DCT MAKTABA vs Maktabah
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DCT MAKTABA
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Access the information and resources you need from anywhere, anytime. Configurable features for information providers include integrated search, my account, event registrations, room bookings, form submissions and more all backed by a highly customizable web-based CMS for near real time content updates and submissions management.
Maktabah
Access and read thousands of classic Islamic books with a customizable reader. Sync your progress across devices, search within texts, and annotate content with notes and highlights. Explore detailed Hadith narrations and their evaluations.
- Customizable reading experience
- iCloud sync across devices
- Full-text search across multiple books
- Highlighting and note-taking
- Detailed Hadith narration exploration
- Annotation grouping and tagging
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Read Without Interruption Navigate thousands of classic books with clean and focused readers. Choose the typography you want, adjust the line height, switch the diacritic, and switch between 5 background colors including Dark Mode. Sync Between iPad & iPhone Your reading progress and history are now automatically synchronised across devices through iCloud. Continue reading anywhere without losing track. Search Throughout Your Library Find any phrase in hundreds of books simultaneously using SQLite FTS5 full text search. Choose between the right phrase, a set of sentences, or any phrase. Annotation and Export Highlight and underline any text, add personal notes, tag annotations, arrange annotations by date, page, or context, and group annotations by book or tag. Explore Hadith Narration Look for the biography of the narrator, the evaluation of Jarh wa Ta'dil, and the transmission chain regulated by tabaqat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Maktabah at every 6 days against DCT MAKTABA's every 6 months. DCT MAKTABA's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
DCT MAKTABA ships an update every 6 months, Maktabah every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DCT MAKTABA | Maktabah |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Stacks Inc. | Yayasan Darun Najah |
In-app purchases
DCT MAKTABA
No in-app purchases
Maktabah
No in-app purchases
