Salam ‘alaykum,

Adam Jamal here.

I just wanted to update all our supporters.

Less than a year ago Hani and I were able to raise around $96,064 to become the most-funded mobile app on Launchgood. This was beyond our wildest expectations and we set to work immediately.

Download the app here if you haven’t already.

On the one hand, we’ve learned so much about what it takes to build an app from scratch. (And how expensive good mobile development is!). We learned how to manage the product and which features to prioritize. We’ve been able to get help from some really smart people that are in the app building space.

The amazing thing is even though I’ve been teaching for over 10 years, I’ve learned a lot about what the best methods for learning are. I’ve been able to look at learning data from millions of Quranic Arabic words that have been learned by thousands of Muslims from all over the world.

We’ve been able to put together an awesome team.

We have a team of over 9 people working on this project, 2 are full-time and the rest are part-time or volunteers.

We have:

1 Project manager, 2 full-time developers, 1 Product lead, 1 marketing consultant, 1 UI/UX designer, 1 illustrator, 2 lesson creators, and 1 social media manager. Alhamdulillah.

We’ve been able to deliver on our promises and more.

Here’s everything we’ve been able to do:

1. Launch Quranic on iOS within 3 months of gaining funding

2. Launch Quranic on Android and fully catch up with iOS features

3. Added Word Review game

4. Added Word Review algorithm which remembers your weakest words.

5. Added 60+ lessons all with their own unique illustrations teaching the 400-500 most frequent words in the Quran that make up nearly 70% of the Quran (easier than learning all 13000 words!)

1. Story of Maryam (a)

2. Story of Ibrahim (a)

3. Story of Adam (a)

4. Salah words

5. 3 Quls

6. Short Surahs

7. Du’as

8. More lessons to be added every month: Ayatul Kursi, Prophets Yunus, Ayyub, Hud, Nuh, Salih, Musa (as)

6. Added a test feature to make sure Quranic students know they really are learning so quickly!

7. Achieved and maintained a 4-5 star rating on both app stores and made sure to respond to critical feedback

8. Adding a streak feature to encourage people to study every day

9. Creating a Quranic Arabic Level 1 Course

1. Coming soon:

1. Level 2 (textbook is ready)

2. Level 1 Teacher Training Course

3. Alphabet Course

10. Host Quranic Arabic Level 1 in New York, Philadelphia, and South Africa.

11. Achieved nearly 20,000 downloads!

12. Added a strength bar system to encourage students to perfect their learning

13. Added our own Audio for EVERY word our students learn, recited by one of my students Haafiz Bilaal

14. We were able to make many “Quality of life” enhancements and we squashed a lot of bugs!!!!

15. Updated Quranic every 2-3 weeks since Ramadan

This definitely isn’t the end of our journey.

Thanks for your support!

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback, please email us at info@getquranic.com

Salam 'alaykum,

We are excited to announce the Android release of Quranic!

Click here to download it!

Also... Team Quranic will be making an appearance at ISNA in Houston. We hope to see you there!

Salam 'alaykum! 

Alhamdulillah Quranic is out on iOS. You can download it at: getquranic.com/app

Please check your emails for an email from getquranic.com in order to claim your subscription.

If you're having any trouble at all please email info@getquranic.com

Thank you and Jazakumullahu khairan for your support!

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Salam 'alaykum,

We were supposed to end the campaign today but we still have a little more to go, we're going to give it a few more days to see if we can raise what we need to achieve our final goal. Otherwise we'll have to make do with the previous goal.

Here's what we'll commit to adding if we get to our final goal of $100,000:

1. New: Another story from the Quran

2. New: An ebook that explains the 25 most common words for our backers. These 25 words makeup 37% of the Quran!

3. Better student experience when we hire a data scientist onto our team

4. 100,000 free users (as opposed to ~42,000 for the amount we've raised so far)

5. Support for blind users to use the app

Please share the campaign and let's get to the end, we're almost there!

Share the link: http://getquranic.com

Final Phase:

Alhamdulillah we've surpassed every goal we set out to reach. Now we've set our last goal and we're aiming to finish super strong inshaAllah. There's less than a week left in the campaign.

$100,000

1. After receiving many requests, we decided we will invest in developing features for blind users at this final level.

2. We will be able to bring some really awesome engineers and a data scientist onto our team. A data scientist simply put is someone who will make the app very good at keeping students interested and engaged.

3. At this final level we will be able to support 1 free student for every $1 you put in. That’s 100,000 free students at the time of launch inshaAllah.

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BTW contributors to level 8, 9, and 10 have been using the test version of the app and they've reported learning 9 words in just 15 minutes. 9 words makeup 20% of the Quran!

Phase 4-7 complete alhamdulillah!

Salam 'alaykum,

Wow I just emailed you guys the other day about how we completed Phase 2. And here we are having completed Phase 3! Alhamdulillah. Good job everyone!

I’ve been telling Hani how our hunch was right - Muslims want to learn Arabic from the palm of their hand. They want something that can help them keep up and be consistent.

Phase 4:

We’re moving onto our Phase 4 goal of $40,000. Here’s what’s planned for Phase 4:

1. We will be able to complete the Alphabet course that we discussed in the campaign. A lot of people wanting to use the app can’t read Arabic. This course will help bridge that gap!

