Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

My Athan shows Islamic prayer times, plays the athan, provides a qibla compass and teaches salah and wudu with a 3D guide. It is built to collect as little as possible: no advertising and no tracking. The iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV apps have no analytics; the website and the Android app use the limited, cookie-free visit counting described below.

Your location

Your location is used only to calculate prayer times and the qibla direction for where you are.

Prayer times. Your coordinates are sent to the AlAdhan prayer-times API (aladhan.com) to get the prayer schedule for that place. The qibla direction is calculated on your device.
Lock Screen countdown (Live Activity). While the countdown is turned on, the app sends our server your location rounded to about 1 km, the place's time zone, your calculation method and the push tokens iOS gives the countdown, so the server can move it on to the next prayer and restart it when iOS ends it. They are used only for that and deleted when you turn the Live Activity off (if you are offline, the app sends the request again later), when iOS reports the tokens are no longer valid (for example after you delete the app), an hour after iOS ends a countdown, and in any case after 30 days without contact from your device.

Your location is never sold, never used for advertising and never shared for any other purpose.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app schedules prayer-time alerts on your device.

No account

My Athan has no accounts and no sign-in. On Apple devices, your language, calculation method and alert choices sync between your own devices through your iCloud account (Apple's iCloud key-value storage); we never receive them. Your prayer log, Quran downloads and everything else you do in the app stay on your device.

Earlier test versions offered an optional Sign in with Apple to sync those settings through our server. That has been removed and the server no longer accepts or returns that data.

What we do not do

No advertising and no advertising identifiers.
No tracking, and no third-party SDKs that collect data.
No data sold or shared with data brokers or advertisers.

Services the app connects to

These services receive the requests needed to provide their content, which, like any web request, includes your IP address:

AlAdhan: prayer times (receives coordinates and calculation method).
On Android, the phone's built-in location service turns your position or a city you type into a place name, and the app asks AlAdhan for two months of prayer times at a time so the athan can play when the app is closed. Your approximate location is read only while the app is open.
Quran.com, QuranicAudio and AlQuran.cloud: Quran text, translations and recitation audio.
Apple Push Notification service: delivers Live Activity updates.
Qurango, MP3Quran and Radiojar: the Quran radio stream, only while you play it.
Apple: place names and city search (Apple Maps) and iCloud settings sync.
ipapi.co estimates an approximate location from your network connection on Apple TV and Android TV, which have no GPS, and on the website if you don't share your location.
Cloudflare hosts the website and the screens of the Android app. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page visits and load times there without cookies and doesn't identify you.
On the website, OpenStreetMap Nominatim finds place names and Zippopotam looks up ZIP codes.

In the iPhone, iPad and TV apps the 3D lessons and the athan recordings are built in; on the website and in the Android app the lessons load from myathan.app. The lessons send nothing about your device or how you use them.

Contact

Questions about this policy: email support@myathan.app or use the support page. If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply to you; messages sent through the support page are deleted from our server after 180 days. To have anything we hold about you erased sooner, email us.