New: Guides, short guides to the duas for an occasion, each dua with its opening line and a link to the full text. Fourteen to start: Laylat al-Qadr, iftar and sahar, each day of Ramadan, after salah, morning and evening, Friday, forgiveness, protection, parents, exams and study, istikhara, the deceased, the best-known duas and the duas from the Qur'an. Find them in the menu and at the foot of any page.
The foot of every page now links to the main sections, the best-known duas, the collections, the guides and offline reading. The foot of the menu has Guides, Search, Changelog and Feedback.
Back from a search now leaves it in one step, instead of stepping back through each half-typed word.
A new Privacy page, at the foot of every page, sets out what the site collects and the services it uses. In the UK and Europe, analytics cookies are set only if you allow them, and the site asks once. Wherever you are, you can turn them off on that page.
An address that doesn't exist now shows a large ٤٠٤, with the search and what to read now, in place of a bare error message.
The Sahifa Sajjadiyya collection now lists its 54 duas in the Sahifa's own order, 1 to 54.
A new About page, in the menu and at the foot of every page, says why Duas Online exists and what it does.
The brand pattern now sits faintly behind the top of the home page.
A new Roadmap page, in the menu and at the foot of every page, lists what is coming next, and you can vote for the items you want most.
Moving between pages now dips briefly to the background and back, instead of cutting.
Pages paint sooner on slow connections (the fonts no longer hold up the first paint), and pinch-to-zoom works again on phones.
Cards now let a little of the page show through them, and on a screen with a mouse they tilt gently toward the pointer, with a soft light that follows it. The Read now carousel lines up with the shelves below it and runs off the right edge of the screen.
Duas that follow their recitation, line by line
73 duas and ziyarats now follow their recitation line by line: the line being recited is highlighted and kept in view, a tap on any line plays from there, and presentation view turns its slides with it. Among them are Dua Kumayl, Dua Tawassul, Jawshan Kabir, Dua Arafah, Ziyarat Nahiya and the Sahifa. More will follow once their timings have been checked by ear.
Following along now works the first time you open a dua. Before, the copy kept for offline reading left the timings out, so a dua followed its recitation only from the second visit.
The four ta'qibat pages (common to every prayer, after Fajr, after Dhuhr and Asr, and after Maghrib and Isha) now show where each ta'qib begins, with a note on what to recite, how many times and from whom. They had run together as one long text. Two duas that appeared twice on the common page now appear once.
Ziyarat Ashura is now titled simply Ziyarat Ashura.
The collections under Browse by Theme now each carry a short description of about the same length, such as "For healing and good health".
New: duas from the Qur'an, in a Qur'anic Duas collection. The Rabbana Duas gathers the Qur'an's supplications that begin "Our Lord", 28 of them, and Duas of the Prophets in the Qur'an gathers those of Nuh, Ibrahim, Lut, Yusuf, Musa, Ayyub, Yunus, Zakariya and Sulayman (a), with those the Qur'an teaches the Prophet (s) and the dua for your parents. Each dua gives its surah and verse, in Arabic, transliteration and English.
The day pages are now Duas for Saturday, Duas for Sunday and so on, in Arabic too, since each holds several duas.
Read now no longer suggests the Laylat al-Qadr duas and amaal every night: they come up on the 19th, 21st and 23rd nights of Ramadan.
The Tasbih of Fatima Zahra now gives each count before its phrase, "Repeat 34 times" and then "Allahu Akbar", and opens without the Bismillah.
Titles are now set in title case throughout, as "Taqibat Common to Every Prayer" and "Sahifa Sajjadiyya 38: In Asking Pardon", where about a hundred mixed the two styles. Their share pictures follow.
The duas of the days, Saturday to Friday, now show where each text begins as well: Imam Zayn al-Abidin's (a) dua for the day, Lady Fatima's (a) and Imam Ali's (a), the day's tasbih, its dua for protection, its salats and the dua for the night. On Friday, the acts of the day, from the duas at dawn to the Perfect Prayer, are each marked with when to recite them.
