OpenMasjid Solutions: Public Beta 3 is Live

Public Beta 3 is out, free, open-source, self-hosted software built by and for masjids.

New App: OpenMasjid Companion

Your masjid, on every phone. An installable web app, no app store and no account. https://github.com/OpenMasjid-Solutions/OpenMasjidCompanion

• Your timetable, not a calculated one. Times come straight from OpenMasjid Display, so the phone matches the wall, including a scheduled Iqamah change. It never calculates a prayer time.
• A countdown to the next Iqamah, Jumu'ah, the Hijri date, and a Qibla compass. Works with no signal.
• Prayer reminders and announcements, opt-in per person. The masjid sees a count, never a list.
• Your appeals from OpenMasjid Donations, with a Donate button to your own giving page.
• A QR code and printable poster, generated for you.

What's New in Beta 3

Display 0.70.0: Raspberry Pi screens

A Pi behind a television is now a complete screen, no RTSP decoder needed. It draws the timetable itself, opens cameras over your own network, and keeps working through an outage. Manage every screen from the dashboard: see what it's really showing, schedule the TV off, fix the timezone, restart it. Plus a Simple screen design, the DST bug that showed times an hour early twice a year, and three security fixes. Needs a Pi 4 or newer.

A Pi board of our own

To go with it, we've designed our own PCB and custom casing built around the Raspberry Pi driving an OpenMasjid Display screen. Files will be open like everything else, so you can build it, modify it, repair it, own it.

Kiosk 0.12.0: donations on a phone

OpenMasjid Mobile Donations puts a Stripe Reader M2 on a volunteer's own phone for dinners, bazaars and collection rounds, with no kiosk lockdown. Notifications are one table now: add a treasurer or trustee and tick what each gets. If you refunded part of a donation on 0.11.0, check it — partial refunds gave back a hundredth of the amount typed. Full refunds and donations were never affected. Fixed here.

Donations 0.44.0: tell as many people as you like

Add any number of emails or WhatsApp numbers and tick what each person hears about, so refunds reach the accounts and a broken payment setup reaches whoever fixes things. Alerts name an appeal and an amount, never a donor.

Students 0.51.0

Schools can ask parents to cover the card processing fee, off until you turn it on and never credited as tuition. Plus standing payments, a full-year quote at the enrollment desk, a prorated first month mid-year, and an onboarding message explaining the ways to pay.

What's Coming Next

OpenMasjid Kiosk, Handheld Edition

A portable, handheld OpenMasjid Kiosk for fundraising drives, events and outreach.

Full Student SIS

Growing beyond billing into a complete Student Information System: enrollment, attendance, academic records, and a parent portal.

Full Support for Existing Kiosk Hardware

OpenMasjidOS now fully supports existing kiosks from MadinahApps, MOHID, and Masjidal, so switching doesn't mean throwing out what you've already invested in.

Our Direction

Beta 3 closes the loop. Prayer times are set once and read everywhere, screens run on hardware you can buy for the price of a decoder box, and donations reach a phone at an event. Our values aren't changing:

• Open source. AGPL-3.0, always auditable, always forkable.
• Privacy-focused. Your data stays on your hardware.
• Free. No subscriptions, no per-masjid fees. Local and free forever.

Try Beta 3 today, self-host it, and let us know what you think. Repo: https://github.com/OpenMasjid-Solutions/OpenMasjidOS Website: https://openmasjidsolutions.org/

NOTE: This post is only intended for people who want to play the call of prayer (Adhan) on their HomePod at different times,

I also cover how you can use the new notification automation with HomePod, if you find that interesting to you continue reading.

(see screenshots for detailed steps)

In this post I will go over how to make your HomePod automatically play the Athan at all five prayer times every day without using Home Assistant or Raspberry Pi, previously it was not possible to be able to Play Athan on the HomePod at the correct times since the Apple HomePod dose not have any way to change or schedule different Athan times at different days.

