Answers about prayer times, azan alerts and the Qur’an reader.

Falah shows today's five prayer times plus sunrise for wherever you are, calculated on the phone itself. The home screen leads with the next prayer, a countdown to it, and the six timings for the day beneath.

You give it a position once — either an approximate location or your city from a bundled list of over 26,000 towns — and it recalculates every day from then on, offline, with no lookup to any service.

Because of the calculation method and the Asr convention. Almost every disagreement between prayer apps comes down to those two settings.

The method fixes the twilight angles used for Fajr and Isha; the fiqh fixes the Asr shadow ratio. Falah includes 15 methods and five fiqh conventions, both in Settings → Calculation. Match your mosque's method first, then its fiqh. A remaining minute or two is normal, since timetable committees usually round to the safe side.

The University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi method, with Hanafi Asr, is what most of the subcontinent follows — and it is what Falah selects for you by default in those countries.

Elsewhere the app picks the convention normally used in your country: Umm al-Qura in Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian General Authority in Egypt, Diyanet in Türkiye, MUIS in Singapore, ISNA in North America, Muslim World League across much of Europe. Your local mosque's timetable is always the better authority; change the setting to match it.

Hanafi Asr begins when an object's shadow reaches twice its own length; Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali Asr begins when the shadow equals the object's length. Hanafi Asr therefore falls later — often by 45 to 90 minutes, depending on latitude and season.

Falah supports Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali and Ja'fari. It asks which you follow during setup, and you can change it later in Settings → Calculation. Nothing else in the timetable changes when you switch.

Yes — Falah is fully offline. Prayer times are computed on the device from solar position, and the city list and Qur'an text ship inside the app.

Nothing is downloaded after installation. On Android the app is built without the INTERNET permission at all, so it keeps working on a plane, in a tunnel, on a dead SIM, or years from now if we stopped publishing it.

Not in this release. Falah shows today's timings, and a monthly timetable you can print or share is on the roadmap.

Home-screen widgets and Sunnah fasting reminders are queued alongside it. We do not announce dates for features that are not built.

Open Settings → Location. You can share an approximate location once, or choose a country and then a city from the bundled list.

The city sheet has a search box and a back arrow to the country list. If “Use my location” appears to do nothing, location services are switched off for the phone or for the app — Falah offers to open the right settings screen and retries when you return.

Yes. On Friday the Dhuhr row, the home screen and the notification all read Jumu'ah, with a mosque glyph in place of the sun.

The timing is the Dhuhr timing; congregation times are set by each mosque, so check yours locally.

Battery optimisation is the usual cause. Exclude Falah from it, and allow “alarms and reminders” so alerts fire on the minute rather than being batched.

Work through these in order:

• Check notifications are allowed for Falah in system settings, and that the particular prayer is switched on in Settings → Alerts.
• Exclude the app from battery optimisation, or add it to the protected, auto-start or unrestricted list. Some manufacturer skins are aggressive about this.
• Allow exact alarms — Android 12 and later restrict them by default.
• Do Not Disturb or a Focus mode will silence the sound; allow Falah as an exception.
• After a reinstall or a reboot, open the app once. It re-arms the coming days' alerts on launch.

Yes. Every prayer has its own switch in Settings → Alerts, and you can add a reminder a set number of minutes before any of them.

Sunrise is shown for information and never alerts. A takbīr is the default sound.

A takbīr plays at the prayer time, and where a full adhan recording is bundled you play it by tapping the notification rather than having it sound from the lock screen.

The app only lists sounds that are actually included in your build. Adhan recordings must be properly licensed before they can ship, so the list is short and honest rather than long and borrowed.

Yes — an optional heads-up a chosen number of minutes before any prayer, set per prayer in Settings → Alerts.

During Ramadan a separate Suhoor reminder can be enabled for the night before.

Yes. All 114 surahs and 6,236 ayahs of the Arabic Uthmani text are bundled in the app and need no connection.

The text is the Tanzil Project's Uthmani text, reproduced verbatim under CC BY 3.0 and checked against a second authority before every release, with the file's hash asserted by an automated test. Nothing is fetched at runtime, so what you read cannot change under you.

Not yet. This release ships the Arabic text only, and the reader says so with a “translation coming soon” banner.

Urdu, English, Indonesian and Turkish translations are in preparation, each from a properly licensed source. We would rather ship a permitted translation late than an unlicensed one early.

Yes — open the Aa sheet in the reader. “Clear” is Scheherazade New and the default; “Traditional” is Amiri Quran, closer to a printed muṣḥaf. Text size is on the same sheet.

Lines are justified with the last line right-aligned, so ayah endings sit flush rather than ragged.

Yes. “Continue reading” on the Qur'an tab returns you to the exact ayah you left, with your typeface and text size intact.

The position is stored on the device only. There is also a search box across all 114 surahs.

Open the Qibla tab, hold the phone flat, and turn slowly until the needle settles. Falah shows the bearing in degrees from north and the distance to the Kaaba.

It reads the device magnetometer, so it needs no permission and no connection.

A magnetometer is easily disturbed. Move away from car dashboards, speakers, laptops and magnetic phone mounts or cases, then move the phone in a figure-eight to recalibrate.

If the reading is still wrong, check it against the sun or a direction you know — some devices have weak or poorly calibrated sensors, and no app can correct for that.

Yes — a digital tasbīḥ and durood counter with six phrases, your own targets, a haptic tap at each count, and totals for today and for life.

Each phrase keeps its own count. The daily total rolls over at midnight while the lifetime total keeps running.

Yes. Ramadan mode turns itself on from the Hijri date and gives Suhoor and Iftar the home screen, with an optional Suhoor reminder the night before.

Suhoor ends at Fajr and Iftar begins at Maghrib, both from your own calculation method. Everything returns to normal after the month.

Yes — Settings → Ramadan lets you shift the Hijri date by a day, which is often needed where the local moon sighting differs from the calculated date.

The adjustment carries through to Ramadan mode and to the date on the home screen.

That is what Falah was built to be. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics, no crash reporting and no server — and on Android no internet permission, so the app has no way to send anything anywhere.

Your location, if you choose to share it, is used on the device and stored rounded to about a kilometre. Prayer alerts are scheduled by your own phone rather than pushed from a service. The full detail is in the privacy policy.

It is free, with no advertising, no subscription and no in-app purchase.

There is no plan to introduce advertising or tracking. Both would need the network capability the app deliberately does not have.

Android and iOS, through Google Play and the App Store. The exact minimum OS version is stated on each store listing.

Updates arrive through the store like any other app. Falah never updates itself and never downloads content in the background.

English, Urdu, Arabic, Indonesian and Turkish, with proper right-to-left layout for Urdu and Arabic rather than a mirrored afterthought.

Bengali, French and Malay are on the roadmap. The interface follows your phone's language where it can, and you can set it yourself in Settings → Appearance.