Your Home screen
Choose Islamic as your community in Settings and your Home screen shows:
- Prayer times for the day, Fajr to Isha, for your location.
- Jumma, the Friday congregational prayer.
- Qibla direction, calculated from where you are to the Kaaba in Makkah.
- The Islamic (Hijri) calendar, with the option you follow: Shia, Bohra (Dawoodi or Misri), or Makkah (Umm al-Qura).
Prayer times, Qibla and the calendar are calculated on your phone, so the Islamic Home screen works offline, whether you’re on a train before Fajr or travelling abroad without data.
Choose the method you follow
Prayer times are set by the position of the Sun, but scholars and institutions have adopted different conventions, especially for Fajr and Isha, which depend on how far below the horizon the Sun must be. OIOA supports globally accepted methods, including Karachi (University of Islamic Sciences) and the Muslim World League, among others. Choose the one your mosque or community follows. Prayer-time methods explains the differences.
If your local mosque’s timetable differs from OIOA, it is worth checking which method and which Asr rule it uses. Congregation (jamaat) times are set by each mosque and are usually a little after the earliest prayer time; please follow your mosque for those.
The Islamic calendar options
The Hijri calendar has twelve lunar months, and communities fix the start of each month in different ways. OIOA lets you choose:
- Makkah (Umm al-Qura): the calculated calendar used officially in Saudi Arabia.
- Bohra (Dawoodi, Misri): the tabular, pre-calculated calendars followed by Bohra communities.
- Shia: the calendar option followed by Shia communities.
Many communities in India begin months, particularly Ramadan, Shawwal and Dhul Hijjah, by sighting the new crescent, and announcements are made locally. For those occasions, please follow your local announcement; OIOA’s date is a guide. The Hijri calendar and moon sighting and Umm al-Qura explain why the date can differ by a day.
Days that matter
Islamic dates fall about 11 days earlier each Gregorian year, so festivals move through the seasons. Our festival pages explain each occasion without publishing unverified dates:
In your language
The Islamic Home screen is available in Urdu and Arabic, as well as English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Assamese and Punjabi. The EN ⇄ local-language toggle switches the whole page. See multi-language.
Shared with every community
Alongside prayer times and the calendar, you get everything every community in OIOA shares: holidays and long weekends (including Eid and Muharram holidays on official lists), the GST calculator, cards, family, groups and reminders, for example a reminder before Jumma.
Learn more
- Hijri and Gregorian calendars
- How prayer times are calculated
- Asr: standard and Hanafi
- How the Qibla direction is calculated
- Shia and Bohra calendars
More on the Islamic Home screen
- Prayer-time methodsWhy Fajr and Isha differ between prayer-time methods such as Karachi and Muslim World League, and how to choose the method your mosque follows in OIOA.
- Qibla directionOIOA finds the Qibla direction from where you are using the great-circle bearing to the Kaaba. How it works, and how to get an accurate compass reading.