Terms of Use

Who provides SalahNow

SalahNow is written and published by Valeed Labs (Valeed Ummer Parachikkottil). It is distributed through Google Play. There is no company behind it beyond that, no support desk, and no team — correspondence goes to salahnowapp@gmail.com and is answered by a person.

The app is free, and is required to stay free

SalahNow costs nothing, shows no advertising, and contains no in-app purchases. That is not only a preference. The licence under which the app is permitted to carry Quranic content is conditional on the app remaining free of charge and free of in-app purchases, so introducing either would breach it. A build of this app that asks you for money is not a build we published.

The absence of purchases is enforced in the code, not only promised here: the test suite fails if a payments dependency ever appears in the project.

Prayer times are a calculation, not a ruling

SalahNow computes prayer times on your phone from your position, the date, and a calculation method you choose. It contacts no server and receives no timetable from anyone.

That calculation is astronomy, and astronomy is not the whole of the matter. Methods differ, and reasonably: scholars disagree about the twilight angles for Fajr and Isha, about the shadow ratio that begins Asr, and about what to do at latitudes where the sun does not set. The app offers the established methods and applies the one you pick. It does not decide between them, and it is not a religious authority.

Where the app and your local mosque disagree, follow your mosque. If a time looks wrong, check the method, the Asr rule, the high-latitude rule and any offsets in Settings before relying on it.

The Qibla is as good as your phone's compass

The Qibla bearing is exact arithmetic from your position to the Kaaba. Pointing it at the world is not: that depends on your phone's magnetometer, which is affected by metal, magnets, cases, speakers and vehicles. The app shows you how much it trusts the reading and asks you to calibrate when it does not. Treat a compass bearing as a good indication, not a survey.

Notifications may not arrive, and often that is not the app

Prayer alerts are scheduled with Android's alarm services and delivered by your phone. Several things outside the app can stop them: notification permission withdrawn, exact alarms disallowed, the phone in a silent or focus mode, or — most commonly — a manufacturer's battery manager closing the app after you swipe it away. Several popular makes ship one of these, and no application programming interface lets an app override it.

The app tells you when it can detect this and points you at the setting. Do not rely on SalahNow as your only means of knowing a prayer time has come.

The Quran text in the app

The reader carries the Arabic text of the Quran from the Tanzil Project (tanzil.net), used under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and bundled unmodified, copyright notice included. Tanzil's terms forbid altering the text, and the app does not: the files it ships are byte for byte the files it was given.

The reader contains no English translation of scripture. Two verses quoted in the app’s information sheets are shown with an English translation from QuranEnc.com (Rowwad Translation Center), unchanged and with its footnotes, its source and its version named, as QuranEnc’s terms ask.

Place names come from GeoNames, under Creative Commons Attribution. Every open-source component is listed in the app under Settings → About → Open-source licences.

What you may do with it

Use the app on any device you like, for as long as you like. You may copy or share a verse, and you may keep and move your own backup file. You may not sell the app, redistribute it as your own, extract its bundled Quran text for another product, or remove the attributions that its content licences require.

Your records are yours

Everything you record stays in the app's private storage on your phone. There is no account to lose and no server to close down. If you uninstall the app, it goes with it — which is why Settings → Save a backup exists, and why we say plainly that a backup is a file you keep. What SalahNow stores and why is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms.

No warranty

SalahNow is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. It is not guaranteed to be uninterrupted, error-free, or correct for every location, calendar or configuration. To the fullest extent the law allows, the developer is not liable for any loss arising from use of the app — including a prayer time shown incorrectly, an alert that did not arrive, or records lost with a phone.

Nothing here limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing here affects your statutory rights as a consumer.

Which country's law applies

Valeed Labs is registered in India, and these terms are governed by Indian law. Every set of terms has to name one country; that is the one.

Naming it does not take anything away from you. If you live somewhere else, the mandatory consumer protections of your own country still apply, and where they conflict with anything on this page, your protections win and the conflicting sentence does not apply. You keep the right to bring a claim in your local courts wherever your law gives you that right. There is no arbitration requirement here and no clause asking you to waive a remedy.

If something does go wrong, write to salahnowapp@gmail.com before anything else. The app is free, one person reads that address, and nearly everything is easier to fix than to argue about.

If these terms change

They may be updated when the app changes. The version and date at the top of this page always say which text is current, and a substantive change will be described in the app's release notes rather than slipped in quietly.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or about anything else: salahnowapp@gmail.com. Problems are easiest to act on through Settings → Report a problem, which writes down what the app knows about itself and lets you read every word before sending.