Athan Screen vs Sabeel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Athan Screen
This app displays daily prayer times on your iPhone lock screen, updated for your location. It offers customizable reminders, wallpaper options, and a Qibla compass. Mark prayers as complete directly from the wallpaper or notifications.
- Daily prayer times on lock screen
- Customizable reminders and notifications
- Mark prayers from wallpaper/notifications
- Hands-free wallpaper automation
- Multiple wallpaper styles and customization
- Built-in Qibla compass
- Daily Islamic quotes
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Never miss a prayer. Lock Screen Prayer puts today's salah times — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha — right on your iPhone lock screen, calculated for your exact location and updated every day. Every glance becomes a quiet reminder. WHAT'S INSIDE • Daily prayer times in your preferred calculation method (ISNA, MWL, Umm al-Qura, Karachi, Egyptian, and more) and madhab (Hanafi or Shafi'i Asr). • Tap a prayer to mark it complete — from the wallpaper itself or right from a notification. No more "did I pray yet?" • Hands-free wallpaper automation via Shortcuts. Set it once and your lock screen updates itself every morning — today's date, today's times, no manual taps. After marking a prayer, the wallpaper can refresh instantly so the change is reflected on your lock screen the moment you put your phone down. • Smart notifications before each prayer time — 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes ahead. • Nag Mode: persistent, gentle reminders every 15 minutes after each prayer time until you mark it prayed. The nudge that helps when life gets busy. • Six wallpaper styles — Minimal, Card, Divided, Bold, Stacked, Pills — find the look that fits you. • Customize fonts, colors, layouts, position, and dim/blur to keep prayer text crisp on any background. • Hand-picked Islamic photography across Mosques, Mecca, Scripture & Calligraphy, Patterns, and Ramadan. Or upload your own photo for something truly personal. • Built-in Qibla compass — find the direction of prayer from anywhere. • A daily Islamic quote woven into the lock screen — a different reminder each day. FREE & PRO The core experience is free forever: daily prayer times on your lock screen, notifications, and a starter library of backgrounds. Pro unlocks all wallpaper styles, custom fonts and colors, your own photos as backgrounds, the full curated library, Nag Mode, daily quotes, and auto-refresh-on-prayer. PRIVACY Your location and prayer log live only on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no ads. Built with care for the ummah. Made by a fellow Muslim.
Sabeel
This app provides accurate prayer times and an Adhan display, designed for continuous visibility on a mounted device. It offers customizable calculation methods, a live Qibla compass, and a built-in Quran player for offline listening.
- Accurate prayer times calculation
- Customizable prayer calculation methods
- Real Adhan with custom voice recording
- Live Qibla compass
- Hijri and Gregorian calendar
- Hadith of the Day
- Built-in Quran player with offline listening
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Sabeel is a prayer-times display built to live on a mounted iPad or iPhone — always visible, always accurate, with no ads, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind. FEATURES • All six prayer times, calculated on your device — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and Tahajjud (the last third of the night) — using the same well-established astronomical method most prayer apps rely on. • Choose your calculation method (Muslim World League, ISNA, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian, Karachi) and Asr school (Shafi'i or Hanafi), or nudge any individual prayer's time to match your local mosque. • A real adhan at the right moment — pick from a library of built-in calls to prayer, or record your own voice, per prayer. • A live qibla compass with a needle that points straight at the Kaaba, using your device's own sensors. • Hijri calendar date, shown alongside the Gregorian date, with your choice of calculation source. • Hadith of the Day — a single, Sahih-graded hadith, refreshed daily. • A built-in Qur'an player — stream any of the 114 surahs, or download them for offline listening. • Power Saver settings so a display left on all day doesn't have to stay at full brightness — dim automatically between prayers and brighten for each adhan, or let the display sleep on its own schedule between prayers. • Set your location automatically from GPS, or type in a place name manually — your choice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sabeel at none against Athan Screen's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Athan Screen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sabeel asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Athan Screen against 5.0 for Sabeel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Athan Screen | Sabeel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ShabzCo, LLC | Atif Quraishi |
Customer experience
Athan Screen
Sabeel
In-app purchases
Athan Screen
- Athan Screen Pro$0.99
Sabeel
No in-app purchases









