your phone is taking you away from Allah.

A prayer lock app blocks distracting apps on your phone — Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube — until you complete your salah. The idea: replace the willpower battle with a structural one. When adhan calls, your distractions are gone until you pray. Niyyah is the first prayer lock app built specifically for Muslims, with prayer-time syncing to your local mosque calendar.

Niyyah uses iOS Screen Time APIs to lock the apps you choose during salah windows. When prayer time enters, the apps go silent. After you tap "I prayed" — or wait for the prayer window to close — your apps come back. You also track your prayer streak, build consistency, and watch your iman grow alongside it.

Niyyah is free to download and try. The full feature set — unlimited app blocking, all five daily prayer locks, prayer streak tracking, custom blocking schedules — is unlocked via subscription. 15% of every subscription goes directly to families in Gaza. Your faith strengthens your siblings too.

Any app on your iPhone. Most users block the obvious time-thieves — Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Threads, Reddit — but you can lock anything that pulls you away from salah. Games, browsers, even messaging apps if you need radical focus during prayer windows.

Yes. Once Niyyah has your location and prayer-time calendar loaded, the lock mechanism runs entirely on-device using iOS Screen Time. You can be on airplane mode and your apps will still lock at salah.

Not yet. Niyyah is built deeply on Apple's Screen Time API, which has no equivalent on Android. We're watching Google's Digital Wellbeing SDK closely — once a comparable system-level lock exists, we'll ship Android. For now, iOS only.

Yes. Niyyah is built by a Muslim, for Muslims. No haram imagery, no music, no tracking beyond what's required to lock your apps. The mission is straightforward: help you put Allah first by removing what stands between you and salah.