Comparison

SBNY vs HifzLink

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

HifzLink

This app helps Hifz schools and madrasahs streamline daily student record-keeping for teachers and provides parents with real-time updates on their child's progress. It facilitates attendance tracking, academic performance recording, and communication between teachers and parents.

Highlights
  • Daily student record keeping
  • Attendance and uniform checks
  • Sabaq, Sabqi, and Amukhta tracking
  • Audio recitation recording
  • Report card generation
  • Parental progress monitoring
  • Teacher-student messaging
Features
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HifzLink is the daily record book for Hifz schools and madrasahs — built so teachers can record a student's day in seconds and parents can follow it the same evening. FOR TEACHERS • Take attendance in a tap, run a quick uniform and cleanliness check, and open each student's daily record. • Record Sabaq, Sabqi and Amukhta (revision) with mistakes, stucks and tries — auto-graded as Pass or Retry. • Track Juz completion and see revision staleness at a glance, so nothing quietly goes cold. • Record recitation as audio and keep it on the student's day for parents to hear. • Manage a live recitation queue, homework, behaviour marks and a bathroom tracker for the whole class. • Generate monthly and yearly report cards, ready to print. FOR PARENTS • See today's report card the evening it's recorded — Sabaq, revision, attendance and behaviour. • Play back your child's recitation recordings. • Sign the daily report, and note any extra practice done at home. • Follow Daily, Monthly and Overall progress, homework, exam results and the schedule. • Log the five daily prayers and message your child's teacher directly. • Use "I'm here" at pickup and manage who is allowed to collect your child. INSIGHTS • Revision staleness, weak spots and a Khatm (completion) forecast for every student. • Amukhta history and monthly totals — how much was actually revised, day by day. EXAMS & TESTING • MESBA testing sheets, a question bank and exam generation, with printing. BUILT FOR MADRASAHS No ads. We never sell your data. HifzLink is made for Hifz classrooms and the families they serve.

Screenshots

SBNY4 screens
HifzLink4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: HifzLink at daily against SBNY's every 6 weeks. SBNY's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 4). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SBNY against 5.0 for HifzLink. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SBNY has 24 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SBNY ships an update every 6 weeks, HifzLink daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SBNY versus HifzLink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSBNYHifzLink
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (24 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSHARIAH BOARD, NEW YORK Inc.Haroon Jameel

Customer experience

SBNY

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

HifzLink

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SBNY

No in-app purchases

None

HifzLink

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SBNY free?
SBNY is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HifzLink free?
HifzLink is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SBNY or HifzLink?
SBNY and HifzLink are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 24 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do SBNY or HifzLink have ads?
Neither SBNY nor HifzLink shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SBNY or HifzLink?
SBNY ships an update every 6 weeks, and HifzLink daily. Most recently, SBNY was updated on October 24, 2026 and HifzLink on October 15, 2026.

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