Quran Tutor Online in the UK, One to One
A live Quran tutor for your child or for you, one to one on a video call, at a time set in UK hours (GMT in winter, BST in summer) around school and work. Lessons cover reading from the first letter, Tajweed and memorisation, all explained in English, so it works in a home where nobody reads Arabic. Plans are about £26 to £63 a month, billed in US dollars, and the first lesson is free. It is the UK side of our online Quran classes: the same tutors and plans, timed for UK families.
Book a free lesson on WhatsApp How the free lesson works
Format
Live and one to one, with the same tutor each week
Price
$9.50 an hour, about £7.20, falling to $7.00 as you book more
UK timing
Tutors are about two hours ahead, so a 5pm lesson is early evening for them
Ages
From 4 to adult, with lesson length set by age
Female tutor
Available on request, at the same price
Changes
Move a lesson with two hours notice
A Quran teacher at home: a home visit or lessons online
When a parent in the UK looks for a Quran teacher at home, it means one of two things: a tutor who comes to the house, or a live lesson on a laptop at the kitchen table. We only teach the second, so here are both, side by side.
| A tutor who visits | A live lesson online at home | |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | A local Hafiz, Qari or Alim comes to the house at a set time, usually once or twice a week | Tutor and student share a video call and the same page, and the tutor corrects each word as it is read |
| It suits | Children who work better with someone in the room, and families who want a break from screens | Families with no good teacher nearby, a crowded week, or a daughter who should be taught by a woman |
| Who you can choose from | Whoever teaches within travelling distance | Tutors anywhere, including Al-Azhar graduates and women teachers |
| What it costs | Set by each tutor, so ask for the hourly rate and any travel charge before the first visit | £20 to £32 a month for two 30-minute lessons a week at the UK academies compared below; ours is about £26 |
| Checking the teacher | Ask whether they hold a DBS check, and at what level. A self-employed tutor can only get a basic check on their own; an enhanced check comes through an agency or employer | Sit in on any lesson. What else a parent can check is set out further down |
| Moving a lesson | Arranged with the tutor directly | Moved with two hours notice |
If there is a good teacher near you who visits, a lesson in your own front room is a fine way to learn. Online wins on reach. A family in a town with no qualified teacher, or one that wants a woman to teach their daughter, can have both without anyone getting in a car.
What it costs, and in which currency
We bill in US dollars, which the UK academies compared below do not, so here is the price in both currencies.
| What | What you are billed | Roughly, in pounds |
|---|---|---|
| First trial lesson | Free, and you are not asked to book anything afterwards | Free |
| Per hour | 9.50 US dollars, falling towards 7.00 as the hours you book in a month go up | about £7.20, falling towards £5.30 |
| Monthly plans | 34 to 84 US dollars, depending on how many lessons a week | about £26 to £63 |
| More than one child | 10 per cent sibling discount | the same 10 per cent |
The pound figures are a guide, not the price. We are not a UK company and we bill in US dollars, so the dollar column is what you are charged. The pound column converts it at about 0.75 pounds to the dollar, the rate on 21 September 2026, rounded up so the real amount should not come out higher than the figure shown. What leaves your account depends on the rate and any fee your bank adds on the day. Every plan is on the pricing page.
How that compares with UK academies
Several UK academies publish their monthly plans. For the plan most families start on, eight one-to-one lessons of 30 minutes a month, this is what each one listed on its own website on 13 October 2026, and on 27 October for the last two.
| Academy | Eight 30-minute lessons a month | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Online Quran Tuition | £25 | Billed in pounds; three free trial lessons |
| Alim Live, one-to-one plan | £32 | Up to two free trial classes |
| Learn Quran Academy | £20 for two days a week | Its home page does not give the lesson length; free three-day trial |
| Learn Quran UK | £25 | Billed in pounds; three free 30-minute lessons |
| The Quran Hub | From £70 | Its home page does not say how many lessons that buys; a 20-minute taster |
| Abobakr Academy | 34 US dollars, about £26 | Billed in dollars; first lesson free |
So we are not the cheapest. What the price pays for is a tutor who explains everything in English to a family where nobody else reads Arabic, a female tutor at no extra cost, and an hourly rate that falls towards £5.30 as you book more lessons. If cost is what stops you, start with the free routes to learning the Quran online and come back when a teacher is what you need. To weigh a marketplace against an academy or a local teacher, see what a private online Quran tutor gives you on each route.
