Athan Pulse has no account system, no analytics and no server of its own. It collects nothing about you.
Last updated 1 September 2026
The rest of this page explains what the app keeps on your device, and the four moments it reaches anything outside it — including one that sends your coordinates to a mapping service — so you can check the claim rather than take it on trust.
Everything the app knows about you lives in the app's own storage on your phone:
None of it is transmitted anywhere. It is not backed up to us, because there is no "us" to back it up to — no account, no cloud sync, no database. Your device's own backup (iCloud or Google) may include it, in the same way it includes any other app's data, and that is governed by Apple's or Google's policy rather than ours.
Deleting the app deletes all of it. The app also has a Reset preferences and an Erase everything control under More → Privacy, if you want to clear it without uninstalling.
Prayer times depend on where you are, so the app asks for your location. If you would rather not grant it, you can pick a city from a bundled list, enter coordinates by hand, or drop a pin — the app works fully without location access.
The app never asks before it has told you why. No permission dialog appears on launch. Every one of them — location on the setup screen, on the qibla screen, or in Settings — appears only after a screen has explained what the data is for, and only when you tap the button asking for it. Declining is a normal outcome the app is built to handle, not a dead end.
Prayer times themselves are calculated entirely on your device, with the adhan library. No network request is made to work them out, which is why the timetable works with no signal at all. Your coordinates are never sent to us — we run no server that could receive them.
They are, however, sent to one third party in one situation, and that deserves stating plainly rather than burying: to show the name of the place you are in, the app sends your coordinates to OpenStreetMap's Nominatim service to look up the city. See the table below.
The qibla screen draws a dial that turns as you turn, which means reading the phone's orientation — its compass and the motion sensors iOS uses to keep that reading level when the phone is tilted. iOS may ask your permission for motion data the first time you open that screen.
Nothing from these sensors leaves your device, and nothing is stored. The readings exist only while the qibla screen is open, are used only to rotate the dial, and are discarded as you close it. They are not recorded, not logged, and not sent anywhere — there is nowhere to send them to. The bearing to the Kaaba is worked out on your device from your coordinates by ordinary geometry.
If the dial ever looks wrong, that is the phone's magnetometer needing calibration rather than anything to do with data: wave the phone in a figure eight, and keep it away from magnets and metal, including magnetic cases and car mounts. The app now tells you when the sensor reports itself as uncalibrated instead of quietly pointing you the wrong way.
Four cases. None involves a server we operate, and all but the first happen only in response to something you do.
| When | What goes out | To whom |
|---|---|---|
| The app shows your city name, after you grant location or drop a pin | Your coordinates, to look up the place name | Nominatim, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation |
| You open the drop-a-pin map | The map area being viewed, in order to draw the map | Apple Maps on iOS, Google Maps on Android |
| You download a Quran translation | Which translation you asked for | Our static file host. No account, no identifier — an anonymous file download |
| You send feedback | Whatever you type, plus the app version and your settings if you tick the box to include them | Opens your own email app; nothing is sent until you press send |
The place-name lookup is the one worth understanding, because it is the only case where your precise location reaches anyone else. It happens when the app resolves your coordinates to a readable city name for the header and your saved places. Nominatim is operated by the non-profit OpenStreetMap Foundation under its own privacy policy; it receives the coordinates and your IP address, and no identifier that ties either to you. If you never grant location and pick a city from the bundled list instead, this never happens.
Maps are contacted only while that screen is open, under Apple's and Google's own policies — Apple, Google.
Tapping an external link opens the site you chose, which then sees an ordinary web request from your browser.
Prayer reminders are scheduled locally, by your phone's operating system, from times calculated on your device. Athan Pulse does not use push notifications, holds no push token, and has no server capable of sending you anything. Turning notifications off in the app or in system settings stops them completely.
The services named in the table above are the exceptions, and they are exactly that — a map, a place-name lookup and a file download, each doing the job it says on the tin. None of them is an analytics or advertising service, and none receives an identifier that would let it build a profile of you across sessions.
The app is free, and stays free. It is not funded by your data.
Athan Pulse is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, children included. Because nothing is collected, there is nothing to request deletion of and no account to verify.
Laws such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing to disclose or erase on our side. The data on your device is already entirely under your control: view it in the app, clear it with Erase everything, or delete it by uninstalling.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change ever meant the app started collecting something, that would be said plainly here and in the app before it took effect.
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with data: yahyaelfard.ye@gmail.com.