A prayer app that does its work and then gets out of the way.
Falah was built by Aptagon Technologies around one decision: the app should never need a server. Everything follows from that — the offline engine, the bundled Qur’an, the absent internet permission, and the fact that there is no account to create.
Why we built it
Most prayer apps are good at prayer times and careless with everything else: an account you did not want, an advertising network, a location sent to a server, a feed to scroll on the way to the timetable.
We wanted the opposite. Open it, see the next prayer, close it. Read a page of the Qur'an on a train with no signal. Keep a tasbīḥ count that belongs to you. Nothing to sign up for, nothing watching, nothing to leave behind.
The name
Falah (فلاح) means success — the word the adhan calls us to: ḥayya ʿalā l-falāḥ. The icon is a rising sun over an open book: the sun's path, which fixes the times, and the Qur'an.
How it is built
- An on-device engine. Prayer times are computed from solar position for your exact coordinates, verified to within about a minute of established reference implementations, across 15 calculation methods and five fiqh conventions.
- Bundled data. The Qur'an text, over 26,000 towns, and the timetable logic all ship inside the app. Nothing is fetched at runtime, so nothing can change under you or disappear when a service is switched off.
- Verified text. The Qur'an file is checked automatically before every release: 114 surahs, 6,236 ayahs, compared against a second authority, with the file's hash asserted by a test.
- No network capability. On Android the internet permission is removed from the build outright. It is not a promise in a policy document; it is a property of the app.
- One codebase. Flutter, so Android and iOS stay in step, with the compass reading native sensors on each platform.
Credits and licences
Falah rests on work generously licensed by others, and we are glad to name it.
| What | Source and licence |
|---|---|
| Qur'an text | Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), Uthmani text, CC BY 3.0, reproduced verbatim |
| City and town data | GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0 |
| Outfit | SIL Open Font License 1.1 — the wordmark and headings |
| Scheherazade New | SIL Open Font License 1.1 — the “Clear” Arabic typeface |
| Amiri Quran | SIL Open Font License 1.1 — the “Traditional” Arabic typeface |
| Takbīr recording | Aptagon Technologies |
| Icon and wordmark | Aptagon Technologies, all rights reserved |
The same credits appear inside the app, under Settings → About, wherever the content itself appears.
What is next
In roughly this order: Qur'an translations in Urdu, English, Indonesian and Turkish; home-screen widgets for the next prayer; Sunnah fasting reminders; and a monthly timetable you can print or share. We do not announce dates, because licensing a translation properly takes as long as it takes.
Get in touch
Aptagon Technologies publishes Falah. For a problem, a correction to the Qur'an text, or a feature you need, write to falah@aptagon.com. Corrections to the text are treated as urgent.
Prayer times, Qur'an, tasbīḥ and Qibla — private by design.
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