Comparison

AOJ Reader vs iShamela · الشاملة

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

Head to head
About

AOJ Reader

Features
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AOJ Reader is a PDF reader for people who read slowly and like to leave their mark on the page. It shows your book exactly as it is, and keeps your highlights and notes in a separate layer, so the original file is never changed. A library on shelves • Add books from your device's files, one at a time or many at once. • Your books line up on wooden shelves, each showing its first page. • Organise them into collections, with collections inside collections and a trail that shows where you are. • "Recent" keeps the last books you opened in one place. • Select several books to move or delete them together, and share any book with another app. Comfortable reading • Horizontal or vertical page turning. • Three paper colours: white, soft sepia, and dark for night reading. • Crop white page margins so text is larger on small screens. • Every book reopens at the page where you stopped. • Bookmarks, the book's table of contents, and a list of everything you highlighted. • Portrait and landscape, on iPhone and iPad. Highlight and annotate • Highlight, underline and strike through in four colours, plus a pen for free drawing. • Add a note to any highlight. • Undo your last step, and erase what you don't want. Your books on all your devices • Connect your Google Drive (optional) to sync your books, highlights, notes and last page across your devices. • Your copy is stored in your own Google Drive, in the app's folder only. The app cannot see your other files. • Without an account, everything works on your device. Your privacy • No ads, no tracking, and we collect none of your data. • Your books and notes stay on your device, and in your own account if you choose to sync. Arabic-first interface, also available in English.

About

iShamela · الشاملة

Features
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iShamela brings the treasures of the Shamela library — one of the largest collections of classical Arabic Islamic texts — to your device in a modern, beautiful reading experience. Designed for students of Islamic sciences, researchers, and anyone who loves the classical heritage. READ OFFLINE, ANYWHERE Download the books you need and read them with no internet connection. Every book is stored on your device, so your library travels with you — in the mosque, in class, or on the road. POWERFUL FULL-TEXT SEARCH Search inside any book instantly. iShamela's search engine is built for Arabic text, so you can find a hadith, a fiqh ruling, or a passage of tafsir in seconds — even across thousands of pages. A LIBRARY OF CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE Browse a rich catalog spanning Quranic sciences, tafsir, hadith and its sciences, fiqh across the schools of law, aqeedah, seerah, history, Arabic language, and more. Download only what you need and manage your storage easily. A READER MADE FOR STUDY • Clean, distraction-free reading with beautiful Arabic typography • Bookmarks to save the pages that matter • Reading history that remembers where you left off in every book • Comfortable light and dark themes for long study sessions FREE AND OPEN SOURCE iShamela is completely free — no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts. The app is open source and built by the community, for the community, with the goal of making authentic Islamic knowledge accessible to every student. Whether you are memorizing, researching, teaching, or simply reading, iShamela puts a complete classical library in your pocket.

Screenshots

AOJ Reader4 screens
iShamela · الشاملة4 screens

Verdict

The call

AOJ Reader and iShamela · الشاملة are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
AOJ Reader versus iShamela · الشاملة: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAOJ ReaderiShamela · الشاملة
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbdullah AljumeiAlgeriaMarket Global LTD

In-app purchases

None

AOJ Reader

No in-app purchases

None

iShamela · الشاملة

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AOJ Reader free?
AOJ Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iShamela · الشاملة free?
iShamela · الشاملة is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AOJ Reader or iShamela · الشاملة have ads?
Neither AOJ Reader nor iShamela · الشاملة shows ads.

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