About — Noorani

The problem, plainly stated

In 2026, a practicing Muslim opens a browser and immediately starts working around it. Bookmark the prayer-times site. Install a Qibla extension. Find a Hijri-date widget. Turn off autoplay on every video platform. Hope the ad network didn't just profile your last five searches. Keep a tab open to Quran.com. Remember, before Maghrib, to close the news feed.

None of this is the browser's fault, exactly. Chrome, Safari, Edge, Brave — they were built for a user who doesn't live by a schedule the browser can't see. They do their job. They do it well. They just weren't designed with your day in mind.

There are roughly two billion Muslims online. The number of browsers built around how those two billion actually use the internet is zero.

Why now

The technical door is finally open. Chromium is mature, well-documented, and fork-friendly. The same engine that powers Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, and Opera can be forked into something quieter — built around intent instead of engagement. The ecosystem of privacy-respecting defaults has been validated by Brave, DuckDuckGo, and Proton. What's left is a team willing to do the work for a specific audience, not a general one.

Noorani is our answer to that specificity. Prayer times computed locally. A Qibla indicator one keystroke away. The Hijri date, always visible. Tracker blocking on by default. Optional filtering when the web gets loud. No telemetry leaving your machine. Built on Chromium so it feels familiar — but with defaults that respect the way you live.

Who we are

Noorani is a product of Ataraxy Developers, a software agency based in Islamabad, Pakistan. Ataraxy has been building for clients across the US, UK, Europe, and the Gulf since 2022 — web platforms, internal tools, AI systems, automation infrastructure. Noorani is our first product, as opposed to a client project.

The founder and lead engineer is Waleed Naeem. Ataraxy's broader team has quietly shipped software for healthcare networks, insurance platforms, education systems, and hospitality brands. We know how to operate; we know how to ship; we know how to keep our word.

We also know that building a browser is hard. We aren't pretending otherwise. We're taking our time, shipping v1.0 when it's ready, and writing our plans down in public — which is why there's a roadmap instead of a launch countdown.

The founding conviction

A browser is the room you spend most of your waking day inside. It sets the texture of your attention. It decides what's easy to find and what's easy to lose track of. It quietly decides who gets to measure you while you're there.

We think it's reasonable — and overdue — to build a room that knows your rhythm. That doesn't route your location to someone else's servers before computing what time Asr is. That doesn't treat you as a cell in a spreadsheet for the ad industry. That loads Quran.com as if it belonged there, not as a tab you had to remember to open.

That's the whole idea. No revolution. No saviour complex. Just a tool built for the people who use it.

What Noorani is not

Noorani is not an Islamic content filter masquerading as a browser. The content filter is optional, configurable, and off by default outside Ramadan mode. Noorani is not a substitute for scholarship — we don't issue fatāwā, we render HTML. Noorani is not a surveillance tool for parents or employers. We don't ship those features because we won't build them.

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