Al-Moazin is a prayer-time utility app for Muslim users, providing GPS-based scheduling and Qibla direction on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Lifestyle
Sentiment
4.4
374k reviews
Nemesis
صلاتك Salatuk (Prayer time)
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Al-Moazin to automate religious observance schedules across changing geographic locations, reducing the cognitive load of manual time-tracking.
For Muslim users requiring accurate, location-aware prayer scheduling and Qibla direction tools for daily religious observance.
What does it look like?
Key features
Calculates accurate prayer times based on current geographic location using device GPS
Visualizes the direction of the Qibla using the device magnetometer and accelerometer
Customizable alarm specifically for the pre-dawn prayer
Syncs settings and displays prayer times via a dedicated watch tile
How much does it cost?
Freemium model uses feature-gating on specific notification types to drive paid conversion.
Velocity
Dormant developmentperformanceUX improvementsShow more...
The development of Al-Moazin has effectively ceased, with no updates recorded in the last 8 years. The historical data shows a long-term pattern of infrequent maintenance releases, with the final recorded update occurring in early 2018. There is no evidence of active development, live operations, or feature expansion, classifying the app as a zombie project.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate high accuracy in prayer timing and qibla direction provides reliable utility for daily religious observance, but report adhan notification failures following the latest update disrupt the primary utility for daily prayer.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- High accuracy in prayer timing and Qibla direction provides reliable utility for daily religious observance
- Adhan notification failures following the latest update disrupt the primary utility for daily prayer
80 of 80 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Al-Moazin
How's the Lifestyle market?
Al-Moazin maintains a presence in the Lifestyle category with a #20 Free rank in Egypt and #9 in Lebanon. The gap between its high install base and recent notification stability issues signals a vulnerability to churn.
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Salatuk is the primary market leader in the prayer utility space, directly competing for the same daily-active user base by offering identical core functionality like prayer times and Qibla direction.
- Massive user base and review volume create a significant social proof barrier for new users
- High-frequency release cadence ensures better compatibility with latest OS updates compared to Al-Moazin
- Advanced manual adjustment settings provide granular control that Al-Moazin lacks for specific geographic regions
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Key takeaways for Al-Moazin
Where is it heading?
The prayer utility market is consolidating around apps with high-frequency release cadences that guarantee OS compatibility. Al-Moazin is currently exposed due to its slow update cycle, so the PM must accelerate the fix for notification triggers to avoid losing the user base to Salatuk.
- Notification failures in the latest update disrupt the core religious observance loop, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- Wear OS companion tile integration provides a unique utility advantage that keeps high-mobility users engaged despite recent performance issues.
The SWOT
- Wear OS companion tile increases multi-device switching costs
- GPS-based travel mode maintains utility for high-mobility users
- Expansion of daily supplication libraries
- Integration of Kaza Namazı tracking to match regional competitor feature sets
Next best moves
Rebuild notification trigger logic because failures are the #1 churn driver → restore daily active habit
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's reliance on a legacy codebase is actually a moat…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Granular manual adjustment settings (available in Salatuk but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app remains in a stagnant development state, with the analysis now incorporating a formal competitive landscape that highlights significant feature and stability gaps against market leaders.
Bottom line
Al-Moazin holds a strong category lead through reliable utility, but the latest notification regressions threaten its retention, so the PM must prioritize stability over new features to prevent churn to more stable rivals.
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