Lesson times in UK hours
Most of our tutors are in Egypt, which is about two hours ahead of the UK for most of the year. Both countries move their clocks in spring and autumn, on slightly different dates, so for a week or two around each change the gap can be one hour or three. Your lesson is booked in UK time and the tutor does the arithmetic.
| Lesson in the UK | For the tutor | Who it usually suits |
|---|---|---|
| 4pm to 6pm, weekdays | 6pm to 8pm | Primary school children, straight after school and before tea |
| 6pm to 8pm, weekdays | 8pm to 10pm | Secondary school children, and adults after work |
How long a lesson runs depends mostly on age. Children of 4 to 6 do best with 30 minutes twice a week. From 7 to 10, 30 to 45 minutes two or three times a week. From 11, and for adults, 45 to 60 minutes. A slot that fits the family week is worth more than a longer lesson that keeps getting moved.
An example week, by school year
Here is how that looks for four students, with the time on the tutor’s clock beside yours. Swap the days for whatever suits your week.
| Student | Lessons | UK time | Tutor’s time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reception or Year 1 (4 to 6) | Monday and Thursday, 30 minutes | 4:30pm | 6:30pm |
| Year 4 (8 to 9) | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 30 to 45 minutes | 5pm | 7pm |
| Year 8 (12 to 13) | Tuesday and Thursday, 45 minutes | 6:30pm | 8:30pm |
| A parent learning too | Two evenings, 45 to 60 minutes | 7pm | 9pm |
A second child from the same family gets 10% off, so brothers and sisters often book the same evenings.
Three questions to answer before you book
Every family asks the same three things first. Answer them and the free lesson can be set up in one message.
- Is it for a child or for you? Children start from age 4, with lesson length set by age, as in the table above. Adults start at their own level, from the alphabet or from where they stopped years ago; the adult Quran classes page sets out each stage.
- A female or a male tutor? Either, at the same price. Ask for a woman when you book and give two or three possible times, because who is free depends on the hour. Our women teachers are introduced on the female Quran teacher page.
- How many lessons a week, and what budget? Two lessons a week is the usual start for a young child, as the week above shows. The rate is $9.50 an hour, about £7.20, falling to $7.00, about £5.30, as you book more hours, and monthly plans run from about £26 to £63. Every plan is on the pricing page.
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What the lessons cover
The first lesson is spent finding where the student really is, and the tutor starts there rather than on page one of a set book.
| Where the student is | What the lessons work on | More detail |
|---|---|---|
| Cannot read Arabic yet | The letters and their sounds through the Noorani Qaida, then joining letters into words | Noorani Qaida for kids |
| Reads slowly or with mistakes | Steady, correct reading of any page, without the tutor spelling words out | Quran classes for kids |
| Reads well, wants Tajweed | The rules applied while reading, verse by verse, with the tutor listening | Tajweed rules |
| Wants to memorise | Short surahs first, with a revision plan the family can keep up | Quran memorisation programme |
| An adult starting or restarting | The same stages at an adult pace, fitted around work | Quran classes for adults |
How a lesson runs
Tutor and student are on a video call with the same page in front of them. The student reads, the tutor listens, and a mistake is corrected on the word where it happened. That is the part an app cannot do, and it matters most in a home where no adult can hear the difference between two Arabic letters that sound alike to an English ear.
- Send one message. Say who the lessons are for, their age, what they can read now, and two or three UK times that suit you.
- Take the free first lesson. The tutor hears the student read, or starts them on the letters, and tells you plainly where they are.
- Keep the same tutor and slot. One named tutor follows the student from week to week, and you can ask them how it is going at any time.
A laptop, tablet or phone with a camera and a steady connection is all you need. The details are on how lessons work.
