Quran Caption Mobile v1.2.32

This update improves the AI copy-paste workflow and fixes translation handling when splitting subtitles.

More reliable AI replies

You can paste the full reply, including Markdown code blocks or surrounding text. Validation now handles more formatting issues, including escaped brackets, HTML spaces, and unescaped quotation marks inside translation text.

Cleanup happens when you check the reply, leaving the pasted text unchanged in the input.

Smoother translation processing

• Translation alignment or coverage errors no longer block the entire batch. Affected segments are marked AI Error for review.
• Translations apply automatically after you check the final reply, without a separate confirmation step.
• The complete operation supports undo and redo.

Translations preserved when splitting

Manual splits and automatic subdivision now preserve the original translation text and selected range on both resulting fragments.

Both translations are marked To review, so you can adjust each one to match its new Arabic fragment.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.2.31

This update brings Quran Caption’s new blue visual identity to mobile and introduces a guided ChatGPT copy-and-paste workflow for matching existing Quran translations to partially recited verses.

It also improves saved style presets and Android video export reliability, including a fix for offline exports.

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A New Visual Identity

• Introduced Quran Caption’s redesigned blue logo throughout the mobile interface.
• Updated the Android launcher icon, including adaptive and round variants.
• Updated the notification icon to match the new branding.

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AI Translation Mapping Without an API Key

• Added a Without API Key mode alongside the existing With API option.

  You can now use ChatGPT or another AI chat to match portions of an existing Quran translation to the corresponding recited passages.

• Added a guided workflow:

  1. Select Without API Key.
  2. Choose the verses to process and the maximum number of words per request.
  3. Tap Prepare Prompts.
  4. Copy each prompt into your preferred AI chat.
  5. Paste the full response back into Quran Caption.
  6. Tap Check Reply and Continue.
  7. Preview the proposed translation segments, then apply them.

• Added response validation to check formatting, translation coverage, and consistency with the original translation.

  The AI must reuse the existing translation’s wording.

• Longer passages are divided into smaller requests, with progress tracking.

• Invalid responses can be retried individually while preserving previously validated results.

• Added checks to prevent outdated results from being applied after the source subtitles or translations change.

• Adapted the workflow for mobile screens with larger touch controls and scrollable content.

• Your selected connection method is remembered for future use.

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Style Preset Improvements

• Added an Update button to save changes directly to the selected local preset.
• Updating preserves the preset’s name and identity while saving its latest styles, custom elements, and video dimensions.
• Renamed Save Locally to New.
• Fixed portrait preset previews being cropped.

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Android Export Reliability

• Fixed an issue that could prevent video exports while offline.

  An editor-only notice is now excluded from export capture, avoiding an unnecessary font download during rendering.

• Protected temporary export frames from Android’s automatic cache cleanup.

• Improved offscreen rendering to make subtitle frame capture more reliable during video exports.

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Maintenance

• Improved analytics identification to distinguish Quran Caption usage from Minbar Caption.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.2.20

This update improves Android video export reliability, introduces easier management of saved style presets, and fixes portrait preset previews.

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Android Export Improvements

• Improved video export reliability by protecting temporary export frames from Android's automatic cache cleanup.

  Temporary frames and intermediate export files are now stored in a dedicated application data directory instead of the system's purgeable cache, preventing Android from deleting them during long exports.

• Improved offscreen rendering during video exports.

  Android WebView now prepares offscreen content for rendering, making subtitle frame capture more reliable when the export renderer is running outside the visible screen.

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Style Presets

• Added a new Update button for saved style presets.

  After applying a locally saved preset and making changes to its styles, you can now update the existing preset directly instead of creating a new one.

  The original preset's name and identity are preserved, while its styling, custom elements, and video resolution settings are updated.

• Quran Caption now remembers which saved preset is currently applied to your project.

• Renamed the Save Locally action to New, making it easier to distinguish between creating and updating presets.

• Fixed portrait preset thumbnails being cropped in the preset library.

  Vertical previews now preserve their original aspect ratio and remain fully visible.

