Prayer times you can check
Ya Habibi calculates every prayer time on your phone from your own location, your chosen method and your school, and reads the Qibla from the same position. Nothing is read off a timetable, and the app will show you how it arrived at each one.
A timetable hands you a number, Ya Habibi hands you the number and the sum behind it.
What it does
Your location, not your city
Sunrise arrives earlier the higher you are, by about seven minutes at 2,250 metres. Times are computed from your coordinates and elevation rather than a city average, and your location stays on your device.
Your method and your school
The calculation methods scholars actually use, and the Asr difference between the Hanafi position and the others, set once and applied everywhere. The settings screen prints the Fajr and Isha each method would give you before you choose it.
The countdown, and the next prayer
The home screen is the tracker: what is now, what is next, how long you have, and the five times of the day in one line you can read at a glance.
The Qibla, wherever you are standing
A compass giving the true great-circle bearing to the Kaaba from your own coordinates, working offline, and honest when the phone's sensor is unsure rather than quietly pointing somewhere wrong.
Honest at high latitude
In a British summer an eighteen degree Fajr angle is never reached for weeks at a time. The app says so and applies a stated rule, rather than printing a blank or a number it cannot justify.
Show the working
Every prayer opens the calculation behind it: the method, the angle, the school, your coordinates, your elevation and the rule applied where the angle could not be reached. If we cannot show how we know a time, we do not assert it.
Worth knowing
- Ya Habibi calculates rather than copying a published timetable, so where your mosque rounds or fixes a time, the two can differ by a few minutes.
- The compass is the phone's, not the app's. Move away from laptops, speakers and steel, and follow the calibration prompt when it appears.
Questions people ask
Does it work without a signal?
Yes. Prayer times are computed on the device from astronomy, and the Qibla needs only your position and the compass, so both are correct on a plane, in a basement or abroad with data off.
Can I see why a time is what it is?
Every prayer opens a sheet that states the method, the angle, the school, your coordinates, your elevation and the rule used if the angle could not be reached.
Does it follow my local mosque's timetable?
No, and it says so. Ya Habibi calculates rather than copying a published timetable, so where your mosque rounds or fixes a time, the two can differ by a few minutes.
Why does the Qibla needle wobble?
That is the phone's magnetometer, not the app. Move away from laptops, speakers and steel, and if the app shows a calibration prompt, follow it.