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Getting started

What do I need to run Hayya?

An iPhone running iOS 16.4 or later, or an Android phone. Hayya is free, has no in-app purchases, and needs no account. It is available on the App Store. On Android it is in closed testing, so the Play listing only opens for accounts on the tester list — join the testers group with the Google account your phone uses for Play, then open the listing again. Google requires this of every new individual developer account before an app can be listed publicly; the full steps are on the home page.

How do I set it up?

Open Settings and set your location — either let Hayya read it once from GPS, or type your city. Then choose the calculation method and Asr madhab your masjid follows. That's it; the alarms schedule themselves.

Can I hear the alarm without waiting for a prayer?

Yes. The Preview button at the bottom of the Home screen rings the full call for the next prayer, exactly as it will fire for real. It's a dry run — it doesn't touch your prayer log or your streak.

Alarms

My alarms aren't going off on time.

Hayya relies on your phone's exact-alarm and notification permissions. Make sure notifications are enabled for Hayya, that exact alarms are allowed, and that battery optimization is turned off for the app so the system doesn't delay it. On Android, Settings → Alarm reliability walks you through both settings and shows which ones still need granting. On some devices you may also need to allow Hayya to run in the background.

The full-screen "call" alarm doesn't appear over my lock screen.

On Android, please grant Hayya permission to display over other apps and to show full-screen notifications — these let the alarm surface over the lock screen. On Android 14 and later, apps installed from Play may additionally need "Full screen notifications" switched on in system settings.

On iPhone, the alarm arrives as a time-sensitive notification with your ringtone rather than a lock-screen takeover; tapping it opens the call screen. Allowing Time Sensitive Notifications for Hayya (and keeping it out of a Focus filter) makes sure it comes through.

What happens if I don't answer?

The call rings for a couple of minutes, hangs up, and calls back a few minutes later — over and over until you answer it, decline it, or the prayer's window closes, at which point it's logged as missed. Those automatic call-backs don't spend your one snooze.

Can I snooze more than once?

No — deliberately. Snooze works once per prayer, then the button is gone.

Can I be called before the adhan?

Yes. In Settings you can make every alarm ring up to 30 minutes early so you have time to reach the masjid, or give each prayer its own lead time.

Can I use my own ringtone?

Yes. Each theme ships with its own tone, and you can replace any of them with an audio file from your device.

I don't want to be rung at all. Can I just get a reminder?

Yes. Go to Settings → Alarms → How prayers arrive and choose "Notification — a quiet reminder". Each prayer then arrives as a single ordinary notification: it doesn't ring, it doesn't call back, and nothing is logged as missed for ignoring it. You can still tap it to record the prayer whenever you're ready.

Can I add my own alarms?

Yes. On the Alarms screen you can create alarms of your own — Tahajjud, a nap, or a "don't sleep past nine". Each can be set to a clock time or anchored to a prayer or sunrise with an offset ("20 minutes before Fajr"), and can repeat daily, on days you choose, or ring just once. Each gets its own call style and ringtone, and answering one never affects your prayer log or streak.

Can Fajr make me prove I'm awake?

Yes — that's the wake-up duʿā gate, in Settings → Alarms. With it on, Fajr won't fall silent until you say the waking duʿā out loud. It's the surest way to be properly awake rather than dismissing an alarm in your sleep.

Adhkār and the qibla

Where are the adhkār?

Hayya includes the morning and evening adhkār, the after-prayer adhkār, and the before-sleep adhkār. The checklist opens to the right list for the time of day, and a list started late at night carries across midnight rather than resetting under you.

Can I turn the adhkār reminders off, or make them quieter?

Yes. Settings → Adhkar reminders switches them off entirely. If you'd rather keep them but not be taken anywhere, set the reminder style to "Notification only" — a quiet banner you can tap when you're ready. Adhkār reminders never ring; the call-style treatment is reserved for the fard prayers.

The Arabic is too small to read.

Settings → Reading duas and adhkar sizes each of the three lines on its own — the Arabic, the transliteration and the translation — from Smaller up to Huge. You can also switch the transliteration and translation off completely if you only want the script, which shortens every card in the app.

Is there a qibla compass?

Yes. It turns with your phone to point toward the Kaaba. Like everything else, it's computed on your device from your coordinates. If it drifts, calibrate your phone's compass by moving it in a figure-eight, and step away from anything magnetic.

How do I add the widget?

Long-press your home or lock screen, choose to add a widget, and pick Hayya. On iPhone, Settings → Lock screen widget chooses whether it shows the current prayer and the next two, or all the day's times at once. On Android the widget picks its layout from the size you drag it to.

Does Hayya have a dark mode?

Yes. Settings → Light or dark follows your phone's setting by default, and you can pin it to light or dark instead.

Prayer times and history

My prayer times look wrong.

Check that your location is correct and pick the calculation method and madhab used in your region in Settings — Hayya supports 12 methods (ISNA, Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura, Egyptian, Karachi, Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Singapore, Diyanet, Tehran, and the Moonsighting Committee), plus standard or Hanafi Asr.

The Hijri date is a day off.

Hijri dates vary with local sighting. Settings lets you shift the date by up to two days in either direction to match your community.

Does Hayya work offline?

Yes. Prayer times are calculated on your device from your coordinates, so the app works with no connection at all. A connection is only needed if you want to look up a city by name.

How does the streak work?

Answering a prayer adds a day. Declining one resets it to zero — and so does letting a prayer pass in silence. Tap the streak card for a two-week history of every prayer, the time it was logged, and the reasons you wrote for the ones you declined. (In the quiet "Notification only" style nothing is marked missed on its own — a reminder that doesn't chase you shouldn't punish you for not answering it — so the streak only moves when you log a prayer yourself.)

I prayed but forgot to log it.

Open the history from the streak card and mark that prayer as prayed on time.

Privacy and data

Is my data private?

Yes. Your location, settings, streak, and anything you write stay on your device — no account, no analytics, no ads, and we run no servers that receive your data. The app makes two outgoing requests, both only about the app itself: it checks Expo's update service on launch so we can ship fixes quickly, and about once a day it fetches a small file from this site to see whether a newer version is on the App Store or Google Play. Both show your IP address and app version, and nothing about your prayers or location. See our Privacy Policy.

Why does Hayya ask for my location?

Prayer times depend on the sun's position, which depends on where you are. Hayya takes a single foreground reading and computes the times on your phone; the coordinates are never transmitted. If you'd rather not grant the permission, type your city instead.

How do I reset my data?

Uninstalling Hayya removes all of its data from your device.

Still stuck?

Email rushan52@gmail.com with your phone model and OS version and we'll help. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome too.