A 12-second video posted before Ramadan, and an Android version that arrived seven months later: how a Quran lock-screen widget app copied the Bible app template

A small studio in Ankara, Turkey copied the "a Bible verse on your lock screen, then a subscription" template and applied it to Islam word for word. The iOS version launched two weeks before Ramadan in 2026, and a few Turkish-language TikTok alt accounts pushed it to the most-rated Quran widget app on the App Store. The Android version, released in Sep 30, reached 72k installs in five weeks. The template really does make money, but this path is now crowded with people copying it.

A video with 1.02M views, and the comments are asking "what about Android?"

In 2026 Feb 14, about four or five days before Ramadan began, the TikTok account @kuranwidgets posted a 12-second vertical video: an iPhone lock screen with a line of scripture added below the time, next to the next prayer time and a Ramadan countdown. The caption is one sentence in Turkish: "Kilit ekranına ayet ekle, namaz vakitlerini takip et, Ramazan geri sayımını takip et", meaning add a verse to your lock screen, track prayer times, and track the Ramadan countdown.

By Nov 6, the video had 1.03M views, 19k likes, and nearly 5,000 saves. Among the most-liked comments, one was from the official account: "The app is called Kur'an Widgets, the download link is in our profile." Another asked "what's the app called?", and a third said: "Android için nasıl indirebilirim acaba" (how can I download it on Android?). Two days later, another post from the same account (640k views) had comments like "Android gelsin" (bring out an Android version) and "ben bulamadım play store de" (I couldn't find it on the Play Store).

At that point it was iOS only. Android users waited more than seven months before the Android version launched in Sep 30.

What it is

An app that puts Quran verses, prayers (dua) and Islamic sayings on your home screen and lock screen, so you see one every time you check your phone. It piles on a lot of features: prayer times, qibla direction, mosque finder, tasbih counter, zakat calculator, stories of the prophets, Islamic animated wallpapers, and verse notifications at intervals you choose. The store page says Premium gives you "all themes and categories, premium widgets, unlimited reminders", with in-app purchases from $3.49 to $19.99 (Google Play, 11-06).

It makes money the standard way subscription apps do: after opening it, you go through a long series of onboarding questions (the paywall teardown site mobileappdesign.io recorded 20 onboarding pages), and only then does the paywall appear.

The developer is called Cloud Game Studios on Play and CLOUD STUDIOS Teknoloji Yatırım A.Ş. on the App Store, with an address in Ankara.

Who it copied

The name already gives it away: "Quran Widgets: Verses & Duas" is aimed at "Bible Widgets: Verses & Prayer".

The two Bible apps already proved that "scripture on the lock screen + long onboarding + subscription" makes money. Muslim users are more numerous, but there are few paid apps for them. This team's move was to swap the content for Islamic content.

Why this one broke out

It landed two weeks before Ramadan. The iOS version launched in Feb 5, and Ramadan began in mid-February. The Ramadan countdown, iftar and suhoor times were built directly into the widgets, and the TikTok captions were all written around Ramadan. @kuranwidgets' most-viewed posts all went up between Feb 13 and 16: 1.03M, 642k, 330k, 142k (TikTok, pulled 11-06). Once Ramadan ended in Mar 10, the account stopped posting.

Several alt accounts posted the same line. Besides @kuranwidgets, there were @app.kuranwidgets and an English account @jonan.quranwidgets. The captions were nearly identical, and every profile bio said "Uygulamayı İndir" (Download the App). The method was lean: record a screen capture of the lock screen, add one line, and post it from several accounts over and over.

Turkey first, then a dozen-plus languages. On the App Store, the Turkish store has 20,800 ratings averaging 4.6 stars, Indonesia 13,688, and the US 5,904 (App Store, 11-06). Malaysia, France, Uzbekistan and Egypt each have three or four thousand. The title was localized into more than a dozen languages (Widgets du Coran, Виджеты Корана, 꾸란 위젯...). It hit #1 on the Indonesian category Top Grossing chart, and #1 on the Free chart in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.

Android was a second wave for the same audience. The Android version has the same name, icon and paywall. It caught the people who had already heard of it in Turkey from the iOS version and who had asked "what about Android?" in the comments. On Google Play, installs read 10-29 at 33k, 11-06 at 72k, and 7 days added 39k. Ratings add about 220 a day. 11-06 ranks #8 on the Turkish Lifestyle Free chart and #10 on Top Grossing, and on the same day it charted in 17 countries. It hit #40 on the UK Lifestyle Top Grossing chart (Google Play, 11-06).

It is probably still running paid acquisition. One one-star Android review says: "Herşeyi de paralı yapmayın yahu, paralıysa da reklamlarda paralı yazsın da indirmeyelim" (Don't make everything paid. If it's paid, at least say so in the ads, and we wouldn't download it). That suggests at least some users came from ads. How much was spent and where can't be checked from outside (inference).

Where the money comes from and how much it makes

Only outside estimates exist. mobileappdesign.io puts iOS revenue at about $65K a month and about 200k installs a month. screensdesign.com estimates about $70K, and appsprint.app about $50K. All three count iOS only, are estimates, and the team has never published figures.

What can be seen on Android: five weeks after launch, it has held steady at #10–11 on the Turkish Lifestyle Top Grossing chart.

