Comparison

Athan Screen vs Sabeel

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Athan Screen4 screens
Sabeel2 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Athan Screen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sabeel asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Athan Screen versus Sabeel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAthan ScreenSabeel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShabzCo, LLCAtif Quraishi

Customer experience

Athan Screen

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sabeel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Athan Screen

One-time1
  • Athan Screen Pro$0.99
None

Sabeel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Athan Screen free?
Athan Screen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sabeel free?
Sabeel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Athan Screen or Sabeel?
Athan Screen and Sabeel are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Athan Screen or Sabeel have ads?
Neither Athan Screen nor Sabeel shows ads.

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