WahidahHow to use Wahidah
What each part of the app does and where to find it. Wahidah is coming to Android first, and this guide describes that app. Search, or follow it from top to bottom.
Getting started
Wahidah opens with a short introduction: what it does, how prayer times are sourced, the Quran, daily practice and privacy. It then asks for the few things it needs, each only when you reach its screen.
Setting up
- Location. Allow it to find prayer times and the Qibla for where you are, or choose your city instead. Your location stays on your phone.
- Notifications. Allow them if you want prayer alerts. On Android 12 and newer, Wahidah also asks you to allow Alarms & reminders so alerts arrive on time. You can say “Not now” and change this later.
- Account. Optional. Sign in with Google for a free private backup, Family and the Dua Circle, or continue without one.
Your seven-day trial
Every new installation includes a seven-day Premium trial. It starts automatically, asks for no payment details and does not renew or charge. When it ends, the free app and your saved records stay as they are. Purchasing is not available yet.
Finding your way
The bottom tabs are Today, Together, Quran, Qibla, Dhikr and More. More holds everything else. More → App tour is a short guided walk through the real screens, and you can open it whenever you like.
Today
The next prayer
The top of Today shows the sky for your place, the prayer you are in, the next prayer, its time and a live countdown. After Isha it points to tomorrow’s Fajr.
The source of your times
Under the next prayer, a small mark names where the times come from. A gold mark such as “MUIS · Official timetable” means an official timetable is being used for today. A blue-grey “Calculated” mark means a recognised calculation method is being used. Tap it to open the settings that control this.
Marking prayers
After you pray, tap the circle beside the prayer. Tap again to undo. These are your own records and nothing checks them. Passed prayers appear quieter, the current one says “Now”, and the next one says “Next”.
Travelling
Use the I’m travelling control on the prayer card if you want to note that you are travelling. It does not move your location; update your location in Settings when you arrive somewhere new.
Reminders, Friday and the verse of the day
Today also shows gentle reminders for things you have not yet done, such as morning or evening adhkar and Quran reading. On Fridays it offers Surah Al-Kahf. The verse of the day can be read with its tafsir or shared as an image.
Location and prayer times
Choosing where you are
Tap Use my location and allow it, or search for your city and choose it from the results. The place and the way it was chosen are shown. A failed attempt never removes the place you already saved.
Official or calculated
By default prayer times are Automatic. Where an official authority publishes a timetable that Wahidah supports, for your place and today’s date, it is used and labelled as official. Everywhere else Wahidah uses a recognised calculation method for your region and labels it as calculated. An official timetable always takes priority.
Advanced prayer calculation
Open Advanced prayer calculation to choose a different method or the Hanafi time for Asr. This applies only where no official timetable is used. Reset to automatic puts everything back to the default.
Dates and clock
You can adjust the Hijri date by a day or two to match the calendar you follow, and choose a 12-hour or 24-hour clock.
Notifications
Prayer alerts
Switch alerts on or off for each prayer. Choose a sound for Fajr and another for the other prayers: Adhan, Gentle chime or Silent. You can also be reminded a few minutes before a prayer.
Alerts that arrive on time
Android only lets an app set exact alarms if you allow it. On Android 12 and newer, allow Alarms & reminders for Wahidah when asked, or from the Notifications screen. Without it, Wahidah still schedules every alert, but Android decides precisely when each one is delivered.
Tone
The short line under a prayer alert follows your Notification tone: Mix it up, Gentle, Reflective, Motivational or Minimal. Fajr keeps its own sentence. A change applies to alerts scheduled from then on.
Other reminders
Optional reminders include the Jumu’ah reminder, morning and evening adhkar, Surah Al-Kahf, sunnah fasts, Tahajjud and, in Ramadan, suhoor and iftar. They are off unless you switch them on, are kept quiet overnight, and are limited to a number you choose each day.
Night alarm
More → Night alarm sets a sound for Qiyam and for Fajr at times you choose. It is a notification with a sound, not a ringing alarm clock.
If an alert does not arrive
Check that notifications are allowed for Wahidah, that the prayer’s switch is on, the phone’s volume and Do Not Disturb, and that Alarms & reminders is allowed. Then open Wahidah once so it can set the alerts again.
Widgets
Wahidah has three free home-screen widgets. Press and hold an empty part of your home screen, choose Widgets and find Wahidah.
- Large (4×2) shows the next prayer with a live countdown, the dates, and the five prayer times with the next one marked.
- Compact (2×2) shows the next prayer and its countdown.
- Slim (4×1) shows the prayer you are in, the next one and the countdown.
Widgets show the source of the times, follow your phone’s light or dark setting, and open Today when tapped. They use the times the app has already worked out, so open Wahidah if a widget looks out of date.
Quran
Finding your place
Search by surah name, a verse such as 2:255, or a word. The surah list is below. Continue reading returns you to the place you saved.
Reading
Verse by verse shows each verse with its translation, and optionally its transliteration, which you can switch on in the reading settings. Reading shows the Arabic as a continuous page. Choose the Arabic style from the colour bar: Tajweed colours, IndoPak or plain Uthmani. A legend explains each Tajweed colour, and More → Tajwid Rules teaches the rules.
Verse actions
Tap a verse to Bookmark, Save my place, Copy, Share or read its Tafsir. Shared verses become an image that always shows the whole verse.
