A real Mac app, not a website in a costume.
Swift and SwiftUI, a non-activating panel that borrows the keyboard the way Spotlight does, Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe, real menus everywhere else — and WidgetKit widgets that are actually widgets.
Iqamah 2 · for macOS
Every prayer, under its own sky.
One click in the menu bar opens the new panel: the sky as it is right now over your city, drawn from your own prayer times — the sun on its arc, the next prayer marked in gold, and Mark prayed a keystroke away. Prayer times and the adhan are free, forever.
Umm Al-Qura · Shafi, Maliki, Hanbali
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
This is the app’s real behaviour: the sky, the sun and the face all come from the day’s own prayer times. Times shown are Makkah’s, by Umm al-Qura.
The part that helps you worship costs nothing.
Prayer times, the adhan, the panel with both faces, the habit tracker, the fasting record — and now the whole Quran: the reading, the recitation in either voice, the notes you write on it, the downloads. Pro is for the deeper tools, priced once, like a tip.
No account. No analytics. No server watching you pray.
Location is used to compute times and goes nowhere. Sync, if you turn it on, writes a file to a folder you choose in iCloud Drive. The reason behind an excused day never leaves the Mac at all.
New in 2.6, grown through 2.9 · Free for everyone
The Quran, in the app.
A customer wrote that she was tired of leaving for YouTube every time she wanted to hear a surah — the Quran belonged inside the app her day was already built around. So 2.6 is the Quran: all 114 surahs in the mushaf’s own Uthmani script, recited ayah by ayah — and every part of it free. Then she read it for a month and wrote back, and 2.7 is her review answered: a second voice, the thirty juz with a khatmah record to match, a note on any ayah, and a recitation that no longer stops when you look away. She kept writing. 2.8 put a transliteration line under the Arabic, and 2.9 is the fourth thing she asked for: the word being recited is the word you are looking at, in either voice.
- Two voices, and you can change your mind mid-ayah. Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly and, since 2.7, Sheikh Ali Al-Hudhaify, imam of the Prophet’s Mosque — both from the King Fahd Complex’s own recordings, both free. Switch while a recitation is running and the ayah you are hearing carries on in the new voice.
- The word being recited is the word you are looking at. New in 2.9: press play and the current word stays at full strength while the rest of the ayah steps back a little, moving as the reciting moves. When the reciter goes back to repeat a phrase, the highlight goes back with him. Nothing to turn on; if the voice has timings, the words follow. Both voices have them.
- The thirty juz, where you reach for them. A quiet gold rule marks where each juz begins; the player names the one you are in and how much of it is left; and typing “juz 23” — or الجزء ٢٣, or پارہ — takes you to its first ayah. New in 2.7, built for Ramadan and useful all year.
- A translation under every ayah. Saheeh International and Al-Hilali & Khan, with the translators’ own footnotes a quiet Notes line away. Arabic readers get the ayah alone, as it should be.
- Search that forgives spelling. Type “18”, “kahf” or “cave” for Al-Kahf. Type “rahman” or “bismillah” and it finds the Arabic without the script or the vowels; “merciful” searches the translation you are reading; since 2.8, “khannaas” reads the transliteration itself. ⌘F puts you in the field.
- Transliteration under the Arabic. New in 2.8: a romanised line for the whole mushaf, off until you ask for it, sitting between the Arabic and the translation and quieter than both. It keeps the long vowels and the ayn that tell you how a word is actually said.
- Keep a surah, or all of it, on your Mac. One button downloads the surah you are reading. Settings › Quran downloads the whole Quran — it tells you the cost first, shows its progress, and stops the moment you cancel.
- A bookmark, favourites, and three ways back. The heart gathers your ayat in mushaf order; one ribbon marks where you stopped reading; a Continue listening row remembers where the recitation stopped — each on its own, so listening never loses your page.
- Write on the mushaf’s margin. New in 2.7: a pencil beside the heart and the ribbon opens a small editor on the ayah itself, for the thought you had while reading. Noted ayat keep a quiet gold pencil, and My Notes gathers everything you have written, in mushaf order.
