Salat
A prayer times app that shows the times the masjid actually set, not the ones an algorithm calculated.
- Timeline
- 2026 · Launching to the App Store
- Role
- Solo
- Modality
- Mobile
- Evaluated on
- Correction-loop cost, not a metric
- To correct a wrong time
- 2 taps
- Theme variants
- 9
- Third-party tracking
- Zero
- Status
- Pre-launch
The problem
Most prayer time apps compute times astronomically. Real masjids set their own congregation times by committee, and those are the times that matter if you are trying to arrive for the prayer rather than for a calculation.
What I built
A native iOS app in Swift and SwiftUI showing real committee-set iqamah times, letting users compare nearby masjids, set per-prayer reminders, and check driving time through Apple Maps. There is a Lock Screen widget for the next prayer, nine light and dark theme variants, and a community-correction system so a user can flag and fix a wrong time in two taps, which keeps the data accurate without a backend team. Free, no ads, no third-party analytics or tracking, by design.
How I knew it worked
The correctness bar here is not a metric, it is whether the times match what the masjid actually posted, which is why the two-tap community correction path exists at all. Design constraint held throughout: zero tracking, so the app cannot be validated by watching users, only by making the correction loop cheap enough that people use it.