Privacy policy
The short version. We collect only what Munib needs to work. We never sell or share your data, we show no ads, and we use no advertising or tracking tools. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app at any time.
Who we are
Munib is made by Sajawal Naeem, trading as Munib Labs, in London, United Kingdom. We are the "controller" of your personal data under UK data protection law (UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). You can contact us at hello@munib.co (hello@munib.co).
What we collect, and why
| What | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Nothing, if you only read the Quran tab without an account | The Quran tab works without signing in. The Quran text and audio are fetched for you, but we don't link those requests to you. |
| Account: your email address, or the details Apple shares when you use Sign in with Apple (which can be a private relay address) | To create your account and let you sign in. |
| Display name | Shown next to reflections you post. |
| Your activity in Munib: ayat you like and save, your reading progress, ayat you've memorised | To back these up to your account so they appear on every device. |
| Reflections you post, reports you make, and people you block | To run reflections safely and enforce our community guidelines. |
| Posts you share (text, photos and videos, with any source and moods you add), and our review decisions on them | To check every post against our community guidelines before anyone else sees it, then show approved posts in For you. Deleting a post removes it and its photo or video. |
| Read together: the khatms you start or join, the juz you pick, how far you’ve read in them, and any names you put on a juz for someone reading without the app | To show your group who is reading which juz and how far everyone has got. Only people in the khatm can see this. Leaving a khatm removes you from it; deleting your account removes everything. |
| Family circle and Ramadan together: the circles you start or join, their names, and the days or juz you tick as read; any salaam you send to another member | To show your circle how many of its members have read each day. Members can see who is in the circle, but only how many have read, never who; your own ticks are shown only to you. A salaam is shown to the person you sent it to. Leaving a circle removes your ticks; deleting your account removes everything. |
| Your mosque, if you add one for prayer alerts | We read the mosque’s public website to get its prayer timetable, and share those times with everyone who follows the same mosque. Which mosque you follow is kept on your phone only, not in your account. Prayer alerts are scheduled on your phone. |
| Feedback you send, with an optional screenshot, and basic device details (app version, iOS version, device model, your app settings) | To fix problems and improve Munib. |
| Your email, if you join our early access list on this website | To tell you when Munib launches. Nothing else. |
Your mood choices, translation, reciter and reminder times stay on your phone. Daily reminders are scheduled on your phone; no reminder data is sent to us. Recitations you download for offline listening are stored on your phone only. If you use the Qibla compass or prayer times, Munib reads your location on your phone to work out the direction and times; it is never sent to us or anyone else (prayer times keep a rough position, to about a kilometre, on your phone). If you use Mosques near you, a rough position (to about a kilometre) is sent to our server and on to Geoapify, a mapping service, to look up mosques nearby; it is used only for that search and isn’t saved. When you first open Munib, it asks a few questions about where you are on your journey (for example, whether you’re new to Islam and how easily you read Arabic); your answers stay on your phone and are only used to set Munib up for you, unless you choose to share them anonymously (below). Your tasbeeh counts stay on your phone. If you record yourself reciting to practise, the recording stays on your phone, is never uploaded, and is discarded when you leave that screen. Anonymous usage stats: once a day Munib sends a summary of the previous day: which parts of the app were opened, how many ayat were read and for how long, the week you started using Munib, your country (from your phone’s region setting), platform and app version. It carries no name, account, device ID, advertising ID, location or IP-based profile, so it can’t be linked to you; you can turn it off in You → Your data. Anonymous insights (only if you turn them on): your answers to the journey questions are added to that summary, never linked to you. We only ever look at, publish or share totals from groups of at least 20 people, for example in research reports for charities, mosques and researchers. We never sell or share personal data, and never work with data brokers or ad networks. Live TV opens the broadcasters’ own YouTube pages, where YouTube’s (Google’s) privacy policy applies. Quran radio plays streams from mp3quran.net’s servers, which, like any website, see your device’s internet address while you listen; Munib sends them nothing else.
If you ask for dua, your request is stored on our server and shown to other Munib readers for 14 days, with your display name unless you choose to hide it; we know who wrote it so we can act on reports, and you can remove it at any time. When you tap “I made dua”, we count it once and never show who made it. The ummah counter adds the number of ayat read on Munib to a single daily total; nothing about who read them, or which ayat, is sent or stored. If you start a Read together khatm in memory of someone, the name you give is visible to the khatm’s members and on its invite page.
Religious information
Using a Quran app can reveal your religion, which UK law treats as "special category" data that needs extra care. We process it only to provide Munib to you, on the basis of your explicit consent when you create an account. You can withdraw consent at any time by deleting your account.
Who else handles your data
We use a small number of service providers, under contracts that only let them process data on our behalf:
- Supabase, which hosts our database and accounts, in the European Union (Frankfurt).
- Apple, if you use Sign in with Apple.
- RevenueCat, which handles Munib Plus purchases for us. If you buy Munib Plus, Apple processes the payment; RevenueCat receives a record of the purchase from Apple and, if you're signed in, your Munib account number (a random code, not your name or email), so your membership follows you to a new phone. We never see your card details.
- Anthropic, the company that makes the AI Claude. Munib asks your permission before anything you type is sent to Claude, and you can change your answer at any time in You → Your data. With your permission, Claude: answers your questions in Ask and "Ask about this ayah"; finds duas for what you describe in Find a dua; reads a mosque's public website to find its prayer timetable when you add one; and gives each post you send a first check against our community guidelines before a person reviews it. We send only what's needed (your question with any earlier questions in the same chat, the ayah, what you typed, or the post's text, source and photo), never your name, email or account details. We don't keep your questions or the answers; we only count how many you ask each day, to keep the service fair. Anthropic does not use this content to train its models. Without your permission, Ask doesn't answer, Find a dua matches words on your phone instead, and your posts are reviewed by a person only.
- The Quran Foundation (Quran.com), which provides the Quran text, translations, recitation and tafsir. Our server requests this content for you; we don't send them any information about you. Audio files are streamed from their servers, which see your device's internet address, as any website would.
We do not sell, rent or share your personal data with anyone else, and we will never use it for advertising.
How long we keep it
We keep your account data for as long as you have an account. When you delete your account in the app, your profile, likes, saved ayat, progress, reflections and posts are deleted immediately. Feedback is kept for up to 2 years so we can follow up on problems. You can ask us to remove yourself from the early access list at any time.
Your rights
You have the right to see the data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, receive a copy of it, object to or limit how we use it, and withdraw consent. Email hello@munib.co and we'll respond within one month. If you're unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
You must be 13 or over to create a Munib account. Anyone can read the Quran tab without an account.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit, and our database uses row-level security, so each person can only access their own private data.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.