Ruwwad: Prayer, Qibla, Dhikr

Ruwwad opens on the next prayer and how long is left before it, with the Gregorian and Hijri date. Below, one tap away, are the Qur'an, a dua, the tasbih and the zakat calculator, then today's six times — Fajr, Shurooq, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha — with the next one marked, and a verse of the Qur'an about prayer that changes with each prayer. Light or dark follows your phone. It works offline. Nothing is behind a sign-in, there is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing you do in Ruwwad is sent anywhere. PRAYER TIMES, AND AN HONEST WORD ABOUT THEM In Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah, the default method is the timetable Awqaf publishes, to the minute, unless your Asr method is Hanafi. Otherwise, times are calculated on your device from where you are. Ruwwad starts you on the method and the Asr rule used in your country where it has one — Karachi with the Hanafi Asr in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, country methods from Morocco to Indonesia — and on Muslim World League elsewhere. You can change either in a tap. These are calculated times, not taken from any mosque or published timetable. If your mosque is a minute or two different, Settings lets you shift each prayer on its own, up to half an hour either way, until it matches your mosque. At high latitudes, where the sun does not always reach the angle Fajr and Isha are defined by, Ruwwad handles it deliberately rather than quietly approximating, and you can choose the rule yourself. WHAT ELSE IS IN IT A Qibla compass that points to the Kaaba from where you are standing. A tasbih counter that keeps your count for the day. The Qur'an in Arabic, complete — the Tanzil Uthmani text — by surah or by juz, each juz named, next and previous surah at the foot of each, bookmarks for any ayah, your place kept and a khatm plan to read it through. No English translation of the whole text yet; the verses on the first screen carry the Rowwad Translation Center's English (QuranEnc.com), published for reuse. Daily duas in Arabic with their meaning in English, from published translations where one may be used, each named in the app, and one on your Lock Screen each day. A prayer tracker. Mark a prayer as prayed and it fills in; one you have not marked is simply empty. There is no red, no streak to break, no count of what you have missed, and nothing shared with anyone. A day that has passed can always be filled in. Below it, a quiet calendar of the weeks and months behind you. Reminders before each prayer, with as much notice as you want, set per prayer — and a suhoor reminder in Ramadan. Widgets for the Home Screen and the Lock Screen: the next prayer, the dua of the day, and a tasbih you can tap to count without opening the app. A Hijri calendar that converts either way and lists the notable dates of the year, with the moon phase for any night. The ninety-nine names, in Arabic with an English rendering. A zakat calculator that works through your assets and liabilities, takes the gold or the silver nisab, and tells you when the two disagree rather than quietly picking one. A nearest-mosque search using Apple Maps: name, distance and direction, then a tap through for the route. It does not show congregation times — no map carries them. PRIVACY The only outside code in Ruwwad is the open-source library that does the solar arithmetic. If you allow location, Ruwwad asks iOS for your approximate position only — never precise — because prayer times and the Qibla do not change meaningfully across a city. Or choose your city by hand; the app is fully usable that way. Your settings, prayer record, dhikr counts and reading position are kept on your device. LANGUAGES English and Arabic, with the layout mirrored for Arabic. The Arabic is still awaiting a native speaker's review, and a few screens appear in English for now. Ruwwad is free, and nothing in it is held back.