Akhyar vs Pray Five
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Akhyar
This app connects registered volunteers with monthly and year-long fundraising campaigns focused on helping the underprivileged. Volunteers can track individual and team targets, and request special religious services and payments exclusively through the platform.
- Fundraising campaign participation
- Individual and team target tracking
- Monthly and year-long campaigns
- Sponsor orphans program
- Request religious services
- Submit payment requests
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The app is used by our registered volunteers who participate in fundraising campaigns and pursue individual & team targets. There is a new campaign every month that focuses on helping the lives of the less privileged. There is also a year long campaign which is dedicated to sponsoring orphans for their basic monthly needs. Exclusively via the app, our volunteers can submit requests for religious services and payments which is termed in the app as "Special Services".
Pray Five
This app provides accurate daily prayer times, Qibla direction, and Islamic calendar features. It offers customizable notifications, widgets, and an Apple Watch app for convenient access to religious observances. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience with optional premium features for enhanced functionality.
- Accurate daily prayer times
- Qibla direction compass
- Islamic calendar with Hijri dates
- Customizable prayer notifications and alarms
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Watch app and complications
- Tasbeeh counter and Quranic reminders
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Pray Five shows your five daily prayer times under a soft sky that changes with each prayer. It is calm, simple and private: no ads, no account, and your prayer times are worked out on your phone. Open it and you see what matters: the prayer now, the time until the next one, and the day's times on one clean panel. The sky follows your day, from dawn at Fajr to the stars after Isha. Prayer times you can trust • Accurate times for where you are, or for any city you choose • 12 calculation methods, with Shafi or Hanafi Asr • The method and Asr time most used in your country, chosen for you and easy to change • Adjust any prayer by a few minutes to match your local mosque • A high-latitude rule for places like the UK, Scandinavia and Canada • Sunrise, and an optional Tahajjud time for the last third of the night Notifications and reminders • A notification as each prayer begins, with the adhan or the Takbeer, for the prayers you choose • An alarm for Fajr, at Fajr or before sunrise, on iOS 26 • A reminder an hour before Jummah on Fridays • An alarm for Suhoor before Fajr on the days you fast, on iOS 26 • An alarm for Tahajjud on the nights you choose, on iOS 26 Widgets and Apple Watch • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, including a countdown to the next prayer • An Apple Watch app with your prayer times, a countdown, Qibla and Tasbeeh • Watch complications for the next prayer Qibla • A compass that points to the Kaaba from wherever you are Islamic calendar and Ramadan • Hijri dates for every day, adjustable by up to two days to match your community • Countdowns to Ramadan, Eid and the holidays you choose • Sunnah fasting days, with Fajr and Iftar times when you fast • A Ramadan timetable for your city, to share as an image Tasbeeh and Quran • A Tasbeeh counter with targets, the tasbeeh after prayer, and your own dhikr • Surah Al-Kahf on Fridays and Surah Al-Mulk at night, with a gentle reminder when each is due Make it yours • Five themes, each a whole sky: Garden, Rose, Amber, Dusk and Midnight • Light and dark mode • English, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Indonesian, French and Spanish Private by design • No ads, no account, and we never sell your data • Your location is used on your phone to work out prayer times. We never see it. • Usage data that helps improve the app can be turned off in Settings Pray Five+ Everything you need to pray on time is free, on every screen. Pray Five+ is optional and adds: • Fasting and holiday countdowns on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and watch face: Fajr and Iftar when you fast, and the days until your next holiday in between • A Live Activity and Dynamic Island countdown to the next prayer, and to Fajr and Iftar when you fast. On iOS 26 it can start on its own • Tonight's moon from your city, with the Hijri date and whether the new crescent can be seen, in the app, in widgets and on your watch face • App icons in the colours of each theme Pray Five+ is a monthly or yearly subscription, not offered in every country. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial, and one subscription covers your family with Family Sharing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://prayfiveapp.com/privacy Questions or ideas? Tap Send Feedback in Settings, or write to app.prayfive@gmail.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Akhyar at none against Pray Five's 3. Akhyar also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Pray Five's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pray Five sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Akhyar asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Akhyar against 5.0 for Pray Five. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pray Five has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Akhyar ships an update every 3 weeks, Pray Five every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Akhyar | Pray Five |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Talverse | Umair Ahmad |
Customer experience
Akhyar
Pray Five
In-app purchases
Akhyar
No in-app purchases
Pray Five
- Pray Five+ Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pray Five+ Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Ramadan Pack 1447$0.99









