A prayer companion, in the making
Prayer times, kept honest.
Zafarin is being built for web, iPhone and Android. It will compute prayer times on your device, show the method behind each one so you can match your mosque, and keep your log private. No ads, no trackers.
Nothing to download yet. This page says what exists, and what doesn’t.
What it is being built to do
Times you can check
Every time will show its method, angle and madhhab: the working behind the minute.
Your mosque comes first
Per-prayer offsets and iqāmah times for each place you save, so the app agrees with the masjid you pray at.
Private by default
Nothing about your prayers will leave your phone. No ad networks, no data brokers, nothing to share.
Missed prayers, without shame
A make-up ledger (qaḍāʾ): start from an estimate, then make up one at a time.
Excused days are not missed
Menstruation, illness and travel will never break a streak or add a debt.
Zakat that shows its working
Both recognised nisab thresholds, every rule with its source, and a statement you can print. Never behind a paywall.
Works offline
Times, Qibla and tracking in airplane mode. The maths runs on your device.
In your language
English, Albanian and Arabic first; Turkish and Bosnian next.
What is built today
The engine comes first, because a prayer time has to be right before it can be beautiful. Each part is checked against a reference that is independent of our own code.
- 2,222,640
- exact-minute checks of the prayer engine: 40 cities, every day of a year, 13 methods, both madhhabs.
- 810
- daylight-saving clock changes in 147 time zones, with no prayer duplicated, missing or shifted.
- 1420–1450 AH
- every day of the Hijri calendar matched against an independent Umm al-Qurā reference.
- 0.5°
- the most any Qibla bearing differs from GeographicLib, the geodesy reference, across 20 cities.
What isn’t built yet
Saying so plainly is part of the promise.
- The app itself. There is nothing to install yet, and no launch date.
- The prayer, tracking and Qibla screens.
- Accounts and sync between devices.
- The zakat engine. Its rules are drafted, not reviewed.
- A scholars’ review board. Until one is seated, every religious rule in the code is logged as unreviewed, next to the source it relies on.
How we handle religious questions
Zafarin never issues a ruling. Where scholars differ, it will name the recognised positions and their sources, and send you to your imam. Hijri dates are estimates: your mosque or national authority announces them. And your practice stays yours: no leaderboards, nothing to show anyone.