Comparison

Maktabah vs Daleel.ID

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Daleel.ID

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Daleel is a digital library of classical and contemporary Islamic scholarship, built for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to read the books of the scholars directly. Search more than 14,700 Arabic works by over 5,900 scholars, read them page by page in their original layout, translate any passage into 48 languages, and ask questions about what you are reading — with every answer citing the book and the page it came from. Ask AI Ask a question and receive an answer drawn from across the library, with references you can open and read for yourself. Al-Qur'an Encyclopedia The Madinah Mushaf in its original page layout, word-by-word and verse translation, nine major works of tafsir, and recitation by well-known reciters for every verse. Ayah Tadabbur Study a verse in depth: tafsir from fourteen works, asbab al-nuzul, i'rab, vocabulary, thematic tafsir, munasabah, and the legal rulings derived from it. Hadith Encyclopedia Search by narrator, by meaning, by a fragment of the matn, or by topic. Read the full text, open the source book at the exact page, and study the sanad with a biography of each narrator, alongside takhrij and commentary. Book Library Thousands of Arabic works, from the classical canon to contemporary writing, readable in full and translatable into 48 languages. Book Recommendations Describe what you are looking for and receive suggestions from the collection, matched to your subject and level. Scholar Profiles Biographies compiled from the works of other scholars, with a complete list of each scholar's writings, ready to read. Arabic Language Tools I'rab analysis of any sentence, a Nahwu and Sharaf dictionary with root, wazan, and full conjugation tables, and automatic tashkil for unvocalized text. Inheritance Calculator A detailed distribution based on the circumstances of the deceased, with the reasoning and the reference works behind each ruling, covering the four Sunni schools. Lecture Transcription Turn a recording or a video link into clean text, exported as TXT or SRT. Text from Images Photograph a page and extract the Arabic with full tashkil, ready to read or translate. Prayer Times and Qibla Daily prayer times for your location and the direction of the Qibla. Works Offline Prayer times with adhan, the Qibla compass, and a set of daily supplications remain available when you have no connection. Daleel is free to use.

Screenshots

Maktabah4 screens
Daleel.ID4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Daleel.ID at 15.0 against Maktabah's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Maktabah versus Daleel.ID: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaktabahDaleel.ID
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperYayasan Darun NajahAde Ilham Fajri

In-app purchases

None

Maktabah

No in-app purchases

None

Daleel.ID

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Maktabah free?
Maktabah is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daleel.ID free?
Daleel.ID is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Maktabah or Daleel.ID have ads?
Neither Maktabah nor Daleel.ID shows ads.

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