What a parent can check
Parents in the UK are used to asking hard questions of anyone who teaches their child, and they should ask them of us. These are the answers we can give in full.
- You may sit in on any lesson, the first one included, for as long as you like.
- Lessons are not recorded unless you agree to it beforehand.
- A female tutor is available for your daughter, or your son, on request.
- If anything in a lesson worries you, you can complain, and you will be heard.
How tutors are chosen and what they are expected to do is set out on the child safeguarding page.
Who teaches
Your child is matched with one tutor, who stays with them. Our tutors are qualified, and many trained at Al-Azhar. Three of them are below; the whole faculty is on the about page.
Ahmed Abdullah
Quran, Tajweed, Arabic
Ijazah in the Quran in the Hafs narration, with a connected chain. A graduate of Al-Azhar University, teaching Quran for more than ten years.
Mohamed Nayel
Taught in English
Teaches entirely in English, which suits a child or parent who speaks no Arabic. Four years teaching Quran to English speakers.
Sister Nouran
Hifz, Tajweed, Qaida
Has memorised the whole Quran, with Ijazah in the Hafs and Shu’bah narrations. More than ten years teaching children, teenagers and adults.
For a daughter, or for a mother learning herself, the female Quran teacher page introduces the women on the faculty.
How to judge any online Quran tutor, ours included
There are dozens of academies selling to UK families, and most of their pages say the same things. Five questions separate them quickly.
- Did the tutor hear the student read in the trial? A trial spent on a sales talk tells you nothing. One spent listening tells you whether this tutor can find the real starting point.
- Is the price written down, and in which currency? If you have to message to find out, you will be quoted after you have become attached to the idea.
- Will it be the same tutor every week? Progress in reading depends on someone remembering last week’s mistakes.
- Can you sit in whenever you like? The answer should be yes without conditions.
- Can they tell you, in plain words, what the student can do now that they could not a month ago? “Doing well” is not an answer; “reads the joined letters of the first ten lessons without help” is.
Cost, UK lesson times and finding a good teacher
How much do online Quran classes cost in the UK?
Published rates run from about £4 to £20 an hour; freelance tutors on marketplaces sit near £15 an hour. Ours is 9.50 US dollars an hour, about £7.20, falling to 7.00 dollars as you book more hours, with monthly plans of about £26 to £63. The first lesson is free.
What time are the lessons in the UK?
Whenever suits you. Lessons are booked in UK time. The tutors are about two hours ahead, so after school and early evening in the UK fall inside their working evening. Ask for a weekend slot if the school week is full.
Where can adults learn the Quran online in the UK?
Adults take the same one-to-one lessons, fitted around work, starting from the alphabet or from wherever they are now. The adult classes page sets out each stage and how long it usually takes.
How do I find a good Quran teacher online?
Book a free trial and watch it. A good tutor spends it listening to the student read and tells you honestly where they are. Then check the price is published, the tutor stays the same each week, and you may sit in at any time.
Which online Quran academy in the UK is the best?
The best one is the one whose tutor suits your child and whose times suit your week, and only a trial shows that. Take a free lesson with two or three academies, including us, and compare what each tutor noticed about your child’s reading.
Can my child have a female tutor?
Yes. Female tutors are available for every subject at the same price. Give two or three possible times when you book, because availability depends on the hour.
Are your tutors DBS-checked?
A DBS check reads UK police records, so it says little about anyone who has always lived abroad, and most of our tutors live and teach in Egypt. What protects your child here is what you can see: you may sit in on every lesson, the first one included; you know your tutor’s name before the first paid lesson; nothing is recorded unless you agree; and a female tutor is there on request. The child safeguarding page sets out the rest.
Do I need to read Arabic to help my child?
No. Most of the families we teach have no adult at home who reads Arabic. Everything is explained in English, and the tutor tells you what to listen for between lessons, even if you cannot read the page yourself.
Prices, the right starting age, and a first lesson free
For a younger child who has not started, read what age to start the Quran. To compare every plan, see pricing. If you are ready, book the free first lesson and tell us the UK times that suit you.