Changelog

Every change, and why it was made.

These are the release notes Iqamah shows inside the app when it updates, kept here so they do not disappear after you close the dialog. Current version 2.10.0.

Notes begin at 1.7.8. Earlier releases shipped without them, and writing them now from memory would not be the same thing.

2.10.0

Two things the day already had and the app was not saying: the times prayer is not offered, and the sunnah prayers that sit around each obligatory one. Both are drawn from the same prayer times as the rest of the screen, so they move with your location, your calculation method and your adjustments. The Ramadan countdown has moved to where you are already looking, and two ways out of an excused day that were missing are back.

New

  • The five times prayer is not offered, with the difference between them kept

    While the sun rises, while it stands at its zenith and while it sets, prayer is not offered at all. In the two long spans 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. The rows say so: After you pray Fajr, not After Fajr, because the app knows when the window opened and not when you prayed.

  • The twelve rak'ah, each at the time it belongs to

    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.

  • Both cards have a switch, and both start on

    Settings, under Today. Turning one off leaves nothing behind on the page.

  • The Ramadan countdown, in the menu bar panel

    It was in the Fasting tab only, which is not where somebody marking a prayer is looking. It is in both now, reading from one place so the two can never disagree, and it takes itself away for the whole of Ramadan.

Fixed

  • An excused day can be undone from any square on it

    Right-clicking the Duha or Tahajjud square on an excused day opened a menu with nothing in it, so the only way back was through one of the five obligatory squares — and on a day where you had marked only Duha, nothing on screen told you that. Both now offer The whole day is not excused, and it clears the day at once.

  • A chip that looked like a button and was not one

    Today's prayer chips are not pressable while the day is excused, which is correct — but they still drew as live controls, took a press and did nothing with it. They now read as plain text until the excusal is cleared, to VoiceOver as well as to the eye.

2.9.0

The fourth thing the reader who wrote those letters asked for was to see the words light up as they are recited. The last release answered her other three and said this one needed timing data cut against the very recording the app plays. Both voices have it now — one from published timings checked against the recording, the other measured from the recording itself.

New

  • The word being recited is the word you are looking at

    Press play in the Quran reader and the ayah being recited now shows you exactly where the voice is: the current word stays at full strength while the rest of the ayah steps back a little, and it moves as the reciting moves. Nothing to turn on and no mode to leave — if the voice has timings, the words follow.

  • When the reciter goes back, so does the highlight

    Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly repeats a phrase in a good many ayat, and the highlight repeats it with him rather than running ahead and waiting. In Ya-Sin 47 he recites twelve words, returns to the eighth, and carries on from the thirteenth — and that is what you see.

  • Both voices, two different ways

    Word timings have to match the exact recording being played or the highlight drifts against the voice. For Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly they were published for his recording and checked against ours word by word. For Sheikh Ali Al-Hudhaify none existed anywhere, so they were measured directly from his recording — every word of every ayah — and where he repeats a phrase the highlight repeats it with him.

Improved

  • ⌘F goes to the search

    In the Quran window, ⌘F now puts the cursor in the search field so you can type straight away. It never did: the menu item was there and nothing answered it.

Fixed

  • The page turns when the recitation does

    With "continue into the next surah" on, the voice would carry on from 96:19 into Al-Qadr while the reader stayed on Al-Alaq. The reader now follows — but only if it was already on the surah that finished. If you have wandered elsewhere, it leaves you there.

2.8.0

The reader whose letters became the Quran section wrote a third time, about the Habit Tracker. Her cycle began at Fajr on one day and ended at Dhuhr three days later, and the app could only be told about whole days — so it either charged her prayers she did not owe or excused ones she did. An excusal is about a prayer now.

New

  • Excuse a prayer, not a day

    Right-click any square in the prayer grid, or any row in the menu-bar panel, and excuse that prayer alone — or the whole day, which is still one item away. Your percentage counts only the prayers that were actually due: three excused and two prayed is two of two, not two of five. An excused prayer that already carried a mark shows the mark rather than burying it, a day that is only partly excused says so when you hover its header, and a day carrying any excusal never breaks your streak. A prayer whose window has not opened yet can be excused too, which is what a cycle starting this afternoon needs.

