TL;DR: HafizPrime exists to serve hifz seekers — free, forever, for the core features. This page is our honest accounting: how many people we reach, where, and what evidence we have that we’re actually helping.
Our mission, stated plainly
The mission is to give every Muslim in the world, regardless of geography, language, or income, access to a structured hifz methodology at no cost. Every design decision traces back to this. If a proposed feature would have required paywalling core memorization tools, it did not ship.
Reach as of April 2026
- Active users: ~52,000 monthly, across 94 countries.
- Completion rate: 4.2% of users who start a hifz plan have memorized 10+ juz within 18 months. (Industry comparison is unreliable because few apps publish these numbers, but this substantially exceeds informal benchmarks.)
- Languages served: 8 (English, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, French, Malay, Bengali).
- Devices: 72% Android, 26% iOS, 2% web.
- Content: 59 blog posts, 33 help articles, 8 tajweed rule pages, 24 landing pages for common searches.
How we measure impact honestly
We explicitly reject several common “impact” metrics used by EdTech companies:
- Daily active users is a vanity metric. We care about meaningful memorization — sessions with actual verified progress, not app opens.
- Session length is a vanity metric. Many of our best users finish their session in 25 minutes.
- Retention at 30 days is a vanity metric. We care about 18-month completion milestones.
- Revenue growth is entirely orthogonal to impact. We operate primarily on a free model.
What we measure instead
- Memorized ayat per active user, tracked over time. Are users actually finishing what they start?
- Revision adherence. Are users following the spaced repetition schedule, or drifting?
- Retention score trajectories. Is recall improving over weeks/months, or declining?
- Teacher feedback. Through Guardian Link, teachers rate whether the app materially helps their students. We aggregate these annually.
Where we’ve fallen short
To be honest is to be willing to say what’s not working. Here’s what isn’t meeting our own standards:
- Localization lag. English content adds faster than translation can catch up. Non-English users see fewer blog posts and guides than they deserve.
- Female reciter library. We don’t yet have one beyond a small pilot, despite 18 months of searching. Finding qualified reciters with the right rights arrangement has been harder than predicted.
- Marketing to underserved regions. We have almost no presence in Nigeria, Bangladesh, and India despite large potential user bases. Resource-constrained.
- Accessibility for visually impaired users. Full VoiceOver/TalkBack support landed only in March 2026 — much later than it should have.
Giving back
A portion of our paid tier revenue (currently 12%) goes to two streams:
- Open-source tooling we’ve released for other Islamic tech projects.
- Grants to madrasahs in low-income regions for tablets and internet access.
This is not charity marketing. We track it operationally and will publish annual details beginning Q1 2027.
What users tell us
“I’ve been memorizing for 6 years. The retention score caught me falsifying my own progress in a way no human could.” — reviser, 34, USA
“My daughter teaches herself with HafizPrime. She’s 11 and has memorized 5 juz in two years — I never could have given her this time.” — parent, Pakistan
“The verifier is the first app that hears my Arabic pronunciation as someone who cares whether it’s correct, not just that I showed up.” — Indonesian user, 28
