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Little Muslims:
stories, quests and a hoopoe called Hudhud

A kids' app of Islamic stories and daily quests, with an animated mascot.

Three iPhones showing the Little Muslims app: picking a character, the welcome screen with Hudhud the hoopoe, and a quiz

How Verum designed and built Little Muslims, an iOS and Android app of Islamic stories and daily quests for kids, plus its Hudhud mascot and website.

The client

Little Muslims is a storytelling app for Muslim families with young children. Short stories from the Quran and Sunnah sit alongside daily quests, like praying salah, helping at home and saying salam, and rewards that a child and parent choose together. The guide through all of it is Hudhud, a curious hoopoe in round glasses.

The brief

Build an app children want to open and parents are happy to hand over. It had to run on iPhone and Android, keep parents in charge of what counts as done, and feel warm and playful rather than like homework. Hudhud had to carry that personality through every screen.

What we did

We designed and built the app for iOS and Android from a single Flutter codebase. Each child gets their own profile, stories that end with a short quiz, and a daily list of quests. Finishing a quest earns Barakah Bucks, which go towards a reward the family picks, such as a picnic or an ice cream trip. A separate parent space handles approvals, quests, children's profiles and the subscription. There are no ads and no chat.

Onboarding works like a set of full-screen stories. A few quick steps explain the daily loop, the parent picks a character for their child, and the app builds a first week around a daily salah habit.

Our graphic design team grew Hudhud into a full pose library, from reading and celebrating to searching and giving a thumbs up, with a rig for new expressions. We animated the poses as lightweight SVGs, so Hudhud moves on any screen without heavy video files. We also drew a set of animal profile pictures in the same style, so every child can pick a character of their own.

Ahead of launch, we built the Little Muslims website: a fast landing page with a waitlist and an early-supporter offer of a free second child account.

The result

The app is in testing on iPhone and Android ahead of launch, and the website is live and taking waitlist sign-ups. Hudhud and the character set give Little Muslims a cast it can keep growing across the app, the website and social media.

  • Four iPhones showing Little Muslims onboarding steps: stories, daily quests, rewards and the parent space
  • Animated illustration of Hudhud, the Little Muslims hoopoe, reading a big blue book
  • Animated illustration of Hudhud in a party hat, wings out, celebrating among confetti
  • Two iPhones: a child's daily quests with 'I did it' buttons, and the parent space showing approvals waiting and the week's progress
  • Two iPhones: the 'One little loop, every day' onboarding screen and the rewards screen with 35 Barakah Bucks saved towards a family picnic
  • Eight illustrated animal profile pictures for children: Hudhud, a camel, a sand cat, a puppy, a lion cub, a fennec fox, a monkey and a horned viper
  • Animated illustration of Hudhud peering through a magnifying glass
  • Animated illustration of Hudhud smiling and giving a thumbs up
  • Laptop and iPhone showing the Little Muslims website: 'Double the hasanat. Zero extra cost. For the first 1,000 families.'

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