Last updated: 15 August 2026 · Disclaimer
SajdaTime does not collect, store, or share any personal information. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking of any kind.
SajdaTime works out prayer times and the direction of the Qibla from your approximate
location. To do that it asks for the approximate location permission
(ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION). It reads your location only while the app is open,
never in the background.
Your coordinates are saved on your own device so the app still works with no signal. They are never sent to us or to anyone else. We have no server, so there is nowhere for them to go.
You can refuse the location permission entirely and type a city name instead. The app is fully usable that way.
If you choose to type a city name rather than use your location, that name has to be turned into coordinates. The app first tries to do this using the lookup service built into Android itself. If your device cannot resolve it, and only then, the city name you typed is sent once to Open-Meteo, a free geocoding service, which sends back the coordinates.
What is sent is the place name you typed and nothing else — no identifier, no device information, no account, nothing that says the request came from you. The app tells you this is going to happen before it does it. Nothing about that lookup is stored by SajdaTime beyond the coordinates it gives back, which stay on your device.
To be completely straight with you about the part we do not control: like almost every web service, Open-Meteo keeps ordinary server logs, and their terms say those logs are deleted after 90 days. Those logs will contain the request and the internet address it came from. We have no access to them and we receive nothing back from Open-Meteo except the coordinates. We mention it because a policy that quietly stops at our own front door would not be an honest one.
Open-Meteo's data is used under the CC BY 4.0 licence.
When a paired watch is present, your settings and location are sent to it over Google's local Data Layer so the watch can work out prayer times on its own. This travels directly between two devices that belong to you. It does not go to a server, and it does not reach us.
SajdaTime is suitable for all ages and is not directed at children specifically. It collects nothing from anyone, of any age.
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION — to calculate prayer times and the Qibla. Foreground only.POST_NOTIFICATIONS — to tell you when a prayer time arrives.SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM — so a prayer alert arrives at the right minute
rather than whenever the system feels like it.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — to restore your prayer alerts after the phone restarts.INTERNET — used only for the optional city-name lookup described above.WAKE_LOCK — so the tile can refresh its countdown.If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be published on this page with a new date at the top.
Questions about privacy, or about the app in general, can be raised at github.com/aliimrankhan86/SajdaTime/issues.
SajdaTime is a helper, not a religious authority.
These times are not supplied by a mosque, a scholar, or any authority. Your own phone works them out from the position of the sun, using calculation methods that Islamic authorities and scholars have published. The app is written by one person who is not a Mufti, Aalim, or an expert in fiqh, and it was built with the help of artificial intelligence. Software can carry faults, a phone can hold the wrong location or the wrong clock, a phone saving its battery can delay an alert, and the author can simply be wrong.
So please take what the app shows as a calculation and not a ruling. Where SajdaTime and your mosque disagree, follow your mosque. If a time or a direction looks off to you, or you are unsure, ask them or someone else qualified to advise you.
Mosques do not all agree on when a prayer starts, and Isha varies the most. In Britain and further north the gap between one published method and another can exceed an hour, because scholars measure the fading of the twilight differently. SajdaTime cannot settle that and does not try to: it lets you choose the method your mosque follows, and adjust each prayer by hand if minutes still separate you. Separately, the app shows when a prayer becomes due; your mosque then sets its own later time for the congregation, so the board there and the times here will often differ, and neither is wrong.
SajdaTime is provided free of charge and as it is, with no warranty of any kind and no promise of accuracy, express or implied. Where being exact matters to you, please do not rely on it alone. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the author accepts no liability arising from its use. Nothing here limits any right you have that cannot lawfully be excluded.