It started in a mosque. The imam was reciting a verse during Tarawih that stopped me mid-prayer — a verse I hadn't heard before, or maybe one I'd heard a hundred times but never truly heard. I wanted to know which one it was. I couldn't ask mid-prayer. By the time I could, I'd forgotten the sound of it. That frustration stayed with me.
So I built this app. I called it Rawi راوي — Arabic for narrator. In Islamic scholarship, a rawi is the transmitter who carries knowledge from teacher to student across generations, preserving every word with precision and care. The entire Quran was memorised and passed down through rawis for centuries before a single letter was ever printed.
That felt like the right name. Rawi doesn't replace the human connection to the Quran — it acts as your personal narrator, passing the verse from the recitation to your hands, so you can carry it forward yourself.
