Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 | Shayar Helper – Urdu & Hindi Poet & Writer Assistant

QAafiyah Expert · Version 2.0

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0

قافیہ ایکسپرٹ 2.0

The complete poetry companion for Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Hindustani poetry.

Write. Search. Scan. Refine. Design. Share.

Version 2.0 — 20 Second Trailer

A quick look at what's new.

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 is here. What started as a focused qafiya and poetry utility has grown into a complete digital workspace for poets, writers, students, researchers and lovers of Urdu and Hindustani poetry.

This is a complete Shayar Helper for Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Hindustani poetry — whether you write in the Perso-Arabic Urdu script, Devanagari, or Roman English. Find rhymes (qaafiyah), check taqti(scansion) and prosody(aruuz), explore dictionaries, design a digital diary (bayaz), get corrections (islaah) from Ustaad, and work on your poetry with professional tools in one app.

Iterating it again (many of you demanded this and here it is), you do not have to read the Perso-Arabic script to use it. Qaafiyah Expert supports English, Urdu and Hindi UI, along with multiple poetry word lists including Roman English and Devanagari.

معاونِ سخنوراں

A poetry toolkit for the way people actually write, search, learn and share poetry today.

شاعری کے سفر کا ایک مکمل ڈیجیٹل ساتھی

2.0 at a Glance

A surprisingly large poetry toolkit inside one app.

3 UI Languages

3 + 1 Themes + Dark Mode

5 Poetry Word Lists
+ Custom lists

3 Search Methods

9+ Dictionaries

3 Taqti Engines

7+ Sher Design Formats

50+ Available Fonts

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Poetry for Readers of Urdu, Hindi & Hindustani

اردو، ہندی اور ہندوستانی شاعری

You don't need to read the Perso-Arabic script to benefit from Qaafiyah Expert.

Built for a multilingual poetry audience

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 has three UI languages: English, Urdu and Hindi. This makes the app useful not only for traditional Urdu readers, but also for people who know Hindustani through Hindi or Roman script.

The rhyme search includes five major word-list options: Urdu, Farsi, Roman English, Devanagari and a pure Hindi Hunspell list.

The Devanagari list is particularly useful for people who understand Urdu vocabulary but prefer to read and write in Devanagari.

English UI Explore the complete toolkit without needing to navigate an Urdu interface.

Hindi / Devanagari A practical entry point for Hindi-speaking Hindustani poetry lovers.

Urdu UI A native experience for Urdu readers and poets.

زبان کوئی رکاوٹ نہیں — شاعری سب کے لیے ہے۔

Q

Qafiya Search: More Than a Rhyme Finder

قافیہ تلاش — صرف قافیہ ہی نہیں

Search thousands of words across multiple scripts and languages, then narrow the results exactly the way you need.

Qaafiyah Expert gives you three powerful ways to search:

Qafiya / Rhyme Search Custom Regex Presets

The Presets system includes 10 ready-made search patterns for quickly finding the words you need, while advanced controls let you narrow your results further.

Wazn Filtering Search by Weight Contains Letters Custom Word Lists Diacritic Tools Meter / Foot Filters Long-press Dictionary

Whether you're looking for a traditional qafiya, experimenting with a regex pattern, or using one of the ten ready-made presets, the search system is designed for both beginners and power users.

5

Five Poetry Word Lists

Search across scripts and vocabulary sources instead of being locked into a single writing system.

Urdu

The core Urdu poetry vocabulary for traditional Urdu-script writing.

Farsi

Persian vocabulary for poets working with Persian words and influences in Urdu poetry.

Roman English

Search and work with Roman-script vocabulary without requiring an Urdu keyboard.

Devanagari

A Devanagari representation of the Urdu word list, useful for Hindi-reading Hindustani speakers.

Pure Hindi

A dedicated Hindi vocabulary list based on Hunspell, separate from the Urdu-derived Devanagari list.

Custom Lists

Add your own remote word lists and build specialized vocabularies for your poetry projects.

T

Taqti & Aruz: Three Engines in One App

تقطیع و عروض

Analyze your poetry with three complementary approaches to Urdu poetry scansion.

