SalahNow for Android
SalahNow has no internet permission. Nothing you record in it can leave your phone, because the app has no way to send it anywhere.
Version 2.0 · Last updated 13 August 2026
You do not have to take this on trust. Android requires an app to declare every permission it holds, and Google Play shows that list publicly on the app's store listing. SalahNow does not declare INTERNET. An app without it cannot open a network connection at all — not restricted, not optional, not "only when you allow it". The operating system refuses.
Nothing. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifier, and no crash reporting service. The developer operates no servers and receives no data from this app, because none can be sent.
SalahNow does use open-source components for things like location, notifications and sharing. None of them can transmit anything, for the same reason the app cannot: the app holds no internet permission, so Android will not let any code inside it open a network connection. Every one is listed under Settings → About → Open-source licences.
All of this stays in the app's private storage on your device, and is deleted when you uninstall the app:
SalahNow asks for precise location. Prayer times depend on where you are, and the Qibla is a bearing from your position to the Kaaba — both are arithmetic, and both are done on your phone.
Precise location is requested rather than approximate for one reason: Android deliberately blurs approximate location to an area of one to three kilometres, which is not enough to name the district you are in. Because the app has no internet permission, that precision has nowhere to go. It is used on the device and stored on the device.
Place names come from a database inside the app. Earlier versions of SalahNow sent your coordinates to an online service to turn them into a name like "Jeddah". Version 2.0 does not. It ships an offline extract of the GeoNames database, so naming where you are no longer involves telling anyone where you are.
You can decline location entirely and choose a city by hand instead. The app works the same way afterwards.
Prayer notifications are scheduled by your phone from times calculated on your phone. Nothing is delivered from a server, and no push service is involved. If you turn notifications off, nothing is scheduled.
By default, Android copies an app's data to the user's Google Drive automatically. SalahNow turns this off.
This is worth stating plainly, because it is the one way your records could have left the phone without the app being involved at all: Android reads an app's files directly, and does not need the app's permission to do it. Having no internet permission would not have stopped it.
So automatic backup and device-to-device transfer are both disabled, at every Android version. The cost is real and deliberate: moving to a new phone will not carry your history across by itself. The backup file below is the way to move it — and it is the only transfer you can actually see.
SalahNow has no cloud backup, so a file you keep is the only way your history survives a lost phone. When you tap Save a backup, the app writes a file and hands it to Android's share sheet, and you choose where it goes — a messaging app, your own cloud drive, or your device's storage.
Anything that happens to that file after you choose a destination is governed by whichever app or service you sent it to, not by this policy. The developer never receives it.
The Quran reader can copy or share a verse. That sends the Arabic text — the same text bundled inside the app, with its reference and its source — to whichever app you pick from the share sheet. It carries none of your records: not your prayer history, not your location, not your reading position.
As with a backup, nothing moves until you choose a destination, and what happens after that is governed by the app you chose.
A few screens show web addresses — the licence page for the Quran text, and the publisher of the English translation. Tapping one copies it to your clipboard; the app cannot open a browser for you, because opening a link is itself a request and the app is built not to make any. What you then do with the address is entirely yours, and those sites have their own privacy practices.
| Permission | Why it is needed |
|---|---|
| Precise location | Calculating prayer times and the Qibla bearing, and naming your area from the bundled database |
| Notifications | Alerting you at prayer times |
| Exact alarms | Delivering those alerts at the right minute rather than whenever Android next batches them |
| Run at startup | Rescheduling your prayer alerts after the phone restarts, so they do not silently stop |
| Vibrate | The small tap you feel when you mark a prayer. Prayer notifications themselves are silent by default — no sound and no vibration |
There is no internet permission, no advertising ID permission, and no access to contacts, photos, files, the microphone or the camera.
SalahNow is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Two ways, both immediate and both entirely on your device:
There is no server to write to and no account to close, so there is nothing to request from the developer.
If a future version of SalahNow ever needs network access, this policy will be updated before that version is published, and the change will be visible in the app's permission list on Google Play.
Questions about this policy: valeedumar@gmail.com