Questions, answered

Quran Orb is a place to listen to the Holy Quran, recited by 147 reciters, on the website and in the iOS and Android apps, where listening is free. You can browse by reciter or by surah, read each surah in the Madani mushaf layout and listen to it in the reciters' own recordings.

Yes, listening to the Holy Quran is free on the Quran Orb website and in the iOS and Android apps. On the website no account is needed, and every recitation plays at no cost. The Quran Orb app, on the App Store and Google Play, offers the same recitations and lets you download them for offline listening.

The Quran Orb website is available in seven languages: Arabic, English, Urdu, Bengali, Indonesian, Turkish and French. Choose yours from the language menu at the top of any page. The Holy Quran is always recited in Arabic, while the pages around it and our articles follow your language.

Yes, the Quran Orb website works in a modern browser on your phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install. There is also a Quran Orb app for iOS, on the App Store, and for Android, on Google Play: it plays the same recitations and can download them for offline listening.

Yes, in the Quran Orb app for iOS and Android you can download recitations and listen to them without an internet connection. The website streams each recitation, so listening there needs a connection; before a journey, or anywhere the signal is weak, download what you want to hear in the app.

It depends on the reciter: each one recites at their own pace, so listening to the whole Holy Quran takes many hours, more with some reciters than with others. Each reciter's page on Quran Orb shows the listening time of their recordings in hours, which helps you decide how much to listen to each day.

Yes, some Quran Orb collections are made of single ayat and short passages rather than whole surahs, such as duas from the Holy Quran. Each passage plays on its own and is shown with its surah and ayah, so you can come back to it and listen to it again.

Collections are recitations gathered for the moments and occasions of your day, such as before sleep, on Friday or with your children. Open one on the collections page to listen to it from the beginning with Play all, or choose a single recitation from its list.

Quran Orb has recitations of the Holy Quran by 147 reciters, among them Mishary Alafasi, Abdulbasit Abdulsamad, Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary and Saad Al-Ghamdi. The reciters page lists them all, and each reciter's page shows every surah available in their recordings and the riwayat they recorded.

On Quran Orb, search for a reciter by name on the reciters page, where you can also filter by country, and for a surah by name or number on the surahs page. Each surah's page lists the reciters who recorded it, so you can listen to it by the reciter you love.

Riwayat are the documented transmissions of the Quran's recitation, and you can choose one on a reciter's page. Each is named after the narrator who passed it on, all are of the one Quran, and Hafs an Asim and Warsh an Nafi are the most recorded. Most recordings on Quran Orb are in Hafs, and a reciter's page shows any other riwayah they recorded. Read our guide to Hafs and Warsh.

They are three ways a Quran recording is recited: murattal is steady, mujawwad slower, and muallim made for learning. Murattal keeps an even, unhurried pace; mujawwad is slower and more elaborate, for attentive listening; in muallim the reciter reads a short phrase, then pauses so the learner can repeat it. All three describe the recording, not different texts. Our guide to the three styles explains more.

Yes, the options menu of the Quran Orb player has a sleep timer, playback speed, repeat and shuffle. The sleep timer stops the recitation after 15, 30, 45 or 60 minutes or at its end, the speed goes from 0.75× to 2×, and repeat plays the current recitation again or the whole list.

Yes, once you sign in to your Quran Orb account, you can follow a reciter from their page and save a recitation with its Save button. The recitations you save and the reciters you follow are kept in your Library, along with your playlists, your listening history and what you keep to listen to later.

Copy the link of the recitation's page and send it: every recording on Quran Orb has its own page, such as one surah by one reciter, so the person you share it with opens that same recording. Links shared from the Quran Orb app also open the recording on the website.

No, you can listen to every recitation on the Quran Orb website without an account. Signing in to an account adds what needs to remember you: following reciters, saving recitations and keeping your playlists in your Library, ready the next time you listen.

You can delete your Quran Orb account from the Settings page of your account: choose Delete my account, then enter your password to confirm. If you signed up with Google, ask for deletion through the contact page. The same page lets you change the email address and the password of your account, and listening on the website never needs an account.

Quran Orb does not sell your personal information or share it with third parties for marketing, as its privacy policy explains. It collects what an account needs, such as your name and email, plus usage data and cookies that help improve the service; you can manage cookies in your browser. Data may be shared with service providers or when the law requires, and you can ask to see, change or delete yours.

Write to the Quran Orb team through the contact page, naming the reciter and the surah and describing what you noticed, such as a recording that stops early or a wrong title. Include the link of the recording's page if you can, and we will reply by email.