From paper register to Mudrus in one afternoon
Most mosques do not have an IT budget, an administrator, or an afternoon to lose. So the honest question is not "how powerful is this" but "what does the first day actually cost, and what still does not work".
Here is the plan we would give a mosque of twenty-five students, with the awkward parts left in.
Before you start: decide who owns it
Pick one person. Not a committee. The migration takes an afternoon when one person makes the small decisions — what a class is called, whose name goes on which record — and a month when three people have to agree on each of them.
That person needs the register and about two hours.
Hour one: the mosque, the teachers, the classes
Signing up asks for four things: the mosque's name, a short code that becomes your mosque's identifier, your name, and a password. There is no card, and there is no plan to pick before you can look around — a new mosque starts in a trial with every feature available.
The setup wizard then walks through the shape of the institution:
1. Mosque details — name, and the storage region your data lives in. Choose this deliberately; it is where your records are kept. 2. Teachers — invite the people who will mark attendance and log progress. Roles matter here: an administrator sees everything, a teacher sees their classes, and a teaching assistant sees only the students assigned to them. 3. Classes and sessions — when the halaqah meets. Recurring sessions are worth setting up now; scheduling conflicts get flagged before a message goes out to parents, which is the wrong time to discover two classes want the same teacher.
Hour two: the students
This is the part that is genuinely manual, and we would rather say so here than let you find out on a Sunday morning.
There is no spreadsheet import yet. Students are added one at a time through the setup wizard: name, optional name in Arabic, age, guardian name and contact. For twenty-five students that is about forty minutes of typing, and it is the single biggest cost of moving.
Note: If you have more than about sixty students, write to us before you start. We would rather sit with you while you do it than have you discover the shape of the job halfway through.
Two things make the typing worth doing carefully:
- Guardian contact details are what the portal runs on. A wrong number is a family that never sees anything. - Arabic names are a separate field for a reason. They render in Amiri, they appear on certificates, and they are how a good many families will recognise their own child in a list.
You do not need to enter historical progress. Start from where each student is today — current surah, current juz — and let the record build forward. Backfilling three years of a paper register is a project, not an afternoon, and almost nobody needs it.
The first week: three habits
The product does nothing on its own. Three habits make it worth the afternoon:
1. Mark attendance in the session, not afterwards. It takes under a minute down a class list and it is the signal everything else is built on. 2. Log progress at the ayah, not the surah. "al-Kahf 1–10, hesitant at 7" is a teaching note. "al-Kahf, in progress" is a shrug. 3. Share the guardian portal link in week one, not month three. Families who see the record early treat it as normal. Families who see it after a term ask what changed.
What families see
A guardian opens a link. No account, no app, no password. They see their own child's progress, attendance and milestones, and they can message the teacher back. The link can be rotated or revoked by the mosque at any moment, and a revoked link stops working immediately.
Students get their own read-only view of their own progress, which for a nine-year-old working through Juz 30 turns out to matter more than anyone expects.
Keep the paper for a term
This is the part most migration guides leave out. Run both for a term.
Not because the software will lose your data — it will not — but because a paper register is a habit, and habits are what actually fail during a change. If the register keeps getting filled in and the app does not, you have learned something true about your mosque's workflow, and it is better to learn it while the paper is still there.
At the end of the term, one of the two will have stopped being used. Whichever it is, that is your answer.
What it costs
The entry tier is $40 a month for up to twenty-five students, and every tier includes every feature — the tiers differ only by how many students you teach. If you go over, each additional student is $1.60 a month and nothing switches off. Parents never pay anything.
What we have not built yet
So you can plan around it rather than discover it:
- Spreadsheet import — not built. Students are added by hand. - On-device speech recognition — designed, not shipped. Transcription today means a teacher typing. - Emailed weekly summaries — the script exists; it is not scheduled. - Windows desktop and the mobile app stores — the builds exist; the macOS app is not notarised and neither store listing is live.
Everything else in the features list is in the product today. If any of the above is the thing that decides it for you, write to us and we will tell you honestly where it is.