QURAN VIDEO STUDIO · 4 min read
How to make a Quran video for Instagram Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts
Turn a recitation into a vertical video with the ayat written on it, each word lit as it is recited, in your browser and for free.
What you need
A recitation: an audio or video file from your phone or computer (MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV and the other formats your browser plays), or a prayer from Masjid al-Haram chosen in the studio itself, with no file at all. Several recordings can be joined one after another.
Nothing else. The Hasanah studio is free, needs no account and runs in a current browser on a phone or a computer: Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox. The video is made on your own device.
1. Add the recitation
Open the studio and choose Upload a recitation, or Choose a prayer from Makkah to pick a Fajr, Maghrib, Isha or Taraweeh prayer, or a complete surah by one of the imams. A video keeps its picture; a sound recording is set over a background you choose.
As soon as the recording is in, the studio starts looking for its ayat. You can carry on while it listens.
2. Let the ayat be timed for you
A speech model trained on Quran recitation hears the recording and matches it against the whole Quran: every ayah in it, in order, and the moment each word begins. The ayat appear as blocks on the timeline, and each word lights up in the video as the reciter says it.
If an ayah is a little early or late, drag its edges on the timeline. A missed ayah can be added by its reference, such as 67:1, and a repeated one duplicated. The same ayah can show only the words the reciter actually read.
3. Choose how it looks
Pick a look in one click: the Haram at night, a mushaf page, bold reel captions, karaoke-style highlighting and others. Then adjust the font, the size and colour of the Arabic, the translation and its language, the background (a photograph, a colour, a landscape or your own image or video) and the surah's name at the bottom.
Choose the frame: 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, 1:1 for an Instagram post, or 16:9 for YouTube. Turn on Safe zones to see where each app puts its own buttons and captions, so the ayat are never covered.
4. Save and post
Cut the parts you don't need, choose the resolution (720p to 4K) and save. Current Chrome, Edge and Safari make an MP4 frame by frame, usually faster than it plays; older browsers record it in real time. Upload the MP4 to Instagram, TikTok or YouTube as you would any video.
Before posting, watch it through once: recognition is automatic and can be wrong, and the Quran deserves care. If you share it, you are welcome to tag @hasanah.app_ on Instagram and TikTok.