  • A cycle is a range

    Her own words were "mark Fajr as the starting prayer and Dhuhr as the ending prayer", and there are two ways to do exactly that. On the grid, right-click a square, choose Excused from here…, and click the last one — everything between previews as you move, and Escape calls it off. Or open Excused Prayers… from the tracker's toolbar and pick the first prayer, the last prayer and a reason in a form, which also un-excuses a run the same way. Either way you are told what it will write before it writes it. During Ramadan the app asks once about the fasts a range breaks, and it asks only about the days a fast was actually broken on — a day where only Isha is excused kept its fast to Maghrib and owes nothing.

  • Transliteration under the Arabic

    The whole mushaf now has a romanised line, off until you ask for it: turn it on from the reader's text-size menu or in Settings ▸ Quran ▸ Reading, and it sits between the Arabic and the translation, quieter than both. It keeps the long vowels and the ayn that tell you how a word is actually said, and where you have no translation showing it stands on its own under the mushaf. Favourites shows it too.

Improved

  • The Today tab draws the line it was implying

    A busy hour from your calendar and the prayer time suggested beside it used to be separated by three points of height and nothing else. Busy time now carries a light diagonal weave, a suggested slot is outlined where it meets one, and two back-to-back meetings read as two rather than one long block. Your calendar still gives up only its busy times, never a title.

  • Search reads the transliteration

    Type khannaas into the Quran search and you land on the fourth ayah of An-Naas, because the field now compares what you type against the romanised line itself. That closes a gap you had no way of seeing: the older romanisation dropped doubled letters, so a word as common as rabbana found nothing at all. It finds 82 ayat now. You do not have to turn the transliteration on to search it.

Fixed

  • The Friday card stops arriving after Jumu'ah

    The Friday Focus window opened three hours before Dhuhr, which was always right, and then stayed open all afternoon. It now closes at Dhuhr. Asking for it yourself — from the card or the notification — still works at any hour, because that is a request rather than a reminder.

  • ⌘, opens Settings

    It never did. An unused menu item was holding the shortcut and dropping it, from every window in the app.

  • Two messages that still said "Preferences."

    The Today tab's two calendar-unavailable notices now say Settings, the same word the rest of the app and macOS itself use, in all eighteen languages.

  • The Today tab stops calling your calendar empty when it is not

    No prayer window covers the hours between sunrise and Dhuhr, so a meeting sitting in there took the "Nothing is on your calendar today" line away and then appeared in none of the rows. The tab now says the true thing instead: nothing on your calendar overlaps a prayer window today. The hours between sunrise and Dhuhr are still not drawn.

  • The habit grid follows an excusal made from the menu bar

    Excuse a prayer from the menu-bar panel and the Habit Tracker's grid kept drawing the day as it was, until something else happened to redraw it. The window watches for excusals now, including one arriving from another Mac. The gap is older than this release; excusing a single prayer from the panel, which is new here, is what made it easy to meet.

2.7.0

The customer whose letter became the Quran section sat down with 2.6.0 and wrote back. This update is her review, answered: the recitation no longer stops when you go do something else, a mistaken tap on the dhikr grid can finally be taken back, and two things that looked broken now say what they mean.

New

  • Unmark a dhikr day

    A green square in the Habit Tracker's dhikr grid is a button again: tap it and the day is cleared, tap once more and it is restored. A day you counted past the target asks before clearing, because a second tap brings back only the target, never the tally. A cleared day stays cleared on your other Macs too, instead of quietly returning with the next sync.

  • The thirty juz, everywhere you reach for them

    A quiet gold rule marks where each juz begins in the reader. While recitation plays, the player shows which juz you are in and how much of it is left, and above the surah list a bar keeps the longer answer: Juz 23 of 30, and how far through the mushaf that is. Type juz 23 into the search — or الجزء ٢٣, or پارہ — and Return takes you to its first ayah. Built for Ramadan, useful all year.

  • A second voice: Sheikh Ali Al-Hudhaify

    The reciter menu holds a real choice now — Ali Al-Hudhaify, imam of the Prophet's Mosque, joins Maher Al-Muaiqly, both from the King Fahd Complex's own recordings, both free, ayah by ayah, with the same offline downloads. Switch mid-recitation and the ayah you are hearing continues in the new voice.

  • Your khatmah, in the habit tracker

    The Quran mode gains a Juz row with two honest sources. Recited a juz yourself? Mark it — on the juz's own line in the reader, or from the tracker, where a slip is unmarked the same way. Listened instead? The app notices on its own: a juz counts as completed by listening only when every one of its ayat has played to its end. Both travel in your exported settings and to your other Macs with Settings sync.

