Qibla compass & prayer times for Android
A compass that points at the Kaaba from wherever you stand, and the five daily prayers for where you are, with a reminder before each athan.
The app
Qibla compass
From your GPS position the app works out the direction to the Kaaba in Mecca along the shortest path over the globe. Turn your phone and the needle turns with it; it buzzes when you face the Qibla, and shows how far away the Kaaba is.
Prayer times
Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha for where you are, with a countdown to the next prayer and today’s Hijri date. Pick one of 13 calculation methods, and the Hanafi or Shafi time for Asr. The times follow you when you travel.
Reminders
Off until you turn them on: a reminder up to 30 minutes before each athan, for the prayers you choose, or tap a bell on the prayer list. An iqamah alert can follow, set for each prayer in minutes after the athan. The sound is your phone’s tone, a short adhan, one of your own, or silence.
Mosque board
Tap the mosque icon on the prayer tab and the list becomes a board: the day, a large clock and a line of dhikr under an arch, the six times beside a countdown ring, and the next iqamah when its alert is on.
Monday
12:47PM
لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ
Dhuhr0:22:13
Appearance
Two light themes and a dark one. Or System, which is Modern by day and Dark by night and switches when your phone does. This page does the same.
The details
Choose your madhab in Settings, and the Asr time follows it.
Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura, Turkey (Diyanet), ISNA, Egyptian, Karachi and more. The first time, the app picks the usual one for your region; change it whenever you like.
Under today’s date, from Android’s own Umm al-Qura calendar, so it agrees with the rest of your phone.
Optional reminders for the morning adhkar after Fajr, Duha after sunrise and the evening adhkar after Asr. Each says when its time ends, and none is sent once that time has passed.
Where the sun does not rise or set, Fajr and Isha are estimated the way you choose, and a note above the times says so. Where no time can be worked out, the app says that instead of guessing.
Without exact alarms, Android may deliver a reminder up to an hour late. The app explains this and offers the setting, and never sends you to it unasked.
Arabic, Urdu and Persian read right to left. The app follows your phone’s language, or pick one in Settings, even on the first screen before location is allowed.
When your phone’s compass reports low accuracy, the app asks you to move it in a figure 8, so you are not left trusting a bad reading.
Free
Qibla Finder is free and supported by ads: a banner at the top of the Qibla tab and one ad at the top of the prayer times. Settings has none. A one-time purchase in Settings removes them for good.
There is no sign-up, no account and no server. Your location is used on your phone to work out the direction and the times, and is never sent anywhere. Ads are served by Google AdMob, crash reports go to Firebase Crashlytics and purchases go through Google Play; the privacy policy explains what that involves. Runs on Android 7.0 and newer.
