Comparison

DuaPlayer vs Arcana

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

Head to head
About

DuaPlayer

This application allows users to project Islamic supplications (Du'as) from the Ahl al Bayt onto screens for communal viewing at mosques, imambargahs, or Islamic events. It facilitates a shared spiritual experience by making devotional content visible to all attendees.

Highlights
  • Project Du'as on screens
  • Supports Ahl al Bayt supplications
  • Ideal for mosques and Islamic events
  • Facilitates communal spiritual experience
  • Easy to use interface
Features
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Project Du'as of the Ahl al Bayt on the projection screen of your local masjid, imambargah, or Islamic event

About

Arcana

Features
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Arcana is where you learn to practice real magic: working with mind, symbol, and correspondence to create what you desire — in real life. Name one desire and give it a moon — thirty days of your attention. Each day is walked in three movements, and a spiral fills from its core as you go: admit the desire fully — the wanting is the instruction; have faith and make yourself the one it can arrive to — posture, breath, clothes; then live from that point, in flow, as one who has already received. Old magic kept whole libraries of correspondences — colors, metals, stones, words, days. Arcana reads them each morning and distills one piece of advice you can actually carry: wear this, say this, before noon. Add your birth sky in Settings and the counsel is shaped to your own placements. Drawn to dreams? Advanced techniques opens Dream work — advice for your dream self and a question for tonight. When something heavy lands — sadness, anger, a setback — the Transform room turns it into something real: a song, a workout, a room set right. Nothing you feel is waste. Every day you practice is kept in your Journal. Over a moon, that record becomes something rare — proof, in your own words, that your magic works. Arcana is private by architecture. Everything you write stays on your phone: no account, no cloud, no analytics. Not even those who built it can read a word. The daily counsel travels as anonymous symbol-words only — described plainly in the app and in our privacy policy — and offline the app speaks from its own library. Free — the whole daily practice, for everyone, always. Privacy Policy: https://arcana.lightly.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

DuaPlayer4 screens
Arcana4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Arcana at every 2 days against DuaPlayer's every 5 days. DuaPlayer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DuaPlayer ships an update every 5 days, Arcana every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DuaPlayer versus Arcana: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuaPlayerArcana
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB214 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuaPlayer FoundationMattis Erngren

In-app purchases

None

DuaPlayer

No in-app purchases

None

Arcana

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DuaPlayer free?
DuaPlayer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arcana free?
Arcana is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DuaPlayer or Arcana have ads?
Neither DuaPlayer nor Arcana shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DuaPlayer or Arcana?
DuaPlayer ships an update every 5 days, and Arcana every 2 days. Most recently, DuaPlayer was updated on July 18, 2026 and Arcana on September 29, 2026.

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