Comparison

ArabConnect User vs Rakaati

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

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About

ArabConnect User

Features
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ArabConnect brings people together through community posts, short videos, and simple ways to discover others. COMMUNITY FEED Share what’s on your mind with text and photos. Browse posts from people around you, leave comments, and stay connected with friends and neighbors in one place. SHORT VIDEOS (REELS) Watch and create short vertical videos. Scroll through a full-screen feed, follow creators you like, and share moments that matter. DISCOVER PEOPLE Find and follow members of the community. Search for people, open profiles, and grow your circle with a clean, familiar follow experience. PROFILES & CONNECTIONS View member profiles, explore their posts and videos, and manage who you follow. Your profile helps others get to know you. SAFE & SIMPLE Report content that doesn’t belong. Sign in securely and manage your account settings from the menu. LOCAL DISCOVERY Browse local businesses, offers, and community highlights near you so you can explore what’s happening around town. Availability of some browse sections may vary by region and account. ArabConnect is built for everyday connection — post, watch, follow, and stay close to your community.

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Rakaati

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Did you pray all five today? Most prayer apps tell you when to pray. Rakaati remembers whether you did — and shows you honestly what that has looked like over a week, a month, a year. ONE TAP, FROM THE NOTIFICATION A reminder arrives after the adhan and you answer it without opening the app: in the masjid, in jamā'ah, alone, or missed. One tap, because a tracker you have to fight is a tracker you abandon. MORE THAN A CHECKBOX Rakaati records what actually distinguishes one prayer from another — whether you prayed it in the masjid, with people, or alone, and whether you caught it in its time or prayed it late. A missed prayer can carry a reason: asleep, travelling, at work, busy, or simply forgot. Over a month, the reason that is costing you most becomes obvious. AN HONEST SCORE Not a streak that shames you into quitting. A prayer in the masjid scores full marks, jamā'ah elsewhere a little less, praying alone less again, and a late prayer is discounted rather than erased. A prayer you were genuinely excused from is left out of the maths entirely, so illness or travel never reads as failure. Anything you have not recorded stays grey and is ignored — the app will not guess, and it will not count silence against you. Track the morning and evening athkar and a daily Quran portion too, and they count in the day beside the five prayers — your choice, in Settings. YOUR RECORD, IN ONE PLACE Every day's prayers, athkar and reading with its score, or rolled up by week and by month, with your masjid rate and on-time rate broken out, and every perfect day counted. JUMU'AH KNOWS IT IS FRIDAY On Friday, Dhuhr becomes Jumu'ah automatically — its own name, its own icon, and its own expectation of the masjid. THE QURAN, AS THE MUSHAF PRINTS IT The Madinah Mushaf from the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex: its text, its 604 pages and its script, turned page by page like the printed copy. Find a surah by name or number. The page you were on is kept for you, so a call or an interruption never loses your place. Long-press any ayah to bookmark it; double-tap for full-screen reading. Every Friday, a reminder to read Surat Al-Kahf comes at the time you choose and opens the surah. A DAILY PORTION OF THE QURAN Set a daily amount — ayat, pages, a quarter, half or whole hizb, or a juz. Each day continues where the last ended, the Mushaf marks where today's portion starts and ends, and one tap marks it read. MORNING AND EVENING ATHKAR The authentic morning and evening remembrances, in Arabic with their meaning in your language and their source. Tap to count each one, or mark the set as completed at once. A reminder after Fajr and after Asr moves with the prayer times, and stays quiet once you have finished. QIBLA COMPASS Turn until the Kaaba lines up under the pointer; the direction is worked out on your device. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS The next prayer and today's five at a glance, plus a weekly and monthly summary widget so your record is in front of you without opening anything. PRAYER TIMES, CALCULATED ON YOUR DEVICE Times come from the open-source Adhan library, with your choice of method, Asr madhab and high-latitude rule. Choose your city by hand if you would rather not share your location — the app works either way. SEVEN LANGUAGES English, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, French and Spanish — right-to-left throughout for Arabic and Urdu, widgets and notifications included. The app follows your phone's language, or pick one in Settings. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE Rakaati has no account, no server, and makes no network requests at all. Your record is written to your device and stays there. No analytics, no advertising, no trackers. Delete the app and the record is gone with it. Free. No subscription, no unlockable features, no ads. Prayer times are a calculation — where your masjid differs, follow your masjid. Privacy Policy: https://3zcs.me/rakaati/privacy/ Support: https://3zcs.me/rakaati/support/

Screenshots

ArabConnect User4 screens
Rakaati4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ArabConnect User at 15.5 against Rakaati's 18.0. 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 · 5 level
ArabConnect User versus Rakaati: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArabConnect UserRakaati
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShopdit LLCAbdulaziz Alawshan

In-app purchases

None

ArabConnect User

No in-app purchases

None

Rakaati

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ArabConnect User free?
ArabConnect User is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rakaati free?
Rakaati is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ArabConnect User or Rakaati have ads?
Neither ArabConnect User nor Rakaati shows ads.

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