Can IslamicFinder send prayer times to my calendar?

Calendar sync is not part of what IslamicFinder publishes about Athan or its website. What it does offer is printable monthly timetables and an Islamic calendar view, which are a different thing: a reference you consult, rather than events sitting in the calendar other people book against.

Does Sutrah have my town?

Probably not as a page. Sutrah publishes 212 city pages; IslamicFinder states coverage of more than six million locations. If your town is not listed, the printable timetable will still generate an accurate month from raw coordinates, and a signed-in account uses your exact location rather than the nearest city.

Is a qada ledger the same as a prayer streak?

No, and the difference is deliberate. A streak rewards an unbroken run and breaks when you miss. A ledger records what is owed and clears it as you make it up. Both help people, and plenty prefer the streak — Athan has one and Sutrah does not.

Which has better Ramadan support?

Athan carries Ramadan timings inside the app alongside everything else it does. Sutrah publishes Ramadan timetables for a smaller set of cities but measures each fast from Fajr to Maghrib rather than sunrise to Maghrib, a gap of over an hour at mid latitudes that many published timetables blur.

Overlapping · IslamicFinder wins on coverage

Athan by IslamicFinder and Sutrah: coverage against placement

Last updated 17 September 2026

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.

How this was checked

Everything below about Athan by IslamicFinder comes from material IslamicFinder.org publishes, read on 17 September 2026. Where this page says a capability is not listed, that means it does not appear in that material — not that the app cannot do it. Feature sets move; if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@sutrah.app and it gets corrected.

What Athan by IslamicFinder does that Sutrah does not

IslamicFinder publishes prayer times for more than six million locations and has been the reference other prayer-time sites cite for years. Sutrah has 212 city pages. If you live somewhere small, IslamicFinder almost certainly has your town and Sutrah almost certainly does not — though the printable timetable will still take raw coordinates.

The closest overlap on this page

Of the prayer apps people compare Sutrah to, Athan is the one that overlaps most. Both publish prayer times as a monthly table. Both offer a way to record the prayers you have prayed. Both do Ramadan. IslamicFinder has been the reference other prayer-time sites cite for years, and the Athan app carries a great deal on top of the times: the Quran with audio, duas and athkar, a tasbeeh counter, Qibla, a menstrual mode, and Hajj and Umrah guides.

So this is a real comparison rather than a category mismatch. It just does not end where a comparison page usually ends.

Coverage, where Sutrah loses

IslamicFinder states prayer times for more than six million locations. Sutrah has 212 city pages. That is not close, and it is not going to get close, because the two are built for different things: IslamicFinder is a reference for everywhere, and these pages exist to answer a search for a specific city with a real answer rather than a database row.

The practical consequence is narrower than the number suggests. If your town has no page, the printable timetable takes any latitude and longitude on earth and prints a month with the coordinates, timezone, calculation method and qibla bearing on the sheet so anyone can check it. A signed-in account uses your actual location, not the nearest listed city. But if what you want is a web page for your town, IslamicFinder has it and this site very likely does not.

Tracking: a streak and a ledger

Athan is built around daily goals — log the five prayers, complete a Quran goal, keep a salah streak. A lot of people find that genuinely motivating, and for someone rebuilding the habit it can be the whole point of the app.

Sutrah has a qada ledger instead, and it has no streaks at all. It records what is owed and clears entries as they are made up. The reasoning is that a broken streak is a bad piece of feedback for someone already behind, and a counter that only goes down is easier to face. That is a design opinion, not a finding. If a streak is what keeps you praying on time, that is an argument for Athan, not against it.

Ramadan, and one number worth checking

Both publish Ramadan timings. Sutrah covers 55 cities on the public Ramadan pages, each with suhoor end, iftar, and the measured length of every fast.

One detail there is worth knowing whichever tool you use: a fast runs from Fajr to Maghrib, not from sunrise to Maghrib. The two differ by roughly 71 to 101 minutes across the cities in that set, and “length of day” figures on timetables sometimes quote the shorter one. Ours is measured from Fajr, and says so on the page.

