Azangoo vs iShia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Azangoo
Accurately find the Qibla direction globally and calculate prayer times for your city. Features a multilingual calendar with event reminders and customizable prayer time notifications.
- Precise Qibla direction finding
- Global prayer time calculation
- Multilingual calendar with event reminders
- Customizable prayer time notifications
- Multiple prayer time calculation methods
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--------------------------- Supporting Language: • English • فارسی • عربی • Russian Azangoo provides you with an easy tool to precisely determine the direction of the qibla from any location around the world and calculate the prayer times for your city. Features: 1. Prayer Times based on your calculation method & location (detects automatically and ). 2. Calendar with 4 languages, without time limit, the ability to record user events and reminders, jump to the desired date in two solar and gregorian base, also have a lunar calendar with the ability to change days different between lunar dates. 3. Prayer Times Notifications based on all prayers. 4. Notification for remain to Azan 5. Find the Qibla direction from any address. 6. It also allows you to find Prayer Times for the following calculation methods: -Ja'fari Ithna Asheri -University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi -Islamic society of North America (ISNA) -Muslim World League (MWL) -Umm al-Qura, Makkah -Egyptian General Authority of Survey -Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran
iShia
This app provides essential Islamic information and daily worship guidance for Shia Muslims. It includes prayer times, historical events, and a library of sacred texts, with support for Arabic and Farsi, and English coming soon.
- Islamic and Shia historical events
- Daily acts of worship and instructions
- Prayer timetable calculation
- Extensive city database with GPS
- Library of 5 sacred Islamic books
- Apple Watch support
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An attractive but simple app offering basic Islamic information for practicing Muslims in their daily religious duties and worship acts, currently available in Arabic and Farsi, English support will follow. Features: • Supports iOS 8+ and the interface is in Arabic and Farsi (English soon). • Apple Watch support. • Important Islamic and Shia historical events. • Daily acts of worship and instructions according to Mafatih al Jinan. • Prayers timetable calculation based on 7 standard formulas of calculations. • More than 3000 cities around the world are preset and the ability to use GPS. • A valuable essential library of 5 books: The Holy Quran, Nahj ul Balagha, al Sahifa al Sajjadiyya, Mafatih al Jinan and Kamel al Ziyarat. • Main book scrolling and the second view e.g. translation scroll lock. • An easy method of viewing and browsing book pages and navigating between them. • Very accurate and different method of calculating Hijri months and dates. • Automatic and manual DST handling. ――― تطبيق لتوفير المعلومات الأساسية للمؤمنين الشيعة باللغات العربية والفارسية، وقريباً الإنجليزية. تم تصميم هذا التطبيق بهدف تسهيل وصول المستخدم الشيعي خصوصاً والمسلم عموماً الى المعلومات الأولية الإسلامية على أجهزة أبل: آيفون وآي بد وساعة أپل الذكية. الإمكانيات: • يعمل على نظام iOS 8+ داعماً اللغات العربية والفارسية. • يدعم ساعة أپل الذكية. • عرض الأحداث والوقائع من التاريخ الإسلامي. • عرض الأعمال والعبادات اليومية من كتاب مفاتيح الجنان. • عرض الأوقات الشرعية اليومية حسب 7 طرق محاسبة قياسية. • مزوّد بمعلومات أكثر من 3000 مدينة في العالم اضافة الى استخدام الـ GPS. • مكتبة تحتوي على 5 كتب مقدسة ومهمة إسلامية وهي «القرآن الكريم، نهج البلاغة، الصحيفة السجادية، مفاتيح الجنان وکامل الزيارات». • امكانية تناغم (إقفال) النص للكتاب الأصلي والنص الفرعي (الترجمة أو التفسير). • عرض مبسط للصفحات وسهولة الإنتقال فيما بينها. • إستخدام أسلوب دقيق ومتمايز لمحاسبة الأشهر القمرية. • ملاحظة التوقيت الصيفي بشكل دقيق. ――― نرم افزارى جذاب و در عين حال ساده، جهت برآورده كردن نيازهاى اوليه هر کاربر شيعه، به زبان فارسى و عربى و بزودى به انگليسى. اين نرمافزار جهت تسهيل رفع نياز هاى معنوى اوليه هر کاربر شيعه بر روى دستگاه هاى اپل: آيفون و آي پد و ساعت هوشمند اپل توليد شده است. امکانات: • بر مبناى سيستم عامل iOS 8+ با پشتيبانى زبان هاى فارسى و عربى. • پشتيبانى ساعت هوشمند اپل. • نمايش رخدادهاى روز جهان تشيع. • نمايش اعمال وارده روز بر اساس کتاب شريف مفاتيح الجنان. • محاسبه و نمايش اوقات شرعى به هفت روش استاندارد موجود. • اطلاعات بيش از 3000 شهر در اقصى نقاط دنيا با امکان استفاده از(GPS). • كتابخانه اى متشكل از پنج منبع گرانقدر اسلام « قرآن، نهج البلاغه، صحيفه سجاديه، مفاتيح الجنان و کامل الزيارات» با محيطى بسيار زيبا و کاربردى جهت مطالعه. • استفاده از امکان قفل ترجمه براى سهولت در قرائت متن اصلى و استفاده از ترجمه آن به صورت همزمان. • استفاده از دقيق ترين روشهاى محاسباتى نجومى براى تعيين ابتدا و انتهاى ماه قمرى به صورت منحصر به فرد. • تنظيم خودکار ساعت بهاره براى نيمه اول سال شمسى *** Notice *** Users who have purchased the old app MUST NOT pay for this app through IAP, they SHOULD update their (old) app when the update becomes available, register their purchase with us and then have their new app re-registered without making a new payment. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. *** تبيه *** يجب أن لا يقوم المستخدمون للنسخة السابقة بشراء هذا التطبيق، بل يجب ان يقوموا بتحديث نسختهم السابقة و تم تسجيل شرائهم معنا، ثم تسجيل النسخة الجديدة بناء على شرائهم السابق. *** توجه *** كاربران نسخه قبلى نبايد اقدام به خريد مجدد اين نسخه نمايند، بلكه بايد نسخه قبلى را بروز رسانى نمايند و اطلاعات خريد خود را در سامانه ما ثبت نموده، سپس اقدام به ورود آن اطلاعات در نسخه جديد نرمافزار نمايند.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Azangoo at free against iShia's free with in-app purchases. Azangoo also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (21K vs 1.4K). iShia's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Azangoo holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Azangoo has 21K ratings behind it against 1.4K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Azangoo's written reviews are positive against 79% of iShia's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Azangoo ships an update every 2 months, iShia every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Azangoo | iShia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21K ratings) — better | 4.5 (1.4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.0% of reviews | 79.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21K — better | 1.4K |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LEOIO INC. | Seyed Mohsen Hosseini-Milani |
Customer experience
Azangoo
iShia
Bugs and requests
Azangoo
Reported bugs
4 issues- App stuck on update page, unable to access main features
- Qibla compass not working
- Prayer times not accurate for certain locations
- Azan player stopping abruptly
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to enter calendar and location from main page
- Show Lunar date in main page
- Add ability in calendar to show Athan times for all days
- Compatibility with Apple Watch
- Dark mode option
iShia
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Azangoo
No in-app purchases
iShia
No in-app purchases









