The best prayer app with no ads and no tracking

Why most "free" prayer apps are not really free

An app takes years of work to build and never stops needing maintenance. When it costs you nothing, that work is usually paid for another way: advertising, and the data that makes advertising valuable. On a prayer app that means the moments of your worship sit next to trackers, and where you are and what you do can become a signal sold on. Prayer apps have been caught doing exactly this. It is not that free is always bad; it is that free is rarely free, and it is worth knowing the price.

What a private prayer app looks like

You do not have to take anyone's word for it. A handful of things are easy to check before you trust an app with your Salah:

• No account, no login. If an app makes you sign up before you can see a prayer time, ask why. Times can be computed on your device from your location alone. An account is a database with your name on it.
• No third-party ad SDKs. Ad networks are the most common way tracking enters an app. A prayer app with banner ads is almost always sharing signals with an ad network you never chose.
• An honest App Store privacy label. Open the App Store listing and read the privacy card. “Data used to track you” or a long list of collected data on a prayer app is a red flag.
• Location used on-device, not sold. Prayer times need your rough location to be accurate. That is fine. Selling or sharing where you are is not — and it has happened in this category.
• You can verify it yourself. The strongest signal is an app that invites you to check. Point a network monitor at it and watch what leaves your phone.

How ImanKeeper is built

ImanKeeper is a paid app precisely so it never has to sell anything about you. There is no account and no login. Your prayer log, your streak, your settings and the apps you choose to pause are computed and kept on your device, and never transmitted. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold.

Two things touch the network, and we would rather tell you than have you find out. Looking up mosques near you sends an approximate area, rounded to about a kilometre, with no account, no user ID and no device ID attached. And if you choose to share your mosque's timetable so others can use it, those times are uploaded with nothing that identifies you. Our App Store privacy label declares exactly those two things, both for app functionality, neither linked to you, neither used for tracking. Everything else is not collected. If you like, run a network monitor while you use it and hold us to it.

Common questions

Do prayer apps track you?

Some do. Free prayer apps often carry advertising SDKs and analytics that share data with third parties, and there have been documented cases of prayer apps selling users' location data to data brokers. Not all apps do this, which is exactly why the App Store privacy label is worth reading before you trust one.

Which prayer app has no ads?

ImanKeeper has no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your prayer log, streaks and settings are computed and kept on your device, and there is no account.

Is my prayer data private in ImanKeeper?

Yes. Nothing about your worship is sold or shared. Two things use the network, and we say so plainly: looking up mosques near you sends an approximate area rounded to about a kilometre, never your exact position and never stored against you; and if you choose to share your mosque's times, those times are uploaded so others can use them, with nothing attached that identifies you. Nothing else leaves your phone.

Why do free prayer apps collect data?

Because the app has to be paid for somehow. If you are not paying with money, the common alternative is advertising, which runs on data about you. An app you pay for directly has no need to sell your attention or your location.