# Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times — Sunni, Shia and Alevi paths > Sunni, Shia and Alevi paths (iPhone/iPad app by Can Atilla Toparlak.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/semaya-calendar-and-prayer-times/id6801077666 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Can Atilla Toparlak](https://appshunter.io/developer/6801077668) - Category: Lifestyle, Reference - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 34 MB - Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Turkish, Urdu - Released: 2026-08-22 - Data updated: 2026-10-31 ## What is Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times? Semaya shows prayer times, the direction of prayer and the religious calendar — for Sunnis, Shias and Alevis. THREE PATHS, ONE APP You choose your path when you first open the app. From then on Semaya shows exactly what belongs to it — and nothing that does not. • Sunni: prayer times by Diyanet and other methods, Ramadan with imsak and iftar, both Eids and the holy nights. • Shia: Jafari calculation with a later maghrib, plus Ashura, Arbaeen and Ghadir Khumm. • Alevi: the twelve days of Muharram, Ashura, Hızır, Hıdırellez and Nevruz. No prayer times, no qibla — because neither belongs to that practice. The Alevi path is not carried along on the side here. It has its own calendar and its own home screen. That is the reason Semaya was built at all. TIMES THAT MATCH YOUR COMMUNITY Times are interpretation, not only astronomy. If Semaya differs from the notice at your mosque, you shift each prayer by minutes on its own — set once, kept for good. The calculation method is free to choose; the one your path uses is marked as the recommendation. In northern Europe the summer night never fully darkens. Semaya then says plainly that the dawn and night prayers cannot be calculated exactly, and names the approximation it uses — rather than showing a number that feigns precision. HOLIDAYS THAT ARE EXPLAINED Every occasion carries its date, a countdown and two or three sentences on what it is about. If nobody ever explained what the Night of Bara'ah is, or why Ashura falls on a different day for Alevis than for Sunnis, it is written here. The dates come from published calendars and are maintained by hand rather than computed — the start of a month is a matter of interpretation, not merely arithmetic. THE DIRECTION OF PRAYER A compass needle towards the Kaaba, with the bearing in degrees and a calibration notice. Semaya uses true geographic north, not magnetic north — in central Europe the two differ by several degrees. REMINDERS Holidays the evening before and on the day itself. Prayer times if you want them, each one switchable. Everything is scheduled on the device. There is no server that knows when you pray. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU No account. No sign-up. No server. Path, location and every setting live on your phone alone. Times and the direction of prayer are computed on the device, without an internet connection. Only the name of your location is looked up by the operating system — which sends the coordinates to Apple. That is the one place where Semaya goes online at all. Under European data protection law, religious belief is a special category of personal data. The only safe way to handle it is not to collect it in the first place. ELEVEN LANGUAGES German, Turkish, English, French, Arabic, Persian and Dari, Urdu, Pashto, Kurmanji, Sorani and Zazaki. The language follows your phone's setting and can be changed at any time. The Arabic-script versions run right to left. FREE AND WITHOUT ADS No advertising, no subscriptions, no locked features. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Kleines Trinkgeld | $0.99 | one-time | | Mittleres Trinkgeld | $2.99 | one-time | | Großes Trinkgeld | $8.99 | one-time | ## Is Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times. ## Is Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times legit? Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Semaya Calendar & Prayer Times is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.9 — 2026-10-27 On the Shia path, the martyrdom of Fatima (Fatimiyyah) now appears in the calendar on November 12. Semaya previously showed it a day late, on November 13. ### 1.0.8 — 2026-10-01 If you don't open Semaya for a while, the app now lets you know a day before your scheduled prayer reminders run out. Opening it briefly is enough, and Semaya schedules the next days again. An iPhone only keeps a limited number of reminders in advance, which in Semaya lasts a little over a week. The app's components have also been updated. ### 1.0.7 — 2026-09-25 Prayer times now follow Diyanet's calendar for Europe in summer too. Until now, the dawn and night prayers in Germany were often far off between April and August, by up to 50 minutes in Hamburg in June. The night prayer was also five to eight minutes late all year. Semaya now calculates all six times the way Diyanet does and usually matches the official times to the minute. In Turkey, too, Semaya now calculates the way Diyanet does. The afternoon, sunset and night prayers there were often one or two minutes off the official times. If you used the fine adjustment to match a time to your mosque, please set it back to 0 and compare the times once more. Prayer reminders could stop after about ten days. Semaya now schedules them again every time it opens and, where the system allows it, in the background as well. On the Shia path, the calendar now shows the commemoration days of the twelve Imams. If you had increased the system font size, the buttons on the first screen were out of reach. That is fixed, every screen scrolls now. Thanks to Hussein Abboud, who reported it. New in the settings: north of 48 degrees you can choose how the dawn and night prayers are calculated in summer. The version number is shown there too. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-09-04 Semaya now speaks French. That makes eleven languages. The French prayer names follow Diyanet’s own French wording: Sobh, Dhohr, Asr, Maghrib, Icha. If you are used to the Arabic or Turkish names, you can switch in the settings. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-09-02 The fine adjustment now goes up to 90 minutes instead of 30. If you match the times to your mosque’s board, 30 minutes was not always enough. Hold the buttons down to adjust faster. The location prompt on first launch now appears in your language. Before, it was in German no matter which language you had set. 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