01

Offline Taqti

A local beta engine with detailed scansion, meter tables, behr information, meter chips and a flow score.

02

aruuz.com

The existing online Aruz analysis engine remains available as part of the workflow.

03

Rekhta Scansion

Live scansion with example ghazals and verses in the corresponding meter.

D

Nine Dictionaries — Plus Your Own

لغت

A poet needs more than a rhyme. Sometimes the exact word, meaning, synonym or expression is what makes the verse work.

Qaafiyah Expert brings together nine dictionary resources, including offline HyperDict, online meanings, poetic dictionaries, thesaurus resources and other lookup tools.

You can also add a custom dictionary when your particular vocabulary or research project requires something beyond the built-in resources.

Offline HyperDict Online Meanings Poetic Dictionaries Synonyms Recent Words Custom Dictionary

B

Bayaz Design: Turn Poetry Into a Finished Page

بیاض ڈیزائن

Writing the poem is only half the story. Version 2.0 gives you a proper poetry design and publishing workflow.

Seven ready-made sher formats — plus custom patterns

Create professional poetry layouts using Shakeeb Justify, including sher, two-column poetry, musaddas, mukhammas and additional poetry-specific arrangements.

• Classic sher layouts
• Two-column poetry
• Musaddas
• Mukhammas
• Multiple pre-designed sher patterns
• Seven built-in design formats
• Custom poetry patterns

3 Preloaded fonts

50+ Available fonts

Custom Bring your own font

P

From Screen to Shareable Poetry

Design your page, preview it, and export it in the format that suits your workflow.

Five Page Sizes

Choose between A4, A5, Auto, Letter or define a completely custom size in pixels.

Three Image Actions

Once your poetry page is ready, you can download, print or share it directly.

Print-ready Preview

Paginated previews, typography controls, gradients, backgrounds, watermarking and page breaks.

Image Controls

Insert images and control their size, alignment, border, radius, shadow, grayscale and opacity.

C

Backup Your Bayaz

اپنی تخلیقی محنت محفوظ رکھیے

Google Drive

Sync your poetry library to Google Drive and preserve versions of your work.

OneDrive

Keep your work synchronized through Microsoft's cloud storage.

Offline JSON

Download your poetry data as JSON and keep a local backup independent of cloud services.

Version History

Cloud synchronization is designed around preserving previous versions instead of treating your latest file as the only copy.

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Islah Workshop: A Place Where Poets Help Poets

اصلاح ورکشاپ

Share your poetry and get thoughtful feedback from teachers and experienced poets.

Poetry is a craft — and craft improves with feedback.

The Islah Workshop allows you to submit poetry for public or private feedback, with meter validation built into the submission workflow.

Track your questions, see responses, and follow detailed comments on individual shers.

Public or private questions

Automatic meter validation

Teacher / poet feedback

Per-sher comments

Pending / answered tracking

Community poetry ecosystem

شاعر، شاعر کی ترقی میں مدد کرتے ہیں۔

★

Daily Challenge: Keep Writing

A daily poetry prompt turns practice into a habit.

Daily Sher Prompt

Get a word and meter as the starting point for your daily verse.

Community Voting

Read other poets' entries and vote for the work that speaks to you.

Streaks & Achievements

Keep showing up and build your poetry streak.

Leaderboard & Winners

See community rankings and featured winning entries.

UI

Make the App Yours

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 is not just feature-rich — much of its interface can be arranged around your workflow.

Three UI Languages

English, Urdu and Hindi. Choose the interface that makes the app easiest for you to navigate.

Three Themes + Dark Mode

Three colour themes plus a dedicated dark mode let you choose your preferred visual environment.

Tab Sorting

Reorder the five main tabs to put your most-used poetry tools where you want them.

Shortcut Sorting

Organize your Android home-screen shortcuts around the actions you use most frequently.

Built to Keep Evolving

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 uses remote configuration and hot-reloadable settings for many parts of the ecosystem. That means announcements, selected content, sponsors, search resources, presets and other configurable elements can evolve without waiting for a full app update every time.

