Every prayer, under its own sky.

Two things for the new macOS, and a round of fixes for anyone who uses light mode. Settings › Appearance has a Liquid Glass section now: a tint of None, Gold or Accent — your Mac’s accent colour — and an Intensity slider from Subtle to Vivid, like Sky intensity. It reaches the window’s sidebar, the Quran player and the menu bar panel, but most of the colour goes on the sidebar; the player and the panel take only a little, so their text stays easy to read. Until you change it, the glass looks exactly as it did. And a thin line now runs between the sidebar and the section beside it. The sidebar is glass, and the section carries on underneath it, so the two used to meet a shade apart with no edge — beside the Quran’s surah list, a list next to a list, they read as one. The fixes: the panel’s glass now follows your Mac between light and dark, where it used to keep the shade it first opened with until Iqamah quit; the selected section’s icon no longer disappears into the accent colour when the sidebar has the keyboard focus; in light mode the PRO badge, the white days in the Hijri calendar and Fasting, and the moon beside them are a darker gold you can actually read; and on the Lantern the alert bell is gold rather than black on navy. 2.12.1 fixes the bell on the Horizon too: there it sat on a faint white disc over the sky, so in dark mode the bell was hard to see, and during the adhan the white Stop button that takes its place could hardly be read in light mode. The disc is the Lantern’s navy now, with the bell and the Stop button white on it, like the date beside them — though with Sky intensity turned well down toward Subtle, the sky pales in light mode, and white on the disc can be hard to see. The details are in the changelog.

A fifth letter from the reader whose first one became the Quran section, and 2.11 carries all of it. Habits, under Quran, now counts hasanat: ten for every letter of the Quran you hear to the end of its ayah, and for every letter of each juz you mark as recited, after the hadith in Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi. The recitation player is one row now, with the juz you are in beside the ayah’s name, and on macOS 26 and later it floats in Liquid Glass a little above the bottom of the window, with the Quran scrolling on beneath it. The line above the surah list now says its percentage is of the whole Quran. Two faults you may have noticed without knowing why. On Fridays, the gold border around the Friday Focus hadith redrew itself every frame from the moment the window opened until Iqamah quit — which is why macOS sometimes listed Iqamah as using significant energy; it now costs next to nothing, and looks the same. And when your Mac could not find its location at the first attempt, Settings showed “kCLErrorDomain error 0” and gave up; it now keeps trying for up to thirty seconds, and if it still cannot, says what happened in plain words, in your language. In French, Russian and Portuguese, and in places in six other languages, a surah’s Arabic name is now drawn whole. The details are in the changelog.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Because part of the figure is an estimate, and the square says so rather than hiding it. Until 2.11 Iqamah kept how many ayat you heard each day but not which ones, and ayat differ too much in length for a count of them to give letters. So the days before you updated are estimated at the Quran’s average of about 52 letters an ayah, and every ayah you hear from the update on is counted by its own letters. The ≈ goes on its own once the last of those earlier days has left the thirty the square covers. Either way the square says in sha Allah: the number is ours, and the reward is not.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On macOS 26 Tahoe and later the panel sits on Liquid Glass, like the system’s own menus, and so does the window’s sidebar — and since 2.11 the Quran’s recitation player, floating a little above the bottom of the window. Since 2.12 you can tint all three, gold or your Mac’s accent colour, from Subtle to Vivid, in Settings › Appearance › Liquid Glass. On macOS 14 and 15 the panel uses the familiar popover material, the player keeps its flat bar, and that section is not there, because there is no glass for it to change. Everything else is the same either way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not yet. Iqamah is available directly from this page today, with the same app, the same updates, and the same one-time purchase.