Wake up for the jama'ah
Appointed Duty rings a full alarm before each jama'ah at your own masjid, on the times your masjid actually keeps. To silence it you have to finish a mission, so there is no snooze and forget.
That is a Google Play early access link. Appointed Duty is on Play internal testing today, so you join the testers and Play installs it like any other app. The iPhone version is still in development and is not on the App Store yet.
What it does
An alarm clock that knows your masjid's timetable. You pick the masjid once. The app keeps its times and rings you before the congregation, every day, without you setting anything again.
It rings before the jama'ah
Not at the adhan and not at a time you typed in. The alarm is set against the iqamah time your masjid publishes, and you choose how many minutes before it you want to be up.
A mission to silence it
Tap ten times, solve three sums, retype a phrase, shake the phone thirty times, or match a photo you saved in the app. Your choice, per prayer.
Gentle on a fresh install
Only Fajr arrives with a mission on a new install, and it is the easiest one there is. Every other prayer is a plain alarm with a stop button until you say otherwise.
It gets through a locked phone
The alarm lights the screen from off and shows over the lock screen, and it keeps ringing until the mission is done. There is a quiet pre-alert first, with a Skip if you are already awake.
Every prayer set its own way
Fajr on a weekday and Fajr on a Saturday can be different alarms. Each day and each prayer has its own row, so you set the week once and leave it.
It works offline
Two weeks of times are kept on the phone and refreshed overnight, so a dead signal in the morning does not cost you a prayer.
More than one masjid
Follow several and point individual alarms at whichever one you will actually pray at that day. Fajr at the one down the road, Jumu'ah somewhere else.
Your own alarm tone
On Android you pick the tone from your phone's own ringtones or a file you have. The app ships no audio of its own, so nothing sounds like a stranger's choice.
Skip it when you are already there
If you are at the masjid when the alarm is due, it can stay quiet. The app asks before this is ever switched on, and it is off until you say yes.
The extras
Hijri dates, the white days, the Friday golden hour, notes on a day, a walkthrough you can replay, and a backup file you can carry to a new phone. English, Arabic and Turkish.
Where the times come from
Four sources, and every one of them is a real published timetable. The app does not invent a time for your masjid.
- Mawaqit. The platform most masjids in Europe publish through. Search it by city, by masjid name, or by where you are standing.
- Masjidal. The timetable widget many UK and US mosque websites embed. Pick the masjid out of the app's own directory, or paste the widget link.
- A private masjid, joined by code. A masjid that is in no directory at all. Somebody hands you an eight character join code, or a link, and that is the whole of it.
- Islamiska Förbundet. A whole Swedish city's table, for places where the masjids all pray to the city timetable rather than their own.
How a masjid gets on it
If your masjid already publishes on Mawaqit or Masjidal, it is there now and there is nothing to do. If it publishes nowhere, it can be a private masjid and stay off every public list.
- The masjid gets its two codes A join code for the congregation and an admin code for whoever keeps the times. There are no accounts and no passwords anywhere in this. The code is the sign in.
- Whoever keeps the times sets them here The admin signs in at appointedduty.com/admin with the admin code and puts in the iqamah times. One row per change, so Ramadan is one entry and going back is another. A prayer the masjid holds no congregation for is left blank.
- The masjid shares a link or a QR code Every masjid has its own link on this site, and the page behind it draws a QR code you can print and put on the wall. Somebody points a camera at it, and the masjid is on their phone with nothing typed in.
- The times stay current on every phone A change made here reaches every phone that follows the masjid at the next sync. The name is the masjid's too, so one rename here renames it everywhere.
Worth saying plainly
There is no account. No sign up, no email, no password. Your masjids and your alarms live on your phone.
The app plays no adhan. It rings an alarm tone, the one you choose. When we say adhan we mean the adhan time, not a recording.
A private masjid publishes jama'ah times only. There is no adhan column and no sunrise in that timetable, so anything that counts from sunrise does not arm for that masjid. The app tells you before you join.
Android first. Appointed Duty is on Google Play internal testing right now, which is why the button above is an early access link. The iPhone version is being built and is not on the App Store.
Google Play early access. Free, and it stays free.