Comparison

Almathani vs HushBook

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

Head to head
About

Almathani

Features
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Mathani is an Islamic companion app designed to help you stay connected to your deen with clarity and consistency. Read the Quran, continue from your last verse, listen to recitations, save bookmarks, and access tafseer and translations. Stay on top of daily prayers with accurate prayer times, Qibla direction, calculation settings, manual adjustments, and helpful reminders. Explore duas, tasbih, morning and evening adkar, Hisnul Muslim supplications, and Hadith collections in Arabic, English, and French. Build a personal checklist for daily intentions, routines, and reminders. Mathani also supports offline access for key content, themed experiences, daily reflections, and gentle notifications for Quran, prayer, adkar, and personal tasks. A calm, beautiful way to show up for your worship every day.

About

HushBook

This app synchronizes audiobooks and ebooks, highlighting each word as it's spoken. It allows users to import their own audio files and ebooks, offering features like note-taking, quote saving, and customizable reading profiles. Free public-domain audiobooks are also available.

Highlights
  • Word-by-word karaoke reading
  • Ebook and audiobook synchronization
  • Highlighting and note-taking
  • Import personal audio files
  • Customizable reading profiles
  • Free public-domain audiobooks
Features
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Your mind wanders, and the narrator keeps going. HushBook turns audiobooks and ebooks into word-by-word karaoke. Read while listening, and never lose your place. Add an audiobook you own and HushBook transcribes it on your iPhone or iPad. That part is free, for every book. Have the ebook too? Add it, and the page follows the narrator. Your audio never goes to a cloud service, and there's no account to make. READ ALONG, WORD BY WORD • Each word lights up as it's spoken, at any speed from 0.5x to 3x • Press and hold any line to play from there • A calm cover view for listening, and a full reading page when you want the text • Hold your iPad sideways for a two-page spread, like an open book • Text a beat off from the voice? Nudge it one word at a time with Align narration • Not in English? The Universal engine transcribes books in many other languages AUDIOBOOK AND EBOOK, IN SYNC • Read the real ebook text, lit word by word as the narrator reads • EPUB, PDF, MOBI and TXT. Sync works with English ebooks • Search inside the ebook • Your first ebook is free. More ebooks need HushBook Pro HIGHLIGHTS, NOTES AND QUOTES • Highlight a line or save a quote while the book keeps playing • Add a note to anything you mark • Quotes & notes keeps them by book. Tap one to go back to that exact moment • Share a quote as an image card YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FILES • Import from Files: MP3, M4B, M4A, AAC, FLAC, WAV, OGG, Opus and more • Connect your Audiobookshelf server and download your books • Search by title, author or narrator, and swipe to mark a book finished • Home shows the book you're on, your streak and the words you read today FREE CLASSICS Thousands of public-domain audiobooks from LibriVox and the Internet Archive, free to download and play offline. Browse themed rows and genres, or filter by language and length. Hear a 30-second sample before you download. BUILT FOR HOW YOU READ Pick a reading profile and HushBook sets the app up around it. • Dyslexia & ADHD: OpenDyslexic, a colored reading overlay and adjustable text size • Low Vision: Atkinson Hyperlegible, extra-large captions, stronger contrast and bold text • Focused Reader: a calm serif reading page and a quick focus check-in after you listen Eight reading fonts in all, including Lexend, Andika and Comic Neue. A LITTLE COMPANY • Pick a hand-drawn companion from 14 animals. It greets you on Home and lives in your Profile's reading nook • Map who's who: hand-drawn faces for the characters, and the ties between them THE SMALL THINGS • Rest days: earn one for every 7 days in a row, so a missed day doesn't break your streak • Smart Rewind backs up 3 to 20 seconds when you press play, depending on how long you were away • Sleep timer by minutes or at the end of a chapter. In its last minute the screen warms and dims • ±30 s skips from the Lock Screen, Control Center and AirPods • Home Screen quick actions, and Light, Dark or Auto appearance FREE AND PRO Free: transcription and read-along for every book, highlights, notes and quotes, Discover, Audiobookshelf downloads, the character map, companions, streaks with rest days, milestone badges and your first ebook. HushBook Pro (subscription or one-time purchase) adds: • Analytics across This week, Habits and Books: a reading engagement score, finish-by forecasts, personal records, goals, a listening calendar, and month and year in review • Per-book Insights: your pace, sessions and check-in journal • Unlimited ebooks • Audiobookshelf progress sync • An English dictionary for the words you don't know • Extra cover designs and four alternate app icons • HushBook Desktop: transcribe on your computer, and move a book with its transcript and ebook as a .hushbook file Terms of Use (EULA): https://hushbook.app/terms-conditions Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hushbook.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Almathani4 screens
HushBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Almathani at none against HushBook's 3. Almathani also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. HushBook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Almathani asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Almathani ships an update every 2 days, HushBook every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Almathani versus HushBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlmathaniHushBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size162 MB316 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOussama EssaoudiRakesh Aditya

In-app purchases

None

Almathani

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

HushBook

Subscriptions2
  • HushBook Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • HushBook Pro Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • HushBook Pro Lifetime$99.99

Questions

Is Almathani free?
Almathani is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HushBook free?
HushBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Almathani or HushBook have ads?
Neither Almathani nor HushBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Almathani or HushBook?
Almathani ships an update every 2 days, and HushBook every 3 days. Most recently, Almathani was updated on November 5, 2026 and HushBook on November 1, 2026.

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