What is the app that every Muslim should have on their device? Quran apps or prayer time apps? Quran apps don't ask for information, such as your location or a number of privacy-related permissions. This is in contrast to prayer time apps, which primarily ask for your location, and can accurately determine your location minute by minute. This is not only for calculating prayer times, but also for determining the direction of the Qibla (direction of prayer) and other essential prayer app functions. This is quite logical, as this type of app is inherently intrinsic. However, you should be careful when choosing a prayer time app. You should be aware that data is being collected by intelligence agencies whose primary concern is to track the movements of all people. These types of apps are a good gateway for them, so we must warn and provide a safe alternative for anyone seeking peace of mind and to close this door.
How to choose a safe prayer times app
We'll walk you through several steps you should follow to determine whether this app is safe or not. Of course, if you find any of these signs, this doesn't mean that the developer of this app is bad. No, not at all. The developer may have the intention of benefiting Muslims, but he simply doesn't have the expertise to secure his app.
Is the developer known?
When you search the Apple Store for a prayer app, the first app you'll see is likely a paid advertisement for a prayer app. Just look at the developer's name and the other apps he or she has developed.
For example, this developer has a drawing app, and he puts a cartoon image of a naked woman on it!!! This is a big question mark. How can we trust him?
Therefore, the reputation of the app developer is important. Let's not forget that there are popular apps that have been sold to suspicious parties under the names of fake companies, with the sole purpose of obtaining information about the app's owners.
Privacy information in the Apple Store
Open the app's page in the App Store. After the app description, you'll find a privacy section for that app. Apple requires app developers to disclose their privacy practices and link the information collected by the app to the user's identity. An app may collect information, but this information remains on your device and is not linked to your identity, making it useless. On the other hand, if this information is linked to your identity, it can be useful to any party collecting the information.
As you can see in this popular prayer app, the user's location information is linked to the user's identity, and not only that, but also the user's full details.
Login request
Some prayer apps require you to log in. Why? The app may want to store your information on a personal account, so that it can be retrieved when you delete the app. However, this practice with an app that asks for your location makes it dangerous, as the app now knows about you, such as your email address and name. Using this additional information and linking it to your location, it can potentially learn even more valuable information.
Connect to external servers and use the Internet
When an app collects information about you, it's useless if it's stored on your device. The danger lies when the developer sends this data to servers, which then link the user's information to other users' practices. If the servers are from an unknown entity, they may exploit this information even without the developer's knowledge.
How do you know if an app is connected to other servers?
Apple has provided a tool in the privacy section (App Privacy Report) through which you can find out which external servers the application is connected to.
It's normal to see all apps sending information to Apple's servers, as this is part of the iOS system, sending statistics and reports to Apple. However, it's unusual to find unknown websites, advertising sites, or even an app sending messages to its own website.
What is the alternative?
There are many apps that do not use these practices, and try as much as possible to make their apps secure, especially sensitive apps like prayer apps.
ElaSalaty: PrayerTimes & Qibla App - App Store
| Developer | Unknown |
 | |
 | |
From the first day of building an applicationTo my prayers“We don’t use any of these practices, and we don’t even know how many users use the app. User information stays on their device and never leaves it. If you visit the To My Prayers app page on the Apple Store, you’ll find that the first description of the app is that it’s 100% secure. This app wasn’t built just for you, it’s for us and our family; we use the app extensively on our iPhone, Apple Watch, and iPad. Additionally, we use Shortcuts to talk to Siri, and more recently, the Fajr prayer alarm that works with the iOS 26 update, as well as the new interactive widget.
The name of the application is “To My Prayers.” Say with me “To My Prayers.”
There are many apps that have imitated this name, and some call it Salati, or Salati, but this is not our app.
The name of the application is To My Prayers and this This is the link to the store.You can search the store by the name ElaSalaty
Last word
We alert users to the wrong practices some app developers may employ. However, this does not mean that these app developers intentionally harm Muslim users. On the contrary, we think well of them. We are friends with this entire sophisticated community, and we know many of them personally. We don't doubt them for a moment. We even use the apps of trusted companies alongside our own, and we sometimes learn from them. So don't doubt them either. Either force them to change these practices so you feel more secure, or use a different app.
44 comment