Prayer times, qibla and calendar for all three paths
Semaya is built for Sunnis, Shias and Alevis. The app is free and carries no ads. It keeps no account, and there is no server taking notes.
Three paths, one app
You choose your path when you first open the app. From then on Semaya shows exactly what belongs to it, and nothing that does not.
- On the Sunni path Semaya calculates by Diyanet and other methods. Ramadan comes with imsak and iftar, along with both Eids and the holy nights.
- On the Shia path the Jafari calculation applies, with a later maghrib, plus Ashura, Arbaeen and Ghadir Khumm.
- On the Alevi path there are the twelve days of Muharram, Ashura, Hızır, Hıdırellez, Nevruz and Hacı Bektaş Veli. Prayer times and the qibla are missing there because neither belongs to that practice.
The Alevi path is not carried along on the side here. It has its own calendar and its own home screen. That is the reason Semaya was built at all.
What Semaya does differently
- If Semaya differs from the notice at your mosque, you shift each prayer by minutes on its own. Set once, it stays that way.
- Every holiday comes with its date, a countdown and two or three sentences on what it is about.
- In the northern European summer, the dawn and night prayers cannot be determined astronomically. Semaya says so plainly instead of showing a number that feigns precision.
- Eleven languages: German, Turkish, English, French, Arabic, Persian and Dari, Urdu, Pashto, Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki.
Your data stays with you
Semaya keeps no account and requires no sign-up. Path, location and every setting live on your phone alone and are deleted with the app.
Under European data protection law, religious belief is a special category of personal data. The only safe way to handle it is not to collect it in the first place. What that means in detail, and where the one exception lies, is in the privacy policy.
Get Semaya
For iPhone and iPad
The Android version follows.