Editors' choice is Quran Majeed Lite and iQuran

This is our first of, Insha Allah, a series of reviews on travel applications and products. Ramadhan being only a day or two away, our first review is on a mobile Quran application. Quran being such an important aspect in this blessed month, hopefully these applications will help us keep busy with the recitation and listening to it even in our travels.

Our first review is of free Quran iPhone applications. We have looked at only those applications that provide the full text of the Qur'an. This narrowed down the applications to the following:

• alQuran from alMubine
• Quran Majeed Lite from Pakdata
• iQuran from Guidedways
• Al Mus'haf from i4islam
• myQuran - Indonesia from biminasoft

First of all, we pray that Allah Tha'ala rewards the above companies abundantly for all the effort that they have put to make these applications available for all of us.

We reviewed the applications for usability in the following two areas, from a travellers perspective:

• Ease of use purely for reciting the Quran. How close do they come to the convenience of a printed Mus'haf.
• Audio recitation features. We looked not just the ability to listen to a Sheik's recitation, but the features available for making it a useful learning and memorization tool.

Ease of use for recitation (Quran Reader)

Our Choice : Quran Majeed Lite. If you are looking for an application for just reading while travelling, this one is our choice.

One of the most interesting features of Quran Majeed Lite is its ability to auto-resize width of the text to fit to the screen after you use the pinch/zoom feature to set the font size that you are comfortable with.

An interesting feature only alQuran has is the "page up / down" feature. Very convienient when you want to do continous reading. All others, use the swipe up/down feature, which requires you to manually make sure that it stops scrolling at the next page for easier reading.