Prayer apps compared
These pages exist because people search for them, and because the version written by a product about its rivals is usually worth very little. So: every claim about another app comes from something its makers publish, each page prints its sources and the date they were read, and each one opens with what the other app does better.
The conclusion on all three is close to the same. Sutrah is not a replacement for a prayer app. It has no adhan, no Quran and no mobile app. It does one thing those apps do not: it puts salah into the work calendar other people book against.
Sutrah next to the apps people actually use
Muslim Pro and Sutrah
Different jobs · most people keep Muslim Pro
Muslim Pro is a full ibadah companion — prayer times, adhan, Qibla, the Quran, duas and much more. Sutrah is a scheduling tool that writes prayer blocks into Google Calendar or Outlook. They are not substitutes, and the honest answer for most people is to keep Muslim Pro and add Sutrah only if meetings are the problem.
Read the comparisonAthan by IslamicFinder and Sutrah
Overlapping · IslamicFinder wins on coverage
Athan is IslamicFinder's prayer-times app: azan alarms, a home-screen widget, prayer logging with streaks, the Quran, and Islamic and Ramadan calendars. Sutrah overlaps on times and habit tracking but exists to write blocks into a work calendar. On location coverage IslamicFinder is far ahead, and that gap is real.
Read the comparisonPillars and Sutrah
Opposite trade-offs · Sutrah asks for more
No, and it cannot be. Pillars is built so your location never leaves your phone, and it carries no advertising. Sutrah's core feature requires granting a web service permission to write to your work calendar. That is a real cost, and anyone who chose Pillars for its privacy model should weigh it deliberately rather than by default.
Read the comparison
Three options that are not apps
Worth ruling out before installing anything. One of these is the right answer more often than any product on this page.
Your masjid's printed timetable
The one option with actual authority behind it. Every calculated time on this site, and in every app on this page, is an astronomical estimate; your masjid's sheet is what your congregation prays to. If the two differ by a few minutes, the sheet wins.
A recurring event you make yourself
Free, private, takes five minutes, and genuinely works for a few weeks. It fails for two reasons worth understanding before you conclude you need software, and both are covered in the category guide rather than glossed over here.
Why a recurring block driftsNothing at all
If you already pray on time and nobody books over your afternoon, you do not have the problem any of this solves. Adding a tool to a working habit mostly adds notifications.
What to compare on, and what not to
Four questions separate these tools. Everything else is preference.
- Who else needs to see it? If the answer is nobody, a notification app is enough and the rest of this is noise.
- How much are you willing to grant? Reading your calendar is the price of placing a block in it. Some apps are built to know as little about you as possible, and that is a coherent position.
- Do you need coverage or depth? A reference site with millions of locations and a tool with a couple of hundred city pages are solving different problems.
- What does your masjid follow? Set whatever you use to that method and be done with it.
What is not a comparison point: whose prayer times are “right”. Two apps can show Asr ninety minutes apart and both be correct, because the Hanafi and Shafi’i schools use different shadow rules, and Fajr angles range from 12° to 19.5° across mainstream conventions. Those are differences between schools and conventions, not accuracy defects, and any page that frames them as a win is misleading you. See Hanafi and Shafi’i Asr and calculation methods compared.
If the calendar part is what you came for
What you get differs by platform, and the differences are large enough to read before signing up.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the best alternative to Muslim Pro?
- It depends entirely on what you want less of. For fewer ads and less data collection, Pillars is built around that. For wider location coverage and habit tracking, Athan by IslamicFinder. For getting prayer into a work calendar your colleagues can see, that is a different category of tool and Sutrah is one. Most people switching away from a companion app end up wanting a narrower app, not a better one.
- Which prayer app syncs with Google Calendar?
- Writing events into Google Calendar or Outlook is not in the published feature sets of the major prayer apps on this page, which are built around notifications on your phone. Sutrah exists specifically for that, and a plain ICS subscription is the other route. Both are different jobs from an adhan app rather than better versions of one.
- Do I have to stop using my prayer app to use Sutrah?
- No, and most people should not. Sutrah has no adhan, no Quran and no mobile app, so it is a poor replacement for a companion app and a reasonable addition to one. Running both is the normal configuration, not a compromise.
- How are these comparisons kept accurate?
- Each page names the specific pages and store listings it was written from and the date they were read, and claims are limited to what a maker publishes rather than assertions about what an app contains. Feature sets move. Anything out of date here is a mistake we want reported, not a position we are defending.
Last updated . Spotted something inaccurate about an app on this page? hello@sutrah.app.