In other words, version 2.0 isn't meant to be a static collection of tools. It is a foundation for a growing poetry platform.

Chef's Kiss — The Top 12

The features that make Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 especially interesting for serious poetry workflows.

1. Deep multi-script qafiya search Wazn, regex, presets, search-by-weight and custom word lists across multiple scripts.
2. Triple taqti stack Offline Taqti, aruuz.com and Rekhta scansion together in one app.
3. Offline HyperDict A substantial Urdu dictionary workflow without depending entirely on an internet connection.
4. Shakeeb Justify Poetry-specific layout blocks for creating professional sher and multi-column designs.
5. 50+ fonts + custom fonts A large selection of Urdu typography with the ability to bring your own font.
6. Print-ready paginated preview A4, A5, Letter, Auto and custom pixel dimensions with proper multi-page output.
7. Islah Workshop Meter-aware poetry submissions with public or private feedback from teachers and poets.
8. Daily Challenge Prompts, voting, streaks, leaderboard and featured poetry.
9. Cloud backup + versions Google Drive and OneDrive synchronization alongside offline JSON backups.
10. Offline-first architecture Rhyme lists, Aruz data and dictionary resources can be synchronized and used locally.
11. Power-user customization Reorderable tabs, reorderable shortcuts, themes, languages and a phonetic Urdu keyboard.
12. Creator-friendly monetization Points, rewarded ads and premium options designed around giving poets practical ways to access tools.

∞

Urdu Poetry Doesn't Belong to One Script

شاعری کسی ایک رسم الخط کی پابند نہیں

There is a huge audience that loves Urdu poetry, shayari and Hindustani poetry but is more comfortable reading Hindi or Roman script than the Perso-Arabic Urdu script.

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 is designed to make that audience feel included rather than excluded. With an English interface, Hindi interface, Devanagari word resources and Roman-script search, you can explore the vocabulary and mechanics behind Urdu poetry without first having to learn a new script.

That makes it useful whether you're searching for Urdu poetry in Hindi, exploring Urdu poetry in English, looking for Hindi poetry, writing Urdu shayari, or simply trying to find the right qafiya for your next sher.

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A Timely Tool for Poetry Season

With Independence Day poetry and patriotic poetry searches rising across India, Qaafiyah Expert can also be useful when you're looking for the right words, rhymes and meters for an Independence Day poem, 15 August poetry or Urdu poetry for Independence Day.

And if you're studying classic poetry, exploring Allama Iqbal poetry in Urdu, composing two-line Urdu poetry, or simply collecting vocabulary for your next ghazal, the same search and dictionary tools remain useful year-round.

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Write More. Search Better. Create Beautifully.

لکھیے، تلاش کیجیے، سنواریے، سجائیے۔

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 brings the tools of the Urdu poet, researcher and poetry enthusiast together in one place — whether you read Urdu, Hindi, Devanagari or Roman script.

If you write shayari, study poetry, search for qafiyas, practice aruz, design poetry pages or simply love the Hindustani poetic tradition, this release is for you.

Get Qaafiyah Expert 2.0

Qaafiyah Expert 2.0 is a growing project, and your feedback directly helps shape what comes next.

If you've tried the app, leave a review and tell us what you would like to see in future versions.

ایپ کیسی لگی ضرور بتائیں۔ کچھ تجاویز ہوں تو بھی ریویو دیجیے۔

Regards — مع السلام
Shakeeb شکیبؔ

Rekhta Reader & Downloader (Web App) – Thousands of Books on Mobile and Desktop

I come bearing good news today. By now you have already guessed it from the title, and I strongly suspect some of you have been waiting impatiently for the day a proper Rekhta tool with an actual user interface would finally arrive.

This post is also available in Urdu here.

What can I say? The things we like for ourselves, we like for our friends as well. And I like sharing.

So, without further ceremony, here it is:

Rekhta Reader & Downloader

A complete tool that allows you to read and download books from Rekhta.org on both desktop and mobile devices.

Let us take a quick tour of the tool.

As soon as you open the application, you will be greeted with an interface similar to this:

Requirements

Before using this tool, you must install a CORS bypass extension in your browser.

