A prayer-times app has one job, and it has to do it perfectly every day: tell you the right time and remind you when it arrives. Accuracy depends on a few technical choices most people never see — here they are in plain language.
Short answer: choose an app that uses your country's calculation method and Asr school, lets you adjust each prayer by minutes to match your mosque, sends reliable Adhan alerts, and has a live Qibla compass. Islamic World Pro does all of this for free, with a home-screen countdown widget.
Why two apps can show different times
Dhuhr, Asr and Maghrib are set by the sun's position and rarely differ much between apps. Fajr and Isha are different: they depend on how far the sun is below the horizon, and authorities disagree on the angle. For example:
| Method | Fajr | Isha | Commonly used in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umm al-Qura, Makkah | 18.5° | 90 min after Maghrib | Saudi Arabia |
| Qatar Awqaf | 18° | 90 min after Maghrib | Qatar |
| Karachi (Univ. of Islamic Sciences) | 18° | 18° | Pakistan, India, Bangladesh |
| Muslim World League | 18° | 17° | Europe, parts of Asia |
| ISNA | 15° | 15° | North America |
| Egyptian General Authority | 19.5° | 17.5° | Egypt, parts of Africa |
Asr also has two opinions: the standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) time and the later Hanafi time. A good app picks the right defaults for your location and lets you change them.
What the best prayer app should do
- Automatic method by country, with the option to choose any method manually.
- Hanafi or standard Asr.
- High-latitude rules for places like the UK and Scandinavia, where the sun barely sets in summer.
- Per-prayer minute adjustment to match your local mosque's timetable.
- Adhan alerts that fire on time, including full-screen alerts.
- A next-prayer countdown and a home-screen widget.
- A Qibla compass using the true great-circle bearing.
- A prayer tracker and a Qada tracker for missed prayers.
Islamic World Pro includes every item on this list. It also shows Islamic midnight and the start of the last third of the night for Tahajjud.
Check today's times for your city
Our website calculates prayer times live in your browser. Try Makkah, Doha, Dubai, Karachi, Lahore, London or New York, or use your own location.
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