Muslim Pro has 50 million installs. It also sold its users' precise GPS location data to third-party brokers. The prayer times you checked, the mosques you visited, the Quran you read — all attached to an advertising profile built around your faith. When the story broke, Muslim Pro quietly updated their privacy policy and moved on.
That's the app most of the world's Muslims are using right now.
Noor Connect exists because that's not acceptable. Free, open source, GPL-3.0, listed on F-Droid, zero trackers, zero analytics, every byte of your data stays on your device. But privacy alone doesn't make an app worth using — plenty of minimal FOSS Islamic apps already exist. What makes Noor Connect different is the depth of what's built on top of that foundation.
The F-Droid Islamic App Space Has Good Tools. None of Them Do All of This.
Al-Azan does prayer times with zero internet permission — clean and minimal. Mihrab has a solid Madinah Mushaf reader and widgets. Khushu focuses on guided rakat-by-rakat prayer flow. These are intentional, well-built apps.
None of them are trying to be your complete Islamic companion. Noor Connect is.
46 routes. The full standard Madani Mushaf in local WebP pages, 16 complete hadith collections with 52,000+ entries, live Makkah and Madinah streams, Seerah of the Prophet ﷺ with chapter progress, Qisas Al-Anbiya, an Islamic ebook library with a PDF viewer, mood-based Islamic Remedies, a deeply gamified Islamic quiz, 400+ nasheeds with offline cache, full women's Islamic wellness, five native Android widgets, prayer tracking with Qaza management, Zakat and Fitrana calculators, Ramadan hub, Hijri calendar, and a Quran radio station catalog with 200+ streams.
One install. Nothing left out.
52,000+ Hadith. Free. Offline. In a Web Worker.
Islam360 has a strong hadith library — scholars recommend it, and it earns it. It also costs money to unlock fully.
Noor Connect ships 16 complete collections — Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Nasai, Ibn Majah, Ahmad, Malik, Mishkat, Riyadus Salihin, Darimi, Bulugh al-Maram, Shamail, Adab al-Mufrad, Forty Hadith, and Hisn al-Muslim. Arabic and English, color-coded Sahih/Hasan/Da'if grade badges, bookmarks, full-text search, infinite scroll loading 300 hadith at a time. All 16 collections are stored as gzip compressed JSON — 95MB raw, 20MB compressed — inflated at runtime in a Web Worker so the UI thread never blocks.
All of it free. All of it offline. No account. No paywall.
The Nasheed Library Is Legally Licensed
Most apps that include nasheeds either scrape public sources or use informal arrangements that sit in a legal grey area from an Islamic ethics standpoint.
Noor Connect has an official partnership with No Copyright Nasheed — the leading platform for copyright-free Islamic audio — with a free perpetual license covering 400+ tracks, served through a dedicated Cloudflare Worker CDN. Noor Connect is officially listed on their website as a trusted partner app.
Offline cache for up to 200 tracks with 90-day retention, artist filter chips, queue, shuffle, repeat, favorites, animated equalizer visualizer, and background playback with lock screen controls. Every track financially supports its creator — which matters.
Your Adhan. Your Voice. Your Choice.
Every major Islamic app gives you a dropdown of preset muezzins and calls it customization.
Noor Connect lets you upload your own MP3 adhan and assign it per prayer. Record your local imam. Use a family recording. Use anything. It's stored locally in IndexedDB, previewed before saving, and plays through the full native adhan engine with lock screen controls. No other major Islamic app — FOSS or otherwise — does this.
Islamic Knowledge That's Actually Addictive to Learn
Most Islamic quiz features are five questions and a score. Noor Connect built a full knowledge economy around Islamic learning.
Four quiz modes — classic, time attack, survival, and daily challenge. An XP system with 15 levels, combo multipliers, accuracy bonuses, and streak rewards. A lives system with regeneration. Mystery boxes — Knowledge Box, Wisdom Chest, Prophet's Treasure — that drop XP and power-ups as rewards. An in-app store with 20+ items including Barakah Boost, Wisdom of Sahaba, and Scholar's Aura, unlocked with earned XP. Seven-day daily reward streaks. Unlockable achievements.
It's the kind of depth that makes you come back to Islamic knowledge the same way a well-designed game makes you come back. The gamification is intentional and it works.
Mood-Based Islamic Remedies
Pick how you're feeling from 12 mood and condition categories. The app surfaces relevant Quranic ayahs, hadith, duas, dhikr, and surah guidance connected to that state. A daily remedy with XP rewards and a favorites list for quick reference.
It's not a medical feature. It's a structured way to connect to what Islamic tradition says about your current state — something no other Islamic app has built this way.
What the Entire Islamic App Industry Built for Muslim Women
A toggle. A menstrual mode that pauses prayer reminders. That's it. That is the complete sum of what major Islamic apps have ever offered Muslim women specifically.
Noor Connect built Noor Cycle — and had it audited against the actual code so this description is accurate.
What it actually does: When a cycle is logged as active, the app automatically silences prayer notifications and pauses Qaza auto-syncing. No manual override needed — the app understands Islamic context at a system level and acts on it.
What it tracks: Flow, 10 symptoms, mood, energy level (1-5), pain scale (0-10), notes, ghusl status, missed fasts, water intake (8 glasses daily). All stored locally, nothing leaves the device.
What it calculates: Average cycle and period length, next predicted start, ovulation window, fertile window, istihadhah detection based on madhab-specific maximum haidh and nifas durations across all four major schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali), tuhr status, cycle regularity, prediction confidence, and Qaza fasts owed.
How it integrates: Prayer alarms disabled during active cycle. Prayer notifications cleared. Qaza auto-sync paused. Streak tracking exempts haidh and nifas days so your prayer streak isn't broken. Five contextual notifications — ghusl reminder, period prediction, daily log prompt, fertile window alert, and a Sunday evening Qaza fast makeup reminder.
What you see: Six tabs — Today with a hero ring and fiqh exemption grid, Calendar with month view and day detail, Log with a locked-commit form, Analytics with cycle charts and a PDF health report exportable for a doctor, Islamic tab with full madhab Fiqh guidance and wellness articles, and Settings with PIN lock and data export.
Protected by a 4-digit PIN. Every byte local.
Muslim women have been using Islamic apps designed entirely around male use cases for the entire history of Islamic apps. Noor Connect is the first FOSS Islamic app that treated that as unacceptable and actually built something serious about it.
Five Widgets That Survive Everything
Next Prayer countdown, Daily Ayah, Daily Hadith, Quran Reading Progress, and a Tasbeeh counter. Native Android widgets with full light and dark theme support, Material You dynamic color on Android 12+, system corner radius on API 31+, and reconfigurable on the home screen without removing and re-adding.
They survive reboots, timezone changes, DST shifts, and locale changes. They show exactly what the app shows — because they're fed the same parsed data the app uses, not a separate calculation.
Built for the Phone You Actually Have
The Madani Mushaf is 606 WebP pages stored locally in the APK — no CDN dependency, no loading spinner while you're reading. The hadith database inflates in a Web Worker. The app benchmarks your device once at startup and sets an animation tier automatically — on low-end hardware it strips blur effects, replaces heavy animations with opacity fades, and targets 30+ FPS on phones from 2016 onwards.
If you're in a Muslim-majority region on a mid-range or older device, this was specifically engineered for you.
Get It
Noor Connect v2.2 is live on F-Droid right now. Everything above is free.
F-Droid: f-droid.org/packages/com.noorconnect.app
Source: gitlab.com/theredhacker0345 (GPL-3.0)
No account. No ads. No data leaving your phone. Just the app.
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