- It knows its place — and nothing else interrupts it. The adhan pauses the recitation and hands it back when the adhan is done. Since 2.7 that is the only thing that does: move to Habits, close the window, hide the app, and the recitation plays until you stop it. On Fridays, the reminder and the panel’s card open Surat al-Kahf — reading or listening, your choice.
The panel
A menu became a place.
Left click opens the panel; the classic menu is still a right-click away. The panel takes your keyboard without stealing your focus — the app you were in stays front, and gets its focus straight back.
- The sky is data. First light at Fajr, gold at sunrise, orange at Maghrib, navy after Isha — keyframed on your own times, so Ramadan in February looks like a February evening in your city.
- Mark prayed, from anywhere. The gold pill sits on the prayer whose time it is. Press Space. Right-click any prayer to mark it, unmark it, or excuse it alone — the whole day is one item further down.
- It never interrupts. A non-activating panel: your work stays frontmost while it’s open — and Escape hands the keyboard straight back.
- Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe. The panel sits on the system’s own glass; on macOS 14 and 15, the familiar material. Same layout either way.
- The classic menu survives. Settings ⌘, · Check for Updates · Help · Quit — a real menu on right-click, keyboard- and VoiceOver-complete.
Two faces
Horizon by day. Lantern by night.
After Isha the panel wears its night face: navy, a lattice, and a ring that fills as the night runs toward Fajr. Let it follow the day, or pin either face in Settings › Appearance.
HorizonThe sun on its real arc, ticks for each prayer, the next one in gold. How far away Maghrib is, visible without reading a number.
LanternIsha’s window runs all night. The gold ring fills as it passes, so the last third — and Tahajjud — are visible at a glance.
One window
Six sections, one window.
Today, the Quran, the Hijri calendar, the prayer tables, Habits and Fasting are sections of a single window with a sidebar — the way a Mac app is supposed to feel.
New in 2.10
Two things the day already had. Iqamah was not saying them.
Two cards joined Today, drawn from the same prayer times as everything else on the screen — so they move with your location, your calculation method and your own per-prayer adjustments. Each has its own switch in Settings › Prayer Times, under Today; both start on, and turning one off leaves nothing behind on the page.
The five times prayer is not offered.
While the sun rises, while it stands at its zenith, and while it sets. In those three, prayer is not offered at all. The two long spans are a different thing: there it is voluntary prayer that is discouraged, and only once you have prayed that window’s obligatory prayer — which is what the window is for.
“After you pray Fajr”, not “After Fajr”.
Those two rows name a condition because the ruling does. Iqamah knows when the window opened. It does not know when you prayed — and an app should not print a time it cannot know.
The twelve rak‘ah, each at its own time.
Two before Fajr, four before Dhuhr and two after, two after Maghrib, two after Isha. The ones that come after sit past the end of that prayer’s own slot in the day planner rather than on its adhan, so the row is a time you could actually pray it. Asr carries none, deliberately: this is the confirmed set. Duha and Tahajjud join the card only if you already have their rows turned on.
Excused days
The days that don’t fit a streak, honoured at last.
Mark a day you were not required to pray, and Iqamah stops counting it against you. The day leaves your percentage entirely — instead of sitting there as five prayers you “missed” — and your streak carries straight across it. Since 2.8 an excusal is about a prayer: right-click any square and excuse that one alone, or choose Excused from here… and click the last one, and your percentage counts only the prayers that were actually due. In 2.10 the way back out matches the way in: right-click any square on an excused day — Duha and Tahajjud included — and The whole day is not excused clears it at once.
- Fiqh-honest. Only what genuinely lifts the prayer excuses it. Illness and travel don’t — they belong in the fasting record, where they genuinely do.
- Private by construction. Excused days stay on this Mac unless you switch on syncing them — and the reason never leaves it at all, whatever that switch says.
- No app in this field does this. Streak apps punish the body’s own rhythm. Iqamah records worship without misreading it.
