This app provides comprehensive tools for Shia Muslims, including accurate prayer timings, Adhaan notifications, supplications with translations, and guides for various prayers. It also features a dual calendar, Qiblah compass, and Qadha trackers.
Reviews of Shia Companion are mostly positive: the Reference app is rated 4.5/5 from 44 App Store ratings. What users like most: accurate prayer times, aesthetically pleasing design. Top complaints: prayer time inaccuracies, azan/adhan issues (not playing fully, muting on lock screen). Summarized from real user reviews.
2.0.3
April 1, 2021
Bug Fix: - Automatic daylight saving time adjustment. Prayer times will now adjust automatically on pre-defined calendars. - When you click a search result, you will be taken directly to the corresponding line in the prayer/supplication.
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Shia Companion Full Version
Gets user the access to all premium features in the app (Compass and Tasbeeh, Quadha Tables, full database with all prayers and supplications...)
4 issues
Prayer times not accurate
Azan/adhan not playing fully
7 requests
Transliteration for Arabic duas/ziyarats
Audio/recitation options for duas and Quran
The Shia Companion app is a comprehensive tool for Shia Muslims. It offers accurate daily prayer timings, customizable Adhaan and Quran audio notifications, a vast collection of supplications and Ziyaraat with translations, and step-by-step guides for various prayers. It also includes a dual Islamic and Gregorian calendar, a Qiblah compass, and trackers for Qadha prayers and fasts.
Prayer timings can be acquired automatically and accurately via GPS from any part of the world. Alternatively, users can select from manually entered calendars for 47 different cities worldwide. Users also have the option to manually edit any prayer time by +/- 60 minutes.
The app features a comprehensive list of supplications and Ziyaraat with a beautiful Arabic font and line-by-line English translation. It also provides step-by-step guides for reciting various prayers, including Salaat al-Ghufaylah, Salaat al-Mayyit, Salaat Ja'far al-Tayyar, and detailed instructions for Salaat al-Layl (Tahajjud prayers).
The app is available for free, but it does offer in-app purchases. This means that while core functionalities are accessible without cost, certain additional features or content may require a purchase.
Shia Companion is an iPhone and iPad application. Specific iOS version requirements are not detailed in the provided description, but it is designed for Apple mobile devices.
