Comparison

Qards vs Halaal

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

Head to head
About

Qards

Organize your thoughts and prepare for presentations with digital note cards. Create, edit, and arrange cards within decks, then swipe through them in full-screen. Your notes sync automatically across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Create and edit decks of note cards
  • Arrange note cards within decks
  • Full-screen card swiping
  • Automatic cross-device syncing
  • Organize everyday thoughts
  • Prepare for speeches and presentations
Features
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Create Note Cards for your everyday thoughts, or write down keywords and cues for your next speech. Structure your Note Cards in decks and swipe through them in full-screen. Qards is the perfect tool when you want to make notes for your next speech or presentation! With Qards you can: - Create and edit decks of Note Cards. - Edit and order a deck's Note Cards as you please. - Swipe through a deck of Note Cards in full-screen. And all your Note Cards are of course automatically synced and made available across your devices!

About

Halaal

This Islamic application serves as a digital companion for Muslims, offering essential features like prayer times, Quran recitation with search functionality, and Qiblah direction. It prioritizes user privacy by only using location data temporarily for prayer time calculations.

Highlights
  • Next prayer display
  • All prayer times
  • Sunnah and fard Rakaas
  • Full Quran with search
  • Qiblah direction
  • Location-based prayer calculation
Features
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Prayer, Quran, hadith and remembrance — one beautiful app, made with care, that keeps your data on your phone. THE DAY, ANCHORED Prayer times calculated with the official method for your region. The next prayer front and center, the full day beneath it, sunnah and fard rakaat for each prayer, and a qibla compass when you need it. THE QURAN, AS PRINTED The complete Madinah Mushaf, page-true and pixel-exact. Read with translations, search any ayah or surah, and share verses as clean citation cards. Optional downloads add more ways to read: • A tajweed Quran with color-coded recitation rules • The Warsh narration, with its own numbering, text and font THE SIX BOOKS Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sunan Abi Dawud, Jami at-Tirmidhi, Sunan an-Nasai and Sunan Ibn Majah. Arabic with English translation, downloaded book by book, searchable down to a single line. REMEMBRANCE Morning and evening adhkar from Hisn al-Muslim, every supplication with its source, each one shareable as a card. ONE SEARCH A half-remembered phrase is enough. Search the Quran, hadith and adhkar together and land on the exact verse or narration. CALENDAR A clean, simple calendar for your events. Sign in with your Halaal account and it goes where you go — the same calendar in the app and on halaal.app. YOURS, PRIVATELY Everything else works with no account and no sign-up. Your location is used once, on your phone, to calculate prayer times — it is never stored or sent anywhere. Scripture lives on your device and works offline.

Screenshots

Qards4 screens
Halaal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Halaal at every 5 days against Qards's every 4 months. Halaal also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Qards's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Qards against 4.5 for Halaal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Qards has 14 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Qards ships an update every 4 months, Halaal every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Qards versus Halaal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQardsHalaal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (14 ratings) — better4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas Asheim SmedmannHalaal Inc LTD

Customer experience

Qards

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Halaal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Qards

No in-app purchases

None

Halaal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Qards free?
Qards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Halaal free?
Halaal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Qards or Halaal?
Qards is rated higher. Qards averages 4.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Halaal averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Qards or Halaal have ads?
Neither Qards nor Halaal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Qards or Halaal?
Qards ships an update every 4 months, and Halaal every 5 days. Most recently, Qards was updated on October 9, 2026 and Halaal on October 18, 2026.

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