اوقات Awqāt [iOS][app][SwiftUI][spiritual]

Awqāt reimagines Islamic prayer time software through a dynamic visualization that maps twilight, sunrise, zenith, and sunset to location-based prayer schedules. The design translates complex data into an intuitive, easy to use interface. It is the most beautiful Islamic prayer time app on the App Store.

Impact:600+ downloads across 58 countries · 13.2K+ unique sessions

Role:Product Design, Visual & Interaction Design, SwiftUI Development (AI-assisted), UX Research, Competitor Analysis, Ethnographic Studies

Collaborators:Self-published

Link: apps.apple.com

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Why

Most Islamic prayer time apps treat sacred time like a utility, cluttered with ads, aggressive upsells, and countdown-driven interfaces that strip away the spiritual dimension of prayer.

How

A dynamic visualization that maps twilight, sunrise, zenith, and sunset to prayer schedules, reconnecting users to the ancient method of reading the sky, designed as an iOS app.

Impact

600+ downloads across 58 countries · 13.2K+ unique sessions

I set out to build a prayer time app that treated the spiritual dimension of prayer as a daily relationship with the sun and time.

Early and original sketches
Early and original sketches

The most popular apps run ads and aggressive upgrades, interrupting the spiritual experience.

A survey of prayer apps showing cluttered interfaces, ads, and in-product upsells
A survey of prayer apps showing cluttered interfaces, ads, and in-product upsells

Analog clocks in mosques placed an emphasis on function, form, and aesthetics.

Analog prayer time clocks in local Bay Area mosques
Analog prayer time clocks in local Bay Area mosques

Digital prayer time screens in mosques show a lack of aesthetic unity with surrounding architecture, revealing a weakness of the beauty regarding software within Islamic spaces.

Digital prayer time screens in mosques across the US
Digital prayer time screens in mosques across the US

By visualizing what is actually happening in the sky, the sun’s position along the horizon becomes the user interface for denoting the prayer times.

Diagrams pairing civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight with the five daily prayer times, mapping the sky's natural transitions directly to the moments of prayer.
Diagrams pairing civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight with the five daily prayer times, mapping the sky's natural transitions directly to the moments of prayer.

Precision timing and universal calculation methods for multiple schools of thought.

Sky and Day screens
Sky and Day screens

Designed by hand in Figma, I built the app in Xcode using LLM-assisted SwiftUI.

Development setup
Development setup

اوقات Awqāt
اوقات Awqāt

The response from the Muslim community was immediate and warm, proving that beauty and craft embedded in software will always win.

Messages and feedback shared through direct messages from known and unknown users
Messages and feedback shared through direct messages from known and unknown users

Awqāt has reached 600+ downloads across 58 countries with 13.2K+ unique sessions, with more work to still be done.

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Analog awqāt object and app icon
Analog awqāt object and app icon