Muslim: Prayer Times, Qibla is a lifestyle app for Android that provides prayer times, Qibla direction, and Quranic study tools to a global Muslim audience.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the cognitive friction of manual prayer scheduling by providing automated, location-based Adhan alerts that users rely on for daily religious practice.
For Muslims worldwide seeking a daily digital companion for prayer scheduling, Quran study, and religious guidance.
What does it look like?
Key features
Location-based prayer scheduling with customizable adhan notifications; drives daily app opens and expands ad-inventory.
Chatbot interface providing answers to Islamic questions based on verified sources; serves as a premium-tier gate for advanced religious guidance.
Digital Quran with translations, tafsir, and audio recitations; gates specific content behind a paid-conversion lever.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model utilizes ad-supported free access to drive scale, with Pro features gated behind in-app purchases.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentopaqueShow more...
With only one release in the observed window, the app operates at a maintenance cadence of approximately one update every seven weeks. The development team has not provided descriptive release notes, leaving the nature of recent updates opaque. There is no evidence of active live-ops or new feature development, suggesting a focus on stability or minor background adjustments. The current release pattern has remained stable at this low-frequency interval.
Who built it?
Assistant App Teknoloji AS
2 apps tracked · Lifestyle
Quran 360: English, AudioUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate the app serves as an essential daily tool for practicing islamic life and prayer routines and audio notifications for prayer times provide a helpful reminder for users throughout their busy day, but report recent updates introduced errors in transliteration order and broken bookmark functionality for reading materials.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The app serves as an essential daily tool for practicing Islamic life and prayer routines
- Audio notifications for prayer times provide a helpful reminder for users throughout their busy day
- Recent updates introduced errors in transliteration order and broken bookmark functionality for reading materials
50 of 50 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Muslim: Prayer Times, Qibla
How's the Lifestyle market?
Muslim: Prayer Times, Qibla maintains a strong market presence, ranking #8 Grossing in Malaysia and #10 Grossing in Saudi Arabia. The app's high rating of 4.7 across nearly 1 million reviews indicates a strong product-market fit that currently outweighs the friction of its aggressive paywall.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By MAWAQIT
Both apps target the same global Muslim audience for prayer scheduling and Quranic study, forcing a choice between this app's AI-driven convenience and the rival's verified mosque-specific data.
- MAWAQIT sources prayer times directly from local imams, whereas this app relies on calculated global approximations.
- MAWAQIT operates as a non-profit with zero advertisements, contrasting with this app's ad-supported freemium model.
- MAWAQIT integrates mosque management tools for community coordination, a feature absent in this app's current suite.
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Key takeaways for Muslim: Prayer Times, Qibla
Where is it heading?
The market for Islamic lifestyle tools is consolidating, and Muslim: Prayer Times, Qibla's current maintenance-mode cadence leaves it exposed to competitors with faster update cycles. The PM must address the recent technical regressions immediately to prevent the current rating drag from accelerating into a long-term churn trend.
- Technical regressions in the latest update (broken bookmarks, transliteration) erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible on Android.
- Strong grossing chart positions in key markets like Saudi Arabia and Malaysia confirm the Pro tier's value proposition is resonating with the core audience.
The SWOT
- Location-based prayer scheduling drives daily app opens
- AI Imam chatbot provides a unique premium-tier gate
- Hijri calendar integration requested by active users
- Home screen widgets would increase daily utility
Next best moves
Rebuild bookmarking and transliteration logic because recent updates broke these core reading tools → restore daily engagement
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The aggressive paywall is not a bug but a feature…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app's strategic narrative has pivoted to defend its aggressive paywall as a high-intent filter, while the PM action plan has narrowed its focus to prioritize core reading tool stability over secondary feature expansion.
Bottom line
Restoring core reading functionality is the immediate priority to stabilize the 4.7-star rating. Once stable, the PM should pivot to shipping requested widgets to lock in daily habit formation, as the current maintenance-only cadence leaves the app vulnerable to more active rivals.
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- [1] Play Store, source
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