  • Write on the mushaf's margin

    Every ayah takes a note now — a pencil beside the heart and the ribbon opens a small editor right on the ayah, for the thought you had while reading. Noted ayat keep a quiet gold pencil, My Notes in the sidebar gathers everything you have written in mushaf order, and a click there takes you back to the ayah. Notes travel in your exported settings and to your other Macs with Settings sync; deleting one deletes it everywhere.

Improved

  • The recitation plays until you stop it

    Moving to Habits, closing the window, hiding the app — none of it pauses the audio any more. The menu bar's Now Playing card stays in charge wherever you are, and only your own pause, stop, or quitting silences the recitation. The Resume playback when returning to the Quran switch is retired: with nothing pausing behind your back, there is nothing left for it to resume.

  • The ayah numbers wear gold

    The rosette that closes every ayah now takes the reader's gold, the way the mushaf illuminates its markers — a reader's suggestion, from her own mockup review.

  • New reciters reach you without an update

    The app checks for newly published voices on its own, the menu picks them up without a restart — and when only one voice is available, the reciter's name is a plain label instead of a menu pretending at a choice.

Fixed

  • The widget gallery loads its previews

    Adding a widget could show a card that filled in and then went nearly blank. The gallery now always previews what the widget looks like doing its job; your installed widgets keep showing your own times.

2.6.0

A customer wrote to say she was tired of leaving for YouTube every time she wanted to hear a surah, and that the Quran belonged inside the app her day was already built around. This release is the Quran, in the app, free.

New

  • The Quran, in the Iqamah window

    A new section, second in the sidebar, with all 114 surahs and the mushaf's own Uthmani text drawn in a typeface made for it. It is free: the reading, the listening, the downloads, all of it.

  • Recitation by Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly, ayah by ayah

    Press play and the recitation follows the text, lighting the ayah being recited and keeping it in view. Repeat one ayah, repeat a surah, or let it carry on into the next surah on its own, in the order of the mushaf, all the way to An-Nas.

  • Keep a surah, or the whole Quran, on your Mac

    One button downloads the surah you are reading for listening without a connection. Settings › Quran has the other one: the whole Quran, which tells you what it will cost before it starts, shows you how far it has got, and stops the moment you cancel. Remove it all again from the same place.

  • Listen, from the Friday card

    The panel's Friday card already said "Surat al-Kahf, go early, listen closely". Now it has a play button that does the second half.

  • Now Playing, in the menu bar

    While something is playing or paused, the panel shows what: the surah, the ayah, the reciter, and a pause button. Click the card and the window opens at exactly that ayah, so a recitation started after Fajr is one click away all morning.

  • A translation under every ayah, and only the ones we would read ourselves

    Two English translations, Saheeh International and Al-Hilali & Khan, offered whatever language the app is speaking and picked from the reader's own menu. Saheeh International is the one you get without asking. Arabic shows none unless you ask for it, since the ayah is already there. Dr. Mustafa Khattab's The Clear Quran joins them once its publisher confirms.

  • Notes, where the translator wrote them

    Translations that carry footnotes keep them. A quiet Notes line under the translation opens them, and the numbered markers in the text finally point somewhere.

  • Find an ayah by its Arabic, by its meaning, or by the way it sounds

    Type "18", "kahf" or "cave" for Al-Kahf. Type "merciful" and it searches the translation you are reading. Type "rahman", "bismillah" or "ya sin" and it finds the Arabic without your needing the script or the vowels, and "الرحمان" finds it just as "الرحمن" does. Results stay in the order of the mushaf.

  • Favourite an ayah with the heart

    The ones you mark gather in their own view, in mushaf order, and they travel to your other Macs if you have Settings sync on.

  • A bookmark for where you stopped

    One ribbon, moved wherever you put it, and it travels with them. Beside it, the app quietly remembers where this Mac was last reading, so you can pick up where you left off even if you never set one.

  • The app remembers where the recitation stopped, on its own

    Separately from your bookmark and separately from where you were reading. Quit halfway through a surah, come back tomorrow, and a Continue listening row above the surah list names the ayah you had reached. Click it and the recitation picks up from there. Listening no longer moves the reading position, so the surah you are working through stays where you left it.