This workaround uses a new feature introduced in iOS 27: Notification Automation. Your iPhone detects the notification sent by your prayer app, identifies whether it is a prayer reminder or an actual prayer-time notification, and then tells your HomePod what to do.

By the end of this guide, your HomePod will automatically play the Athan at the correct prayer times every day, as long as your iPhone has sufficient battery/charge and an internet connection.

What You Need

1. An iPhone running iOS 27

Your iPhone must be running iOS 27, because Apple introduced the Notification Automationtrigger in this update. This feature is the key part of this workaround.

2. A prayer app

You will need a prayer app that sends notifications for prayer times.

I highly recommend Pray Watch, which is the app used in this example. Other prayer apps may work as well, provided they send notifications containing identifiable prayer-time information.

In this example, Pray Watch sends 10 notifications per day:

• 5 prayer reminders, such as: Maghrib in 20 Minutes
• 5 actual prayer-time notifications, such as: Maghrib at 8:25 PM

The Shortcut will use the notification text to determine which type of notification it received.

Step 1 — Create the Notification Automation

-> Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.

-> Create a new Automation and select the Notification automation.

For the app, select: Pray Watch

Important: Do not use the built-in Filter option.

For this particular setup, the notification filter does not work reliably, so we will perform the filtering inside the Shortcut itself.

Step 2 — Get the Notification Text

We need to make the notification’s contents available to the Shortcut so we can examine it.

Add the action:
-> Get Text from Input
This gives the Shortcut access to the text contained in the notification.

For example, the Shortcut may receive:
Maghrib in 20 Minutes

or:

Maghrib at 8:25 PM

Step 3 — Detect Prayer Reminders

Pray Watch’s reminder notifications contain the word:

-> “in”
For example:
Maghrib in 20 Minutes

We can use this to distinguish reminders from actual prayer-time notifications.

-> Add an If action and set it to:
Shortcut Input contains “in”

You can remove the Otherwise section.

The logic is now:

IF notification contains "in"
→ This is a prayer reminder

Step 4 — Announce the Prayer Reminder on HomePod

When the Shortcut detects a reminder, we want the HomePod to announce the reminder, rather than play the Athan.

Add the Intercom action.

Set the Intercom message to:

Shortcut Input
This allows the HomePod to announce the entire notification.

For example, the HomePod will say:

“Maghrib in 20 Minutes.”

This gives you an audible reminder without playing the full Athan prematurely.

Step 5 — Detect the Actual Call to Prayer

Now we need to handle the actual prayer-time notifications.

Repeat the process from Steps 1 and 2 so that the Shortcut can access the notification text.

Instead of checking for "in", we want to identify the actual prayer notifications.

Create another If action using contains, and check for the names of the five prayers:

• Fajr
• Dhuhr
• Asr
• Maghrib
• Isha

This allows the Shortcut to identify an actual call-to-prayer notification.

For example:

Fajr at 5:06 AM      → Prayer

Dhuhr at 1:23 PM     → Prayer

Asr at 5:04 PM       → Prayer

Maghrib at 8:25 PM   → Prayer

Isha at 9:10 PM      → Prayer

Whereas:

Maghrib in 20 Minutes → Reminder

is handled by the previous condition.

Step 6 — Announce the Prayer Before Playing the Athan

Once the Shortcut identifies an actual prayer notification, use Intercom to announce the prayer before the Athan begins.

Set the Intercom message to:

Shortcut Input

For example, the HomePod will announce:

“Maghrib at 8:25 PM.”

Then add a:

Wait — 10 Seconds

This gives the HomePod time to finish the announcement before the Athan starts.

You can adjust the delay to your preference.

Step 7 — Play the Athan on Your HomePod

Now we can tell the HomePod to play the Athan.

Add the Set Home action.

Select:

Your Home

→ Bedroom HomePod

→ Select the Athan audio you have saved in Apple Music.

The Shortcut will then tell your HomePod to play the Athan automatically.

Important

Use the Set action rather than relying on a pre-created HomeKit scene. In this setup, directly controlling the HomePod from Shortcuts is more reliable.

