Aura Deen vs Upgrade Muslim

Aura is a daily companion: plans, habits, finances, notes, a timer, a walk tracker and spiritual practice in one place. It works offline and syncs when you are back online. PLANS AND TASKS • Tasks with a date, time, category, repeats and reminders • One-line quick add: "Dentist tomorrow 3pm 1h" becomes a one-hour task tomorrow at 3pm • Subtask checklists, and a To-do list for tasks with no date • Your day on a timeline, with your free time and, if you like, prayer times • Calendar: day, 3-day, week, month and year views • A focus timer for any task, and a sleep schedule HABITS • Streaks, a weekly schedule and reminders • Habits with a quantity: glasses of water, pages, minutes • Skip a day without breaking the streak • Stats for the week, month and year • Share your week and streaks as a Story or a Post, on your own photo if you like FINANCE • Log income and expenses in a couple of taps, with your own categories • Category limits and savings goals • Monthly bills and income added automatically; transfers between card and cash • See where your money went this month NOTEBOOK • Notes sorted into Dream, Plan, Idea, Gratitude and your own categories • Templates, headings, lists, checklists, quotes, tables, photos and a cover picture • A Quran verse right inside a note, with the Arabic and the translation • Pin notes, search them all, and restore deleted ones within 30 days • Photos in notes are saved without location data TIMER AND TRACKER • A timer for work, study, sport, reading and your own categories, open-ended or for 5 to 120 minutes; sessions go to Plans • GPS walks, runs and rides: distance, time, pace, steps and the route on a map • Focus: the apps and sites you choose are closed through Screen Time (iOS 16 and later) • Recording continues while the screen is locked, and on iOS 16.2 and later the timer shows on the Lock Screen • Share a workout with its route, or your whole week, as a card APPLE HEALTH (optional, each part turned on separately) • Tracker runs, walks and rides are saved to Apple Health with distance and route, and nights you confirm in Plans as sleep • Last night's sleep from Apple Health in Plans, and workouts from other apps in the tracker (on iPhone) • A habit can tick itself from steps, workout minutes, distance or sleep SPIRITUALITY (optional: chosen at first launch or in Settings) • Prayer times in any country, with the calculation method chosen from your location • Qibla direction and adhan reminders • Quran with translation and audio, and the printed pages of the Madinah Mushaf to read offline • Colour-coded tajweed; search by verse number, surah name or words in the translation • Repeat verses to memorise them, and a khatm plan with daily pages • A prayer log and a qaza journal, counted in rak'ahs, with a calendar • Fasting: Sunnah days on the calendar, a log of voluntary and make-up fasts, reminders and an "About fasting" section • Dhikr, duas, morning and evening adhkar, with their sources • A Friday reminder for Surah Al-Kahf, and Ramadan mode FRIENDS AND CHALLENGES • Friends, groups, a leaderboard and an achievements feed • Challenges: your own and public ones, with check-ins and photos • Direct messages with photos, voice notes and read receipts; delete a whole chat • Report or block with one tap PRIVACY • An optional privacy password: your tasks, habits, finances and notes, and your dhikr, Quran, fasting and qaza logs, are encrypted on your device before they are sent to the cloud • Optional Face ID or Touch ID lock • Delete your account and data inside the app EXTRAS • Widgets: qibla and prayer times, tasks, habits, a dhikr counter, Quran and Ramadan; tick off tasks and habits right in the widget (iOS 17 and later) • On the Lock Screen, the next prayer with a countdown and your next task • A sidebar layout on iPad • Dark mode, and six colours or a photo for the background • English, Russian, Kazakh

Upgrade Muslim: Prayer is a calm everyday companion for Muslims. Prayer times for your city, azan and reminders, the qibla direction, a Hijri calendar with Ramadan mode, a tasbih counter, morning and evening adhkar, 267 du'as from "Fortress of the Muslim" with audio, the whole Quran and widgets. No sign-up, no ads, no in-app purchases. English and Russian. PRAYER TIMES • Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha for today; the next prayer is highlighted • Calculated right on your phone — works without internet • The method follows your place automatically (the muftiate's own method in Russia, Diyanet in Turkey, Muslim World League elsewhere), or choose one yourself: Muslim World League, ISNA, Egyptian General Authority, Umm al-Qura (Makkah), University of Karachi and the Russian muftiates • Asr — Standard (Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali) or Hanafi AZAN AND REMINDERS • Azan at each of the five prayers, with a separate morning azan for Fajr • Choose the azan, the default sound or silence for each prayer • A reminder 10, 15 or 30 minutes ahead • Optional: Duha prayer, tahajjud (the last third of the night), Friday (Surat al-Kahf, salawat and Jumu'ah), fasting on Mondays and Thursdays WIDGETS • Small (next prayer, time, countdown, city) and medium (all five prayers) widgets • Lock Screen widgets on iPhone • They switch to the next prayer by themselves HIJRI CALENDAR AND RAMADAN • Today's Hijri date on Home — the new day starts at Maghrib • Dates for the year ahead: start of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, the Day of Arafah, Eid al-Adha, Ashura • Muftiates announce months by the moon — adjust the date by a day in Settings • In Ramadan, Home shows the day and the time left to the end of suhoor or to iftar; the end of suhoor can be Fajr or imsak • Optional reminders: suhoor is ending and time for iftar, with the du'a for breaking the fast LOCATION AND QIBLA • Your city by GPS or chosen by hand — search works even offline • Times in the local time of the chosen city • A compass pointing to the Kaaba from your location TASBIH • 6 adhkar with targets and a rounds counter; the count is saved for each dhikr MORNING AND EVENING ADHKAR • A short checklist with marks kept until the end of the day; optional reminders by prayer times DU'AS — "FORTRESS OF THE MUSLIM" • 267 du'as in 132 chapters and 13 categories: morning and evening, home, food, feelings, travel, prayer, Hajj and Umrah, illness and more • Arabic text, transliteration and English translation • The audio of every du'a is inside the app — listen without internet • Repeat, counter, search and favorites THE QURAN • All 114 surahs: the Arabic text (Uthmani, from the Tanzil Project) and the translation by Marmaduke Pickthall in English or Gordy Sablukov in Russian — works without internet • Search by number or name, "Continue reading" where you stopped, bookmarks on ayahs, the size of the Arabic text • Transliteration for the short surahs • Verse-by-verse audio by four reciters, played in the background with Lock Screen controls; what you have listened to is kept on the phone (the first listening needs internet) PRIVACY • No account, no ads and no ad tracking • Prayer times are calculated on the phone — your coordinates are not sent for that • Coordinates go only to the weather service Open-Meteo, for the rain reminder • Settings, favorites, bookmarks, the tasbih count and the adhkar marks stay on your device May the app help you keep your prayers every day. Credits: azan recordings — R. J. Stefanski (freesound.org/s/255231) and the Malmö Islamic Center, muezzin Besim Azemi (Wikimedia Commons), license CC BY 3.0; "Fortress of the Muslim" texts from hisnmuslim.com; Quran: Arabic text — Tanzil Project (tanzil.net, CC BY 3.0), translations — Gordy Sablukov and Marmaduke Pickthall (public domain); Amiri Quran font (SIL OFL); audio — everyayah.com; city data — GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); places and regions — © OpenStreetMap contributors.