Umma plus vs Upgrade Muslim
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Umma plus
This Islamic app provides accurate prayer times based on your location and offers daily reminders for prayers and supplications. It features a modern interface with dynamic visuals and a Qibla compass.
- Accurate prayer times based on location
- Support for various prayer calculation methods
- Modern widgets with dynamic sky visuals
- Notifications for prayer times and reminders
- Qibla compass for direction
- Downloadable monthly prayer schedules
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Umma Plus is a modern Islamic app designed to grow and evolve with more essential features for Muslims in their daily lives. We have paid special attention to accurate prayer time calculations, ease of use, and interface quality, making Umma Plus a reliable companion for everyday Islamic practice. Key Features: • Accurate prayer times based on your location • Support for multiple prayer time calculation methods • Modern widgets • Duha and Tahajjud prayer times with optional notifications • Download a full monthly prayer schedule with Hijri and Gregorian dates • Beautiful time-of-day display with a dynamic sky that changes throughout the day • Prayer time notifications and reminders for adhkar • Modern and easy-to-use interface • Convenient and modern Qibla compass Umma Plus is designed for those who value accuracy, reliability, and convenience in their daily practice of Islam. May Allah accept our good deeds.
Upgrade Muslim
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Upgrade Muslim: Prayer is a calm everyday companion for Muslims. Prayer times for your city, azan and reminders, the qibla direction, a Hijri calendar with Ramadan mode, a tasbih counter, morning and evening adhkar, 267 du'as from "Fortress of the Muslim" with audio, the whole Quran and widgets. No sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases. English and Russian. PRAYER TIMES • Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha for today; the next prayer is highlighted • Calculated right on your phone — works without internet • The method follows your place automatically (the muftiate's own method in Russia, Diyanet in Turkey, Muslim World League elsewhere), or choose one yourself: Muslim World League, ISNA, Egyptian General Authority, Umm al-Qura (Makkah), University of Karachi and the Russian muftiates • Asr — Standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) or Hanafi AZAN AND REMINDERS • Azan at each of the five prayers, with a separate morning azan for Fajr • Choose the azan, the default sound or silence for each prayer • A reminder 10, 15 or 30 minutes ahead • Optional: Duha prayer, tahajjud (the last third of the night), Friday (Surat al-Kahf, salawat and Jumu'ah), fasting on Mondays and Thursdays WIDGETS • Small (next prayer, time, countdown, city) and medium (all five prayers) widgets • Lock Screen widgets on iPhone • They switch to the next prayer by themselves HIJRI CALENDAR AND RAMADAN • Today's Hijri date on Home — the new day starts at Maghrib • Dates for the year ahead: start of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, the Day of Arafah, Eid al-Adha, Ashura • Muftiates announce months by the moon — adjust the date by a day in Settings • In Ramadan, Home shows the day and the time left to the end of suhoor or to iftar; the end of suhoor can be Fajr or imsak • Optional reminders: suhoor is ending and time for iftar, with the du'a for breaking the fast LOCATION AND QIBLA • Your city by GPS or chosen by hand — search works even offline • Times in the local time of the chosen city • A compass pointing to the Kaaba from your location TASBIH • 6 adhkar with targets and a rounds counter; the count is saved for each dhikr MORNING AND EVENING ADHKAR • A short checklist with marks kept until the end of the day; optional reminders by prayer times DU'AS — "FORTRESS OF THE MUSLIM" • 267 du'as in 132 chapters and 13 categories: morning and evening, home, food, feelings, travel, prayer, Hajj and Umrah, illness and more • Arabic text, transliteration and English translation • The audio of every du'a is inside the app — listen without internet • Repeat, counter, search and favorites THE QURAN • All 114 surahs: the Arabic text (Uthmani, from the Tanzil Project) and the translation by Marmaduke Pickthall in English or Gordy Sablukov in Russian — works without internet • Search by number or name, "Continue reading" where you stopped, bookmarks on ayahs, the size of the Arabic text • Transliteration for the short surahs • Verse-by-verse audio by four reciters, played in the background with Lock Screen controls; what you have listened to is kept on the phone (the first listening needs internet) PRIVACY • No account, no ads and no ad tracking • Prayer times are calculated on the phone — your coordinates are not sent for that • Coordinates go only to the weather service Open-Meteo, for the rain reminder • Settings, favorites, bookmarks, the tasbih count and the adhkar marks stay on your device May the app help you keep your prayers every day. Credits: azan recordings — R. J. Stefanski (freesound.org/s/255231) and the Malmö Islamic Center, muezzin Besim Azemi (Wikimedia Commons), license CC BY 3.0; "Fortress of the Muslim" texts from hisnmuslim.com; Quran: Arabic text — Tanzil Project (tanzil.net, CC BY 3.0), translations — Gordy Sablukov and Marmaduke Pickthall (public domain); Amiri Quran font (SIL OFL); audio — everyayah.com; city data — GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); places and regions — © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Upgrade Muslim at 15.6 against Umma plus's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Umma plus ships an update every 3 days, Upgrade Muslim every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Umma plus | Upgrade Muslim |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Зугра Рахматуллина | Deni Avtorkhanov |
In-app purchases
Umma plus
No in-app purchases
Upgrade Muslim
No in-app purchases









