Comparison

منار | Manar vs PrayerClock

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

Head to head
About

منار | Manar

This app provides accurate prayer times based on your location and offers a Hijri calendar. It features a beautiful bilingual design with light and dark themes, and includes a shortcut for charitable donations.

Highlights
  • Accurate prayer times
  • Live prayer countdown
  • Hijri and Gregorian calendar
  • Bilingual Arabic/English interface
  • Light and dark themes
  • Integrated donation shortcut
Features
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Manar (منار) is your elegant Islamic companion, designed to keep your daily worship close at hand. PRAYER TIMES • Accurate prayer times based on your GPS location, using the Umm al-Qura calculation method. • A live countdown to the next prayer, so you always know how much time remains. • Your full daily schedule: Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha, and the Islamic midnight. HIJRI CALENDAR • See the Hijri and Gregorian dates together at a glance. BEAUTIFUL & BILINGUAL • A calm, modern design crafted in both Arabic and English, with full right-to-left support. • Light and dark themes that adapt to your device. GIVE WITH EHSAN • Support charitable causes quickly through the integrated Ehsan donation shortcut. MORE ON THE WAY We are building Manar into a complete Islamic companion. Future updates will bring the Holy Quran, Adhkar, a Qibla compass, Tafseer, Hadith, and more — in shaa Allah. Your privacy matters: your location is used only to calculate prayer times and is never shared. We would love to hear from you: support@nabeacreative.com

About

PrayerClock

Features
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PrayerClock turns your iPhone and iPad into a prayer clock: accurate offline prayer times, real alarms that ring like the built-in Clock app, and live countdowns everywhere - Home Screen, Lock Screen, and Apple Watch. ACCURATE, OFFLINE - Prayer times computed on your device - no server, no account, works in airplane mode - Umm al-Qura times agree with the official Saudi timetable to the minute on about 97% of days - Calculation methods: Umm al-Qura, Muslim World League, ISNA, Egyptian, and more - Asr madhab, high-latitude options, and Later Isha in Ramadan - Automatic location, or pick from thousands of cities offline - with Arabic names - Hijri calendar with adjustable date, plus Duha, Isfirar, Midnight and the thirds of the night DAY VIEW - The whole day on one timeline: prayer periods, Duha, times when prayer is not allowed, and the night - with a live marker showing where you are now REAL ALARMS - Prayer alarms built on the iOS alarm system: full-screen alerts that ring through silent mode - Recorded adhans from Makkah and Madinah, plus strong wake-up sounds - Repeat by weekday, snooze, labels, and "Skip Today" - just like the native Clock app - Iqama reminders after the adhan and reminders before it LIVE COUNTDOWN EVERYWHERE - Home Screen widgets in three sizes, a Lock Screen widget, and an Apple Watch complication - Always-on display support on Apple Watch - Counts down to the next prayer and up since the last one MORE TOOLS - Prayer-relative timers ("30 minutes before Maghrib") - Qibla compass - Tasbih counter - Hijri-Gregorian date converter - Siri: "How much time until Dhuhr in PrayerClock" PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No analytics, no ads, no tracking, no account - nothing ever leaves your device

Screenshots

منار | Manar4 screens
PrayerClock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: منار | Manar at every 3 days against PrayerClock's every 2 months. منار | Manar also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

منار | Manar ships an update every 3 days, PrayerClock every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
منار | Manar versus PrayerClock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterمنار | ManarPrayerClock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (341 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings341 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMUATH ALGHAMDIAbdulrahman Ibrahim

In-app purchases

None

منار | Manar

No in-app purchases

None

PrayerClock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is منار | Manar free?
منار | Manar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrayerClock free?
PrayerClock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do منار | Manar or PrayerClock have ads?
Neither منار | Manar nor PrayerClock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, منار | Manar or PrayerClock?
منار | Manar ships an update every 3 days, and PrayerClock every 2 months. Most recently, منار | Manar was updated on October 25, 2026 and PrayerClock on October 24, 2026.

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