What users are complaining about

Almost all the reviews on Google Play are in Turkish, averaging about 3.5 stars. The one-star reviews all complain about one thing: payment, especially being asked to pay only after going through every onboarding step.

• "her şey iyi güzel de bütün adımları yaptırıp sonunda ücret istenmesi çok saçma", meaning: everything's fine, but making you go through every step and only then asking for money is absurd (10-19,1 stars)
• "Allah'ın kelamı parayla satılmaz", meaning: God's words shouldn't be sold for money (10-25,3 stars)
• "Bu tarz hizmetleri diğer din mensupları ücretsiz sunuyor", meaning: followers of other religions offer this kind of service for free (10-21,1 stars)
• "senelik üyelik alıp başka telefona geçiş yaparsanız o üyeliği kullanamıyorsunuz", meaning: if you buy an annual membership and then switch phones, you can't use it anymore (10-26,1 stars)
• "uygulamamı iptal etmek istedim neden iptal etmiyorsunuz", meaning: I tried to cancel my subscription, why won't you let me cancel? (10-26,1 stars)

Under that 1.02M-view TikTok from Ramadan, someone also wrote just "Ücretliymiş, sağolun" (So it's paid, thanks). The complaints are real, but the ratings keep climbing and the chart rankings keep rising, so the paid model holds up. The backlash against charging for religious content in Turkey is real, though. Problems like no restore after switching phones and hard-to-find cancellation pile up into refund requests and bad reviews.

Who it's competing with

This niche is already crowded, and it's crowded from both directions:

• Earlier ones. On Android, Turkish-language Quran verse widgets like Ayat Online - Hourly Widgets (2025-8.43M installs) and Connectinno's Müslim: Ramazan Kur'an Widgets (2025-1.28M installs) came out before it, and the latter now adds only about 100 in 7 days. Among general Muslim apps, Muslim Pro has 149M installs, with widgets as a side feature. Deen Buddy had a "verse on the lock screen" TikTok tutorial in March 2025 that got 2.56M views, so people had already been taught this use case.
• Copycats. On iOS: Comma Labs' "Quran Widget - Verses & Duas" (2026-03, nearly the same name), Nizam (2026-04, about 7,400 ratings), Nurlu, Nuraly, Nur - Kuran Widgets, Hüccet, and IYONYA's Muslim Widgets: Quran (2026-08). On Android there is one also called "Quran widgets verses duas" (com.islamicwidget.app) and Umra Tech's Quran Widget (2026-437k installs). Most are run by individual Turkish developers or small companies.
• It has also tried the reverse. 2026-07 made a Bible version, My Bible: Widgets & Prayers, which has only about 200 ratings worldwide so far. On the Bible side, the same playbook didn't take off.

Its revenue estimates are posted on several paywall teardown sites, where subscription app builders can see them.

If it were you

Verdict: Stop building Quran widgets. This niche already has a top app with 66k ratings and a dozen copycats, and on Android there are local products that came out before it. What's worth taking is the playbook: "faith content × lock-screen widget × long onboarding + subscription", combined with launching around religious holidays and short videos from alt accounts.

Who it suits: A subscription app team of 1–2 people that has built onboarding flows with a paywall and can run Meta or TikTok ads. Ideally the team belongs to, or knows well, a faith or language community that this template hasn't reached yet (such as Hindus, Orthodox Christians, or a language-specific Muslim market where nothing is yet established. Check the store yourself, since we haven't verified each one; this is inference).

Who it doesn't suit: Anyone who wants to compete head-on in Turkish, English or Indonesian Quran widgets, anyone uncomfortable charging for religious content or unable to handle a flood of one-star reviews, and anyone who can build features but not distribution. There is no technical barrier here, and a team could build this in a month.

How to do it: Make the widget and lock screen the main entry point, and fold other features (time, reminders, counters) into the widget. Keep the onboarding flow, but fix the two things it got criticized for: make clear which features are free before the paywall appears, and make subscriptions restorable across devices with an easy-to-find cancel option. Don't wait seven months for Android. Once iOS works, launch Android the same week with the same name and icon.

How to get users: Copy what it did: open two or three small local-language accounts, post lock-screen videos with one line of copy, and keep it up for two weeks. Put the keyword "<religion> widget" right in the store title, and translate the title for each country. Note that its spike came from Ramadan, so your community needs its own timing hook.

When to start: Work backward from the next holiday, and go live at least two weeks before it. For example, Ramadan starts in early February 2027, so if you want to target the Muslim market with localized builds, ship before late December. Diwali and Easter work the same way.

Signs you misread it: ① Its Android version stalls at around 100k installs for a month or two and drops out of the top 20 in Turkey's Lifestyle Top Grossing, which means the paywall doesn't hold up outside Ramadan; ② followers like Nizam show flat ratings for several months, meaning that even with a new name, latecomers can't get volume; ③ the community you picked already has two or three "X Widgets: Verses & Prayer"-style apps charting in the store, in which case you're already late.

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Data and sources: Google Play store pages, charts and reviews (2026-10-29 to 11-06); App Store storefront pages for Turkey, the US and Indonesia (11-06); TikTok videos and comments from @kuranwidgets, @app.kuranwidgets and @jonan.quranwidgets (pulled 11-06); revenue estimates from mobileappdesign.io, screensdesign.com and appsprint.app, all external estimates.