Comparison

Tavoos vs Gracious Quran

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tavoos

Features
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Quran, Pray times, and the Qibla orientation all around the world from Russia to South Africa, from Japan to Chile, from Australia to Canada, according to Hamburg Islamic Center.

About

Gracious Quran

Access translated Quranic verses and audio readings in English and Arabic. Includes prayer times, Qibla direction, and an Islamic calendar. This app offers a modern interpretation of the Quran's meanings.

Highlights
  • English Quran translations
  • Arabic and English audio readings
  • Multiple reader options
  • Prayer times
  • Qibla direction
  • Islamic calendar
Features
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The Gracious Quran is an English-first way to read, hear and understand the Quran — built on Dr. Ahmad Zaki Hammad's translation and the scholarship he published alongside it. READ IT AS A BOOK A clean, typeset page in English, Arabic, or both together. The translator's added words appear in light brackets so you always know what the Arabic says and what was supplied for sense — and one tap hides them for an uninterrupted read. Set the text size and line spacing to suit your eyes, turn the page to landscape for wider lines, or enter full screen and let everything else fall away. LISTEN AND FOLLOW Recitation in Arabic, the English reading, or both. The verse being recited is highlighted and the page keeps pace with it, so your eye is always where the voice is. Playback continues on the lock screen, and whole surahs can be downloaded for offline listening. UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD Hold any word while reading — in either script — and its dictionary entry opens: the root it grows from, every English rendering the translator chose for it, and every verse where it occurs. The dictionary covers all 28 letters, 1,771 roots and more than 48,000 occurrences, drawn from the concordance to this translation. It speaks plainly by default, and the scholarly abbreviations are one switch away. EXPLORE BY THEME The printed edition's own indexes, hand-compiled and fully linked: God's names and attributes, the prophets and Mary story by story, every animal, insect and plant the Quran names, and hundreds of subjects from A to Z. Plus a one-sentence summary of all 114 surahs. MADE TO KEEP Bookmarks, private notes on any verse, a verse each day, a beautiful shareable verse card, light and dark reading, and search that finds a surah by its English name, its Arabic name, its transliteration however you spell it, or simply its number. ON YOUR APPLE WATCH The next prayer on your wrist with a live countdown, today's five times, the qibla by the watch's compass with a tap when you face it, and an alert at every prayer even with the app closed. Put the next prayer and the qibla on your watch face. The watch app stands on its own: it reckons every time itself and installs straight from the App Store on the watch. No ads. No accounts. No tracking of any kind.

Screenshots

Tavoos2 screens
Gracious Quran4 screens

Verdict

The call

Tavoos and Gracious Quran are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Tavoos versus Gracious Quran: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTavoosGracious Quran
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.4 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB56 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMehran NaghizadehSigmaPro

In-app purchases

None

Tavoos

No in-app purchases

None

Gracious Quran

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tavoos free?
Tavoos is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gracious Quran free?
Gracious Quran is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tavoos or Gracious Quran have ads?
Neither Tavoos nor Gracious Quran shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tavoos or Gracious Quran?
Tavoos ships an update every 2 weeks, and Gracious Quran every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tavoos was updated on October 26, 2026 and Gracious Quran on October 30, 2026.

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