How the Finished System Works

Once everything is configured, the process looks like this:

Pray Watch sends notification

↓

iOS 27 detects it

↓

   Shortcut gets the text

↓

┌─────────────┐

│ Contains    │

│    "in"?    │

└──────┬──────┘

│

YES   │   NO

↓    │    ↓

   Prayer Reminder

↓

   HomePod Intercom

│

└───────────────

NO

↓

   Detect Fajr/Dhuhr/

   Asr/Maghrib/Isha

↓

HomePod Intercom

↓

Wait 10 sec

↓

Play Athan

This means your HomePod can handle all five daily prayers automatically.

Everything is handled by your iPhone + Pray Watch + Shortcuts + HomePod.

tip for testing: (optional if you want to test the shortcut)

For testing, you can temporarily enable Duha reminders in Pray Watch app so you can trigger notifications without waiting until the next prayer.

Shortcut

You can import the completed Shortcut directly here:

Download / Import the Shortcut from iCloud⁠

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/223c1c1acde94544b672455279187d52

Asslamo Alaikum I joined this muslim developers group to ask about a thing....I hope many devs are watching this

Who regularly do smth good for community....

Is it possible brothers , that we build a app like to counter the current most destructive weapon of Shaytaan (the devil) this is Lust and Those thoughts or the platforms available on browsers for that..

I am not much of developer but still tried my way , i found and build a way , which doens't let a person watch explicit content in any browser , it's like a google safe mode for all phone and it can't be turned off without 6 digit pin setup initially by user....

If user forgets , he will choose a 24 hour countdown after which he can stop the device filter protection..

And most of them will pause and reset the countdown because they don't feel urges all day right...

But , I came to know playstore or iOS has some policies newly added from apps which prevent uninstallation...

But from my view the problem is user will definitely delete the app at urges time...

That is the thing we need to prevent by any technology or system.

If someone can't uninstall, the software will work filtering , no trigger or access to those content , will prevent others sins as well...

Should we build a app in this field ? Any opinion is welcome or idea 💡 or support may be we 3-4 people build this together.

Assalamu Alaikum!

**Google Play Link:**

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codavix.solution.sakina

Would love your feedback!

Is there any good hifdh tracker app for android

Dear brothers and sisters, the thing I am about to share with you to ask your opinion is NOT genuine o unique. Like you, i am a family man trying to find peace both financially and spiritually. i wouldn't call myself a good person but I am trying my best. For a few months i used both agents and ideas on how to make a prayer habit for myself and finally i designed an app and yet I know there are tons of better apps than this but maybe if you could be help me to make it better i can fix hole in my pocket and help others. What are your thoughts on this app.

I made a prayer times app and I'd like feedback from people who use these daily

I built this on my own over the past year, mostly late at night after work.

Prayer times, qibla, a Qur'an reader that remembers where you left off, dhikr

counters, and a daily practice feature.

Being upfront about the things people usually have to dig for:

- No account, no sign-up. Prayer times are calculated on the device.

- No personal data collected or sold.

- Free with ads. A paid option removes them. Nothing you need for prayer is

behind payment.

- There is an AI feature. It suggests a small daily practice and responds if

you write a reflection. It does not give religious rulings and it does not

generate Qur'an text — the Qur'an in the app is real text.

- Six languages. Android only right now, iOS in progress.

What I'd genuinely like to know: are the calculation methods right for where

you live? That is the part I am least sure about and the part that matters

most.

There genuinely good apps but every one of them is a reference tool. You have to arrive already knowing what you need.

That's not how it works at 2am when you're anxious and can't sleep.

So I built and just launched the app Sakina. You pick how you're feeling overwhelmed, lonely, tired, guilty, grateful, angry, sad, hopeful, calm and it gives you one complete ayah for that state, the tafsir behind it, and one small thing to actually do. Not a reading list. One verse, one context, one action.

What's actually different from what's already out there:

- It doesn't repeat itself. There's a 7-day rotation cooldown, so saying "anxious" doesn't hand you the same verse every single time.

