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Last updated 2 September 2026

Disclaimer

Salah Time is a calculation tool, offered to help you keep your prayers. It is careful work, but it is not a religious authority, and it should not be the only thing you rely on.

Prayer times are calculated

The times this app shows are computed on your device from the position of the sun, using well-established astronomical algorithms. They are not taken from a published timetable, and they are not reviewed by any scholar or mosque.

The astronomy itself is accurate to well under a minute for any date this century. That precision says nothing about whether the resulting times match what your community observes — that depends on the method, which is a matter of scholarly judgement, not arithmetic.

Methods genuinely differ

Fajr and Isha depend on how far below the horizon the sun must be before twilight is considered to have begun or ended. Different authorities have settled on different angles, in good faith, and no single choice is correct everywhere.

This means two people in the same city, using two respected methods, can legitimately see times several minutes apart. That is not an error in either.

If the app disagrees with your local mosque, trust your mosque. Then set the app to match — change the calculation method, or use the per-prayer offsets under Settings, Advanced, to line the app up with the timetable you actually follow.

Far north and far south

At high latitudes there are nights when the sun never dips far enough below the horizon for Fajr or Isha to occur astronomically at all. Above the polar circles this can last for months.

In those places the app falls back to one of the accepted approximation rules. These are conventions for producing a usable time where nature provides none — they are estimates, and communities in those regions often follow their own agreed practice instead. Please follow local guidance.

The Hijri date

The Hijri date shown is calculated, using the Umm al-Qura calendar. It is not a moonsighting.

Many communities begin a month on local or regional sighting, which can differ from the calculated date by a day in either direction. The app lets you shift the Hijri date by up to three days, and optionally advance it at Maghrib, so it can be made to agree with whatever your community follows. Ramadan and Eid in particular should be confirmed with your local authority, not with this app.

The Qibla compass

The Qibla direction is calculated exactly, but pointing you at it depends on your phone’s magnetic compass, which is far less exact.

Compass readings drift near metal, cars, speakers, magnets, phone cases with magnets in them, and inside buildings with steel framing. They also need calibration, and the sensor’s own accuracy varies by device. The app tells you when it believes the reading is unreliable — please take that seriously rather than working around it.

Use the compass as a guide, confirm it against a known direction where you can, and do not rely on it for navigation or for anything where being wrong matters.

Notifications may not always arrive on time

Prayer alerts are scheduled with your device’s own operating system, and once handed over, their delivery is out of the app’s hands. Several ordinary things can delay or prevent one:

  • Notification permission being denied, or later revoked
  • Battery saver, Low Power Mode, or Android’s Doze, which can defer an alert by minutes
  • Android withholding permission for exact alarms, leaving only inexact ones
  • Force-quitting the app, or a device restart before the app has run again
  • Operating system limits on how many alerts can be scheduled in advance — the app schedules a rolling window and tops it up in the background, which the system runs when it chooses
  • Silent mode, focus modes, and per-app notification settings

Please do not depend on these alerts as your only reminder to pray.

Location

Prayer times and the Qibla both depend on where you are. If location access is off, or a fix cannot be obtained, the app uses your last known position or the city you selected — which may no longer be where you are.

After travelling, especially across a time zone, open the app and check that the location shown is correct before relying on the times.

Third-party services

Searching for a city uses your platform’s own place-search service, and the optional reward feature uses a payment service and your app store. Those services are operated by other companies, under their own terms and privacy policies. Their availability, accuracy and behaviour are not under this app’s control.

Availability and errors

The app is provided as it is, without any warranty. It may contain mistakes, may not work on every device or every version of an operating system, and may be interrupted or unavailable.

Features may change, be added, or be removed in future versions. Software that computes anything this intricate can carry defects, and if you find one, please report it — the Report an Issue screen exists for exactly that, and corrections are genuinely welcome.

Your responsibility

You are responsible for how you use the information this app provides. Where a prayer time, a Qibla direction, or a Hijri date matters, verify it against your local mosque or a trusted authority.

To the fullest extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for any loss or harm arising from use of this app, or from relying on what it displays. Nothing here limits any right you have that cannot lawfully be limited.

Changes to this disclaimer

If the app’s behaviour changes in a way that affects anything written here, this page changes with it, and the date at the top is updated.

If something here is unclear, or you believe the app is getting something wrong, please say so — a report with your city and method is the fastest way to get it looked at.

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