The premise
Most prayer apps are loud. They open into a wall of badges and notifications, push you to streaks, gamify your worship, and bury the actual content under a layer of UI. We wanted Aydeen to be the opposite — calm, beautifully crafted, and built around the idea that an Islamic companion should feel more like an illuminated manuscript than a productivity tracker.
Here's what's in the daily core, what each feature does, and how to use it.
"And establish prayer for My remembrance." — Surah Ta‑Ha · 20:14
Prayer times & qibla
Accurate adhan times for your location, and a sensitive qibla compass that just works.
Aydeen calculates the five daily prayer times for your location, or for a city you set yourself. Choose the calculation method (ISNA, MWL, Umm al‑Qura, Karachi, etc.) in Prayer settings; a new install starts on the Muslim World League. The Asr convention (Shafi/Hanafi) follows the madhhab you pick during onboarding, and you can change it in the same settings. For each prayer, pick one of six adhan voices, including a short beep, or switch that prayer's adhan off.
The qibla compass uses your phone's magnetometer to point to the Kaaba in real time. When you face the qibla, the dial glows, the heading reads "Facing the Kaaba", and your phone gives one light tap — quiet feedback rather than beeping.
Open the app — the next prayer and a countdown to it are right on the home screen, and the Prayer tab lists the day's times. Tap a prayer in the tracker to mark it as completed. Tap Qibla under Quick actions on the home screen (or in Tools) and slowly rotate your phone until the dial glows.
The Holy Qur'an
Uthmani script, eight translations, and recitation audio for every ayah.
The Arabic text in Aydeen is the Uthmani text from the Tanzil project, set in the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex (KFGQPC) Hafs typeface; read it ayah by ayah or as continuous text. Translations are Sahih International and Pickthall for English, plus one each in Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, French, Bengali and Malay. Recitations are by Mishary Rashid Alafasy, Abdul Basit, and ten other qaris — pick your reciter from the Qur'an screen.
You can bookmark verses and copy them with their reference. Bookmarks, and where you stopped reading, sync to your account if you're signed in.
Tap Qur'an in the bottom tab bar. Pick a surah, or search by its name or number (2 for Al‑Baqarah, home of Ayat al‑Kursi). Each verse has buttons to hear the recitation, bookmark it, or copy it.
Du'as & adhkar
Morning adhkar and du'as for everyday moments, with transliteration and meaning.
A curated set of 35 du'as for everyday moments, from morning adhkar such as Ayat al‑Kursi and Sayyid al‑Istighfar to du'as for night and sleep, travel and food. Each entry shows the Arabic, the transliteration for non‑Arabic readers, a translation, and its source (the ayah, or the hadith collection) so you can look it up yourself. The du'as haven't yet been reviewed by a scholar.
You can bookmark the du'as you return to; they sit at the top of the list.
Tap Du'as under Quick actions on the home screen, or under Tools. Browse by category (morning, night & sleep, travel, food & drink, distress, etc.), then open a du'a to read or bookmark it.
Tasbeeh
Tap anywhere to count. Set a target. Keep a quiet lifetime total.
The whole screen is the counter: tap anywhere, so you can recite without looking for a button. Each preset has its target (33, 34 or 100), and your own dhikr can have any target you set. Every tap gives a soft click and a short buzz, and you can switch either off; the screen tells you when a round is complete. Alongside the current count it keeps a lifetime total. There are no streaks and no leaderboards, and no shaming for missing a day.
Tap Tasbeeh from the home screen or under Tools. Pick a preset (Subhan'Allah, Alhamdulillah, Allahu Akbar and more) or choose Custom dhikr, with your own label and target. Tap anywhere on the screen to count. To start over, tap the reset button at the top and confirm.
Prayer tracker
A quiet record of your salah — five small dots a day, and your last 30 days at a glance.
Tap a prayer on the home screen to mark it as prayed, and tap again to undo. The tracker is private: it lives on your device, is backed up to your Aydeen account if you sign in, and is never shared. It shows a small count of days in a row with all five prayers marked, but nothing is broadcast to anyone and there are no shame mechanics. The tracker screen lists your last 30 days, lets you correct an earlier date, and keeps a running count of qadha prayers to make up; that's it.
From the home screen, tap a prayer (Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha) to mark it; its circle fills in with a check. Tap Tracker in Tools to see the last 30 days, pick another date or log qadha prayers.
Eight languages, one illuminated path
Aydeen's interface is available in eight languages, and you can switch at any time in Settings. Alongside the Arabic, the Qur'an has a translation in each of the other seven, while du'a translations are in English and Urdu for now, and a few labels are still English‑only.
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Privacy, by default
Aydeen's daily features deliberately put your data on your device first and on our servers second, and never sell it or use it for advertising. Specifically:
- Prayer tracker, Qur'an bookmarks, tasbeeh counts, du'a bookmarks: stored locally on your device; all but the du'a bookmarks are synced to your Aydeen account if you sign in. Never shared with anyone else.
- Qibla: the direction is worked out on your phone from the magnetometer and your location; Aydeen doesn't upload either.
- Prayer times: calculated on your phone. Your last location is kept on the device so times still work without a GPS fix, and a city you set by hand is saved with your settings (and synced if you sign in). The home weather card sends your coordinates to the Open‑Meteo weather service.
- Recitation audio: streamed as you listen; download a surah to keep it on your phone for offline listening.
- No behavioural advertising. No analytics on your worship. The free tier shows non‑personalised, G‑rated banner ads on some screens, which Premium removes. The full retention windows and sub‑processor list are in our privacy policy.
How they fit together
The five daily features above are intentionally simple in isolation. Together, they form a small, repeatable rhythm:
- Open the app — see the next prayer. Make wudu.
- Tap qibla — find the direction. Pray.
- Tap the prayer to mark it complete.
- Read a few ayat from where you left off. The Qur'an tab remembers your position.
- Pull up your morning adhkar, or the du'as for night and sleep.
- Tasbeeh after. Tap anywhere on the screen to count.
That's it. Just a quiet companion for a quiet practice.
Get the app
Aydeen is free to download on the App Store and Google Play.
Have a daily practice you'd like to see in Aydeen? Email [email protected] — we read everything.