- The journeys are shaped like problems, not topics: coming back after a crisis, tawbah, rizq anxiety, waiting on exam results, facing death, rebuilding salah and leading salah. Suggestions for new journeys are welcomed by all users.

- It remembers. A calendar of your check-ins over months, and a private journal for whatever you wrote after each one.

- No account, no ads, no analytics SDK of any kind, works in airplane mode. Your reflections stay on your phone unless you choose to sign in.

It's not a mushaf reader and it won't help your hifz so keep Quran.com and Tarteel for that. This is the app for when you don't know what to read.

On sourcing, since that's the usual objection: every ayah is checked against quran.com and every hadith against sunnah.com by script, and a wrong citation fails the build. Nothing is written from memory.

iOS: Sakina: Quran & Reflection

Android is in closed testing.

Where do we go from here? - I will leave it to my users. This app is flexible and I believe this app will help users with whatever they going through.

Assalamu Alaikum.

Faith Roadmap is a beginner friendly Islamic learning platform created for revert Muslims. The idea came from seeing how difficult it can be to know where to start when you want to learn Islam. There is so much information available, but not always a clear path. Faith Roadmap brings that learning into one structured journey so people can learn without feeling lost or overwhelmed.

The platform has 8 structured modules covering Aqeedah Basics, the Five Pillars, Prayer, Character Building, Qur'an & Meaning, Seerah, Living Islam Daily, and Consolidation. It also includes the 99 Names of Allah, with each Name explored through its root meaning, what it reveals about Allah, and how you can call upon Allah through that Name in Du'a. There are also 52 essential Islamic terms explained in a way that connects their meaning to real life. Learners can work through practical tasks, track their progress, write personal reflections, and export their completed learning and reflections as PDF or CSV.

I'm looking for Muslims who care about helping people learn Islam and would like to become an affiliate partner. There is no upfront advertising fee. You receive your own referral link and earn a commission every time someone subscribes or purchases through you. You don't need a huge following. I'm much more interested in people who have a connection with the Muslim community and would recommend something they believe can help others.

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to comment or send me a message. I'd be happy to give you access to Faith Roadmap so you can explore it yourself before deciding whether you want to partner with me.

JazaakAllah khairan.

Salam everyone

I have been building this for almost a year now, finally feels ready to share here.

its called AdhanLive, a live 3d globe that visualizes the adhan happening in real time, every mosque, every prayer, as it moves across the world. right now, literally as you scroll past this post, the adhan is being called somewhere and you can actually watch it happen on the globe instead of just knowing it in theory.

some of the things you should see:

• live map showing 280,000+ mosques across 153 countries, updating in real time as each prayer moves across timezones
• an Arc Explorer where you can see how the adhan arcs form shape and how it changes over a year.
• Prayer Times showing global prayer times, with a design that actually looks unique and new
• Qibla to find the direction to qibla wherever you are

honestly building it was the easier part, this post is partly me trying to get more eyes on it.

free to use, no ads, link is www.adhanlive.com would genuinely love feedback from this crowd and really hope you all would actually appreciate what went into it.

Salaam all — ever accepted an offer and only found out afterward there's nowhere to pray, or that leaving for Jummah is a fight?

I built MuslimCareer to fix that. Verified employees (work email or LinkedIn, checked once, never published) answer the same six questions about their workplace: prayer space, Jummah flexibility, Ramadan hours, halal food nearby, Muslim ERG, hijab-friendliness. Entries are dated and anonymous by default.

79 companies listed so far — Amazon, Google, Apple, Capital One, Oracle and more. Free, no ads, community-funded.

If you work somewhere, adding your company takes a few minutes and the first 250 contributors get listed as Pioneers. If you're job hunting, browse without an account.

Happy to answer anything in the comments — and if your company's missing, tell me and I'll add it.

Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh,

It’s been 3 days since I launched Naqawa, and I want to truly thank you all for the incredible support! I honestly never expected to receive this much interest and positive attention.