Download the extension here. I have included the complete usage instructions again near the end of this article, so if anything feels unclear, you will find a detailed guide there as well.

You can also see the complete workflow in the diagram below. ( Full-size image )

Extension page for reference:

When the extension is active, its logo appears in color. If it turns black, the extension is disabled.

Back to the tool itself.

Paste the URL of a book into the first field and click GO. The book pages will immediately open inside the reader for browsing and reading.

Search Books Directly — No Need to Visit Rekhta Separately

You can search Rekhta's book collection directly from within the application.

As you can see, the search results appear right inside the tool. Simply click the book you want to open and close the dialog window afterwards.

Click on any page image and start reading. This lets you browse a book before committing to downloading the whole thing — which may save some of us from downloading a dozen books simply because they looked interesting.

Clicking the PDF button downloads the entire book.

I will repeat the usage instructions again near the end of this article, though the screenshots above should already make things fairly self-explanatory.

Before that, however, it might be worth explaining how this tool came into existence in the first place.

The Story Behind This Tool (and a Few Dry Technical Details)

A while back, inspired by the work that Falsafi Bhai and Muhammad Umar Bhai had done on Urdu Mehfil, I put together a Node.js (JavaScript) version of the tool. It worked, and I used it regularly, but it came with three rather annoying problems:

1. It still had to be run from the command line. There was a graphical interface at one point, but it never really worked properly.
2. It only worked on a computer. So whenever a book was needed, the routine was always the same: open the laptop first, then download the book.
3. There was no reading facility. One had to download books blindly. And before downloading a dozen books out of sheer curiosity, it is usually nice to know whether a book is actually worth reading in the first place.

The original plan was to package the entire JavaScript library as an NPM package. Partly because it would be useful, and partly because it seemed like a good opportunity to gain some experience in that area as well.

Then, as often happens with side projects, life intervened and the idea quietly slipped out of mind.

I remember mentioning it to Umar Bhai during a private conversation on Mehfil. A few months later the idea resurfaced, so naturally I opened Mehfil again and started digging through the old discussion threads to refresh my memory and reconstruct the project's history.

Eventually I landed on Muhammad Umar Bhai's GitHub profile and discovered that he had already published a JavaScript version of the tool.

Suffice it to say, I sat there feeling slightly defeated.

(For the record, the Windows version of this tool still exists and continues to work perfectly well. The only catch is that it has no graphical user interface. Think of it as a traditional command-line application that you run through Command Prompt. Not particularly difficult, but an interface certainly makes life easier.)

Then fate decided to intervene.

Looking back at that old codebase sparked a new idea: why not port the entire thing to the frontend and make it work directly as a web application? If successful, everything could happen inside the browser without requiring users to install or run anything complicated.

There was, however, one obstacle.

Browser security policies generally do not allow one website to freely interact with another website's resources. In technical terms, the browser gets quite protective and starts throwing what developers lovingly call CORS errors.

To work around that limitation, I considered two possible solutions and built support for both into the web application.

1. Proxy Backend
   The first approach was to use a proxy backend. In simple terms, a backend service fetches the data on your behalf and returns the response to the application. Since the browser sees the request as originating from your own backend, it usually has no reason to object. In theory, this should solve the problem quite neatly. For the sake of accuracy, I should mention that I never fully tested this route in production. My expectation is that it should work It works with reverse proxy, but because the real challenge involves loading images rather than ordinary API responses, there is always the possibility of running into the same CORS restrictions further down the chain. Which brings us to the second and far simpler workaround...
2. CORS Bypass Extension
   This is by far the easiest solution. Browser extensions exist specifically for bypassing CORS restrictions, and several of them are freely available. Install one, enable it when needed, and the application can access the resources it requires. The extension linked in this article is the one I have been using myself.

As inelegant as browser workarounds sometimes feel, they have one undeniable advantage: they save everyone from setting up servers, configuring proxies, maintaining infrastructure, and generally turning a simple reading tool into a full-time engineering project.

