simplesolat
Prayer times with widgets that update themselves.
A free prayer times app for Android and iPhone. Home screen widgets that follow you when you travel, reminders for the prayers you choose, and all seven times, including Syuruk. No ads, no account, and your location never leaves your phone.
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Prayer times today
Your location stays in your browser. It's matched against zone boundaries right here, and only your zone's timetable is downloaded. Outside the countries with an official timetable, the times are calculated right here too.
What it does
- Widgets that update themselves. Several styles, light and dark, and on iPhone the Lock Screen too. They refresh in the background, and when you travel into a new zone, they switch to it on their own. No opening the app at the start of each month.
- All seven times. Imsak, Fajr, Syuruk, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha, with the current one highlighted. Syuruk tells you when the time for Fajr ends. In Malaysia and Brunei you also get Dhuha, from the official timetable.
- Reminders when each prayer time begins, for the prayers you choose, including Imsak, Syuruk and Dhuha.
- Today's times in your notifications. On Android, an optional pinned notification shows the five prayer times and a countdown to the next.
- A Qibla compass.
- Works offline. Timetables are kept on your phone for weeks ahead.
- Works in many countries. Official timetables for nine countries, and calculated times everywhere else.
- Free, with no ads and no account. The code is public on GitHub.
Where the times come from
Wherever there's an official timetable, simplesolat uses it, taken from each country's religious authority:
| Country | Official source |
|---|---|
| Malaysia | JAKIM |
| Singapore | MUIS |
| Indonesia | Kemenag (via EQuran.id) |
| Brunei | KHEU |
| Sri Lanka | ACJU |
| Turkey | Diyanet |
| United Arab Emirates | AWQAF |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | IZ BiH (Vaktija) |
| Albania | KMSH |
Everywhere else, the app calculates the times on your phone, using the method that's usual in your country, and the prayer times above do the same in your browser. Zone boundaries come from geoBoundaries, and country borders from Natural Earth.
Privacy
simplesolat works out your prayer zone on your phone, by checking your location against zone boundaries it has downloaded. Your location is never sent anywhere. The only thing the app asks a server for is the timetable for your zone.
There's no account, no analytics and no ads. Read the full privacy policy.
Help
Reminders late, the widget not updating, or the wrong zone? The support page has fixes for the common problems, and how to contact me.
For developers
The prayer times behind simplesolat are public: static files on a CDN, with zones, boundaries and monthly timetables, readable from any website. This page reads them straight from your browser. See simplesolat-data for the format and the sources.
Why it exists
simplesolat started after the free prayer app I relied on stopped working, and I found out why. Read the story.