  • Three text sizes

    Small, medium or large, from the reader's own menu, for the Arabic and the translation together.

  • Listening joins the habit record

    The Habits window has a third mode, beside Prayers and Dhikr, counting the ayat you have heard each day. Only an ayah that plays all the way to its end is counted, so skipping past one records nothing. There is nothing to mark by hand: the app counts what it can actually hear. The record travels in your exported settings and to your other Macs with Settings sync, where the higher count for a day always wins.

  • Set your own target for any dhikr

    33, 100, a number of your own, or no target at all — count as long as you like, with nothing that says you have fallen short.

  • Two routines that walk the sequence for you

    After prayer and Before sleep; finish one step and the ring moves to the next on its own.

  • The meaning and pronunciation, right on the counter,

    in the language you already read the app in.

  • Edit Dhikr…

    Add a dhikr of your own, hide the built-ins you never reach for, and set a target on any of them. Backspace undoes a slip of the finger, and a finished round no longer erases today's count.

Improved

  • The Friday reminder opens Surat al-Kahf

    The reminder now carries a Read Surat al-Kahf button, and the Friday window has Read and Listen beside the same line. Each one takes you to your bookmark if you left one inside the surah, and to the beginning if you did not.

  • The adhan pauses the recitation

    If the Quran is playing when the adhan comes on, the recitation stops and picks up again from the same ayah once the adhan is finished. With Play dua after adhan switched on it waits for the dua too. Only what the adhan interrupted comes back: a recitation you had already paused stays paused.

  • Type an ayah's number and press Return

    Typing 18:45 into the search field has always offered a Go to row. Now Return takes it: the reader opens at that ayah and the search field clears itself. A search for words still waits for you to pick from the results.

  • Version History, when there is nothing to update to

    Checking for updates on a copy that is already current now offers a Version History button beside OK, which opens the changelog at the version you are running.

  • Resume where you left off, if you ask for it

    Settings › Quran gains Resume playback when returning to the Quran: leave the section mid-recitation and coming back picks the audio up by itself. It is off unless you turn it on, and a pause of your own is always respected.

"The best deeds are the ones that are small yet consistent" — a customer wrote that to us, asking for a counter that does not make her feel she has to finish a hundred. This release is the counter she asked for.

New

  • Set your own target for any dhikr

    33, 100, a number of your own, or no target at all — count as long as you like, with nothing that says you have fallen short.

  • Two routines that walk the sequence for you

    After prayer counts SubhanAllah, Alhamdulillah and Allahu Akbar thirty-three times each, then the tahlil to make a hundred. Before sleep counts tasbih, tahmid and takbir the way the Prophet ﷺ taught Ali and Fatimah. Finish one step and the ring moves to the next on its own.

  • The meaning and pronunciation, right on the counter

    Under the Arabic, in the language you already read the app in — no more opening a separate sheet to learn what you are saying.

  • Edit Dhikr…

    Add a dhikr of your own, hide the built-ins you never reach for, and set a target on any of them — from the counter itself or from the Habits window.

Improved

  • A finished round no longer erases today's count

    Count to your target, and going again starts fresh without losing what you already said. The ring tracks the round in front of you; your day's total is kept beside it and stays until the day rolls over.

  • Backspace undoes one count

    A slip of the finger no longer has to stand — something a physical tasbih cannot offer.

  • Settings › Appearance now fits a smaller screen

    The pane scrolls and sizes itself to its content, so every control is reachable on a 13" display.

Fixed

  • The complete tahlil's evidence pointed at the wrong hadith

    "La ilaha illa Allah, alone, without partner…" — the version said one hundred times a day — is narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari 6403; the shorter "La ilaha illa Allah" on its own keeps its own evidence, that the Prophet ﷺ described it as the best remembrance (Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3383). The counter now cites the right hadith for each.

2.1.3

One small blemish, gone: the panel’s shadow now follows its rounded corners.

Fixed

  • No more square corners peeking out

    The prayer panel’s shadow was drawn for a square window while the panel itself is rounded, so a little square edge poked out at each of the four corners. The shadow now hugs the curve.

2.1.2

Two small courtesies: tooltips that don’t make you wait, and a Diagnostics panel that introduces itself.

Improved

  • Tooltips appear in half a second

    Hover any of the panel’s footer tools, the calculation method line, or the location, and the explanation arrives while you are still wondering.

