| Version | 2.0 |
| Size | 1.0 MB |
| Android | 7.0+ |
| Developer | AI Tech |
Some apps try to do everything. This one does one thing: it plays the call to prayer, at the right time, five times a day. Azan Time Reminder is 1.0 MB — roughly the size of a single photo — and that smallness is not a limitation I worked around. It is the design.
The times are calculated on your phone
There is no server behind this app, and no internet connection feeding it times. The prayer times are calculated on the device itself, using the Karachi method — 18 degrees for Fajr and Isha — with Hanafi Asr, the calculation most of us in this region actually follow. While building it, I checked the times against the Aladhan reference, because numbers on a prayer screen are numbers a developer should be able to stand behind.
Because the calculation lives on the phone, the app works the same in a city flat and in a village where the signal is a rumour. Your Maghrib does not depend on anyone's server being awake, anyone's website being up, or your data package having balance left in it. The phone knows the sun's schedule. That is all it needs.
The azan itself
At each prayer time, the app plays the full azan. The complete call — not a beep, not a notification tone, not a ten-second piece of it. I chose the voice with care: a young creator's azan recording, trimmed down to the call itself, under fifty seconds of pure azan with nothing before it and nothing after it.
That choice mattered to me, and I will tell you why. A ringtone announces a phone call. The azan announces something else entirely, and it should sound like itself when it comes out of a small speaker in a quiet house at Fajr — unhurried, complete, and unmistakably what it is.
There is a thing that happens in a house where the azan plays properly, five times a day, in a real voice. The day gains edges. Work stops having to guess when to pause; the pause announces itself. Children learn the shape of the day by ear before they learn to read a clock. I did not fully understand that when I started building this — I thought I was making a reminder. A reminder is for something you might forget. The azan is closer to a heartbeat for the house. The app just keeps the beat audible.
Switches that respect how houses actually run
Every prayer has its own switch. A master switch sits above them all. That is the entire control system, and it maps onto how people really live.
Many houses keep Fajr and Maghrib loud and let the working-day prayers stay quiet. Someone working nights needs a different pattern again. A student in a shared room needs another. A small shop may want the call at full voice through the day and silence after closing. Set each prayer the way your house needs it, and the app follows your pattern without arguing, without resetting itself, without opinions. Whenever you open the app, a live countdown shows the time left until the next prayer, so one glance is all it takes to plan the next hour.
On Fridays, Jummah takes the place of Dhuhr, because Friday is not a normal day and the app should not pretend otherwise.
Where you are, without fuss
The app starts with the coordinates of Kehror Pakka — my own town, where it was built and first used — and stays on them until GPS or your own choice says otherwise. If you would rather pick than be located, a list of sixteen Pakistani cities is built in as a fallback. Choose your city once, and the times follow it from then on.
No account. No sign-up. And the app tracks nothing about you, because there is nothing in it that could. It asks for your city, not your life story.
When the phone changes, or you travel
Phones get replaced. Cities change for a week at a time. The app treats both as ordinary events. On a new phone, the whole setup is the same one minute as the first day: install, open the status card, allow what it asks, test the azan once, pick the city. There is no account to recover and no data to move, because there was never an account, and the app kept nothing of yours to lose.
On a journey, the countdown and the city list do the quiet work. Visiting family in another city, pick the city and the times follow you. Come home, and pick yours back. The azan does not care whose roof it is playing under. It only needs to know where the sun is — and the phone already knows that.
The status card: the app shows you it is ready
Here is the feature I care about most, and it is not a glamorous one. Azan Time Reminder has an Azan Status card — one screen that tells you, in plain language, whether the next azan alarm is actually set, whether notifications are allowed, how high the alarm volume really is, and whether your phone's battery settings are arranged in a way that lets the app do its work on time.
Why does readiness deserve a whole screen? Because modern phones guard their batteries fiercely, and every phone maker handles background apps a little differently. The honest way to deal with that is not to hope — it is to check, once, with your own eyes. So the first-day setup includes one guided minute: the app walks you, step by step, to the exact battery setting that gives it permission to run on schedule, and the status card confirms the result in words, not in codes. Allow it once, and you never think about it again.
Two small habits complete the setup. First, use the test option while you are awake and free. Hear the azan in the daytime, and set the volume at the level that will genuinely reach you at Fajr — not the level that sounds polite at noon. Second, after setup, do not swipe the app away from your recent apps. On some phones, that gesture tells the system the app is finished, alarms and all. Leave it sitting there. It costs you nothing. It is one megabyte.
From then on, the status card keeps telling you the truth. Open it whenever you change phones, change settings, or simply want to be sure before a journey. Thirty seconds of looking beats a month of assuming.
Small on purpose
The app is 1.0 MB and runs on Android 7.0 and above. That is a deliberate mercy, not an accident of scope. The phones that most need a dependable azan are rarely the expensive new ones. They are the older handset on the kitchen shelf that stays plugged in all day. The second phone. The one passed down to a parent, whose owner does not want twelve features and a tutorial — who wants to hear the call, on time, in a voice that sounds like the call.
An app that asks almost nothing of the phone gets to live on all of them. It needs no internet. It keeps no account. It shows no interest in your data, because it collects none.
Who keeps an app like this
The kitchen-shelf phone, plugged in beside the stove, whose whole second career is telling the house what time it is for prayer. A father's phone, set up once by his son in about a minute, which he never has to touch again. A small shop, where the call marks the day better than any clock on the wall. A student in a hostel room in another city, whose times follow her when she picks her city from the list.
Different houses, same one job. That is the whole market this app was built for, and it is a bigger market than the feature-list apps seem to think.
Its bigger and listening relatives
Azan Time Reminder has two relatives, and it is worth knowing which job belongs to which. If you want the full companion — the complete Quran inside the phone, duas, a Qibla compass, tasbeeh, prayer and fasting trackers — that is NURORA, my bigger Islamic app. Plenty of people run both: NURORA for reading and the daily routine, this one purely for the call. And if your Quran time is mostly listening — recitation with the Urdu translation playing after each ayah, in a choice of reciters' voices — that is QuranVerse World. Each app does its own job. This one's job is the call.
What I tell my own family
When I set this up on a phone in my own family, the whole ceremony takes about a minute, usually with the kettle on. Install it from the download button on this page. Open the status card. Allow what it asks for. Test the azan out loud once, set the volume honestly, and leave the app alone in the recents.
After that, the phone on the shelf does the remembering for all of us, five times a day. That is the entire promise of this little app — nothing more, and I have tried to make sure it is nothing less.
