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MyWaqt and Sutrah: a salah-centred planner and a work calendar
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MyWaqt is a salah-centred planner: the day is divided by the five prayers, with tasks in the gaps, a focus timer, app blocking and iCal sync. Sutrah writes prayer blocks into a work calendar other people book against. Keep MyWaqt if the problem is how you spend the hours between salah; add Sutrah only if those hours are being booked by someone else.
How this was checked
Everything below about MyWaqt comes from material MyWaqt (Canada) publishes, read on . 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 Feature sets move; if something here is out of date, tell us at hello@sutrah.app and it gets corrected.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 MyWaqt does that Sutrah does not
MyWaqt is a complete time-management system built around salah: Kahf Mode, app blocking, morning and evening routines, analytics, widgets, and native iOS and Android apps. Sutrah has a thin planner that can park a task after a prayer, and that is the whole of it. If the product you want is a Muslim productivity app, MyWaqt is that product and Sutrah is not.
A planner and a calendar tool
MyWaqt, published as a Canada-based app for iOS, Android and web, treats the five daily prayers as the structure of the day rather than five interruptions in a conventional schedule. The store listings describe a calendar that places Fajr through Isha, then fills the gaps with tasks; Kahf Mode, a focus timer framed with niyyah; app blocking; morning and evening routines; analytics; widgets; Qiyam and Islamic midnight; Hanafi and Shafi’i settings. That is a productivity system. Sutrah is not one.
The comparison exists because both products mention Google, Apple and Outlook, and because someone searching for a “prayer calendar” can land on either. The overlap is the word calendar. The jobs are different.
Where they genuinely overlap
Both compute salah times from location. Both let you pick a juristic school for Asr. Both can get those times onto a digital calendar — MyWaqt via the iCal integrations its listings describe, Sutrah via OAuth write on Google and Outlook and a WebCal feed on Apple. Both have some notion of tasks near a prayer: MyWaqt as a full manager, Sutrah as a thin list you can park after Dhuhr.
If the two ever show different Asr times, it is almost always the shadow rule. Set both to whatever your masjid follows. The Asr guide is the explanation, not a scorecard.
The split
MyWaqt's published idea is that your day unfolds between salah, and the app helps you spend those intervals on purpose — tasks, a cave to work in, a block on distracting apps. Sutrah's published idea is that other people can take those intervals without asking, unless the calendar they book against already shows them as busy.
A focus timer does not stop a colleague sending a 3pm invite. A busy block does not help you write with the phone in another room. Pretending one product covers both is how comparison pages become dishonest.
On the calendar slice specifically: MyWaqt's listings describe iCal sync. Sliding a prayer into a real gap on a work calendar, having read that calendar's busy times, is not in that list. That behaviour is Sutrah on Google Calendar and Outlook, and it is the reason those paths ask for write access.
Who MyWaqt is for
Anyone who wants salah as the architecture of the day, on a phone, with the planner features listed above. The Premium in-app purchase is the cost of that system on the store listings we read. Stay there if that is the product you wanted.
Add Sutrah only if the hours between salah are being taken by someone else's calendar. Keep MyWaqt in that case; it is still the planner. Sutrah has no Kahf Mode to replace.
At a glance
Read the rows about MyWaqt as a summary of what its makers publish, not as a verdict on the app.
| Dimension | MyWaqt | Sutrah |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | An Islamic planner and productivity app: the calendar is built around the five prayers, with tasks, routines, a focus timer and analytics. | A calendar integration. One job: put salah on the schedule other people book against. |
| Calendar sync | Store listings describe iCal integrations with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook. | OAuth write on Google and Outlook, with a WebCal feed for Apple. On Google and Outlook the blocks can move around meetings. |
| Awareness of your meetings | Published as arranging tasks into the gaps between salah inside the app. Reading a work calendar's busy times is not in the published feature list. | On Google and Outlook it reads busy times and places each prayer in a real gap inside that prayer's window. |
| Focus and routines | Kahf Mode (a niyyah-framed focus timer), app blocking during events, and guided morning and evening routines. | None of it. Deliberately out of scope. |
| Price | Free with in-app purchases. The US App Store listing in September 2026 shows Premium Access at $3.49, $19.99, and $49.99 lifetime. | Free, no card, no ads, no paid tier. |
| Where it runs | iOS, Android and web. | The web and your calendar. No mobile app. |
Which one is for you
Use MyWaqt if
- You want the day structured by salah, with tasks and a focus timer in the same app.
- App blocking and morning routines are the features you would actually use.
- Your calendar is not shared, and the problem is how you spend the hours, not who books them.
Use Sutrah if
- The failure you keep hitting is a meeting, not an unstructured afternoon.
- You want colleagues to see busy time without opening a second planner.
- You already have a to-do app you like, and only need the prayer blocks on the work calendar.
These are not exclusive. A planner that structures the hours between salah and a calendar tool that stops colleagues booking over them can sit next to each other without fighting.
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
- Is Sutrah an alternative to MyWaqt?
- Only for the calendar-sync slice. MyWaqt is a salah-centred planner with tasks, routines, a focus timer and app blocking. Sutrah writes prayer blocks into a work calendar. If you opened MyWaqt to structure the hours between salah, switching to Sutrah would drop almost everything you came for. If you opened it hoping colleagues would stop booking over Asr, that slice is a different tool.
- Does MyWaqt sync with Google Calendar?
- The App Store and Google Play listings describe iCal integrations with Google Calendar, Apple Calendar and Outlook. That is a feed or import into those calendars, as published. Conflict-aware placement — reading busy times and sliding a prayer into a real gap — is not in that published feature list. Sutrah's Google and Outlook path is built around that behaviour.
- Does MyWaqt cost money?
- The apps are free with in-app purchases. The US App Store listing in September 2026 shows Premium Access at $3.49, $19.99, and $49.99 lifetime; other storefronts show different amounts. Sutrah is free with no paid tier.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. MyWaqt can remain the place you plan the hours between salah. Sutrah can remain the thing that marks those hours busy on the calendar other people book against. They do not compete for the same notification, and most of MyWaqt has no equivalent here to conflict with.
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