  • Diagnostics opens with your version

    The first row now reads the app’s version, build and edition — and the Contact Support email carries the same line, so you never have to look it up for us.

2.1.1

A small release that reads better: the recent translations, refined.

Improved

  • Translations polished in eleven languages

    The strings added in 2.0.0 and 2.1.0 went through a native-fluency review — clearer fasting counts, better face names, truer register — in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Bosnian, Persian, Hausa, and Chinese.

2.1.0

The sky comes to your desktop. A new widget follows the day the way the panel does — and every widget now wears the app's own colours.

New

  • The Sky widget

    The panel's header, in widget form: while the sun is up you get the sky as it is right now over your city, the sun on its arc, and the next prayer marked in gold with the time and countdown beside it. After dark it becomes the Lantern — navy, the lattice, and a ring that fills as the night runs towards Fajr, with the next prayer at its centre. Small and medium, and it keeps to your chosen face-switch times from Settings › Appearance.

Improved

  • Every widget wears Iqamah's colours

    The Lantern's navy behind all of them, gold where they used to reach for a system blue — the same palette as the panel, from the same source, so they cannot drift apart again.

  • Version numbers now follow semantic versioning

    (semver.org): the middle number means something new to discover, the last means fixes only.

Fixed

  • Isha marked after midnight now counts for the right day

    Isha's time runs until Fajr, but a mark made at half past midnight was recorded under the new day — lighting the wrong column in the habit tracker, and making a mark placed before midnight look unmarked again after it. A mark now belongs to the day the prayer's time began, wherever it is made: the panel, the reminder card, or a Shortcut.

2.0.0

A new face, and the days that do not fit a streak. Iqamah opens as a panel now, with the sky over your day drawn from your own prayer times, and every window has become one. You can mark a day you were not required to pray, and it stops counting against you instead of sitting there as a gap. Fasting gets a record of its own, and Ramadan gets a count of what you still owe.

New

  • The panel

    Click the menu bar item and a panel opens in place of the old menu: the sky as it is right now over your city, drawn from your own prayer times — first light at Fajr, gold at sunrise, orange at Maghrib, navy after Isha — with the sun on its arc and the next prayer marked in gold; the next prayer and the time until it; and every prayer of the day with a Mark prayed button on the one whose time it is. After Isha the panel wears its night face, the Lantern: navy, a lattice, and a ring that fills as the night runs towards Fajr. Choose either face for always, or let it follow the day, in Settings › Appearance. Right-click a prayer to mark it, unmark it, or excuse today. On macOS Tahoe the panel is Liquid Glass, like the system's own menus. The classic menu — Tools, Alert Mode, Settings, Help, Quit — is a right-click away.

  • One Iqamah window

    Today, the Hijri calendar, the prayer times table, Habits and Fasting are sections of one window with a sidebar, instead of five windows that each opened with a big title. Habits gains a tile for excused days and today's prayers as chips; Fasting shows what each day is — Mondays and Thursdays, the white days in gold, Ramadan — with your Ramadan count beside it; the calendar opens an event's evidence in a popover from its day.

  • Settings, the Mac way

    A toolbar of tabs over grouped forms. A new Appearance tab holds the menu bar item, with a live preview, and the panel: its face, when the faces change, how vivid the sky is, the Friday and white-days cards, the calculation method line, and the tools in the panel's footer.

  • A welcome worth arriving at

    First run opens under the same living sky the panel draws, and the app’s one first-run question — where your prayer times should come from — is the screen’s one focus.

  • Excused days

    Mark a day as excused and Iqamah stops counting its prayers against you. The day leaves your percentage entirely rather than reading as five prayers you missed, and your streak carries straight across it. Right-click any day along the top of the consistency grid. Excused days stay on this Mac unless you switch on including them in sync, and the reason you record never leaves it at all, whatever that switch says.

  • A fasting record, for the whole year

    Ramadan, the white days, Mondays and Thursdays, Ashura and Arafah each know what they are, and both Eids and the days of Tashreeq refuse the mark, because fasting is not permitted then.

  • A count of what you still owe

    Days excused or missed during Ramadan become days to make up, and marking a fast as a make-up takes one off the count. Iqamah tells you how many are left and how long until the next Ramadan. A fast you keep for its own sake, on a Monday say, is not treated as a make-up unless you say it is.

Improved

  • The menu bar title warms before it alarms

    Amber from the warning threshold, red in its last third — one setting, two steps.

