Siyaam vs Sawm

Siyaam is a gamified mobile application designed to encourage spiritual living through a series of interactive challenges and engaging storytelling. Over 30 days, users progress through six chapters, each focusing on a different aspect of Islam, completing daily quests to unlock new content and ultimately achieve a better lifestyle. Credit to Muhammad Qadeer Ahmad Chishti with Free Islamic Nasheeds for background audio!

Sawm keeps your fast in view from suhoor to iftar. Prayer times are worked out on your iPhone or iPad for where you are, a ring counts down to iftar, and widgets show the same times on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. All year, Sawm marks the Sunnah fasts on a Hijri calendar and counts your makeup fasts (qada). SUHOOR AND IFTAR, WHERE YOU ARE • Times are calculated on your device, so they work without a connection • 14 calculation methods, from Umm al-Qura and ISNA to Diyanet and Jafari, set for your country until you choose one • High-latitude rules, with a noted fallback where the sun doesn't rise or set • Stop eating up to 20 minutes before Fajr, match your mosque's Fajr and Maghrib, and choose Standard or Hanafi Asr • Use GPS or search for a city TODAY, ON ONE SCREEN • A scene that follows the day and one clear next step • Niyyah: set your intention, with the Arabic • Patience moment: three slow breaths, then a verse or hadith on patience • Iftar: the du'a in Arabic, transliteration and meaning, then a reflection on what you guarded today • In the last ten nights, the Laylat al-Qadr du'a A CALENDAR FOR THE WHOLE YEAR • Sunnah fasts marked: Mondays, Thursdays, the White Days, Six of Shawwal, the first days of Dhu al-Hijjah, Arafah, Tasu'a and Ashura • Eid and the Days of Tashreeq shown as days not to fast • Log past fasts and plan new ones up to 60 days ahead • Move the Hijri date up to two days to match your local moon sighting MAKEUP FASTS (QADA), COUNTED FOR YOU • Missed or broken Ramadan days are added automatically • Add days owed from past years • Log or plan each one and see how many remain LEARN • 35 illustrated articles in 7 paths, with verses and hadith in Arabic and English and sources for every article • A suggested reading for each day of Ramadan WIDGETS AND REMINDERS • Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy widgets with a live countdown to iftar or suhoor • Suhoor and iftar reminders on the days you fast, and an optional reminder the evening before a Sunnah fast IPHONE AND IPAD • iPad layouts for portrait and landscape • 8 themes, each in light and dark • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your fasts, reflections and settings stay on your device. City search and place names use Apple's services and need a connection. "Every deed of the son of Adam is for him, except fasting: it is for Me, and I shall reward it." (Sahih al-Bukhari 1904; Sahih Muslim 1151)