Comparison

Prayer Stop vs Evvâb

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

Head to head
About

Prayer Stop

This app helps you stay focused during prayer times by temporarily blocking distracting apps. It also provides prayer times, Qibla direction, and offline access to the Quran with recitations and translations.

Highlights
  • Temporarily block distracting apps during prayer
  • Customizable pause duration (3, 5, or 10 minutes)
  • View prayer times with countdowns
  • Live Qibla compass
  • Offline Quran access with recitations and translations
  • Customizable home screen widgets and backgrounds
Features
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Prayer Stop holds back the apps that pull at you, at every prayer, for as long as you choose. Reach for Instagram at Dhuhr and you do not get Instagram. You get الظهر in gold on a still screen, the minutes left, and one button: I've prayed. It is not a notification you swipe away. It is the phone standing aside. That is what this app is for. Everything else in it serves that. HOLDING BACK APPS • Choose the apps that pull at you. Prayer Stop never learns which ones — iOS keeps that private and the app only ever sees a number. • Choose 3, 5 or 10 minutes. When the pause ends, everything returns on its own. • Finished early? One tap and your apps come back. • Nothing is locked away from you. This is a commitment you made to yourself, and you can switch it off in Settings in ten seconds. • Phone, Messages and emergency calls are never touched. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO PAYWALL. • There is no advertising SDK in this app. No banners, no interstitials, nothing that interrupts you — least of all while you pray. • Nothing follows you between apps. There is no analytics of any kind, no advertising identifier, and no account to create. • No premium tier, no subscription, no locked features. All of it is free. • Prayer Stop is kept running by a short list of handpicked partners and sadaqah jariyah causes, on a Recommendations page you visit only if you want to. PRAYER TIMES • The five prayers for your city, with the next one counting down to the second. • Muslim World League, ISNA and Egyptian calculation methods. • Computed on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no server. • A quiet alert as each prayer arrives — or, if you choose, the opening of the adhan. QIBLA • A live compass to the Kaaba, with the exact bearing and distance from wherever you are standing. QUR'AN • All 114 surahs, with the meaning in your choice of translation. • Listen to 8 renowned reciters, among them Mishary Alafasy, Abdul Basit, Al-Husary and As-Sudais. The verse being recited is highlighted as you read. • Download the whole Qur'an to read offline, and save a surah or a reciter's whole recitation to listen without internet. IN YOUR LANGUAGE • 19 languages: English, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish, Persian, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay, Kurdish (Kurmanji and Sorani), Bosnian, Albanian, Somali, Russian, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian. MADE TO LIVE ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Widgets in the app's own style, including a small one with a live countdown to the next prayer. • Five backgrounds — green courtyard, blue night, brown clay, rose garden, violet dusk — four accent colours and a day mode. The pause screen, the widgets and the app icon follow whatever you pick. • A dua or hadith after each pause, if you'd like one. PRIVACY Your location is used on your device to work out prayer times and the qibla, and it is not sent anywhere. The apps you choose to hold back are handled by iOS Screen Time and stay opaque to Prayer Stop. The only requests the app makes are for Qur'an text and recitation audio when you open or download a surah; nothing about you is sent with them. Holding back apps needs iOS 16 or later. Prayer times, qibla and the Qur'an work on any supported iPhone.

About

Evvâb

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A quiet place for dhikr. Count your dhikr, set your own goals, and return whenever you have a moment. Evvâb brings prayer times and an optional qada plan alongside your dhikr, with no account to create and no ads. Dhikr, at your own pace Choose from dhikr presets with source references, count with a tap, and set personal goals. Pick a counter period that fits your routine. A little support for your routine Add Home Screen widgets for dhikr, your next prayer or today’s qada. Choose an optional daily dhikr reminder, preview reminder sounds, and turn on a goal-completion sound if you like. Prayer times for your day Use your location or choose a city, then select the calculation method used by your local community. Set local reminders for individual prayers and keep a simple daily prayer record. A qada plan you can adjust Estimate missed prayers based on the details you enter. Adjust your balances, record completed qada prayers, and follow your progress at your own pace. You can also use Evvâb without setting up a qada plan. Your records stay with you Dhikr, prayer, and qada records are stored on your device, with no analytics tracking. Export a backup file when you need one and restore it later. Make it yours Choose a light, dark, or automatic theme. Available in English, Turkish, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Indonesian. Prayer times are calculated astronomically and may vary by calculation method. Choose the method used by your local authority in Settings. The qada estimate is a personal planning aid, not a religious ruling or a definitive calculation of prayers owed.

Screenshots

Prayer Stop4 screens
Evvâb4 screens

Verdict

The call

Prayer Stop and Evvâb are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Prayer Stop versus Evvâb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrayer StopEvvâb
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAhmad ElharthiKerem Baran Tan

In-app purchases

None

Prayer Stop

No in-app purchases

None

Evvâb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Prayer Stop free?
Prayer Stop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Evvâb free?
Evvâb is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Prayer Stop or Evvâb have ads?
Neither Prayer Stop nor Evvâb shows ads.

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