Salatuk is a lifestyle utility app for Android that provides automated prayer timing and Qibla direction based on user location.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Lifestyle
Sentiment
4.7
1.9M reviews
Nemesis
Al-Moazin
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to automate the complex geographic and Fiqhi calculations required for daily religious obligations, removing the manual setup burden.
For Muslim users globally requiring accurate prayer timing and Qibla direction based on their current geographic location.
What does it look like?
Key features
Algorithm selects calculation methods, Fiqhi schools, and Athan settings based on user location
Visual indicator for prayer direction based on device location
User-defined overrides for prayer calculation methods and timing offsets
How much does it cost?
The app operates as a free utility with no visible IAP or subscription gates, likely serving as a brand asset for the developer.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentopaqueperformanceShow more...
The app maintains a maintenance-level cadence, shipping approximately 0.14 releases per week. The last two updates occurred roughly 49 days apart, indicating a slow, infrequent release cycle. Because the release notes for the latest version and its predecessor are null, the development focus remains opaque, suggesting a lack of visible feature iteration or content updates. The development trend is stable at a low-frequency maintenance level.
Who built it?
Masarat App
4 apps tracked · Lifestyle
Salatuk - صلاتك
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What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate the application serves as a reliable and essential tool for maintaining daily prayer schedules, but report inaccurate prayer time calculations and synchronization errors between the widget and the main application.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Weekly average review rating
What users say, by theme
- The application serves as a reliable and essential tool for maintaining daily prayer schedules
- Inaccurate prayer time calculations and synchronization errors between the widget and the main application
62 of 68 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for صلاتك Salatuk (Prayer time)
How's the Lifestyle market?
Salatuk maintains a strong regional footprint, holding top-25 Lifestyle chart positions in Tunisia, Oman, and Algeria. The gap between its high install volume and the lack of monetization suggests a focus on user acquisition over revenue, leaving it vulnerable to premium-utility competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Parfield Software
Al-Moazin is a direct competitor that captures the same core user base by offering high-precision prayer timing and Qibla direction services.
- Offers a dedicated Wear OS companion app, providing superior accessibility for users on the go.
- Features an advanced notification suite that allows for more granular control over Athan alerts.
- Maintains a long-standing market presence since 2012, building significant trust and user habituation.
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Key takeaways for صلاتك Salatuk (Prayer time)
Where is it heading?
Users report: The prayer-utility market is shifting toward ecosystem-integrated experiences, with rivals offering wearable support and hyper-localized data. Salatuk's maintenance-mode update cadence leaves it exposed to these feature-rich entrants, so the PM must pivot to core stability and wearable parity to avoid long-term erosion of its regional lead.
- Persistent synchronization errors between the widget and main app erode user trust, leading to a decline in daily active habit.
- The lack of wearable integration allows competitors like Al-Moazin to capture the high-intent mobile segment, accelerating churn pressure.
The SWOT
- Automated Fiqhi school selection reduces user configuration friction
- High regional brand visibility in MENA markets sustains organic install velocity
- Wearable integration would capture the high-intent mobile-on-the-go segment
- Monthly prayer calendar feature addresses top-requested user utility gap
Next best moves
Rebuild widget synchronization logic because widget-app discrepancies are the top-cited reliability complaint → stabilize daily active usage
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of monetization is a strategic liability…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Wear OS companion app (available in Al-Moazin but missing here) +2
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined due to critical widget-app synchronization errors and a failure to offer wearable integration, leaving it vulnerable to feature-rich competitors.
Bottom line
Salatuk maintains a strong regional user base through automated utility, but persistent synchronization bugs and a lack of wearable support leave it vulnerable to competitors, so the PM must prioritize core reliability to defend the install base.
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