Wai Shabbat vs ActivePray
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Wai Shabbat
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Your complete Shabbat companion โ precise times, smart alarms, prayers, Torah readings, and a full Jewish holiday calendar in one beautifully designed app. SHABBAT TIMES Accurate candle lighting and Havdalah times for your location, powered by Hebcal and KosherSwift. Configurable candle lighting offset (18, 20, 22, 30, or 40 minutes before sunset). SMART SHABBAT ALARM Set alarms tied to candle lighting, Havdalah, sunrise, or any custom time. Choose Shabbat Mode โ the alarm auto-silences so you never touch your phone on Shabbat. Pick from 6 calming sounds and set duration from 1 to 5 minutes. ALL DAILY ZMANIM Complete halachic times: Alot HaShachar, Netz, Sof Zman Shma (GRA & MGA), Sof Zman Tfila, Chatzot, Mincha Gedola, Mincha Ketana, Plag HaMincha, Shkia, Tzeit HaKochavim, and more. Browse past and future dates. PRAYERS & BRACHOT Shabbat and holiday prayers in Hebrew with transliteration and Russian translation. Includes Kiddush, candle lighting blessings, Shma Yisrael, Amida, and Birkat HaMazon. Three display modes: Hebrew only, Hebrew + transliteration, or all three languages. PARASHAT HASHAVUA Weekly Torah portion with full text from Sefaria. All 7 aliyot and Haftarah, with Russian summaries for every parasha. JEWISH HOLIDAYS Complete yearly calendar from Tishrei to Elul. Major holidays, minor holidays, fast days, Chol HaMoed, and Rosh Chodesh โ with candle lighting times and dedicated prayers. COUNTDOWN TIMER Beautiful live countdown to Shabbat. During Shabbat โ a ืฉืืช ืฉืืื greeting with Havdalah time. DESIGNED FOR SHABBAT โข Readiness checker ensures alarms work correctly โข Works offline with local zmanim calculation โข No ads, no tracking, no account required โข Privacy-first: no data collected
ActivePray
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ActivePray is a prayer app for daily religious practice. Prayer times, the right calendar, the appointed days, and the scripture to read โ set to the branch you follow, and working whether or not you have a signal. THREE FAITHS. EIGHT BRANCHES. Judaism (Karaite, Conservative / Masorti, Reform) Islam (Sunni, Shia) Christianity (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant) The layout is shared. Nothing else is. Each branch keeps its own calendar โ its own months, its own leap years, its own hour at which a day begins โ and its own prayers, fasts and dates. Where two branches disagree, each is followed on its own terms rather than averaged into one. THE FIVE TABS Today โ the next prayer, the whole day's times, and what today is in your own calendar: ordinary, a fast, or a day set apart. Prayer โ the services, the readings, the psalms and the prayers appointed for the day, in the original script alongside the English, and how each is prayed, step by step, from your branch's own prayer book. With a guided washing flow when your branch asks for one. Your book โ the Qur'an, the Tanakh or the Bible: today's reading, where you left off, and what you have saved. Calendar โ your branch's own calendar with its appointed dates inline, and the detail behind any day. Active โ the daily ring, streaks, mercy days and badges, for showing up. Search finds any prayer, chapter or holy day on your path. Your profile opens from your photo: your month's intention, your branch, reminders and settings. Plus a compass pointing where your branch faces, places of worship near you with halal and kosher food, your mosque's own times, every fast with its times, a Live Activity counting down to the next prayer, Home and Lock Screen widgets, reminders built per branch, and light or dark. RECKONED ON YOUR PHONE Every time in this app is calculated from where you are and where the sun is โ nothing is fetched, so nothing breaks when you are offline. The dates have been checked one by one against outside authorities, and where the app disagrees with a published table, the disagreement is recorded rather than quietly smoothed over. PRIVATE BY BUILD, NOT BY PROMISE No analytics. No advertising. No tracking. Your name, streaks, history, saved verses and photo stay on your device and in your own iCloud, which we cannot read. Your location is used on your device to work out your times and is never sent to us. The single exception is your username, which has to be unique and so lives in a database we keep โ and the privacy policy says exactly what is in it. In the app, Settings โบ Your privacy says it in ten plain lines. ACTIVE+ (OPTIONAL) The core is free and stays free: every prayer time, the sun and moon times your calendar turns on, the calendar itself, the compass, places of worship near you, every fast with its times, reminders, and the Home Screen widget. Active+ adds a private prayer journal, end-to-end encrypted in your iCloud, with notes on the verses you keep; custom reminder timing; a morning prayer alarm that rings even on silent; Lock Screen widgets, and widgets you mark a prayer from; the Year in Prayer (your year month by month, your most-kept prayers and every streak); your heart in prayer, read from Apple Health; Quiet Progress for practising without the numbers; alternate app icons; and the pilgrimage planner. โฌ2.99 a month or โฌ24.99 a year, with two weeks free to start, auto-renewing until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account on confirmation of purchase, and renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it in Settings, under your Apple Account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://activepray.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wai Shabbat at none against ActivePray's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. ActivePray sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Wai Shabbat asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Wai Shabbat | ActivePray |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 โ better | 26.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WaiWai | Benjamin Weberink |
In-app purchases
Wai Shabbat
No in-app purchases
ActivePray
- Active+14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Active+ Yearly14 Days trial$22.991 Year








