Open-Source Islamic Apps and Tools
Open apps, sites, APIs, datasets, fonts, and libraries that developers and researchers can build on, study, or contribute to.
This is not a list of every GitHub repository. It focuses on open work with practical value: successful products to study, dependable data interfaces, research corpora, and fonts or rendering tools that help build better Islamic software.
How To Use This Collection
Start with larger projects to understand product and architecture choices, then move to APIs and datasets for the specific thing you need. Before shipping on top of any resource, check the license, data source, maintenance status, and validation path.
Open Products Worth Studying
APIs and Data To Build On
Texts and Research Corpora
Fonts and Mushaf Rendering
Developer Libraries and Utilities
Strong Starting Picks
If you are new to this space, start with a large product, then an API or dataset, then a research resource or font depending on what you plan to build.
Quran.com
Quran.comQuran.com: a large open Quran product
Useful for studying a widely used Quran reading experience built around text, translations, search, and shared components.
Quran Android
Quran.comQuran Android: a widely used open app
A mature mobile Quran app worth studying for reading, audio, tafsir, and offline-download flows.
Quran Foundation APIs
Quran.comQuran Foundation APIs: an official build path
A strong option when you want to build on Quran.com-backed content and APIs instead of collecting sources yourself.
QUL - Quranic Universal Library
TarteelAIQUL: a broad Quranic data library
Useful when you need structured Quran text, translations, tafsir, and audio exports for experiments or research.
OpenITI Corpus
Open Islamicate Texts InitiativeOpenITI: a major text-research base
One of the most important open resources for computational and historical study of Arabic and Islamicate texts.
DigitalKhatt
Amine AnaneDigitalKhatt: applied Quran typography work
Important for variable Arabic fonts, Mushaf typesetting, HarfBuzz integration, and computational calligraphy tooling.
Other Collections
Qur’an
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Prayer Times and Qibla
Curated apps for prayer times, adhan alerts, qibla direction, and daily salah follow-up.
Qur'an Memorization and Revision
A curated set of apps for hifz, muraja'ah, recitation testing, and building a steady memorization routine.