The gap neither coverage nor tracking closes

An azan alarm fires when the prayer begins. A widget shows you the countdown. Both are useful and neither helps at the moment that actually costs people their prayers, which is three days earlier when a colleague opens your calendar, sees an empty 4pm, and books it.

That is the part Sutrah does: real events in Google Calendar, Outlook or an Apple Calendar subscription, recalculated nightly, and on Google and Outlook placed in a genuine gap inside each prayer’s window rather than at a fixed clock time. If your day is not booked by other people, this buys you nothing and Athan is the better tool. If it is, no notification app can reach the problem. The category guide works through that distinction without naming products.

At a glance

Read the rows about Athan by IslamicFinder as a summary of what its makers publish, not as a verdict on the app.

Dimension	Athan by IslamicFinder	Sutrah
Location coverage	IslamicFinder states prayer times for more than six million locations.	212 city pages. The printable timetable accepts any latitude and longitude, so anywhere is reachable, just not as a page.
Notifications	Azan alarm notifications for each prayer, plus a home-screen widget.	Whatever your calendar is set to give you. Sutrah adds no notification layer of its own.
Writing events into Google Calendar or Outlook	Not in the published feature list. IslamicFinder's Islamic calendar and monthly timetable are views and printouts, not a sync into your own calendar.	The entire product, on Google and Outlook, with an Apple subscription feed as the third option.
Tracking prayers you have prayed	Daily goals, prayer logging and salah streaks, with a menstrual mode that marks prayers excused.	A qada ledger for making up missed prayers, written as a ledger rather than a streak.
Ramadan	Ramadan timetables with sehri and iftar times inside the app.	Ramadan timetables for 55 cities on the public site, with each fast measured from Fajr rather than sunrise.
Price and ads	Free. The Google Play listing declares that it contains ads and offers in-app purchases; an Athan Pro subscription removes ads.	Free, no card, no ads, no paid tier.
Where it runs	iOS and Android, plus the IslamicFinder website.	The web and your calendar. No mobile app.

Which one is for you

Use Athan by IslamicFinder if

You want your town's times, not the nearest big city's.
The adhan alarm is the thing that actually gets you up.
You like a streak, and want prayer logging on the same screen as the times.

Use Sutrah if

The failure you keep hitting is a meeting, not a forgotten notification.
You want colleagues to see you are busy without having to explain why.
You want a printable month you can pin up, with the method and qibla printed on it.

These are not exclusive. Plenty of people run a prayer app for the adhan and a calendar tool for the meetings, because the two fix different failures.

What Sutrah does not do

There is no Sutrah mobile app. It is a web app plus the calendar you already use, and a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
It does not play the adhan, and has no Quran, no dhikr counter and no lessons.
Conflict-aware placement needs a Google or Microsoft account. Apple Calendar is a read-only subscription feed, so on Apple the blocks cannot move around your meetings.
Public city pages cover 212 cities. The printable timetable works for any coordinates, but there is no 6-million-location database behind it.

Frequently asked questions

Can IslamicFinder send prayer times to my calendar?: Calendar sync is not part of what IslamicFinder publishes about Athan or its website. What it does offer is printable monthly timetables and an Islamic calendar view, which are a different thing: a reference you consult, rather than events sitting in the calendar other people book against.
Does Sutrah have my town?: Probably not as a page. Sutrah publishes 212 city pages; IslamicFinder states coverage of more than six million locations. If your town is not listed, the printable timetable will still generate an accurate month from raw coordinates, and a signed-in account uses your exact location rather than the nearest city.
Is a qada ledger the same as a prayer streak?: No, and the difference is deliberate. A streak rewards an unbroken run and breaks when you miss. A ledger records what is owed and clears it as you make it up. Both help people, and plenty prefer the streak — Athan has one and Sutrah does not.
Which has better Ramadan support?: Athan carries Ramadan timings inside the app alongside everything else it does. Sutrah publishes Ramadan timetables for a smaller set of cities but measures each fast from Fajr to Maghrib rather than sunrise to Maghrib, a gap of over an hour at mid latitudes that many published timetables blur.

Other comparisons

Or start from the whole comparison index, which includes the option most people should try first: doing nothing new at all.