Masjid As vs SBNY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Masjid As
Stay connected with your local mosque through this app. Get prayer times, important announcements, news, and event updates. Access daily verses, hadiths, and participate in community polls.
- Prayer and Iqamah times
- Important announcements
- Newsfeed and events
- Daily Verse and Hadith
- Community polls
- Media access
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Masjid As-Siddiq launches its new application to improve the communication between the mosque and the community : - Prayer times - Iqamah times - Important announcements - Newsfeed - Events - Media - Verse and Hadith of the day - Polls Application created with Masjidbox Applications
SBNY
This app provides accurate prayer timings and the Hijri date based on your location. It also helps you find nearby certified Halal restaurants and offers local moon-sighting information. The organization behind it is dedicated to serving the Muslim community without charge.
- Ad-free experience
- Accurate Salah timings
- Local Hijri date
- Nearby Halal restaurant finder
- Local moon-sighting information
- SBNY department contact info
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Features: Ad-Free Experience Salah timings and Hijri date based on location Closes HMS certified restaurants to you Local Moon-Sightings Contact info for the different departments of SBNY Permissions: Location: Set accurate prayer timings & find nearby Halal stores Notifications: Receive timely alerts for prayer timings Shariah Board, New York (SBNY), is a non-profit organization, was founded in 2006. SBNY strives to serve the Muslim Ummah in their religious, spiritual, social and personal matters FREE of charge for the better of the community. By this humble effort, we hope to build strong Muslim community members, kind neighbors, dutiful spouses, responsible parents, obedient children and righteous citizens. Each person guided to the Straight Path results in a better world for everyone!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SBNY at every 6 weeks against Masjid As's every 7 months. SBNY also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Masjid As against 5.0 for SBNY. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SBNY has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Masjid As ships an update every 7 months, SBNY every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Masjid As | SBNY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | As Siddiq Muslim Organization of New York Inc | SHARIAH BOARD, NEW YORK Inc. |
Customer experience
Masjid As
SBNY
In-app purchases
Masjid As
No in-app purchases
SBNY
No in-app purchases
