Qur’an recitation, measured
See exactly where your recitation differs from the Qari’s.
Choose a renowned Qari, record the same ayah, and Maqam maps your melody, pacing, and delivery against his — then builds a training plan around what to fix.
Early access on iOS and Android. One email when we launch.
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 — the differences Maqam measures.
You’ve heard the advice. It never tells you where.
Well-meaning advice — with no location, no measurement, and nothing you can act on tomorrow. Feedback that can’t point to the word, the second, and the shape of the difference isn’t feedback you can practice against.
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.
- 01
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. No studio, no setup — one take is enough to start.
- 03
See both voices
Maqam 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 moment other apps can’t show you.
Both recitations, one timeline. Scroll to move through the ayah and watch Maqam 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.
This is the app.
Join the WaitlistSix dimensions. One recitation.
Maqam 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, not verse by 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
Not “work on your melody.” This word. This moment.
Maqam 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 cost you — not another generic exercise list.
- 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
Take 12 doesn’t sound like take 1.
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 proof — not a feeling — 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 better tools.
Musicians rehearse against reference recordings with pitch analysis. Athletes train on frame-by-frame video. Reciters — practicing the most carefully transmitted sound tradition in history — get “listen and repeat.” Maqam 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 analysis. A full privacy policy ships with the app at launch.
Questions, answered straight.
No — and it isn't trying to be. A teacher corrects your rulings and hears things no software can. Maqam is the practice mirror between sessions: it shows you, precisely, how your sound compares to the Qari you're studying, so the time with your teacher goes further.
Maqam 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.
Recordings are processed temporarily for analysis and then removed from our servers. If you choose to save an attempt, it is stored on your device only. A full privacy policy ships with the app at launch.
Pricing will be announced at launch. Joining the waitlist costs nothing and needs no card — you'll simply hear first.
iOS and Android — we're aiming to launch on both at the same time. The waitlist gets the launch email before anyone else.
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.
Coming Soon. Not yet.
No. Only your scores and progress sync when you sign in. Audio saves remain on the device where they were recorded.
No. Maqam performs pattern comparison against a reference. It does not identify voices and does not claim your voice matches any particular reciter.
Your recitation deserves more than guesswork.
Maqam is opening soon on iOS and Android. Join the waitlist and be the first to hear.
No spam. One email when we launch.
We’re aiming to launch on both platforms together.