The habit tracker is now free.
It used to need Pro. But the habit tracker is where excused days are marked, and a purchase prompt is the wrong thing to meet somebody with at that moment. So in 2.0 it’s free — for everyone, forever. Fasting, too.
And if $4.99 is genuinely difficult right now: email us and we’ll send you a Pro licence. No questions, no proof needed. A standing offer, not a promotion.
The field
Every alternative is half the app.
The other Mac menu bar apps tell the time and stop. The one worship tracker has no Mac identity at all. Iqamah is the only one that is both — and the only one with a funded promise to still work next macOS.
| As of September 2026 | Iqamah 2.10 | Sacred | Guidance | Prayer Times | Sajda |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac menu bar app | ✓ | — iOS-first port | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prayer panel with a live sky | ✓ 2.0’s two faces | — | — | — | — |
| Prayer & fasting tracking | ✓ free | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Quran reader with recitation | ✓ free · offline · two voices · word by word | — | — | — | — |
| Excused days that don’t break streaks | ✓ or a single prayer | — | — | — | — |
| Day planner around prayer windows | ✓ Pro | — | — | — | — |
| Hijri calendar with events | ✓ | — | date only | date only | — |
| Widgets · Shortcuts · Siri | ✓ | widgets only | — | — | — |
| Sync across Macs | ✓ your iCloud folder | CSV export | — | — | — |
| Languages | 18 full RTL | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Signed, notarized, auto-updating | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — Gatekeeper override | partial |
Feature sets as published by each project in August 2026: Sacred Worship Tracker (App Store), Guidance (Mac App Store), tareq1988/prayer-times-macos and ikoshura/Sajda (GitHub). Corrections welcome at support@stacknscope.com.
Pricing
Start free. Stay free, honestly.
Pro exists so Iqamah is still maintained next Ramadan — one payment, three Macs, no subscription.
Free · forever
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- The panel — Horizon and Lantern, the sky, Mark prayed
- Prayer times & the adhan, the calculation method named under the times
- The Quran — reading, recitation, downloads, search, favourites
- Habit tracker with excused days and excused prayers — and a listening record
- Fasting record — white days, Mondays & Thursdays, Ramadan
- Hijri date and the three white days, with reminders
- Shortcuts & Siri — “I prayed, Iqamah”
- 18 languages, full right-to-left, VoiceOver throughout
Pro · one payment
$4.99 once · 3 Macs · no subscription
- Today: the Day Planner — each prayer window against what’s booked, a suggested time inside it
- Hijri calendar with Islamic events and their evidence
- Monthly & yearly prayer tables for planning ahead
- Tasbeeh counter — your own targets, After-prayer and Before-sleep routines, the meaning on the counter
- Widgets — next prayer, today’s times, the Hijri month
- Calendar-aware planning — reads only when events start and end, never titles
- Sync across your Macs — one visible file, in a folder you choose
Buy Iqamah Pro — $4.99
Your licence key arrives by email. Open Iqamah, go to Settings › Pro, then Activate License. Works on three Macs, and there’s a 7-day free trial in the app — no card required.
Can’t afford it? Email us and we’ll send you a licence — no questions, no proof needed.
Built for the whole year
And when Ramadan comes, Iqamah is already keeping the ledger.
Days excused or missed during Ramadan become days to make up. Iqamah counts what’s owed, takes one off when you repay it, and tells you how long until the next Ramadan — and it never confuses a Monday you fasted for its own sake with a debt you’re repaying, unless you say so.
27of 30 fasted
Ramadan, counted. Fasted, excused and missed — each day knows what it was.
3to make up
The qada ledger. Mark a fast as a make-up and the count comes down. Your call, never the app’s guess.
155days until Ramadan
Time to repay, visible all year — not a surprise the week before. Since 2.10 it is in the menu bar panel too, where you already are when you mark a prayer, and it takes itself away for the whole of Ramadan.
Quietly done properly
The parts you’ll only notice if we’d skipped them.
Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, Bengali, Hausa and more — the panel’s arc runs right-to-left, and even the calculation methods read in your language.
