Comparison

Five Prayers by Noor23 vs ImanGuard

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

Head to head
About

Five Prayers by Noor23

This app provides accurate prayer times, Qibla direction, and tools to track your daily salah. It offers educational content on Islamic topics and a glossary, all without ads or user tracking.

Highlights
  • Accurate prayer times with multiple calculation methods
  • Qibla compass with offline use and map view
  • Daily prayer tracking (On Time, Late, Missed)
  • Widgets and Live Activity for quick access
  • Educational content on prayer and Islamic topics
  • Fasting and Fidya tracking
  • Searchable Islamic glossary
Features
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Assalamu Alaikum! Five Prayers is a focused companion for prayer times, Qibla, and daily prayer tracking. PRAYER TIMES & QIBLA See prayer times for your location, calculated with the method you choose, including ISNA, MWL, Egyptian, and more. Follow the live countdown to the next prayer, with Gregorian and Hijri dates and Islamic midnight. Use the Qibla compass with an optional satellite map, haptic feedback when aligned, and an offline saved direction. TRACK YOUR DAY Record each prayer as On Time, Late, or Missed. Add where you prayed, including at home, at a masjid, or in congregation. Track Wudu, Qada, Tahajjud, and other nafl prayers. Sisters can use Excused Mode and choose which prayer and fasting alerts pause while it is active. REMINDERS & WIDGETS Create prayer, before-prayer, smart, and custom alerts with 18 sound choices, including Adhan recordings. Set selected alerts as alarms on iOS 26 or later. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, plus Live Activity, show your current prayer, countdown, and daily progress. Mark a prayer or Wudu from a widget. FASTING & LEARN Track Ramadan, Monday and Thursday fasts, White Days, and makeup fasts in a monthly calendar. Record Fidya by year. Learn covers prayer, purification, congregation, Qibla, dhikr, and more, with source links for hadith. Search Islamic terms in Arabic script or transliteration. YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE No account is required. Your prayer records stay on your device, and you can export or import them at any time. Five Prayers is free to use, without ads or tracking. SUPPORTER IS OPTIONAL Every prayer and tracking feature is included at no cost. Supporter helps fund development and unlocks additional themes, Daily Shuffle, World, Tasbih, and Flight. Built by Muslim developers as a companion for daily salah. May Allah accept from us and from you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ImanGuard

This app helps users maintain their prayer schedule by locking distracting applications during prayer times. It requires users to read a Quranic verse and perform dhikr before unlocking their devices, fostering a deeper connection to their faith.

Highlights
  • Locks distracting apps during prayer times
  • Requires Quranic verse reading and dhikr to unlock
  • Automatic prayer time calculation based on location
  • Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro
  • Tracks prayer history for 90 days
  • Supports 11 languages
  • Provides prayer times and Qibla compass
Features
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Free forever. No subscription, no trial, no ads — and the only prayer blocker that runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. When the adhan calls, ImanGuard locks the apps that take your salah. They stay locked until you have prayed and made dhikr. Not a timer you can wait out. Not a notification you can swipe away. LOCKS ITSELF AT EVERY ADHAN Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha — calculated from your exact location and recalculated every day as the times shift. Choose your apps once. You never touch a setting again. AN AYAH, THEN A DHIKR, THEN YOUR PHONE Unlocking is not a button. Read an ayah from the Quran. Complete your dhikr. Then your apps come back. The friction is the point — it is what turns a habit into khushu. BUILT FOR EVERY DEVICE YOU OWN Every other Muslim app blocker lives on one iPhone. ImanGuard runs everywhere and syncs in real time. Mark Asr on your phone and your iPad already knows. - iPhone: full blocking and prayer tracking - iPad: optimised sidebar layout - Mac (M1 and later): sync and monitoring control - Apple Vision Pro: immersive prayer companion - Apple Watch: coming PRAYER TIMES AND QIBLA Accurate namaz times for your location, with your madhhab and calculation method. Qibla compass. Adhan notifications. A home screen widget with your next prayer and a live countdown. NINETY DAYS OF HONEST HISTORY On time, late, missed. Nothing hidden, nothing rounded in your favour. Build your streak and see exactly which prayer keeps slipping. ELEVEN LANGUAGES Arabic, English, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh, Tajik, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, French, German. Fully localised, including right-to-left Arabic — more languages than any comparable app. FREE. PERMANENTLY. No subscription. No trial that expires. No premium tier. No ads. No data sold to anyone. Every feature is yours from the first launch and stays yours. ImanGuard is sadaqah jariyah, not a business model. FOR Anyone who has looked up from a screen and realised Maghrib passed. Anyone rebuilding a habit they lost. Parents teaching children to pray on time. Students and professionals whose day never seems to leave room. HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick the apps that distract you — once. 2. ImanGuard locks them at every adhan, automatically. 3. Pray. Read the ayah. Make dhikr. Unlock. 4. Watch ninety days of your own consistency. Built on Apple Screen Time. No VPN. No workarounds. Nothing leaves your device that does not have to. Made with ikhlas — and in memory of it.

Screenshots

Five Prayers by Noor234 screens
ImanGuard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ImanGuard at none against Five Prayers by Noor23's 9. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Five Prayers by Noor23 sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ImanGuard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Five Prayers by Noor23 against 5.0 for ImanGuard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Five Prayers by Noor23 versus ImanGuard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive Prayers by Noor23ImanGuard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNoor23 LLCkhusravjon toshmatov

Customer experience

Five Prayers by Noor23

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ImanGuard

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Five Prayers by Noor23

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Supporter7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Supporter7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time7
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$2.99
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$9.99
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$24.99
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  • Lifetime Supporter$49.99
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$49.99
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$99.99
  • Gift: Unlocks no features.$249.99
None

ImanGuard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Five Prayers by Noor23 free?
Five Prayers by Noor23 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ImanGuard free?
ImanGuard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Five Prayers by Noor23 or ImanGuard?
Five Prayers by Noor23 and ImanGuard are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Five Prayers by Noor23 or ImanGuard have ads?
Neither Five Prayers by Noor23 nor ImanGuard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Prayers by Noor23 or ImanGuard?
Five Prayers by Noor23 ships an update every 2 weeks, and ImanGuard every 2 weeks. Most recently, Five Prayers by Noor23 was updated on November 5, 2026 and ImanGuard on October 31, 2026.

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