NURA · The app

Everyday duas you can actually trust — verbatim, sourced, and searchable

Worship content is the one place a companion app has no licence to improvise. NURA's dua collection is built on a single rule: nothing is invented, paraphrased, reconstructed or guessed. Every supplication is a well-known, authentic text carried verbatim, and any dua whose exact wording could not be verified with certainty was left out rather than approximated. The set is deliberately small — the everyday duas a Muslim actually reaches for — and each one shows the Arabic, a transliteration, the meaning, and its source label.

What's in the starter set

Twelve everyday supplications for the moments they belong to:

• Leaving home, and entering home
• Before eating, and after eating
• Travel (the Qur'anic dua of the journey)
• Before sleeping, and waking up
• Entering the masjid, and leaving the masjid
• Entering the bathroom, and leaving the bathroom
• Distress and anxiety (the supplication of Yunus, peace be upon him)

Where a dua is Qur'anic, the aya reference is given — for example the travel dua is cited to Qur'an 43:13–14, and the dua of distress to Qur'an 21:87. The hadith duas name their collection: Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah. You always know exactly what you are reading and where it comes from.

Search that understands plain English

You rarely remember a dua by its opening word. NURA's search is deterministic and forgiving: it folds your query to a lower-case, diacritic-free form so “Masjid,” “masjid” and a stray space all match, and it never lets Arabic tashkeel block a hit. Each dua also carries hidden plain-English keywords, so typing car finds the travel dua, toilet finds the bathroom dua, and anxiety finds the dua of distress — even though none of those exact words appear in the translation.

Multiple words narrow rather than widen: searching before eat requires both terms, so it lands on the before-eating dua instead of everything mentioning food. It is a small, honest search over a curated list, not a fuzzy guess.

Favourites that stay yours

Star the duas you say most and they are kept on your device. The favourites list is stored locally, de-duplicated, and validated against the known set on every read — a corrupt or tampered store simply degrades to “no favourites” rather than crashing the screen. Newly starred duas append to the end, so your most recent additions are easy to find.

Built like the rest of the engine

The dua list, the search over it and the favourite-marking are pure functions with no clock and no network, which is why they can be exercised directly by NURA's automated test suite (~1,327 tests) and why the whole thing works with no signal at all. There is no account and no NuroNova server for the core app: the list ships in the app, and your favourites never leave the device.

Where the AI fits

NURA's optional assistant, Noora, is bring-your-own-key and off until you enable it. The duas themselves need nothing of the sort — they are always available, always offline, always sourced.

NURA is a free, watch-first Muslim life-companion for iPhone from NuroNova Genix Co. (Delaware; headquartered in Houston, Texas). Coming soon to iPhone.