Every row reads “Fajr, 4:41 AM, prayed.” With VoiceOver on, the click routes to the fully accessible menu automatically.
Next prayer with a countdown, today’s times, the Hijri month — real WidgetKit, small, medium and large.
“What prayer window is open?” · “I prayed, Iqamah.” Three actions to build your own automations on — all free.
Amber at your warning threshold, red in the last stretch. One setting, two steps.
The overlay shows the sky at that prayer’s moment — and can record the prayer, or remind you in ten minutes.
One page says what Iqamah believes — location, method, permissions, next alert — with a button beside anything wrong.
Developer ID and notarized by Apple; updates arrive on their own. No Gatekeeper incantations, ever.
Questions
Asked and answered.
What’s new in 2.10?
Another letter from the reader whose first one became the Quran section, this time about the day rather than the Quran. The Today page carries two new cards. The first names the five times prayer is not offered: three are the sun’s own — while it rises, while it stands at its zenith, while it sets — and in those it is not offered at all; the other two are long spans, where it is voluntary prayer that is discouraged, and only once you have prayed that window’s obligatory prayer. The second lays out the twelve rak‘ah at the times they belong to: two before Fajr, four before Dhuhr and two after, two after Maghrib, two after Isha. Each has a switch in Settings › Prayer Times, under Today. The Ramadan countdown, which lived in the Fasting tab, is in the menu bar panel now as well — that is where you are when you mark a prayer. Two faults went with it: an excused day can now be undone from the Duha and Tahajjud squares, which used to open an empty menu, and today’s prayer chips no longer draw as buttons while the day is excused. The details are in the changelog.
What’s new in 2.9?
The fourth thing the reader who wrote those letters asked for: to see the words light up as they are recited. Press play in the Quran reader and the word being recited stays at full strength while the rest of the ayah steps back, moving as the reciting moves; when Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly goes back to repeat a phrase, the highlight goes back with him. Both voices have it. His timings were published for his recording and checked against ours word by word; none existed for Sheikh Ali Al-Hudhaify, so they were measured from his recording, every word of every ayah. Nothing to turn on. Also, ⌘F in the Quran window finally puts the cursor in the search field, and with “continue into the next surah” on, the reader turns the page when the recitation does. The details are in the changelog.
What’s new in 2.8?
Her third letter was about the Habit Tracker: her cycle began at Fajr one day and ended at Dhuhr three days later, and the app could only be told about whole days. So an excusal is about a prayer now. Right-click any square in the grid, or any row in the menu-bar panel, and excuse that prayer alone, or the whole day, which is still one item away. Excuse a range with Excused from here… and a click on the last square, or from the Excused Prayers… form; either way you are told what it will write first. Your percentage counts only the prayers that were actually due, and a day carrying any excusal never breaks your streak. The Quran gained a transliteration line under the Arabic, off until you ask, and search reads it. The Friday Focus window now closes at Dhuhr, ⌘, opens Settings, and the Today tab draws busy calendar hours as a light weave. The details are in the changelog.
What’s new in 2.7?
The customer whose letter became the Quran section wrote back, and 2.7 is her review, answered. A second voice — Sheikh Ali Al-Hudhaify, imam of the Prophet’s Mosque — joins Maher Al-Muaiqly, free like everything else and switchable mid-recitation. The thirty juz are marked through the reader, the player names the one you’re in, and “juz 23” in search jumps straight to it. Habits gains a khatmah record with two honest sources: a juz you recited is marked by hand, a juz you listened to counts only when every ayah has played to its end. Every ayah takes a written note now, gathered under My Notes. The recitation plays until you stop it — moving through the app no longer pauses it. And outside the Quran, a green day on the dhikr grid can finally be unmarked, so a mistaken tap is one tap from undone. The details are in the changelog.
What’s new in 2.6?