Note: As of late Aug, 2026 - rekhta server has tried to block us but it's their backend - as expected. That's why I had made this 'proxy-first' from the get go . The reverse proxy works perfectly fine now. I have a proxy of my own, you can setup yours too, or if you want I can write a simpler solution for layman as well.

In the end, the goal was not to build a monument to software architecture. The goal was much simpler:

Open a book. Read a book. Download a book if you want.

Preferably from a phone while lying comfortably on a sofa.

How to Use the Tool

To use the tool, simply follow the steps below in order.

1. Install a CORS bypass extension. Download it here .
   
   If you intend to use the tool on Android, make sure you are using a browser that supports extensions. One such browser is Kiwi Browser. Kiwi Browser for Android You can download the APK from the Assets section of the release page, or obtain it from any other trusted source you prefer.
2. Open the Rekhta Reader web application. Rekhta Reader (https://tools.shakeeb.in/rekhta-reader/)
3. Enable the extension and start using the web application.

If you run into any issues, feel free to leave a comment below. Suggestions and feedback are equally welcome.

These days I find myself reading most books directly inside the tool, and rarely need to download them anymore. On mobile, however, I still download books occasionally simply because the reading experience is sometimes more comfortable that way.

What Comes Next?

This is not my first Rekhta-related project.

Some time ago I released another tool for Rekhta content in the form of a script and an Android application.

Related blog post:

dRekhta – Rekhta Content Scraper for Android (Release)

That project was designed for text content rather than books.

Now that the books side of the equation has been sorted out as well, the plan is to merge the text-focused tool into this same online platform.

The idea is simple: instead of maintaining separate tools for separate tasks, everything should live under one roof.

Once that happens, you will be able to browse and download Rekhta's poetry, short stories, prose content, and books from a single portal.

One search box, one interface, and hopefully a lot less jumping between websites.

UPDATE: The text extraction tool has now been merged into same portal. :)

Whether I can stop myself from adding even more features after that remains an entirely different question.

Shakeeb Ahmad

May 23, 12:35 AM

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App Release: OneSignal Push Manager - Secure & Free (Android+Web)

OneSignal Push Manager - Secure & Free

This app helps you manage your app credentials and provides intuitive UI for sending the notifications to your users.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sarbakaf.onesignalpush

Android app to manage & send push notifications via OneSignal

Features

• Manage all your apps
• Stores all your credentials in your phone
• Offline storage, open-source and hence trustworthy
• CRUD for app info with lovely UI
• Simple notepad to save other necessary stuff
• Send notifications to any of your apps, in any segment
• From simple heading + message notifs to fancy ones, with icon, banner and extra data to pass-in the app (useful for deeplinks)

User Guide

1. Get your "App ID" and "REST API Key" from OneSignal Dashboard.
2. It is recommended by OneSignal NOT to save API key anywhere, therefore our app doesn't save it by default. It's optional.
3. In the "APPS" section of our app (Push Manager), make a list of app names and IDs.
4. In the "SEND NEW" section, fill the details and send in a segment of your choice.
5. Button 1 can be used to send in a segment named 'Test', which you can configure from OneSignal Dashboard for your test devices.
6. Button 2 can be used to send in a segment named 'All'.
7. Button 3 can be used to send in any custom segment.
8. Notepad can be used to jot down & save other necessary stuff.
9. Profit?

Questions, suggessions and contributions are welcome.

The app is also available as a webapp for testing purposes here:  https://onesignal.netlify.app/

Shakeeb Ahmad

iPhone Users! Here's a Web App for Qaafiyah Expert

Tldr;

If you are in a hurry, here's the link to Qaafiyah Expert - Web:

• https://q.shakeeb.in/

The Web App and its Journey

Right from the beginning when I launched an android app for Qaafiyah Expert (an app to assist Urdu poets with rhymes, meter, dictionary, diary, designing and much more), people were requesting the same for iPhone users. As I was using the cross-platform approach for the app, building the same thing for iPhone wouldn't have taken so long. But the problem was, apple AppStore's pricing. I couldn't afford it. Well, most of us can't.

