Free forever. No ads, no account, works offline. For Android and iPhone.
What it does
Taqwa tells you the prayer times where you are, calls you to them, points you to Makkah, and carries the Quran.
For anywhere on Earth, from your location or a bundled list of cities. Taqwa uses the timetable the mosques near you follow: where it holds that timetable, it reproduces it and checks it day by day; where mosques differ, it shows each prayer once all have begun it. Tap (i) to see whose times they are. Match my mosque, the classic methods, Hanafi or Standard Asr, high-latitude rules, a 24- or 12-hour clock, and the Hijri date beside the Gregorian.
A notification for each prayer, with a clear tone, a takbir, or the adhan in a choice of voices, among them Makkah and Madinah, or a recording from your phone. An optional reminder a few minutes before, an optional Iqama reminder the minutes you choose after each adhan, and optional notifications for Tahajjud and for Duha.
A compass corrected to true north, the distance to Makkah, and honest guidance when the phone's compass needs calibrating instead of a needle that pretends.
The Uthmani text in the Madinah Mushaf typeface, seven translations and a transliteration, a page-accurate Mushaf mode, search, bookmarks, and copy or share of any ayah. All of it offline.
Ten reciters. Download a surah, or the whole Quran for a reciter, and listen offline with the ayah lit and the page following the voice, in the background with lock-screen controls.
The morning and evening adhkar in Arabic, with a translation in your language, each counted on screen with a tap; the Quranic ones recited by your chosen reciter, and a reminder for each set if you want one. Beside them, a dhikr counter: tap anywhere on the screen, the post-prayer set runs to a hundred with the phrase changing at each part and a distinct pulse in the hand. Nothing is ever totted up.
The next prayer and a live countdown on the home screen, the day's times, and an ayah a day, on both platforms. They keep counting without the app being opened.
Arabic, English, French, Turkish, Indonesian, Urdu and Bengali, following the phone. Arabic and Urdu are laid out right to left, and every language keeps its own digits. Works with TalkBack and VoiceOver, and the Quran is voiced only by your reciter. Light and dark, following the phone or fixed, in one amber accent.
On your home screen
Three widgets, on Android and iOS. A small one with the next prayer and a live countdown, a medium one that adds the day's five times, and the ayah of the day in the reader's own typeface with its translation. They update on their own, all day, and their background can follow the system, stay light or dark, or blend into your wallpaper. Tap a prayer widget for the Prayer screen; tap the ayah to open it in the reader.
On the phone
Privacy
There is no server behind Taqwa and no account to create. The internet is used for recitation: fetching a surah when you download it or play one not yet downloaded, and, once you have used recitation, checking once a day for an updated list of reciters. Until then, the app itself makes no network request. If you add Taqwa to your watch, Google or Apple may carry its data between your phone and watch over the internet, encrypted so only your phone and watch can read it.
Free software
Taqwa is released under the GNU GPL v3. The code is public, every text, font, recording and data source is credited in the app, and anything built from it must stay free.