Listening
Tap Listen, or the play button beside a verse. The player lets you choose a reciter and move between verses, and continues with the screen off or while you use another app. Recitation streams over the internet; More → Quran downloads keeps recitation for offline listening.
Offline
The Arabic text and the English translation work without a connection. Tajweed colours, transliteration and tafsir are fetched when you use them and then kept where possible. If something is not available offline, Wahidah shows the plain Arabic and says so.
Completion plan
See Plans and records.
Qibla
The compass points to the Kaaba from where you are and shows the bearing and the distance. It needs your location and your phone’s compass. If it seems off, tap Calibrate and follow the figure-eight movement, and keep the phone away from magnets and metal. The compass lines up and gives a single gentle haptic when you face the Qibla.
Dhikr
Swipe to choose a dhikr, then tap to count. Goals of 33, 99 or 100 are available and you can keep counting past a goal. You can undo a tap or reset a count, with a confirmation. Haptics are on by default; a counting sound is off until you switch it on. The screen stays on while you are counting and rests again after a while.
Dhikr is free counting and has its own history. It is separate from Adhkar, which is a guided morning and evening session.
Adhkar and duas
Adhkar
More → Adhkar guides you through morning and evening remembrance, with the Arabic, transliteration and translation. Each item counts as you tap, and a session is complete when every item is done. Morning is offered from Fajr and evening from Asr. Its counts are separate from Dhikr.
Hisnul Muslim
A library of duas and remembrance for every occasion, with search and favourites. It is for reading and counting as you go, and it keeps no record.
Dua creator, 40 Rabbana duas and the 99 Names
The Dua creator lets you put duas of the prophets together into one of your own, with an optional opening and closing, and keeps it on your phone. It does not write anything for you. 40 Rabbana duas are the supplications in the Quran that begin “Our Lord…”. The 99 Names can be browsed and marked as learned.
Plans and records
- Quran completion plan (Premium) sets a finish date or your own pace and shows today’s portion. Tick it after each prayer or log the pages you read.
- History is a calendar of what you marked each day: prayers, Quran, dhikr and adhkar. There are no scores.
- Make-up prayers & fasts is a private count of what you are making up. It is separate from your daily prayer ticks.
- Ramadan helps you prepare, then keep the month day by day, with suhoor and iftar times from your prayer times.
- Badges shows what you have earned. You can share a badge as an image.
- Learn to pray teaches wudu and the prayer step by step, and the Islamic calendar shows today’s Hijri date and what is coming.
Together
Shared goals and leaderboards
Each week there are shared dhikr goals such as Salawat. Everyone’s completed sessions add to one total. You only see a total, never another person’s number. Leaderboards show names only, and you appear only after you choose to be listed. You can switch that off at any time without losing your own count.
Challenges
More → Challenges are daily, weekly and monthly goals read from what you already mark. A few daily challenges are free; the rest are Premium.
Dua Circle
Read requests for dua and answer with a gentle response: Ameen, Allahumma yassir or Allahumma barik. You can ask for dua yourself once a day with Premium and a signed-in account. Requests are screened before they appear, and you can report or hide anything. The Community Guidelines explain what is welcome.
Your own requests, the support they have received and the updates you can add are under My dua requests.
Family
A Family is a small circle that encourages one another, by invitation. Creating or joining one needs Premium. You invite people with a code, and each person chooses what to share. There is no ranking. A day someone keeps private shows only as private, and the app does not say why.
More tools
More is grouped into Remembrance, Your practice, Learn & tools, Personalise and Settings. Under Settings you will find Account, Premium, the App tour, Location, prayer times & dates, Notifications and About Wahidah, which lists the sources and credits for the Quran text, tafsir, recitation and adhan.
Themes and Muslimah mode
Themes
Wahidah follows your phone’s light or dark setting, or you can choose Light or Dark. Colour themes are part of Premium; without Premium the app shows its usual look and keeps your choice. Quran Tajweed colours stay the same in every theme.
Muslimah mode
More → Muslimah is an optional private switch that pauses prayer and fasting tracking on days you mark as excused, so your progress stays continuous. Prayer times and alerts continue, and fasting reminders pause. It stays on your phone and is never backed up, sent to analytics or shared with the community.
Account and backup
You never need an account. Signing in with Google adds a free private backup, and is needed for Family and the Dua Circle. Name, email and photo come from Google and are not published.
What is backed up
Prayer and fasting ticks, dhikr, adhkar and activity records, bookmarks and your saved place, favourites, plans, badges and your prayer-calculation settings. Never backed up: your location, Muslimah mode, notification settings and what you have downloaded.
Three different actions
- Sign out keeps your cloud backup and the records on this phone.
- Delete Wahidah account removes your cloud account and backup. The records on this phone stay.
- Erase data on this device removes the records on this phone. If you are signed in, a last backup is made first, then you are signed out. Your cloud account stays.
Full steps, and what is deleted, are on the account deletion page.
Help
- Prayer times look wrong. Check the place on Today and the source mark. If it says Calculated, open Advanced prayer calculation and compare the method with the one you follow.
- Location not found. Allow location for Wahidah in your phone’s settings, or choose your city instead.
- Alerts late or missing. See Notifications.
- A widget is out of date. Open Wahidah once so it can refresh the times.
- Tajweed colours or tafsir are not showing. They need a connection the first time. Plain Arabic is shown in the meantime.
Still stuck? Write to support@wahidah.app and say what you tapped and what you expected.