Anyway, after some research on pricings, I decided to go for a PWA (Progressive Web App), which is an installable app, but you don't need to pay a single penny to Google or Apple whatsoever. 

It does bring some drawbacks, but there are alternatives for most of the incompatible native-app functionalities. For a naïve user though, PWAs and native Android/ios apps are indistinguishable. For instance:

• Visiting a Progressive Web App asks you to "Add it to Home Screen", which is alternative to "Installing an app"
• It does have an icon, just like a native app
• It can work offline using service workers etc.

This PWA for Qaafiyah Expert had been hosted on my domain 'q.shakeeb.in' for quite a while now, as you can see in the "first commit" here. But some of the features were not working as expected, so I didn't announce it "officially." Now that the android app has been completely rewired, performance is improved and speed is optimized, I decided to use the new code-base, modified it for the web-app and deployed it. iPhone users can now finally use this app.

If you are an android user though, I strongly recommend the android version, which has some cool extra features and obvious UX advantages.

Once again, here's the link to the web-app:

Qaafiyah Expert - Live Demo

Hope this will assist in your poetry-writing journey. 

Rab raakha! 👋

Rekhta Content Scraper by Shakeeb Ahmad | For Programmers Only

Note: This is not yet available for non-programmers. Soon I'll make an easy-to-use version for all, iA.

This scraper with Node.js works for both prose and poetry. Check the GitHub repo for installation instructions.

You would need a text file with all the links you want to download the contents from. To get the list of links, you could manually collect all which interests you, or use the following to scrape all links from an author/poet page.

Bookmarklets - One Click Solution to get the links etc.

Rekhta loads 50 links at a time, and if user scrolls, it adds more content to the DOM. This extra fetch has not been automated in my code yet. (Well I tried, but parsing it wasted so much time that I preferred using manual scroll. Just let the page load, then press "end" on your keyboard. Wait for a moment, it will add all the remaining links.)

Anyway, once you have the complete list on the page, you can use the bookmarklets below to copy all of them with a click.

I've been testing this in browser console for a while now, i.e. open browser console, then paste the script, then change the page text to only what I need, then select and copy them manually. 

Later on I decided to use magic of bookmarklets to automate these tasks I've been doing repeatedly: 

• Copy all the links from the Poet/Author page.
• For LitUrdu specifically, turn them into an "object" with required properties (title, author, link, description, text) and copy it.
• Use the "object" to automatically fill-in text-boxes on new Blogger post.

Ultimate plan is to use Blogger API and post it directly, but this bookmarklet approach doesn't hurt much because most of the things I'm doing are just a click away.

Bookmarklets

Drag and drop the links to the bookmarks bar in your browser. (Ctrl+Shift+b to toggle the bar)

CopyRekhtaLinks

Use on author/poet's page to copy all the links to their enlisted work

CopyRekhta{}

Use on individual poem/story page to copy an object with properties (title, author, link, description, text). Modify as per your needs.

BloggerPaste

Use on a new Blogger post after pasting the "object" from rekhta in console. This will fill in all the required fields in the new post automatically.

PDF to Single Image - A Tutorial by 17 Year Old Me

Back in the days when I had a small Nokia phone, I wanted to do EVERTHING in that tiny device. It wasn't actually mine but because I was going to college, I was more "in need" of it than my sister.

Source: gsmarena.com [1]

The one on your right with maroon border. That was it.

Anyway, with a screen of 144x160px, I wanted to read PDFs which were stored in our desktop + laptop. Lots of books, of almost all genres I was interested in. Interestingly enough, the same neatly arranged folders are copied over to every computer I have used. So I still have all those books, plus what was added later on.

Initially, the idea to "read PDF on phone" was for the Quran, so that I could read it in the Indo-Pak Naskh font. Actually I had a Quran app in it, full text with super fast search engine, but the font used in that wasn't good enough for long tilaawat. In fact, even after getting android phone I've been searching something as fast as that app. I had been a fan of that guy who built it. Just looked it up, he goes by the name of Raza Mahi. His "Mahi Dictionary" was awesome too. All java .jar applications are things of the past now, but he has also moved on and started to build the similar apps for Android now. Good for him. I've linked his website in the references. [2]

So where was I? Yes. As I had difficulty reading the Quran in that app, I selected a PDF copy of Quran which had Arabic text in one column and its Urdu translation side-by-side. I cropped-out the translation part (making the text narrow enough to fit on my phone) and then started thinking about a way to achieve the result.

