موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة vs Comprehensive Islamic Library
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة
A religious and educational encyclopedia offering hundreds of topics on Islamic creed, interpretation, hadith, jurisprudence, social issues, and family matters. It provides well-researched and accessible content for Muslims, students, and preachers.
- Religious and educational encyclopedia
- Hundreds of Islamic topics
- Creed, interpretation, hadith, jurisprudence
- Social and contemporary issues
- Family, women, ethics, biography
- Well-researched and accessible content
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هي موسوعة وعظية تربوية اجتماعية، تحتوي على مئات الموضوعات التي يحتاجها المسلم: في العقيدة والتفسير والحديث والفقه، والقضايا الاجتماعية، وبعض القضايا المعاصرة، وجوانب من الأمور التي تخص الأسرة والمرأة والأخلاق والسير وغيرها. إعداد: د. أمين بن عبد الله الشقاوي. قالوا عن الموسوعة: "لم أحتج مادة علمية فيما أخاطب فيه عامة المسلمين إلا وأسعفتني موسوعة الدرر، فلا يستغني عنها الداعية وطالب العلم، وعامة المسلمين، فقد اعتنى فيها مؤلفها بالموضوع، والمادة، والتوثيق". -- الشيخ حمد بن عبد الله الجمعة، عضو رابطة علماء المسلمين "إن موسوعة الدرر موسوعة وعظية تربوية من أنفع ما قرأت في هذا الباب، جمع فيها مؤلفها أشتاتًا من الموضوعات المهمة والمتنوعة، وتناولها بطريقة مميزة وميسرة مع الاستنباطات الدقيقة، وربط الموضوعات بواقع الناس" -- أ.د. أحمد بن محمد الخليل، أستاذ الدراسات العليا بجامعة القصيم
Comprehensive Islamic Library
Access a vast collection of Islamic texts across multiple languages and platforms. Enhance your research with advanced search, note-taking, and comparison tools. Browse by category or author, and manage downloaded books easily.
- Multi-platform access (web, mobile, desktop)
- Multilingual content and interface
- Advanced search capabilities
- Enhanced reading and research tools
- Book categorization and author linking
- Download and manage books
- Sync data across devices
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*** The Comprehensive Islamic Library *** جامع الكتب الإسلامية أكبر مشروع للكتب الإسلامية باللغات: تصفح آلاف الكتب النصية من خلال برنامج ويندوز وموقع وتطبيق The largest and most advanced online Islamic library serving researchers and institutions across the globe on various devices. *** Project Features: *** 1- Support for different platforms (website, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and others). 2- Multi lingual in terms of contents and interface. 3- Ease of use, with attractive and elegant designs. 4- Advanced search (in the content of a specific book, or in all books, or by choosing a user-specific search scope, with the ability to save and share search results). 5- Table of contents allowing to get to the specific topic instantly. 6- Offering books in text format with features to enhance the reading and researching experience such as: changing the font and color, displaying verses and hadiths in a distinctive font and color, displaying margins, adding notes and comments, sharing texts, placing bookmarks, highlighting texts in different colors and more. 7- Displaying books in PDF format on the website and within the app. 8- Browsing the books through categories. 9- Linking books with the authors to facilitate searching for the books of a specific author. 10- Downloading one or group of the books and managing the downloaded books. 11- Advanced features helping researchers in their researches such as the ability to compare tafseer books and show commentaries along with textbooks. 12- Sync notes, books and other data across user devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Comprehensive Islamic Library at every 4 weeks against موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة's every 8 months. Comprehensive Islamic Library also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 50%) and ratings volume (63 vs 9). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة against 4.4 for Comprehensive Islamic Library. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comprehensive Islamic Library has 63 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة's written reviews are positive against 71% of Comprehensive Islamic Library's.
موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة ships an update every 8 months, Comprehensive Islamic Library every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة | Comprehensive Islamic Library |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better | 4.4 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arrawdah | Jamil Ahmad Sadat |
Customer experience
موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة
Comprehensive Islamic Library
In-app purchases
موسوعة الدرر المنتقاة
No in-app purchases
Comprehensive Islamic Library
No in-app purchases
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