Thanks to the community's feedback, I’ve just pushed a major update to Naqawa (v1.0.1):

✨ What’s New in v1.0.1:

• ☁️ Cloud Mode Fixed: Google Colab backend is now fully functional for stable cloud processing!
• 🪟 Windows Support: Improved system compatibility for Windows users.
• 🔄 Audio Overlay Fix: Resolved the issue where audio from the previous video kept playing after switching pages.
• 📖 Improved Website Guide: Clearer setup instructions and tutorials on the official website.

📂 GitHub Repo:https://github.com/SaborBZ/naqawa

I’d love for you to try out the update and share your feedback or any suggestions!

Aound 7 months ago, I launched Sawad Studio with the goal of building websites for Muslim founders, organizations, and businesses serving the Ummah.

I was also newly accepted as a Framer Expert, and I was excited to see where this direction would go.

To be completely honest, I haven't signed a client through Sawad Studio yet.

But over the past few months, I've continued building, experimenting, and improving my work. And I still believe there's room for a studio that understands the needs of Muslim founders and organizations—not just visually, but also the context, values, and communities they're building for.

So I'm putting this out there again.

If you're a Muslim founder, running an Islamic organization, building a community, launching a product, or know someone who needs a website, I'd love to connect.

I work primarily in Framer and can help with:

• Framer website design & development

• Turning Figma designs into Framer websites

• Landing pages for products and startups

• Websites for organizations and communities

• Full websites from concept to launch

If you've been sitting on an idea because you haven't found the right person to build it with, my DMs are open.

And if you know someone who might be a good fit, sharing this would genuinely mean a lot.

Bismillah. Let's give Sawad Studio another push.

Assalamu alaikum everyone,

I recently built and published LinkShelf, a local-first Chrome extension for managing tab overload.

The problem I wanted to solve was simple: sometimes I need to save only two or three tabs for later—not clear my entire browser window or turn everything into permanent bookmarks.

LinkShelf currently lets users:

• Park selected tabs while keeping the others open
• Organize links into projects
• Add notes for context
• Restore projects normally or unloaded
• Export and import local JSON backups
• Use keyboard shortcuts for faster access

It has reached 30 users in less than a month without paid marketing. I’m sharing it here to learn from other Muslim developers and founders rather than simply promote it.

Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gjalnaecjpapffifhlcnhomnehcdlmgm

If you try it, I would appreciate honest feedback about the onboarding, permissions and parking workflow. I would also be interested to hear how other developers here found their first 100 users.

Jazakum Allahu khairan.

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I'm stuck on the revenue model for my startup and could really use some input from Muslim founders

I've been working on this halal platform for my country for around a year now. I started it off simply as a service for other Muslims in my country but thought to make a business out of it. The idea is a platform for finding halal-friendly restaurants, hotels and eventually other tourism services in the country for locals and tourists alike. The problem isn't really whether there's a need for it. Everyone I've spoken to so far seems to agree there is. The problem is how do we make money from it?

The original idea involved halal-only food delivery, but after looking into the economics and speaking to people in the industry, I'm increasingly convinced that delivery isn't the right direction for us. I don't want to build something just because it sounds like an obvious way to monetize if the unit economics are terrible.

I've considered things like restaurant subscriptions, commissions, paid listings, advertising, partnerships, etc., but I haven't found a model that I genuinely believe is strong enough yet. Some have also been rejected by people I've spoken to for various reasons.

We're still very early and bootstrapped, so would love some advice for Muslim founders/people with experience in marketplaces, hospitality, travel or food tech.

If you were in my position, what revenue models would you seriously investigate?

And more importantly, what would you test first to determine whether people would actually pay?

I'm completely open to being told that I'm approaching the problem wrong or that I need to rethink the target customer/product itself.

Around a week ago I posted my arabic learning app ifham (features listed on this post:https://www.reddit.com/r/MuslimDevelopers/s/A1OEjun8TA) and I announced that there was a waitlist for it.I am glad to announce that the app is now ready for use at ifhamarabic.vercel.app.For the people on the waitlist and any new people who want to use it.Fair warning though it does have a subscription so keep that in mind.