Qur’an recitation, measured
See exactly where your recitation differs from the Qari’s.
Choose a renowned Qari, record the same ayah, and Maqam AI maps your melody, pacing, and delivery against his, then builds a training plan around what to fix.
Visualization: the Qari’s recitation drawn as a gold line and your first attempt as an emerald line. The emerald line enters late, misses the held note, and releases early. Those are the differences Maqam AI measures.
You’ve heard the advice. What you need is where.
Advice like this names a problem and leaves the location blank. Feedback you can practice against points to the word, the second, and the shape of the difference.
Visualization: your emerald line drifts alone, unstable, while the Qari’s gold reference is barely visible: practice without a reference point.
Choose a Qari. Recite the same ayah. See both voices.
Three minutes from first open to first analysis.
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Choose your Qari
Pick the reciter whose style you're chasing. His recitation becomes your gold reference line.
- 02
Recite the same ayah
Record into your phone, exactly as you'd practice. One take is enough to start.
- 03
See both voices
Maqam AI lays your take against his: scored, mapped, and marked at every point the two part ways.
12 Qaris at launch
- Maher Al-Muaiqly
- Yasser Al-Dosari
- Mishary Rashid al-Afasy
- Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais
- Abdul Basit Abdul Samad
- Abu Bakr al-Shatri
- Ahmad Al-Nufais
- Khalifah Al-Tunaiji
- Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary
- Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi
- Saud Al-Shuraym
- Saad Al-Ghamdi
The comparison
This is the comparison, marked on one timeline.
Both recitations, one timeline. Scroll to move through the ayah and watch Maqam AI mark every place the two voices part ways.
Interactive visualization: the Qari’s gold line and your emerald line run in parallel lanes. As you scroll, a playhead moves through the ayah and annotations mark a late entry, a flat pitch, and a shortened hold.
That comparison is Maqam AI.
Join the iOS waitlistSix dimensions. One recitation.
Maqam AI scores every attempt across the dimensions a teacher listens for, and shows you exactly where each one slipped.
- 01LAHN
Melody
The shape of your pitch against the Qari's, phrase by phrase, finer than a whole verse.
- 02TEMPO
Pacing
Where you rushed and where you dragged, measured in milliseconds.
- 03WAQF
Pauses
The stops that carry meaning: held with intent, cut short, or missed.
- 04RELEASE
Endings
How each phrase lands: resolved like the Qari's, or clipped before it finishes.
- 05BREATH
Stability
The steadiness of your voice as breath pressure falls, and how it improves.
- 06ORNAMENT
Vibrato
Controlled ornament or accidental wobble. The analysis can tell the difference.
Each card shows a small looping comparison of the gold reference line and the emerald user line for that dimension: melodic shape, timing drift, pause placement, phrase endings, breath stability, and vibrato regularity.
The diagnosis
The exact word. The exact moment.
Maqam AI pinpoints your weakest moments, down to the phrase, and explains what happened in plain language, so the next attempt has a target.
Weakest moment: melody
Your melody dropped where the Qari rose, and the phrase ran flat through the second word. The coaching view marks the exact span to re-record.
The plan
A coach’s plan, built from your weakest moments.
Every analysis becomes a practice plan: short, targeted drills for the exact phrases that need work.
- Drill 01Ending control: The final word. Hold it as long as the Qari does.
- Drill 02Melody shape: The second phrase. Rise where he rises.
- Drill 03Timing: The entry after the pause. Come in on his beat.
Plans regenerate after every attempt
The trajectory
By take 12, you can hear the change.
Every attempt is scored, stored, and compared. Keep scrolling and watch the gap between you and the Qari close. That’s what practice looks like when it’s measured.
Visualization: across takes 1, 4, 8, and 12, the emerald line steadies and settles onto the Qari’s gold line. Late entries shrink, the held note appears, the ending resolves.
Built for reciters who already take this seriously.
For you if
- Huffadh refining recitation they already know by heart
- Students preparing to recite in front of a teacher or congregation
- Anyone who has repeated one ayah twenty times chasing the Qari's sound
- Reciters who want measurable proof that they're improving
Not for
- Complete beginners still learning the letters. Start with tajwīd basics first
- Anyone seeking a ruling on their recitation's validity. That belongs to a teacher, not software
- Listeners who want a beautiful mushaf app rather than a training tool
If you’ve ever asked “why doesn’t mine sound like his?” This was built for you.
Why we built this
Recitation deserves tools that match the craft.
Musicians rehearse against reference recordings with pitch analysis. Athletes train on frame-by-frame video. Reciters practice the most carefully transmitted sound tradition in history by listening and repeating. Maqam AI is built by engineers and reciters who believe the craft deserves the same precision: the analysis techniques used for speech and music, applied with adab. It measures sound only. It never grades meaning, never issues rulings, and never replaces a teacher. It makes the work between lessons count.
Respect, by design
Qur’anic text appears exactly as it does in a mushaf: never animated, never distorted. Every visualization on this page and in the app depicts your voice, not the words.
Your recordings
Recordings are processed to produce your scoring results, then deleted from analysis systems. On Android, you may optionally allow a separate copy to help improve Maqam AI; iOS does not currently offer that. Details are in the Privacy Policy.
Common questions, answered clearly.
Maqam AI is a practice tool between lessons. A teacher corrects your rulings and hears things software cannot. It shows you, precisely, how your sound compares to the Qari you're studying, so the time with your teacher goes further.
Maqam AI measures acoustics (melody, pacing, pauses, endings, stability, and vibrato) against your chosen Qari's recitation. It does not issue rulings on the validity of your recitation. Sound is measurable; rulings belong to teachers.
Twelve at launch: Maher Al-Muaiqly, Yasser Al-Dosari, Mishary Rashid al-Afasy, Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Abdul Basit Abdul Samad, Abu Bakr al-Shatri, Ahmad Al-Nufais, Khalifah Al-Tunaiji, Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Saud Al-Shuraym, and Saad Al-Ghamdi.
You should be comfortable reading the mushaf and reciting an ayah on your own. If you can do that and you want your recitation closer to the Qari's, you're exactly who this was built for. Complete beginners should start with tajwīd basics first.
For scoring on Android and iOS, your recitation is processed to produce feedback and then deleted from analysis systems. Saved takes in My recordings stay on that device. On Android only, if you tap Yes, I'll help Maqam (or turn on Settings → Help improve Maqam), we may also keep a separate copy of that recitation and related details in a private Maqam cloud to improve the product, not as a personal library, and not sent to scoring AI providers. You can turn that off in Settings; it stops new copies but does not by itself erase copies already stored. Details: maqamapp.com/privacy.
Pricing will be announced at launch. The waitlist is free and needs no card. You'll hear first.
Android is available now on Google Play. iOS is coming soon. Join the iOS waitlist to get the launch email.
Yes. The text is rendered as it appears in a mushaf: never animated, distorted, or decorated. All analysis and animation apply to the audio of your voice, not to the words themselves.
Scoring requires a network connection because analysis runs in the cloud. Downloaded reference audio and reader content are available offline.
Live duet with a friend is planned. It is not available yet.
My recordings stays on the device where you saved it. Scores and progress sync when you sign in. On Android, if you opt in to Help improve Maqam, a separate copy may be stored in Maqam's private cloud for product improvement. That is not a personal library you can play back on another device.
No. Maqam AI performs pattern comparison against a reference. It does not identify voices and does not claim your voice matches any particular reciter.
Your recitation deserves precise practice.
Maqam AI is available on Google Play. Join the iOS waitlist to hear when the App Store launches.
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iOS App Store (coming soon)