Privacy policy
Your voice, your recitation, the pages you read and the apps you block stay on your iPhone. If you say yes, Qur’an Focus also sends simple usage data, so problems can be found and fixed. You can say no, and change your mind at any time. If you buy Qur’an Focus Plus, the purchase goes through Apple and is recorded by a service called RevenueCat.
Last updated 1 November 2026. Applies to the Qur’an Focus iPhone app, on TestFlight and the App Store.
What the app does not do
- No account and no sign-in.
- No servers of our own, no advertising, and no tracking across other companies’ apps or websites.
- It never records or keeps your voice.
- Nothing in the app depends on your answer about usage data: saying no changes nothing else.
- Reading, saving your progress, unlocking your apps and reminders never depend on a purchase.
Usage data, only if you say yes
The app asks once: on a new install right after the welcome, or on Home after an update. You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Privacy. Until you say yes, the part of the app that sends usage data does not even start.
What is sent:
- Which first-run steps you reach, and whether you finish it, with your daily goal.
- Whether you allow the microphone, Screen Time and reminders, whether the practice ayah worked, and how many apps, categories and websites you choose to block (only how many, never which).
- How the app was opened: directly, from a reminder or from a blocked app.
- For each reading, a summary: how it began, how it ended, how far through the session you got (rounded to a quarter), how long it took, how many words turned red and how many rereads failed, whether the “reading too fast” card appeared, the typical delay before words turned blue, the reading mode and the goal.
- Problems with recognition or the microphone, from a fixed list; whether unlocking your apps worked; when blocking is turned off or loses access; when you change your goal.
- Whether the offer for Qur’an Focus Plus was shown and where from, whether it was closed, bought or restored, and when a free week or a subscription starts or ends (the plan, monthly or yearly, and for an end whether it was cancelled).
- With each of these: a random ID, the app’s version, your iPhone’s model and the iOS version.
What is never sent: audio, recitation or what the app heard; page, sūrah, ayah or word numbers; the names of apps or websites; your time on apps; your answer to “how long are you on social apps”; a parent PIN or Screen Time code; any error’s text or anything you type; your name, e-mail or any account.
Where it goes: to PostHog, an analytics service, on its EU cloud. PostHog receives your IP address with the connection, as any server does, and this project is set to discard it. The app asks it to look up no location, and it keeps no profile of you. It is kept for up to a year, then deleted.
The random ID is made on your iPhone when you say yes, and only tells one person’s events apart. Nothing links it to you. Turning usage data off stops sending at once, deletes what had not been sent and forgets the ID; saying yes again makes a new one. What was already sent stays until its year is up: with nothing linking it to you, it cannot be found to delete it. We use it only to see where the app goes wrong and where people drop off, and never sell or share it.
Qur’an Focus Plus, only if you buy it
Plus is an optional subscription (monthly or yearly, with a free first week where Apple offers it) that lets you block more than one app and see your reading statistics. Apple takes the payment: the app never sees your card, your name or your Apple Account. You can cancel any time in your Apple Account’s subscriptions.
Who records it: RevenueCat, a service that records purchases for apps. The app contacts it only when you start Plus or restore purchases, or when your Apple Account already shows a Plus purchase so that it can be recorded. Until then it contacts RevenueCat not at all.
What is sent to it: the purchase’s receipt from Apple (which plan, when, whether it is the free week and whether it renews), a random ID the app makes for it, the app’s version, your iPhone’s model, iOS version, language and the App Store country, and your IP address with the connection, as any server receives. Not sent: your name, e-mail or Apple Account, your voice or recitation, the pages you read, the apps and websites you block, or your usage data. The random ID is not the one used for usage data, and neither is told about the other.
What you have bought is read from the App Store’s own record on your iPhone, so it works offline, and if RevenueCat or the App Store cannot be reached nothing in the app changes or locks. The app keeps a few settings about Plus on your iPhone (whether Home’s offer was put off, and whether you want a reminder the day before a free week ends). That reminder is a notification your iPhone schedules for itself. Nothing links the random ID to you, so a purchase record cannot be picked out afterwards; if you want what RevenueCat holds deleted, e-mail the developer with the order number from Apple’s receipt and it will be asked for, where it can be found. Apple keeps its own record of the purchase, under your Apple Account.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your reading: your place in the muṣḥaf, the pages and days you have read, your streak and its estimate of hasanat.
- Your settings and reminders. Reminders are notifications your iPhone schedules for itself.
- The apps and websites you choose to block. You choose them with Apple’s Screen Time. Apple gives the app only tokens for the apps, not their names. Websites you type in are kept as you typed them. Usage data, if you say yes, holds only how many.
- Diagnostics: the words the app heard as text, how long each step took, your iPhone’s model and iOS version, and crash reports iOS hands the app.
Your iPhone keeps all of this encrypted while it is off, and after a restart until you first unlock it. Your iPhone’s backups may hold it, as they hold any app’s data. Deleting the app deletes it.
The microphone
The app listens only while you read. Your recitation is recognised on the iPhone itself, by a speech model built into the app. The audio is never saved and never sent anywhere.
Screen Time
The app uses Apple’s Screen Time (Family Controls) for two things: to block the apps and websites you choose for yourself, until you have read; and to show you, on Progress, your time on apps this week against last (Qur’an apps against social and entertainment apps, and the apps you use most).
That time on apps is drawn by iOS inside a sealed part of the app, a Screen Time report extension. Only it sees your apps’ names and minutes, only to draw them on your screen: it keeps nothing, and the rest of the app never sees them, so they are never in an export. Screen Time information never leaves your iPhone. You can remove the app’s access at any time: iPhone Settings → Screen Time → Apps with Screen Time Access → Qur’an Focus.
What else can leave your iPhone
Usage data, if you said yes, as above; a purchase’s record, if you start Plus, as above. Everything else only when you send it yourself. While the app is being tested, Settings → Testing → Export live test results makes a file of the diagnostics above and your reading progress, and opens the iPhone’s share sheet. It goes only where you choose to send it, for example by e-mail to the developer. It never holds audio or your time on apps, and it holds the apps you block only as counts.
If you test the app with TestFlight, Apple’s TestFlight app may share crash reports and the feedback you send with the developer, under Apple’s privacy policy.
Children
The app is not designed for collecting anything about children. Usage data is sent only after a yes, holds nothing that says who someone is, and can be turned off in Settings.
Changes
If this policy changes, this page will show the new date at the top. Anything new the app would collect would be said here first.
Contact
The developer: quranfocusapp@gmail.com.