Where a recording begins with the Bismillah, the isti'adha or a salawat before the dua itself, those now stand at the top as lines of the dua and are highlighted as they are recited.
Dua Kumayl's highlight no longer jumps ahead a few lines after "O Light! O All-holy!": the reciter skips one line there, and the line before now stays lit until he moves on. The same check re-timed a line each in Dua Arafah and the Ziyarats of Karbala.
Every dua and ziyarat now opens with the Bismillah in gold, with its transliteration and translation beneath it, on the page and in presentation view.
Lines of a dua are now divided by straight rules. The line being recited is tinted from rule to rule, and the Copy button no longer pushes a line's text off centre.
The audio player now has a Present button beside its close button, to go straight to presentation view with the recitation playing.
Reciters are now credited under Preface & Notes on the dua's page, rather than in the audio player.
The salawat on Imam Ali (a), Imam Zayn al-Abidin (a), Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq (a) and Imam Ali al-Ridha (a) no longer highlight their first line before it is recited.
Ziyarat Jamia Saghira no longer offers a recitation: the recording was too poor in quality to keep.
The supplemental resources at the foot of each dua are gone. In their place, every dua and ziyarat now suggests four related ones: for the same day or occasion, about the same Imam, or of the same kind.
The duas and ziyarats of the days no longer open with a heading naming them: the title already says it.
Search suggestions on the home page now appear above the cards instead of behind them, each on one line with its Arabic title in gold beside the English, and the arrow keys move through them.
The Duas, Ziyarats and Amaal cards on the home page now carry their icons in white on the gold eight-pointed star of the Duas Online mark.
Duas written into the steps of an amaal, such as the dua for sustenance, are now set like the duas themselves: the Arabic in the reading font, with the transliteration and English beneath it, following your reading mode and text size.
The English now addresses Allah with "O" throughout, "O Allah", where 34 lines in 9 duas said "Oh". "Oh" stays only where it is a cry, as in "Oh, would that I knew".
The Back to Home links on amaal and category pages are gone: the logo at the top takes you home.
There is now a feedback page. Spotted a mistake in a text, a recitation that doesn't match, or something not working? Send feedback from the foot of any page, and it arrives knowing the page you were on.
The dua cards in an amaal are now set like the dua cards everywhere else, with the audio mark centred beneath the title.
On larger screens the header now matches phones: the menu button on the left, the logo in the middle and settings on the right.
Categories are tidier. Friday and Friday Duas are now one Friday category, the days, times and themes drop "Duas" from their names, and the occasions read as dates, "19 Ramadan (Laylat al-Qadr)". The Laylat al-Qadr nights are now the 19th, 21st and 23rd. Dua Kumayl and Dua Tawassul join Famous Duas, and Hadith al-Kisa now comes up on Thursday nights.
The Duas, Ziyarats and Amaal pages now centre their titles, and the Amaal page is as wide as the other two.
Several titles are shorter: Dua Abu Hamza Thumali, Dua Alqama, and the sahar duas, now "Dua Baha (for commencing the fast)" and the like.
Every collection under Browse by Theme now has its own icon: a domed shrine for Ziyarat, prayer beads for After Prayer, open hands for Seeking Needs, and so on, where many shared a calendar.
Five new collections: Laylat al-Qadr, Iftar, Study & Exams, Parents & Family, and For the Deceased.
Every dua, ziyarat, amaal and collection now has its own title and description, in search results and in your browser's tab, and search engines and AI assistants can read each page's text directly.
The foot of every page now says in a sentence what Duas Online is.
A link to Duas Online shared in WhatsApp, iMessage, X or elsewhere now shows a picture: the Duas Online mark for the home page, and the page's own title on the Duas Online green for every dua, ziyarat, amaal and collection.
The notes on where Hadith al-Kisa, Sahifa 47 and Ya Man Arjuhu come from, and the istikhara amaal, no longer carry our working notes, and the Ziyarats card now reads "Salutations to the Prophet (s) and the Ahl al-Bayt (a)".
Light mode now has a faint paper grain behind the page, like the paper of a printed book.
The salawat on the Imams now end their English titles with (a), like every other title, in place of the Arabic.
