About
About TalibNotes
Study with clarity, return with context.
What it is
TalibNotes is a study workspace that holds Qur'ān reading, Hadith reading, bookmarks, and reflective notes together in one place. The aim is the ordinary one that every serious student of knowledge already has at their desk — text nearby, notebook nearby, a way to return — translated into a tool that does not fight you each time you come back to it.
Reading is the centre. Everything else — notes, folders, bookmarks, search, exports — exists because, sooner or later, a reader wants to hold onto something and come back to it.
Why it exists
Most Qur'ān and Hadith tools on the web are either reading-only (a clean text, but nowhere to write down what you noticed) or note-only (a beautiful notebook, but no text to work against). The usual response is to keep two tabs open and paste between them. That works for a week, then the notes drift away from the text they came from and the context disappears.
TalibNotes puts the two next to each other and keeps a trail back to the source of every note, so a year from now a reflection still knows which ayah or hadith it came from.
What you can do here
The four things the app is built around. Each links straight to the feature if you want to try it without signing in first.
Where the text comes from
TalibNotes does not maintain its own manuscript archive. Every ayah, hadith, translation, tafsir, and audio stream is drawn from a named upstream source with its own licence. The two pages below explain the corpus in full — which source, which edition, which licence, which methodology.
Sharh (commentary) on the major hadith collections is being added gradually — not every hadith carries its sharh yet, and more is layered in as the corpus is checked.
Provenance
Qur'ān data & sources
Arabic text, translations, tafsirs, reciters, mushaf layouts, roots, and topics — with counts, licences, and methodology.
Read the page →
Provenance
Hadith data & sources
Collections, editions, grading scholars, the matn-based matching methodology, and the cross-check corpus we validate against.
Read the page →
What it isn't
- Not a fatwa service. TalibNotes surfaces texts and the gradings scholars have published on them. Derivations of fiqh, questions about personal practice, and cross-madhhab comparisons belong with a qualified scholar.
- Not a replacement for a teacher. A tool organises reading and recall. A teacher hears you read, corrects your taʾwīl, and shapes your adab. One does not substitute for the other.
- Not an AI study assistant. The app does not generate tafsir, summarise verses, or answer "what does this ayah mean?" with a model. Every word the reader sees comes from a cited upstream source.
- Not ad-supported. No trackers beyond what an account genuinely needs. Sign-in exists so notes and bookmarks can belong to a specific reader — not to build a profile of them.
Who builds it
TalibNotes is a small independent project. It is built because the maintainer wanted this tool to exist for their own study and could not find it elsewhere — not as a commercial product. Readers' feedback, bug reports, and corrections shape it more than any roadmap does.
Get in touch
Found a typo, a misattribution, or a feature that would genuinely help your study? The contact form goes straight to the maintainer.