2. Another story from the Quran will be completed based on our Quranic frequency word analysis.

3. Previously in Phase 2, every $10 led to hosting 1 free user. In Phase 4 inshaAllah every $4 will host 1 free user! That’s 10,000 free users total!

Phase 5:

After all the support we’ve gotten we definitely went back to the drawing table. We’re now thinking beyond just our initial plan. We don’t want to rush into anything totally new, but we have some really cool ideas we want to work on.

The new idea:

The Phase 5 idea is that as you play with the app there will be those Quranic words you remember easily and others which are difficult. This can be different for everyone. Completing Phase 5 will allow us to create a Word Review that knows exactly which words you are weak in and which words you’re strong in. It will also keep track of how long it’s been since you saw a word. Then using this information it’ll personalize a variety of exercises for you taken right from the Quran. That way no matter your commitment level you’ll always be challenged just enough. 

We're still getting bids and coming up with estimates for this feature, so hopefully we'll have that for you in our next update.

Please continue sharing the campaign!

Together we can make this happen.

Together we can revolutionize the way the language of the Quran is learned.

As I was putting the first draft of the app together it was very traditional and grammar focused. When I showed my brother, he said this is good and I'm learning, but I'm not seeing it applied and I don't think mom and dad would be able to do this. So I told myself... Yes! I have to do something that my parents could learn from. They are non-technical and non-Arab.

So I showed him another set of lessons with Arabic directly from a commonly known chapter of the Quran. And he said

“This is great and I love this but the motions feel a little repetitive...”

So I had to go right back to the drawing board. What could make things feel less repetitive? And that’s when it hit me, what if the lesson followed a story of the Quran?

Finally, I gave him the Story of Musa from Surah Taha. And he was like... please write more, I want to know what happens next!!!

The next step was - let’s not just show one part of the story - let’s actually follow a Prophet from beginning to end.

The best one to start with in this case was Ibrahim.

Ibrahim was the father of soo many Prophets. He left a legacy that we follow till this day. He was titled in the Quran the “Khalil” of Allah, the close friend of Allah. I can’t wait to share the story of Ibrahim with you on the app.

Please support the app, share and help us launch!

Together we can revolutionize the way the language of the Quran is learned.

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Salam 'alaykum,

Ya'll are amazing. 

Ya'll completed Phase 2! It hasn't even been a week. Alhamdulillah. Before we took the plunge and created this campaign, I had been asking around to see if this app would even get any support. Here we are now, less than a week into the campaign, and I couldn't be more thankful and excited by the backing we've received. Alhamdulillah we have already reached our second goal of $20,000.

InshaAllah with your continued support and shares we can reach our Phase 3 goal which is to raise $30,000.

Phase 3!

If we reach Phase 3 we will:

1. Add another Story which will be chosen based on our Quran word analysis.

2. We will introduce a Salah course in the app. The point of this course will be to help you understand what you repeat in your prayers day after day 5 times a day.

3. Finally, we will be able to host even more free version users. Every $5 will go towards hosting one free student. As the number of students grows, we are able to reduce our costs. When we reach the end of Phase 3 that will be 6000 free students we can support.

So please continue to share and support this campaign.

Share on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Share on your WhatsApp groups. Please personally message people you know that have been struggling with understanding the Quran.

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​About the Salah Course

InshaAllah this will be useful to so many people. People who crave to understand the prayer and also those learning how to pray. Imagine a new convert in some remote place being less intimidated because with access to this app they will be taken through the Salah step by step at their own pace. Imagine someone who hasn't prayed in a long time and wants to get back into it but is too embarrassed to ask someone in person. The possibilities are endless.

Alhamdulillah! Alhamdulillah!

We made it to $10,800 overnight. We're not even at two full days of the campaign yet subhanallah.

InshaAllah we will be raising the goal to our second phase as we mentioned before: $20,000.

The successful completion of Phase 2 will allow us to complete the next story (vote for it here). More importantly Phase 2 will allow us to release a free version of the app. We’ll be able to support 2000 users. That means every ten dollars you spend will allow 1 other person to use the app free.

More about the free version:

Our app already has a starting cost of just $2.75 a month with launchgood. But we really want this app to have an impact on Muslims everywhere. And we don't want affordability to be an issue. So with Phase 2 we will be able to introduce a free version of the app.

Each user has certain costs associated (user support, servers, hosting, database, performance etc) so we definitely want to make sure we have the foundation to support a large number of free users. Subscribers will have access to more features and lessons but free users will still be able to learn inshaAllah.

Also as a thank you we wanted to share the 10 words that make up 25% of the Quran:

Salam 'alaykum,

This has been amazing alhamdulillah. In less than 12 hours we've already reached 34% of our goal. That's more than a third! Thank you everyone!

I think Muslims have had enough. We're saying "No!" to understanding nothing when we read and listen to the Quran.

If you haven't already, please personally share the page with people you know would be interested in learning the language of the Quran. 

Together we can make this happen.

P.S. If we get to $20,000 we will be able to start supporting a good number of free accounts inshaAllah. We'll also be able to complete the Story of Musa.