Terms of Use

1. Your licence

App Store. Downloading or using Kevser from the App Store means you accept Apple's Standard EULA, which grants you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, as described in that agreement, together with the App Store Terms of Service. Nothing on this page replaces, rewrites or reduces that agreement. By using the app you also agree to these additional terms, which cover matters the Standard EULA leaves to the developer.

Google Play. Google does not impose a standard end user licence on apps distributed through Google Play, so downloading or using Kevser from Google Play means we grant you, and you accept, a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to install and use the app on Android devices you own or control, for your own lawful, personal, non-commercial use, subject to these terms and to Google Play's Terms of Service governing your relationship with Google as the store operator.

2. Who we are

Kevser is published by MissingLayer B.V., Korte Lijnbaanssteeg 1, 4570, 1012 SL Amsterdam, Netherlands (“we”, “us”). You can reach us at admin@missinglayer.com.

3. What Kevser is, and is not

Kevser is a reading application. It presents the Arabic text of the Quran, translations produced by named translators, recitations recorded by named reciters, and tafsir written by named scholars and published by others.

Kevser's launch version is offered free of charge and contains no advertising or advertising SDK. That describes the current version and is not a promise that every later version will remain ad-free.

A future version may display banner advertising. Any banner will stay in a dedicated area outside the Quran and translation presentation and will not overlay the text or reader controls. We will configure the advertising service to block alcohol, gambling, nudity and sexual content, interest-based lending, hate, extremism, misinformation, and unlawful goods or services.

It is not a religious authority and does not issue rulings. Translations and commentary are the work and the responsibility of their authors and publishers; they differ from one another, and no translation is the Quran itself. For matters of religious practice, please consult qualified scholars rather than an app. If you find an error in any text the app displays, write to us and we will investigate and, where the text is ours to correct, correct it or report it upstream.

4. Scripture, translations and recitations

The app offers two editions of the Arabic text. The Madinah mushaf is the King Fahd Complex's own text of its 1441 page, obtained through the Quran Foundation Content API and bundled in the app. The Turkish mushaf is set by us in the orthography and marking Turkish readers know, generated from the Uthmani text the same API provides; it is our own typesetting of the standard Quranic text, not a copy of any publisher's edition. Chapter names and all bundled translations come from QuranEnc.com (Rowad Translation Center), used under their applicable terms, including QuranEnc's requirement that translation wording is reproduced without alteration and that source information and footnotes are preserved separately.

Arabic recitations are streamed from URLs returned by the Quran Foundation Content API. Spoken translations in ten languages are streamed from QuranEnc.com; the Turkish one is read by a synthesized voice that we generated from the bundled Turkish text and serve from our own storage, and the app says so wherever it credits that audio. Tafsir is streamed from the Quran Foundation Content API and QuranEnc.com. Quran data provided by Quran Foundation. Attribution for each source, including the named reciter of every recitation, is shown in the app on its Content Sources & Licences screen, and summarised in this section.

Some of that content is requested through a service we host; the recordings and commentary themselves remain with their providers. See the Privacy Policy for the services involved and how long anything is kept.

You may read, listen to, search, copy and share this content for your own personal, non-commercial use, including the standard sharing features built into the app. You may not extract, scrape or redistribute the app's bundled text database, its cached audio or its cached tafsir as a dataset, a feed, or part of another product. Rights in those materials belong to their respective owners, and any use beyond personal reading needs permission from them, not from us.

Interface translations, layout, design, code, the app icon and the name Kevser as used for this app belong to us, and no licence to them is granted beyond using the app as intended.

5. Third-party services

Kevser is an independent app and is not an official product of Quran Foundation, Quran.com, QuranReflect, QuranEnc, IslamHouse, or Apple.

Recitation, spoken translations, word timings and tafsir are fetched from third-party services when you request them. Cloudflare hosts this website and the service those requests pass through. The content services themselves are outside our control. They may be slow, unavailable, changed, or withdrawn; a reciter, a narration or a commentary may cease to be offered in the app as a result. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or continued availability of any third-party content, and your use of those services is also subject to their own terms and privacy policies. The offline parts of the app — the Quran text, the bundled translations, search, your notes and your reading plan — do not depend on them.

6. Acceptable use

• Use the app lawfully, and for personal reading and study.
• Do not attempt to use the app, or the endpoints it contacts, for bulk or automated downloading of text, audio or commentary.
• Do not remove, obscure or alter attributions and copyright notices shown in the app.
• Do not decompile, reverse engineer or modify the app, except to the extent that applicable law expressly permits despite this restriction.
• Do not redistribute the app or its content as your own product.

7. Your notes are yours

Notes, highlights, bookmarks, settings and reading progress are stored on your device. We claim no ownership of and have no access to them. Because they are on your device, keeping a backup is your responsibility; this version of the app does not sync them to iCloud or anywhere else, and deleting the app deletes them.

8. Changes to the app

Kevser is developed over time. Features may be added, changed or removed, content sources may be replaced, and future versions may require a newer version of iOS, iPadOS, or Android. We are not obliged to maintain any particular feature, and we may stop distributing the app.

9. No warranty

To the fullest extent permitted by law, and without limiting any statutory rights you have as a consumer, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that content fetched from third parties will always be reachable, or that the app will meet a specific requirement of yours.

10. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, arising out of or relating to your use of the app. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that applicable consumer law does not allow to be excluded.

11. Termination

You may end these terms at any time by deleting the app. They also end if you materially breach them. Sections that by their nature should survive — content rights, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law — survive termination.

12. Apple-specific terms

These terms are between you and us only, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. The following apply because the app is distributed through the App Store:

• Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights.
• You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, will have the right to enforce them against you.

13. Google Play-specific terms

These terms are between you and us only, and not with Google. Google is not responsible for the app or its content. The following apply because the app is distributed through Google Play:

• Google has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the app.
• We, not Google, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
• We, not Google, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your use of it infringes that third party's intellectual property rights.
• Any purchase, refund, or subscription made through Google Play is governed by Google Play's own Terms of Service and applicable policies, not by us.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and disputes may be brought before the competent courts in the Netherlands — except that, if you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections and any right to bring proceedings in the country where you live.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms prospectively when the app changes or when the law requires it. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. For a material change affecting your rights or obligations, we will give reasonable notice through the app, the App Store or Google Play release notes, or this site before or when the change takes effect, and will request consent where the law requires it. If you do not agree to revised terms, you may stop using and delete the app. No update limits rights that applicable law does not allow us to limit.

16. Contact

admin@missinglayer.com
MissingLayer B.V.
Korte Lijnbaanssteeg 1
4570
1012 SL Amsterdam
Netherlands

Questions, complaints, and content-error reports may be sent to that address. We aim to acknowledge complaints promptly and provide a substantive response within 30 days.

See also the Privacy Policy, which describes what the app does and does not do with information.