In force from 20 September 2026. This is the first version of this page.
Alsabeel has no account and keeps nothing about you. This page says what the app actually does — including the three things that reach the network — and what it does not do. It is written to be read, not to be defended.
All of this lives in the app's own storage on your phone or tablet:
Taken together that is a dated record of your religious practice, which is exactly why it stays on the device. Whether your phone includes the app in its own backups — to iCloud or to Google — is a setting of your phone, not of Alsabeel.
Removing it. This version has no single "erase everything" button; individual features can be reset from their own screens. Deleting the app removes all of it from the device. Nothing survives elsewhere, because nothing was ever elsewhere.
When you press play, or download a surah to listen to offline, the app asks for audio files over the internet. Today they come from everyayah.com, which publishes the ayah-by-ayah recordings the app uses. In a later version some will come from a host of our own at alsabeel.net.
A request names the reciter and the exact ayah, because that is what the file is called. The host answering it sees your device's internet address and the time — it has to, in order to send the file back — exactly as any website you visit does. Nothing else travels with the request: no account, no identifier, no name, no coordinates.
Alsabeel keeps no record of what you listen to. When alsabeel.net begins serving audio, no visitor analytics and no request logging will be turned on over it, so no list of internet addresses and surahs will exist to hold. What you played stays on your own phone.
Prayer times and the qibla are arithmetic. They are computed on your phone from your coordinates, and your coordinates are never sent to us.
To show the name of a place instead of two numbers, the app asks the map service that is already part of your phone to turn the coordinates into a name: Apple's on an iPhone or iPad, Google's on most Android phones. That request goes from your phone to that company, under its privacy policy and not ours. It happens when the app takes a new position: when you open the app, and again when you return to it and the last fix is more than half an hour old.
If you search for a place by name, the app looks first in a list of about two hundred cities that ships inside it, which needs no connection at all. Only if your place is not in that list does the text you typed go to the same map service.
You can avoid both: decline the location permission and set your city from the built-in list, or type coordinates. Prayer times and the qibla direction still work. The live compass needle does not, because the phone will not report a heading without that permission.
More → Suggestions and feedback writes an email for you. The screen itself sends nothing: it fills in a draft in your own mail app, shows you every character of it beforehand, and nothing leaves your phone until you send it from your mail app. Because it is your own mail, we see the address you sent it from, along with whatever you wrote.
If you leave Include app and device version switched on, four lines go with the message: the app's version, whether it is running on iOS, Android or the web, the operating system's version, and the interface language you have chosen. They are printed above the button so you can read them before sending, and you can switch them off.
Mail sent to [email protected] is read by the publisher of the app, named at the foot of this page, and by nobody else. It is used to answer you and for nothing else: no mailing list, no newsletter.
Email sent to [email protected] is deleted within twelve months of being answered.
Links out. Donation links and source links open in your browser. From that moment you are on someone else's website, under their terms, and Alsabeel is not part of it. Every donation link that ships in the app is a plain https address on the organisation's own domain, with nothing appended that could carry anything about you.
Notifications. The adhan and every reminder are scheduled by your phone, on your phone. There is no push: Alsabeel has no way to send you a notification and never asks for a push token. Nothing about your prayers is known to anyone else in order for them to arrive.
Alsabeel never asks anyone their age, because it never asks anyone anything. There is no account, no advertising, no messaging between people and nothing anyone writes is published. It is suitable for any age.
These pages are plain HTML. They set no cookies, run no scripts and load nothing from anywhere else — no fonts, no analytics, no social buttons, no images from other sites. There is nothing here to track you with.
The site is served by Cloudflare Pages. Like any web host, it sees the internet address a request comes from in order to answer it. No visitor analytics and no request logging are turned on for it.
Because nothing about you reaches us, there is nothing of yours for us to show you, correct, export or delete. It is all on your device, and it goes when the app goes.
The one exception is an email you chose to send: that is in the mailbox, and if you ask us to delete it we will. If you have a question about any of this, or you think this page is wrong about something, write to [email protected].
So that there is no gap between this page and the forms: in Apple's App Privacy questionnaire Alsabeel declares Precise Location, used for app functionality, not linked to you and not used for tracking, and Data Not Collected in every other category. In Google Play's Data safety form it declares approximate and precise location, collected for app functionality, optional, and not shared. Both answers describe the location permission above; the only party that ever receives your coordinates is your own phone's map service.
It changes when the app changes — most likely when alsabeel.net begins serving recitation audio, which is written above because it is planned, not because it has happened. The date at the top moves with it. This page describes the app as it is, not as it is hoped to be.
Alsabeel is published by Khalid Al-Shawwaf, as an individual rather than a company. That is the same name shown as the seller on the App Store and on Google Play.
Contact for anything on this page: [email protected].