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Analytics

• Improved analytics to properly distinguish Quran Caption from Minbar Studio.

  Events are now explicitly identified as Quran Caption, allowing more accurate application-specific usage statistics while preserving existing privacy protections.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.2.10

This update brings important fixes to Android video exports, improving Arabic text rendering, subtitle reliability, and overall stability. It also introduces new text rotation controls.

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Android Export Improvements

• Fixed Arabic text and calligraphy appearing stretched, distorted, or incorrectly positioned in exported videos.

  Quran Caption now preserves the correct proportions, sizes, and positions of text elements and Quranic calligraphy, regardless of the selected video resolution.

  Exported videos should now match the preview more accurately.

• Fixed subtitles occasionally disappearing or being captured before they were fully rendered.

  Quran Caption now waits for fonts to load and subtitle layout adjustments to finish before capturing each frame.

• Fixed subtitle fitting potentially getting stuck or delayed during exports.

  Layout adjustments no longer depend on background timers that Android may suspend or throttle during frame capture.

• Fixed a potential export error when using progressive zoom animations on image clips.

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Text Rotation

• Added a new Rotation setting to composite text styles.

  You can now rotate Surah names, reciter names, verse numbers, and custom text elements from -180° to 180°.

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Style Presets

• Fixed fullscreen playback controls accidentally appearing in generated style preset previews.

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Android Stability

• Improved application stability when changing device display or font settings.

  Android no longer unnecessarily recreates Quran Caption's main activity when certain display configurations change, preventing unexpected interface reloads and interruptions.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.1.90

This major mobile update brings several desktop features to Android, including audio and video speed controls, customizable layer ordering, animated image zoom, improved timeline navigation, and major improvements to cloud AI Segmentation.

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Audio & Video Speed Control

• Added a new tool to speed up or slow down audio and video files.

  You can now adjust playback speed from 3x slower to 3x faster, directly from the Tools menu or by selecting a clip on the timeline.

• Audio pitch is preserved when changing playback speed.

• Added an option to automatically adapt subtitle timings when changing the speed of an audio clip.

  Word-by-Word timestamps are also adjusted to keep subtitles synchronized with the modified recitation.

• Speed-adjusted media is saved as a new asset, preserving the original file.

• Fixed the video preview not automatically loading the updated audio after changing its speed.

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Layer Ordering (Z-Order)

• Added a new Z-Order slider in the Style Editor.

  You can now control which elements appear in front of or behind others, including Arabic subtitles, translations, Surah names, reciter names, verse numbers, custom text, and images.

• Added layer ordering controls to the video preview's context menu.

• Layer ordering is saved with projects and style presets, with automatic compatibility for older projects.

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Background Rotation & Animated Zoom

• Added a Rotation setting for background images and videos.

  Rotate your media from -180° to 180°, with support in both the video preview and final exports.

• Added progressive zoom animations for image clips.

  Enable "Animate Image Zoom" from an image clip's context menu to create a smooth zoom-in effect.

  You can customize the final zoom level from 1x to 3x.

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Timeline & Video Preview

• Added pinch-to-zoom support on the timeline.

  You can now zoom in and out using two fingers, making timeline navigation much easier on touchscreens.

• Timeline zoom buttons now remain visible when scrolling horizontally.

• Improved fullscreen playback controls.

  Controls automatically disappear after 2 seconds of inactivity and reappear when you tap the screen.

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Stock Media Library

• Added download progress indicators for videos and images from Pexels and Pixabay.

• Downloaded stock videos are now automatically added to your project's video timeline.

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Export Improvements

• Improved export logging performance by writing logs directly to files instead of continuously updating the interface.

• Export logs can now be opened or shared directly from the Export Monitor.

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Styles, Subtitles & Fixes

• Reorganized Surah Name and Reciter Name settings into clearer groups.

  Unnecessary text styling options are now hidden when their corresponding features are disabled.

• QPC V2 is now the default Arabic font when selecting the Hafs Riwayah.

• Fixed custom Arabic fonts being unnecessarily reset during AI Segmentation.

