Zekr
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 The Zekr Project |
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| Developed by | Mohsen Saboorian et al. |
| Initial release | January 2005 |
| Stable release | 0.6.0 (August 5, 2007) [+/−] |
| Preview release | 0.7.0beta1 (March 27, 2008) [+/−] |
| Written in | Java (programming language), JavaScript |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Available in | Arabic, Bosnian, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Kurdish, Malay, Persian, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Tatar, Turkish, Urdu, Uzbek |
| Genre | Quran, Religious_texts |
| License | GPLv2 |
| Website | zekr.org |
Zekr is an open source Quranic desktop application. It is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching on the Quran. Zekr is a Quran-based project, planned to be a universal, open source, and cross-platform application to perform most of the usual refers to the Quran, according to the project website.[1]
Zekr is capable of having multiple add-ons, that is different translation packs, themes, recitations and and revelation packs.[2]
The current stable release version is 0.6.6, which mainly focused on supporting Quran recitation. It can play Quran recitations offline or online.
Zekr comes with an NSIS installer for Windows and an Application bundle for Mac. There is always a base .tar.gz package for (all) Linux machines as well as Debian packages for Debian-compliant Linux distributions.