The Quran, free: all 114 surahs in Uthmani script, recitation by Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly that follows the text ayah by ayah, two English translations with the translators’ footnotes, search by number, name, meaning or the way a word sounds, favourites, a bookmark, and offline downloads for a surah or the whole Quran. Listening became a third habit mode, and the tasbeeh counter (2.5) gained custom targets, routines, and the meaning on the counter. The full story is in the changelog.
Why does the new card say “After you pray Fajr” rather than a time?
Because that is what the discouragement rests on, and it is the one thing Iqamah cannot see. Two of the five rows are named this way, the one after Fajr and the one after Asr: there it is voluntary prayer that is discouraged, and only once you have prayed that window’s obligatory prayer — before that, you still owe it. The card does show you when each span runs, drawn from your own prayer times. What it will not do is print a clock time as though that were the moment the discouragement began, because the moment is when you prayed, and your Mac has no way of knowing it. The other three rows need no condition: while the sun rises, while it stands at its zenith and while it sets, prayer is not offered at all, whatever you have already prayed.
Can I turn the new Today cards off?
Either of them, in Settings › Prayer Times, under Today. They arrive switched on, because a switch you have to find first is a switch most people never find — and turning one off leaves nothing behind on the page. No greyed card, no empty row. The sunnah card also follows what you already keep: Duha and Tahajjud appear in it only if you have their rows turned on, and Asr has none at all, because the confirmed twelve do not include it.
Is the Quran really free? What does the audio cost me?
Really free — the reading, the listening, and the downloads. Recitation streams from Iqamah’s own storage, so no third-party service learns what you listen to, and there is no account and no tracking here either. Downloading the whole Quran takes about a gigabyte of disk; the app shows the exact figure before it starts, shows its progress, and removes it all again from Settings › Quran whenever you like. The text comes from the Tanzil Project, the translations from QuranEnc.com, and the recitation is published by the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex — each named, with its version, inside the app.
What actually changed in 2.0?
The face of everything. A panel with a live sky replaces the dropdown menu (the classic menu stays on right-click). Five windows became one window with a sidebar. Settings became real toolbar-tab settings with a new Appearance pane. And two new records: excused days for prayer, and a full fasting record with a Ramadan make-up ledger.
Is the habit tracker really free now?
Yes. It needed Pro in 1.x; in 2.0 it’s free, along with the fasting record. Excused days are marked in the habit tracker, and meeting a paywall at that moment would have been wrong. Pro keeps the Day Planner, the Hijri calendar, the prayer tables, the tasbeeh counter, widgets, calendar-aware planning and sync.
I’m upgrading from 1.9. What happens to my records?
Nothing. Your prayer and dhikr history, settings and licence carry straight through — 2.0 is a free update. The Pro Tools menu is now called Tools, and its windows open as sections of the one Iqamah window.
Which macOS versions get the glass look?
On macOS 26 Tahoe the panel sits on Liquid Glass, like the system’s own menus. On macOS 14 and 15 it uses the familiar popover material. Same layout, same features either way.
Does Iqamah read my calendar or send data anywhere?
Only Pro’s planner reads calendars, only if you turn it on, and it reads when events start and end — never titles, guests or notes. Nothing leaves your Mac: no account, no analytics, no server. Sync, if you enable it, writes one visible file into a folder you choose in your own iCloud Drive, and your location is deliberately excluded from it.
The prayer times look wrong. How do I check why?
Open Help › Diagnostics. One page says whether notifications are allowed, which location the times are for, which calculation method and school produced them, and what the next alert is and when. Anything that needs fixing has a button that opens the right place to fix it — and Contact Support sends that same report already written into the mail.
I lost my licence key. How do I get it back?
Open Iqamah, go to Settings › Pro and choose Recover License. Enter the email address you bought with and we will send your key and a link showing which Macs it is active on. If you no longer have Iqamah installed, start here.
How do I install it?
Open the downloaded disk image and drag Iqamah to your Applications folder. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens without a security warning, and it keeps itself up to date from then on.
Is Iqamah on the Mac App Store?
Not yet. Iqamah is available directly from this page today, with the same app, the same updates, and the same one-time purchase.