Yakin vs منار | Manar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yakin
This app provides Muslims with accurate prayer times, qibla direction, and adhan alarms. It also features a digital prayer bead counter, an interactive Quran with audio, and a collection of supplications and hadith.
- Accurate prayer times
- Adhan alarms and reminders
- Qibla direction compass
- Digital prayer bead counter
- Interactive Quran with audio
- Supplications and Hadith library
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Yaqn app offers a comprehensive package for Muslims: accurate prayer times based on your location, adhan alarms and prayer reminders, qibla direction with an interactive compass, and a digital prayer bead counter for easy tracking. Explore a rich library: an interactive Quran with audio recitations and page-by-page reading, collected supplications and prayers, hadith books, and in-app sharing and support features, with support for customizations such as adhan sound and vibration. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
منار | Manar
This app provides accurate prayer times based on your location and offers a Hijri calendar. It features a beautiful bilingual design with light and dark themes, and includes a shortcut for charitable donations.
- Accurate prayer times
- Live prayer countdown
- Hijri and Gregorian calendar
- Bilingual Arabic/English interface
- Light and dark themes
- Integrated donation shortcut
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Manar (منار) is your elegant Islamic companion, designed to keep your daily worship close at hand. PRAYER TIMES • Accurate prayer times based on your GPS location, using the Umm al-Qura calculation method. • A live countdown to the next prayer, so you always know how much time remains. • Your full daily schedule: Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and the Islamic midnight. HIJRI CALENDAR • See the Hijri and Gregorian dates together at a glance. BEAUTIFUL & BILINGUAL • A calm, modern design crafted in both Arabic and English, with full right-to-left support. • Light and dark themes that adapt to your device. GIVE WITH EHSAN • Support charitable causes quickly through the integrated Ehsan donation shortcut. MORE ON THE WAY We are building Manar into a complete Islamic companion. Future updates will bring the Holy Quran, Adhkar, a Qibla compass, Tafseer, Hadith, and more — in shaa Allah. Your privacy matters: your location is used only to calculate prayer times and is never shared. We would love to hear from you: support@nabeacreative.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: منار | Manar at 4.8 against Yakin's 4.2. منار | Manar also leads on ratings volume (311 vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
منار | Manar holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: منار | Manar has 311 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yakin ships an update every 6 days, منار | Manar every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Yakin | منار | Manar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (311 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 311 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 200 MB | 340 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdul Aziz Al-Nahdi | MUATH ALGHAMDI |
Customer experience
Yakin
منار | Manar
In-app purchases
Yakin
No in-app purchases
منار | Manar
No in-app purchases