Duas Online has moved to Cloudflare's network, so pages and texts now load from close to wherever you are.
duareader.com, duareader.org, duareader.app and www.duasonline.org now all bring you to duasonline.org.
Prayer times now work out your area without calling on an outside location service.
The Islamic date can again be moved a day or two either way to match your local moon sighting, from the prayer-times panel on the home page.
The prayer-times panel now shows the Islamic date only.
Search that understands your spelling
Search now finds what you mean however you spell it: Kumail or Kumayl, Joshan or Jawshan, Ashoora or Ashura, Nudbah or Nudba. Urdu words such as durood and shab work too.
A match in the title now comes before a match in the text, so searching a dua's name brings that dua first.
Search now includes the amaals, such as the Ashura amaal and the amaal for sustenance.
The Ziyarats page now lists only ziyarats. Four duas recited after a ziyarat, among them Dua Alqama and Dua Aliya al-Madamin, now sit with the duas.
Ziyarats of Medina and Mecca now appears with the ziyarats, and every ziyarat, the seven weekday ones included, is in the Ziyarat category.
Category pages now list duas and ziyarats under separate headings.
The day's ziyarat on its own page
Dark mode is now the default for new visitors; a theme you have already chosen is kept.
A new Offline page, in the menu, shows what is saved on your device for reading without a connection.
Today's Islamic and Gregorian dates now sit in the prayer-times panel.
Each day of the week now has its dua and its ziyarat as two separate pages, for example Dua for Saturday and Ziyarat for Saturday. Both appear in Read now on their day.
Easier reading on phones
New: a Present button under the title of every dua and ziyarat opens it full screen, one passage per slide. Tap the right or left of the screen, or use the arrow keys, to move.
Text sizes now scale down properly on phones, in titles, cards and the lines of a dua.
The Arabic of each line is larger than its translation, so the two read at a matching weight.
The site no longer asks for your location when it opens. Prayer times are shown for your area, and you can choose to use your exact location.
Fixed: swiping up or down over the Read now cards scrolls the page again.
Fixed: opening a page from a link now starts at the top, instead of part-way down where the last page was scrolled.
Recitations now start from a Listen button under the title. The player rises from the bottom of the screen as a pill and can be closed with its X.
Arabic and its translation are now balanced in size, on the dua page and in presentation view, on phones and large screens alike.
If the recitation is open when you start a presentation, the same player stays on screen above the slides and keeps playing.
The presentation cover now carries the Duas Online logo beneath the title.
The audio player now slides away when closed, and its frosted background is subtler.
A presentation now opens with a title slide and Bismillah before the first line.
In presentation view, slides now fade smoothly from one to the next, with the Duas Online mark at the top.
A new site icon in the browser tab and on the home screen, and a slightly smaller logo in the header.
The home page is simpler: a smaller logo, and the next prayer time with the Islamic date beside it.
In an amaal, a step folds away once you tick it, and your progress stays in view as you scroll.
The Read now cards sit centred on a phone and are easier to swipe through.
Each dua's origin, source and categories are now together inside Preface & Notes.
A new typeface for titles
Titles and headings are set in a new serif, served from the site itself so it also works offline.
Duas Online
The site is now called Duas Online, at duasonline.org, with a new logo.
Honorifics are written one way throughout: (s) after the Prophet and (a) after the Imams and their family.
Names are spelt one way throughout, for example Husayn, Fatima and Ja'far. Searching for other common spellings still finds them.
Several long supplications that appeared as a single block are now split into passages, each Arabic passage beside its translation.
Sources and recitations
Every dua and ziyarat now names its source and its origin.
Fourteen recitations that would not play have been fixed.
Added the Dua of Arafah from Sahifa Sajjadiyya and Hadith al-Kisa.
Read now, offline reading and modern English
The home page opens with Read now: what to read for the time of day, the weekday and the Islamic date.
After your first visit the whole collection can be read without a connection.
A setting lets you read translations with archaic words in modern English, or exactly as the source has them.
You can adjust the Islamic date by a day or two to match your local moon sighting.