Comparison

Lock Screen Loops vs iQibla Prayer

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

Head to head
About

Lock Screen Loops

Features
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Lock Screen Loops is the easiest way to add messages to your lock screen. Create a loop with as many messages as you want, then add the widget to your lock screen. When your lock screen wakes a different message will appear!

About

iQibla Prayer

This app provides accurate prayer times and Qibla direction, featuring customizable landscapes and haptic guidance. It offers offline functionality for prayer times and Qibla calculation, with no ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Accurate daily prayer times
  • Qibla direction finder
  • Customizable daily landscapes
  • Haptic and visual Qibla guidance
  • Offline prayer time availability
  • Nearby mosque finder
  • Apple Watch and Home Screen widget support
Features
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iQibla brings prayer times and the Qibla direction together in one carefully designed, ad-free app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. PRAYERS • The five daily prayers, the next one highlighted with the time remaining and a golden light moving towards it. • A living landscape that follows your day: dawn, daylight, sunset, starry night. Eight landscapes to choose from (hills, desert, lake, seaside, mountain, forest, lavender, starry night), or a plain charcoal or cream background. • Prayer times for any day, sunrise and the last third of the night. • Your country's calculation method chosen automatically, other methods available, standard or Hanafi Asr. • Notifications at the time of each prayer, with or without sound. • Home Screen widget, and prayer times on Apple Watch too. • The white days shown next to the Hijri date. COMPASS • Turn until the Kaaba passes under the top marker: a golden glow and a gentle vibration confirm that you are facing the Qibla. • Live accuracy, spirit level, coordinates, city and altitude. • Haptic guidance: one vibration, turn right; two, turn left. MAP AND CAMERA • Satellite or standard map with the golden line to Mecca, and a mini globe to see the whole route. • Nearby mosques, with directions in Maps, Google Maps or Waze. • With the camera, a large arrow points to the Qibla and turns into the Kaaba when you are aligned. EVEN OFFLINE • Prayer times already received stay available offline, and the app can also calculate them itself. • The Qibla direction is calculated on your device, along the shortest path on the Earth's surface (WGS84), with true north from the World Magnetic Model WMM2025. • Compass disturbed by metal? The gyroscope keeps the direction for up to 15 minutes. RESPECTFUL • No account, no ads, no tracking. The developer collects no data. Prayer times come from the AlAdhan service, which only receives your location rounded to about 1 km. Available in 10 languages: English, French, Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Bengali, German and Spanish.

Screenshots

Lock Screen Loops4 screens
iQibla Prayer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Lock Screen Loops at 18.0 against iQibla Prayer's 26.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Lock Screen Loops versus iQibla Prayer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLock Screen LoopsiQibla Prayer
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew CarlsonHarith Zorgati

In-app purchases

None

Lock Screen Loops

No in-app purchases

None

iQibla Prayer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lock Screen Loops free?
Lock Screen Loops is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is iQibla Prayer free?
iQibla Prayer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lock Screen Loops or iQibla Prayer have ads?
Neither Lock Screen Loops nor iQibla Prayer shows ads.

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