  • The Tasbeeh counter is a small panel

    that stays beside your work; press Space to count. The prayer-break overlay shows the sky at that prayer's moment and can now record the prayer, or remind you in ten minutes.

  • The habit tracker is now free

    It used to need Pro. It is where excused days are marked, and a purchase prompt is the wrong thing to meet somebody with at that moment. The Hijri calendar, prayer times table, tasbeeh counter, and day planner still need Pro, and the menu they share is now called Tools rather than Pro Tools, because it is no longer all one thing.

  • The white days can be recorded, not just announced

    Iqamah has reminded you about them since 1.9.0 without giving you anywhere to say you had fasted them.

1.9.1

This release puts the changelog where you can find it, and fixes one number that some of you have been watching for months.

New

  • The changelog is now in the Help menu

    Help → Changelog opens the full history of what has changed in each release, in your browser. This dialog only ever shows you one release at a time, so if you skipped a few, the rest of them are there.

Fixed

  • Your completion percentage was too low, and had been since the habit tracker shipped

    Iqamah counted Duha and Tahajjud as though they were owed, alongside the five obligatory prayers, so the figure was always out of seven a day rather than five. Praying all five, every day, for a month showed as 71% — and there was no way to reach 100% without also praying both voluntary prayers every single day.

  • Voluntary prayers now add to your record instead of being counted against it

    Duha and Tahajjud are shown as their own figure beside the percentage. Nothing you have marked has been lost or changed — only the arithmetic that reads it. If your percentage jumps after this update, that is the correction, not a reset.

1.9.0

This release is mostly about time you never asked Iqamah to watch for you: the white days of the Islamic calendar, and what's already on your calendar today. It also fixes the reason some of you never saw a reminder at all.

New

  • Ayyam al-Beed, marked on the Hijri calendar

    The three white days of each Hijri month are now shown wherever Iqamah shows dates, with two optional reminders: a notice after Maghrib when they begin, and one before Fajr on each of the three mornings, in time for suhur. Both are off until you turn them on in Preferences → Occasions. Dhul-Hijjah's white days stop at the 12th — the 13th falls within the days of Tashreeq, when fasting is not permitted, so Iqamah doesn't offer it.

  • Calendar-aware prayer times Pricing

    Iqamah can now read the calendars you choose and suggest a time for each prayer that avoids what's already on your day. macOS has no way to say "just tell me when I'm busy" — reading busy times means full access to your calendars, so that's what Iqamah asks for. It only ever reads when an event starts and ends, never its title, guests, or notes.

  • Settings sync Pricing

    Iqamah can now keep your preferences — and your prayer-habit and dhikr history — the same across your Macs, through a file it writes into a folder you choose in iCloud Drive — a folder you can see, back up, or delete. A day marked on either Mac stays marked. Your location never leaves the Mac it's set on.

Improved

  • The closing-window reminder starts off

    "Tell me when a prayer window is closing," in Preferences → Notifications, had never once reached anyone either — the same permission problem meant it was never delivered. Now that notifications work, turning it on for everyone on this update would mean up to five extra notifications a day arriving unasked for, so it ships off instead. If you'd like it, switch it on in Preferences → Notifications.

  • Preferences reorganised

    The Notifications pane had grown crowded, so date-based reminders — Islamic dates and Ayyam al-Beed — moved to a new Occasions pane, and what stayed behind is grouped by what it's for.

Fixed

  • Notifications now actually arrive

    Iqamah had never once asked macOS for permission to show notifications, so every prayer alert, Friday reminder, and significant-day notice it scheduled was silently dropped by the system before you saw it. If you turned reminders on and never once saw one, this was why. Iqamah now asks for permission, and what it schedules is delivered.

  • Friday Focus opens

    Even with the reminder delivered, nothing in Iqamah ever opened the Friday Focus window for you — tapping the notification did nothing, and the only way in was the small card in the menu. If you told us the Friday reminder never showed you anything, this was very likely why. Friday Focus now opens itself once each Friday, and tapping the notification opens it too.

1.8.6

A small correction to 1.8.5. Nothing else has changed.

Fixed

  • The Pro Tools menu no longer says “Pro” twice

    Without a licence it read “Pro Tools (Pro)”. The name already said it.

1.8.5

When the times look wrong, the question is always the same: wrong compared to what? This release is about Iqamah answering that itself — where it thinks you are, which method it used, and what it is about to do — instead of leaving you to guess.

