Rakaat vs Five Prayers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rakaat
This Islamic companion offers accurate prayer times, Qibla direction, and a peaceful prayer tracking experience. It focuses on consistency without pressure, featuring a private, ad-free design with optional iCloud sync and integration with Apple technologies.
- Accurate prayer times
- Qibla direction finder
- Prayer logging and progress tracking
- Fajr alarm with customizable sounds
- Valid excuse mode for temporary tracking pause
- Apple Health, Home, and Siri Shortcuts integration
- Ad-free and private experience
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Rakaat is your calm and private Islamic companion. A prayer tracker that helps you stay consistent, with accurate prayer times, clear Qibla direction, and a peaceful experience designed to encourage consistency without pressure, urgency, or guilt. Discipline begins with simple, reassuring steps. Rakaat goes beyond traditional Adhan alerts. It respects your attention through a calm, beautiful, and complete experience, making daily prayer tracking feel comfortable and refined, not like another burden in your day. The goal is not to fill your day with notifications, but to give you a quieter space and precise tools to pray regularly and peacefully. Why Rakaat is different • Rakaat is free from ads, urgency, and pressure tactics. Your prayer is a private relationship that belongs to you alone. • Real privacy, with no internet required, no unnecessary background activity, and no account registration. Your prayer activity stays on your device by default, and the essential tools work locally, with optional iCloud sync when you want to continue across your Apple devices. • Carefully designed to benefit from Apple technologies such as Apple Health, Apple Home, and Siri Shortcuts. • Rakaat helps you return to prayer with calmness and clarity, whether you are building a new habit, maintaining your consistency, or starting again after a break. It is built for prayer, and prayer only. Core Features • Prayer Tracker Log your daily prayers calmly, mark prayers prayed in congregation, add prayers you forgot to log, and see your progress clearly. • Accurate Prayer Times Reliable prayer time calculations anywhere in the world, with recognized calculation methods and Hanafi or Shafi Asr. • Shortcuts and Siri Use prayer data, the next prayer time, and current prayer status inside your personal automations. • Qibla Direction A smooth and responsive compass that helps you find the Qibla accurately wherever you are. • Valid Excuse Mode A private and respectful system for women, and for anyone with a valid excuse, to pause tracking temporarily without harming statistics. • Fajr Alarm An independent alarm dedicated to Fajr prayer, with advance and delay options, snooze, and multiple Adhan sounds for a more reliable and peaceful wake-up. • Prayer Alerts and Reminders Stay close to your prayers with prayer time notifications, reminders before prayer, and independent sound controls. • Sun Path Tracking Understand prayer timing more clearly by following the sun’s movement and phases throughout the day, including times when prayer is discouraged. • Congregation Mark prayers you pray in congregation, for gentle insight without pressure. • Useful Widgets Follow prayer times and the next prayer directly from your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Rakaat Premium Elevate your commitment with Rakaat Premium, and unlock an advanced set of carefully designed tracking tools for a deeper prayer routine: • Calm Prayer Sessions Start prayer sessions for voluntary prayers such as Qiyam, Tahajjud and Duha, or for Quran and dhikr, with a live tracking experience that helps you stay present throughout the session. • Apple Health Integration Your prayers and prayer sessions can be saved to Apple Health, under Mindful Minutes. • Apple Home Automation Connect Rakaat with your smart home to dim lights, mute media, or run scenes automatically with the Adhan. • Advanced Statistics and History Discover deeper visual insights into the rhythm of your day, your habits, streaks, and progress across months and years. • Monthly Prayer Times View the full month's prayer schedule for your location. • iCloud Sync Keep your prayer history, settings, and eligible data available across your Apple devices. Rakaat does not seek perfection. It seeks consistency, returning again, and building a calmer relationship with prayer day by day, Prayer after prayer. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Five Prayers
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Five Prayers is a private, local-first companion for tracking the five daily Salah and building a consistent Quran reading practice. See exactly where you are in your day with a glanceable Today screen. The hero card highlights the current or next prayer, counts down to it, and lets you log Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha when their scheduled time arrives. Track your Salah practice with: • Daily prayer tracking • City-based prayer times • Local prayer reminders and optional adhan playback • Missed-prayer and make-up tracking • Private progress summaries and streaks • CSV export of prayer history After logging a prayer, you can optionally continue a guided Quran reading. The primary After-prayer reading starts at Al-Faatiha and continues through the Quran in order, one next set at a time. If you choose not to read now, nothing is marked complete and no make-up task is created. You can also create named custom readings with your own ayah goals and optional private local reminders. Reading progress, completed sets, ayahs remaining, and goal history stay on your device. The Quran library remains available for independent reading and listening across all 114 surahs. Choose a translation and reciter, listen in the background, use lock-screen controls, and keep downloaded Quran content available for offline replay. No account. No ads. No social feed. Your prayer and reading progress stays private on your device. Prayer times are estimates based on the selected city. Five Prayers does not provide religious rulings or local-mosque-level timing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Five Prayers at none against Rakaat's 3. Five Prayers also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Rakaat sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Five Prayers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rakaat ships an update fortnightly, Five Prayers every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Rakaat | Five Prayers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ihab Murad | Awais Jamil |
In-app purchases
Rakaat
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Lifetime$79.99
Five Prayers
No in-app purchases









