Prayer times, the qibla and the Quran, on your phone. Free, with no account, no advertising and nothing reported about you.
Prayer times. The five daily prayers and sunrise, worked out on the device from your position with the adhan library. Twelve calculation methods, the Hanafi or the standard Asr, high-latitude rules, and a correction in minutes per prayer so the times can be made to agree with your masjid. Both calendars, with the Hijri date shiftable a day or two for local moon sighting. A month at a time as a table you can print, by the Hijri month or the civil one.
The adhan. Each prayer has its own alert and its own call, chosen from the sounds that ship with the app. When the app is open at prayer time the full adhan plays, and tapping the notification plays it too. A notification's own sound is limited to thirty seconds by the phone, so what you hear there is a short call.
The qibla. A brass dial with a solid arrow to the Kaaba: hold the phone flat and turn until the arrow reaches the notch at the top. The exact bearing and the distance to Mecca sit above it. The Kaaba on the dial is drawn to its real measurements.
The Quran. The Madani mushaf page for page, all 604 pages of fifteen lines; the same text flowing at any size; or ayah by ayah with a translation or a commentary beneath each ayah. Optional tajweed colouring with a legend. Search offline in Arabic or English, or by reference. Bookmarks, and it remembers where you were.
Recitation. Fifteen reciters ayah by ayah, eleven of them followed word by word as they read. Speed, repeats, ranges, a pause for memorising, and a sleep timer. A surah can be saved to the phone to listen to without a connection.
Adhkar and tasbih. Morning, evening and daily remembrances with their citations, counted, with the day kept. A misbaha you can count on by tapping, pulling or turning, with the common phrases and cycles such as 33 / 33 / 34 after the prayer.
Reminders. Al-Kahf on Friday, a reminder before Jumu'ah, and a khatmah plan that names today's pages and opens the mushaf at the right page when you tap it.
On the home screen and the wrist. Widgets for the next prayer, today's times and the qibla bearing; a Live Activity that counts the approaching prayer down on the lock screen; an Apple Watch app; and an Android widget.
English, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, French, Malay and Bengali, switched without restarting, right to left in Arabic and Urdu. The Arabic interface is for a reader of Arabic: no transliteration and no English, and the commentary in place of a translation. Each language uses its own numerals and its own way of counting.
The six languages other than English and Arabic were drafted and reviewed rather than written by native speakers. If something reads wrongly in yours, the support page says how to tell us, and a correction is welcome.
Three things, and only when you ask for them: the recitation audio you press play on, the name of your city — which your phone's own map service works out from your coordinates — and a suggestion or problem report, which is an email you send yourself from your own mail app. Everything else, including every prayer time, the qibla, your counts, your bookmarks and your settings, is worked out on the device and stored only there.
There is no account, no advertising and no analytics of any kind. The privacy policy sets all of it out in detail, including what is not done.
Alsabeel is not yet on the App Store or on Google Play. When it is, the links will be on this page.
The Quran text is the King Fahd Complex's, checked letter by letter against Tanzil's. The translations and commentaries, the word timings, the tajweed markup, the adhkar, the typefaces and the photographs each come from someone, under their own terms. They are all named on the sources page.