Nothing has changed about when Iqamah speaks. The same alerts, at the same times, with the same settings behind them.

New

  • The times say where they came from

    Underneath the prayer times you will now see the calculation method and the school being used. Two people whose Asr differs by half an hour can now see why in one glance.

  • A Diagnostics panel

    Under Help → Diagnostics. One page saying whether notifications are allowed, which location the times are for, what the next alert is and when, and — in the direct edition — the state of your license. Anything that needs fixing has a button that opens the right place to fix it.

  • Your prayer and dhikr records move with it

    The export now carries them too, so setting up a new Mac no longer starts your history over. Importing only ever adds: a day marked on either Mac stays marked, and nothing you have recorded can be overwritten by a file.

Improved

  • Contact Support sends the same page with it

    The support mail now arrives with that report already written into it, so the first reply can be an answer rather than a list of questions.

  • You can type your city before Iqamah asks for your location

    The welcome screen now offers both, city first. Using your current location is still there and still recommended; it simply no longer arrives as a system prompt before you have been told what it is for.

  • A tidier menu

    The Hijri calendar, prayer times table, habit tracker and tasbeeh counter now sit together under Pro Tools, instead of taking four lines of their own.

Fixed

  • VoiceOver reads the whole menu, not only the times

    The Hijri date, what is coming next, the calculation method and school, and the location are now all spoken. Until now they were drawn in a way VoiceOver could not reach, so the one line this release is named for was the one line it could not read.

  • Sixteen names stopped appearing in English

    The thirteen calculation methods, both Asr settings, and Check for Updates now read in your own language. They had been English in all eighteen — including English, which is how they went unnoticed.

  • Export Settings works, and now exports everything

    It had never been able to write the file it asked you to name. It also only ever saved settings you had explicitly changed, so importing left the rest as they were on the receiving Mac. An export now describes every setting, and importing one makes that Mac match the one it came from.

1.8.0

A prayer is not a moment — it is a window. Asr opens at 4:47 and stays open until Maghrib. Iqamah now understands that, and can tell you when a window is closing and you have not prayed in it yet.

Nothing you already use has moved. The menu bar, the dropdown, and Preferences all work exactly as before.

New

  • A gentle reminder when a window is closing

    If you have not prayed yet, Iqamah says so while there is still time — and stays quiet once the window has closed, or once you have marked the prayer. On by default; turn it off in Preferences → Notifications.

  • Optionally, when the preferred time is ending

    Off by default. The preferred time is configurable per prayer, because awwal al-waqt depends on your school and your circumstances.

  • Shortcuts and Siri

    Ask which prayer window you are in, or mark the current prayer as prayed, without opening the app.

Improved

  • Marking a prayer as prayed is now free

    It used to require Pro. Streaks and the habit stats window still do.

Fixed

  • VoiceOver can read and mark prayers

    With VoiceOver running, the menu bar lists each prayer and its time as an item you can check off. Previously it announced nothing at all.

  • Friday Focus reads correctly again

    The glowing border around the hadith was dragging the text with it, leaving words stacked on top of one another.

  • Notifications are translated

    Prayer alerts read their text in your language now; previously the sentence around the prayer name was always English.

  • One Iqamah in the menu bar

    Opening Iqamah while a second copy was around — an installed one alongside a disk image still mounted, say — could leave two icons in the menu bar. A launch now stands down for the copy already running.

1.7.8

A maintenance release correcting five language and layout problems. Prayer time calculation, notifications, and every other feature are unchanged, and your settings and prayer history carry over untouched.

Fixed

  • Right-to-left layout now follows your Mac

    If your Mac is set to Arabic, Persian, or Urdu, Iqamah showed the right words in a left-to-right layout unless you also picked that language inside Iqamah's own settings. Windows now mirror correctly either way.

  • Widgets follow the language you chose in Iqamah

    They read your Mac's language instead, so choosing Arabic in Iqamah on an English Mac produced a widget with Arabic prayer names beside English headings, laid out in the wrong direction.

  • The locked widget message is translated

    "Open Iqamah to unlock widgets." appeared in English in every language.

  • Upcoming Islamic dates read correctly

    The countdown said "183 days to Ramadan begins" where it should say "183 days to Ramadan."

  • Javanese and Punjabi

    were missing the event names used in that countdown.