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Getting Started
8Exploring the Qurannotate Dashboard
Get to know your home screen and how to find your way around it.
Keyboard Shortcuts & Gestures
Every Qurannotate shortcut in one place — Mac and Windows keys, Apple Pencil and touch gestures, text formatting and slash commands.
Making a New Mushaf or Notebook
Create a new Qur'an mushaf or a blank notebook in three quick steps.
Moving Around a Notebook and Adding Pages
Switch between pages, add new ones, and organise a notebook.
Creating and managing mushafs and notebooks
Create, rename, recolour, reorder and delete your mushafs and notebooks.
Dashboard, friends, streaks, goals, leaderboard and analytics
Your dashboard: friends, streaks, daily goals, the leaderboard and study analytics.
Platforms and downloads
Use Qurannotate on the web, iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows.
What Qurannotate is
What Qurannotate is: a Qur’an study app for writing, drawing and typing notes on the mushaf.
Notes
14Select, Pan and Pen — the Main Tools
Understand the core toolbar tools and when to use each one.
How Your Notes Collapse Into the Qur'an
See how your annotations tuck neatly into the Qur'an and reopen anytime.
What You Can Annotate: Verses, Words, Surahs and Pages
Learn the four levels you can annotate and when to use each.
Adding Typed Text
Type clean notes with free or fixed-width text boxes.
Linking to Another Verse or Page
Drop a tappable link inside a note that jumps to another verse or page.
Embedding a YouTube Video
Drop a playable YouTube video straight onto your canvas.
Live Collaboration and Cursor Chat
Work together in real time and send quick messages by your cursor.
Annotating the Qur'an: verses, words, surahs and pages
Add notes to a word, verse, surah or page, and reopen them from the Qur’an.
Writing in Document notebooks
Type rich-text notes in a Document: headings, lists, tables, images, ayahs and videos.
Exporting your notes (PDF, Word, image)
Export your notes as a PDF with your handwriting plus a Word document, or as an image.
Importing files (PDF, images, Word, PowerPoint, notes)
Import PDFs, images, Word and PowerPoint files, or exported notes, and annotate them.
Notebooks, pages, folders, templates and journal packs
Organise notebooks with pages and folders, and use templates and journal packs.
Sharing and live collaboration
Share a mushaf with a link, control who can edit, and collaborate live.
Slash commands and linking notes
Type / to insert ayat, hadith and honourifics, and link notes together.
Pen & Drawing
4Changing Highlighter Opacity
Make your highlights softer or stronger by adjusting opacity.
Pen Settings: Colour, Thickness and Opacity
Customise how your pen writes — colour, thickness, opacity, and stroke.
Drawing and Documents
Documents are for typed notes. To draw or handwrite, use a Canvas page or a Qur'an note.
Canvas tools, Insert menu and Apple Pencil
The canvas toolbar, Insert menu, pen and highlighter, and using Apple Pencil.
Reading
5Reading Translations, Tafsir and Word-by-Word
Open translations, tafsir, and word-by-word meaning while you read.
Listening to recitation and choosing a reciter
Play recitation, choose a reciter and control playback while you read.
Connecting your Quran Foundation (Quran.com) account
Connect your Quran Foundation (Quran.com) account to Qurannotate.
Reading, moving between pages, search and bookmarks
Move between pages, jump to a surah or verse, search, and bookmark.
Translations, tafsir and word-by-word
Open translations, tafsir and word-by-word meanings beside the Qur’an.
AI
4Using the AI Study Assistant
Ask about a verse, generate study notes, and turn lectures into notes.
AI credits and AI Pro
How AI credits work, what uses them, monthly credits and adding more with AI Pro.
The AI Study Assistant
Ask questions while you study — the AI Study panel knows the page and verse you are on.
Lecture transcription, live translation and audience links
Turn a lecture, YouTube video or live talk into notes, with live translation and audience links.
Account & Plans
6Your profile, signing out and deleting your account
Edit your profile, sign out, and delete your account and data.
Resetting your password
Forgot your password? Reset it from the sign-in screen in a few steps.
Creating an account and signing in
Create your Qurannotate account and sign in on web, iPad, iPhone, Android and desktop.
Managing or cancelling your membership
Manage, change or cancel your membership on web, iPhone/iPad or Android.
Plans, free trial and pricing
Your free trial, what a membership includes, and how to subscribe on each platform.
Privacy and your data
What data Qurannotate keeps, how it is used, and how to have it deleted.
Support
6Sending Feedback
Report a bug or suggest an improvement to the Qurannotate team.
Contacting support and sending feedback
Email the team, send feedback from the app, or report a bug.
Notifications and study reminders
Turn study reminders and other notifications on or off in the mobile apps.
Offline use and syncing between devices
What works offline, how your notes sync between devices, and what to do if they don’t.
Settings, dark mode, highlight colours and language
Theme and dark mode, highlight colours, and language settings.
Troubleshooting common problems
Quick fixes for sign-in, syncing, audio, export and performance problems.