Necessity is the mother of invention they say, so I came up with two methods (discussed in the booklet below). Will attach the Quran files too for the record. Wow! Time flies. Seems like yesterday to me.

Later on when I converted many books to 'single image' using the same method, I compiled a short tutorial in the form of a booklet. I've left the whole text as is, without any correction in grammar or sentence structure, because

1. It's a reminder of my journey (read the booklet and see for yourself how writing styles change)
2. It's cute. ;)

Here's the summary of the two methods discussed in the booklet:

Method 1: Microsoft Office OneNote + MS Paint

Method 2: PDF to Images + IrfanView

Read the booklet and know how to use them. And remember it's an OLD tutorial.

DOWNLOADS

PDF to Single Image Tutorial (Booklet) : Read online or download

https://archive.org/details/PDFToSingleImageShakes.Ahmad

IrfanView: I came to know later on that this was very popular image-manipulation tool back then, and still is. Its first release was in June 1996. Now it's more powerful than ever. Check its Wikipedia page.[3]

https://www.irfanview.com

PDF to Images Converter: I still use it. Small size, works smoothly.

https://www.weenysoft.com/free-pdf-to-image-converter.html

Enjoy!

Reference

[1] Specifications of Nokia C1-01 via gsmarena [link]

[2] Raza Mahi Team - Old Apps [link]

[3] IrfanView on Wikipedia [link]

Qaafiyah Expert (Android) - Release

NEW Update: The app's 2.0 version has been launched. Please see the 2.0 post → Feature packed and almost everything offline. [10 Aug, 2026]

Links:

• Download the app From Playstore
• Read Urdu version here
• Facebook page (to get updates regarding my new work)
• Help PDF file (How to use this tool)

Qaafiyah Expert is a simple tool which contains

1.  A rhyme generator, with support of diacritics, filter for Urdu poetic meters and 3 scripts for search. Works offline.
2.  A lightweight diary with offline "save" support.
3.  An online portal for awesome literary posts, updated periodically.

For those who were waiting for this

Why did it take so long?

Like always, I'd list many reasons (excuses?)

1. God's wish.
2. Learning android development takes some time.
3. The basic structure had been completed in September 2019, which I had had on my mobile phone. I used to suggest qawaafi to people asking for them using the tool. But I wasn't satisfied. At the time of Windows software version (in 2016) I was new in the programming world. Not a pro now either, but whatever I've learned in these years, I thought to improve at least few things in it and add few features of my own interest. So, the app has seen many phases before being released to the public. The basic version had the same options I'd put in Windows app.

Now, those who used to constantly poke me via email or social media to provide the basic version at least, may say unspeakable things to me; but as I've said many times:

I have a constant urge to present the things in the best way possible.

So I delayed it. Although I've recently read in a gyaani's article that this bug of perfectionism should be killed ASAP.

One more reason for releasing it late is that nobody likes to update the app too many times. So, changing few things and releasing an update would do no good. And Google PlayStore, MashaAllah, bombards you with questions in every release, making it further difficult.

Requests

The app is still in the dev mode, so if you find any bug or want something to be included in the next version, please leave a review. If the response is good, I'll try to roll out next release soon.

Few features in upcoming versions

• App interface language switch, for those who don't know Urdu script (Complete Internationalization)
• Meanings and thesaurus on word-click
• Taqti (Poetic Meter calculation)
• Poetry workshop

I've two requests for you. First, to report bugs if you find any and if you want any other feature to be included in this app (other than the 4 mentioned above) then comment on the Play Store's rating page.

Second, If you have an idea for a new app, go to "online" section of this app and submit your idea on "Ek app aisi bhi."

I've few app ideas of my own interest, have to finish them too. Remember me in your supplications. 

Shakeeb Ahmad

February 16, 2020

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