Minara: Prayer Times & Mosques

YZO Labs

About this app

Minara keeps your day around the five prayers: accurate prayer times and adhan alarms, the duas and dhikr for each moment with their sources, and the news of the mosque where you pray. One calm app.

Free for everyone. No ads, no subscription, no account needed.

PRAYER TIMES AND ADHAN
• Accurate times for your city, with a live countdown to the next prayer
• The calculation method used in your country, and your madhab for Asr
• Adhan alarms for each prayer, with a choice of adhan and a separate one for Fajr. They ring at alarm volume, even in Silent and Do Not Disturb
• Mark each prayer as prayed, day after day
• The Gregorian and Hijri dates, and a Hijri calendar
• The last third of the night on its own page, with an alarm to wake for it

QIBLA
• A clear Qibla compass, with the distance to the Kaaba

PRAYER LOCK
• Choose the apps that stay locked at prayer time, so the prayer comes first
• At each prayer you pick, or a few minutes before, Minara shows its prayer screen over those apps until you mark the prayer as prayed
• Everything stays on your phone: Minara doesn't record or send which apps you use, and you can turn the lock off at any time

KNOWLEDGE: DUAS AND DHIKR
• A library of 246 duas, adhkar and verses in 15 categories: travelling, eating, worry, illness, a new child and many more
• Each one in Arabic, with transliteration, translation, its virtue and its source
• Hadith from sunnah.com and Quran verses from quran.com, each cited by collection and number, or surah and verse
• Daily routines for the morning, the evening, after prayer and before sleep, ready-made or built by you, with reminders
• A reader that counts each dhikr for you, and a tasbih counter for after the prayer
• Search and favourites
• Download the whole library once and read it offline

YOUR MOSQUE
• A map of the mosques around you, at home or travelling, with directions in your maps app
• Follow the mosques where you pray and set one as "My mosque"
• Mosques on Minara publish their iqamah times, notices, events and posts. You see them in one Updates feed and choose the alerts for each mosque
• Say "I'm going" to an event and add it to your calendar
• Scan a mosque's QR code to follow it in one step

WIDGET
• A home-screen widget with the next prayer and the day's times

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
• English, French, Malay and Arabic. In Arabic the whole app reads right to left, and mosques show their Arabic name when they have one
• Themes in the colours of each prayer time, from Fajr to Isha

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No ads, no advertising profiles, and your data is never sold
• Usage analytics stay off unless you agree to them
• No account needed. Sign in with Google, Apple or your email only if you want your followed mosques, favourites and routines on all your devices and on minarafoundation.com

FOR MOSQUES
Mosques run their Minara page from minarafoundation.com: their profile, prayer and iqamah times, notices, posts and events, which their followers see in the app, plus screens for the prayer hall.

Prayer times are calculated for your location. For the iqamah, follow your mosque's own times.

Minara is made by YZO Labs. Questions or ideas: [e-mail]