• Fixed custom verse number elements not always respecting the selected Riwayah's numbering.

• Fixed Word-by-Word timeline markers sometimes displaying technical references instead of Arabic words.

• Fixed the "Show All" translation filter not including fetched subtitles.

• Improved compatibility with older editor layout settings.

• Adjusted the first-launch language selection to display English, French, and Arabic first.

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Cloud AI Segmentation

• Updated the cloud Quranic Universal Aligner integration with the latest desktop improvements.

• Word-by-Word timestamps are now automatically included in cloud alignment results.

  The separate Word-by-Word option has been removed, simplifying the segmentation workflow.

• Improved alignment accuracy for passages spanning multiple verses.

  Quran Caption now uses the returned word timings to split these passages into individual verses without requiring additional cloud requests.

• Simplified the cloud segmentation wizard and improved subtitle boundary controls.

• Improved handling of invalid Hugging Face tokens.

  Quran Caption now displays a warning and continues without the invalid token.

• Improved error messages when the cloud alignment service is unavailable.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.1.81

This update brings a major improvement to Android video export performance, making the frame capture stage approximately 5x faster, alongside several important fixes.

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Export Performance

• Significantly improved video export speed on Android.

  The Capturing Frames stage is now approximately 5x faster thanks to a new native Android frame capture system.

  Instead of relying on JavaScript-based screenshot rendering, Quran Caption now uses native Android rendering to capture subtitle frames.

• Further optimized frame processing.

  Frame preparation and image writing can now overlap, reducing waiting time between captures and speeding up the overall export process.

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Offline Export

• Fixed video exports potentially failing without an internet connection.

  Unused Google Fonts are no longer included during frame capture, preventing unnecessary network requests.

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Export Range Selection

• Fixed an issue where overlapping verse range handles could not be dragged correctly.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.1.80

This update brings new video creation options, Quran Thumbnails integration, additional subtitle styles, improved playback controls, and major Android export and usability improvements.

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Quran Thumbnails Integration

• Added a new thumbnail generator in the Export tab.

  You can now browse and select templates from Quran Thumbnails, a website created by @sadaalayat on Discord.

  Your project's Surah, reciter, and translation language are automatically passed to Quran Thumbnails when opening the selected template.

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Project Creation

• Added video format and resolution selection when creating a project.

  Available formats:

  • Landscape (16:9)
  • Portrait (9:16)
  • Square (1:1)
  • Custom dimensions

• Added resolution presets from 720p to 4K.

• New projects now automatically apply subtitle layouts adapted to the selected video orientation.

  Portrait projects use smaller text sizes and adjusted positioning to better fit vertical videos.

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Subtitle Styles

• Added 16 calligraphic Istiadha styles.

  You can now select a dedicated Istiadha design and adjust its scale independently from other subtitles.

• Added a new Bar Roundness setting.

  Adjust subtitle background bars from square corners (0%) to fully rounded ends (100%).

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Video Preview

• Added a seekable playback progress bar.

  You can now navigate directly to any point in the video.

• Added buttons to skip backward or forward by 10 seconds.

• Improved fullscreen playback on Android.

  • Non-portrait videos now automatically use landscape orientation in fullscreen.
  • Tapping the fullscreen preview now reveals the playback controls instead of immediately exiting fullscreen.
  • Improved the layout of playback controls on smaller screens.

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Export Improvements

• Completed exports are now automatically saved to the device's Downloads folder without requiring a destination selection dialog.

• Added sharing support for all completed exports.

  You can now share your exported files directly with other applications.

• Quran Caption promotion card preferences are now saved globally.

  The enabled state and position (beginning or end) are remembered across projects.

• Fixed the device rotating unexpectedly during video export.

• Fixed background blur being applied even when the background overlay was disabled.

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Subtitles

• Fixed imported translations with spaces in their names not being correctly detected by the anti-collision system.

• Fixed the selected subtitle preset not being applied correctly when using the validation button.

• Fixed subtitle editing remaining active after the edited subtitle was deleted.

