve our Hadith app. If you’re interested in sharing your experience and feedback directly with us, you can book a user interview session from this link.
Seerah App
- Added dark mode to enhance readability.
Notable Mentions
10M Quran App Downloads
With Allah’s permission, our Al Quran Android App has hit an incredible 10 MILLION downloads on Google Play Store! Alhamdulillah!
MTF Event
Our UK team had a fantastic time at Muslim Tech Fest 2024 on June 1st! The event was truly inspiring and gave us a great boost to keep pursuing our mission. We’d love to share our experience with you! Check out our blog for all the details!
Word by Word Dua eBook
We have published our first word-by-word Dua E-book!
Inside the e-book, you’ll find:
- 24 Essential Duas: Sunnah Duas to read morning and evening for protection and blessings.
- Word-by-Word Meanings: Dive deep into the meaning of each dua, enhancing your understanding and connection.
- Clickable Titles: Navigate easily to all duas.
- FREE: It’s also absolutely FREE!
Ramadan Planner
We designed and published our first Ramadan planner this year. People loved it so much and we received positive feedback alhamdulillah. We hope to release one for next Ramadan as well.
GreenCon Hackathon 2024
We organised the GreenCon Hackathon this year for the second time. The theme for the hackathon was: “Seerah Navigator”.
Seven teams participated in this competition and every team brought their own solutions to solve Barirah’s problem in their own way. Read more about it in the blog.
Team Updates
We have 10 new team members in different roles. Also, 2 members joined as interns. Keep them in your prayers.
What’s Coming Up
Sadiq App
We intend to release our all-in-one app Sadiq this Quarter insha’Allah. It will be your ultimate companion for prayer and fasting times, daily adhkar, Qibla direction, and more!
Testimonials
- “Assalāmu’aliekum, may Allāh bless you for a such wonderful app you made for the ummah. Beautiful designed and great features, all for free and no ads!!! Please make du’a for me please, I have a brain tumor and I ask you to make du’a to Allāh for Him to heal me.”
– Yusuf Islam about Quran App - “This is one my favorite app never stop reminding teaching you more on Hadith of noble Prophet Muhammad peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him.”
– Ibraheem Folami about Hadith App - “The best app for reciting Duas with authentic reference source. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. I highly recommend this app. I have been using this since 2018 Alhamdulillah and have been able to share this with so many people. Alhamdulillah Great work by Green tech team. May Allah reward you all with the bests of this duniya and akhira Ameen.”
– M. Marium about Dua App
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We want to thank you for your endless support and valuable contributions.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any feedback or suggestions. Jazak Allahu Khayr.
