Comparison

SimplyAdhan vs Live Athan

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

Head to head
About

SimplyAdhan

This app provides accurate prayer times and Qibla direction with a minimalist design. It focuses on essential information without unnecessary features or advertisements, ensuring a distraction-free experience for daily prayers.

Highlights
  • Accurate prayer times based on location
  • Qibla direction with compass
  • Minimalist and user-friendly design
  • Ad-free experience
  • Fast and instant access to information
Features
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SimplyAdhan is the clean, accurate, and ad-free prayer times app you’ve been looking for. Many Adhan apps overload you with features you don’t need and ads you don’t want. SimplyAdhan is different. It tells you exactly when to pray and where to face — nothing more, nothing less. - created by Umar Hasan & Usman Hasan Features: - Accurate prayer times calculated based on your location and preferred calculation method - Qibla direction with a built-in compass for quick orientation - Minimal, user-friendly design for instant access to essential information - No intrusive ads — just a clean, distraction-free experience - Whether you’re at home, traveling, or at work, SimplyAdhan helps you stay on top of your daily prayers without fuss. Why Choose SimplyAdhan? - Built for speed — open and get prayer times instantly - Accurate and reliable calculations - Focused on one purpose: helping you pray on time created by Umar Hasan & Usman Hasan

About

Live Athan

Features
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Live Athan brings the living call to prayer to your pocket. When a muezzin calls the athan at a masjid near you, hear it live — a real human voice, at the real moment, from a real place. Not a recording. Not an alarm. The actual call, as it happens. WHAT LIVE ATHAN DOES • Accurate prayer times, computed on your device. No account, no sign-up, no server — the app calculates prayer times with precise astronomy wherever you are, even offline. Traveling? Times update automatically for your new city. • Live athan and prayers from real masjids. See which masjids near you are alive right now — people inside, prayer about to begin — and listen to the athan, iqama, and prayer as they happen. • Broadcast from your masjid. With your permission, Masjid Mode lets your phone share the athan with the community when you are inside your masjid at prayer time. It works only inside the masjid and only during prayer windows — never anywhere else, never at any other time. • Qibla, beautifully. A precise compass points you toward Makkah from anywhere on Earth. • Record your athan. Capture your own call to prayer and keep it in your personal library. • Remember Allah, beautifully. A built-in tasbeeh keeps your dhikr count with authentic adhkar — a quiet companion between prayers. • Masjid announcements, without the noise. Your masjid's updates, urgent alerts, and community news in one clean feed — posted by verified masjid announcers, with no comments, no likes, and no doomscrolling. • Apple TV companion. The Live Athan TV app lets the whole family hear their masjid live in the living room. PRIVACY, BY DESIGN Your phone is never "always listening." The microphone can activate only inside a masjid you have chosen, only during a prayer window, and only after your explicit consent — and audio leaves your device only while you are actively broadcasting. Prayer times are calculated entirely on the device; no server ever needs your location for them. FREE, FOR EVERYONE Live Athan is free. No ads. No paid anything. Muslims and non-Muslims are equally welcome — come hear something real.

Screenshots

SimplyAdhan4 screens
Live Athan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Live Athan at every 5 weeks against SimplyAdhan's every 6 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

SimplyAdhan ships an update every 6 months, Live Athan every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
SimplyAdhan versus Live Athan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimplyAdhanLive Athan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUsman HasanAwwad Alhaj

In-app purchases

None

SimplyAdhan

No in-app purchases

None

Live Athan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SimplyAdhan free?
SimplyAdhan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Live Athan free?
Live Athan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SimplyAdhan or Live Athan have ads?
Neither SimplyAdhan nor Live Athan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SimplyAdhan or Live Athan?
SimplyAdhan ships an update every 6 months, and Live Athan every 5 weeks. Most recently, SimplyAdhan was updated on November 5, 2026 and Live Athan on October 31, 2026.

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