• Fixed some verse format labels not displaying correctly on mobile.

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Other Improvements

• Added Arabic to the first-launch language selection.

• Added a button to copy complete AI Segmentation errors, making troubleshooting and bug reporting easier.

• Improved compatibility when importing renamed Quran Caption project packages.

• Fixed an Android issue where resolving application directories could cause pages to become unresponsive or get stuck loading.

• Improved the layout of export options, thumbnail previews, and video format selectors on mobile screens.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.1.72

This hotfix resolves an issue that caused video exports to become progressively slower during frame capture.

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Hotfix

• Fixed frame capture slowing down as video export progressed.

  Font rules were accumulating after each captured frame, making subsequent captures increasingly expensive.

  These rules are now automatically cleaned up after every capture to maintain consistent export performance, especially for longer videos.

Quran Caption Mobile v1.1.71

This hotfix improves Android video export stability by reducing memory usage during screenshot capture.

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Hotfix

• Fixed Android WebView crashes during video export.

  Screenshot memory is now released after each captured frame, preventing image caches from growing continuously throughout the export.

  The reusable screenshot context is also periodically reset to further reduce memory consumption, particularly during long or high-resolution exports.

Quran Caption Mobile

This update introduces full Arabic localization, advanced Hifz repetition, audio effects, timed image clips, and major improvements to the mobile editing experience.

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Arabic Localization

• Added complete Arabic localization with right-to-left layouts throughout Quran Caption.

• Introduced the Zain font for the Arabic interface, with adapted layouts across the editors, settings and other screens.

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Hifz Repetition

• Added a new customizable Linked Repetition mode.

  In addition to standard repetitions, you can now generate cumulative memorization sequences that progressively connect verses.

• Added advanced repetition controls:

  • Set individual and linked repetition counts.
  • Choose how many verses to combine in each linked group.
  • Configure separate pauses between repetitions and groups.
  • Optionally recite the full passage at the beginning and end.
  • Exclude individual subtitles from practice repetitions.

• Improved preservation of Word-by-Word timestamps in generated Hifz sequences.

• Fixed Hifz audio generation on Android using FFmpegKit.

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Audio Effects

• Added a complete audio effects editor for Quran recitations.

  Apply Noise Reduction, Voice Clarity, Light Echo and Light Reverb with adjustable parameters and audio previews.

• Added direct access to each effect from an audio clip's timeline context menu.

• Audio effects now automatically select the source when only one audio clip is available.

• Improved preview reliability with retry support and clearer FFmpeg error messages.

• Added a recommendation to run AI Segmentation before applying audio effects when subtitles have not yet been generated.

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Video Timeline & Preview

• Added timed image clips.

  Images can now be dragged, repositioned and resized on the timeline, and mixed with video clips during export.

• Added individual media layout and video frame settings for each image or video clip.

• Improved subtitle resizing and positioning, including a center grip for moving selected text.

• Added visual collision indicators when dragging overlapping subtitles with anti-collision enabled.

• Added global playback speed controls to the advanced tools menu.

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Quran Alignment

• Improved recitation downloading by automatically repairing malformed Quran Universal Aligner audio URLs.

• Word-by-Word timestamps are now enabled by default during segmentation.

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Export

• Simplified export quality settings with two modes:

  • Balanced: the default mode, using hardware acceleration when available.
  • Max Quality: CPU-only software encoding for higher visual quality.

• Improved handling of media without audio streams by inserting matching silence when needed.

• Fixed outdated translation targets being included in subtitle exports.

• Fixed custom text fonts sometimes being lost during video export.

• Improved rendering when switching between media clips with different styles.

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Mobile Experience

• Optimized title bar controls and spacing for smaller screens.

• Improved the advanced tools menu positioning so it opens above the timeline cursor.

• Advanced tool dialogs now appear as scrollable sheets, making them easier to use on mobile.

• Added long-press access to video and audio clip deletion without interfering with timeline dragging.

• Fixed video preview access in Android release builds and separated the debug application.

• Improved Undo support for advanced timeline tools.