Sirran is designed to work without collecting your personal data. It has no
user accounts and no analytics, advertising, or tracking software. Apart from
one optional feature — Nearby Mosques, which looks up mosques
via OpenStreetMap when you open it — the app does not send your information to
any server. Everything else (prayer times, Qibla, Quran, tasbih) runs entirely
on your device.
Information we do NOT collect
Apart from the optional Nearby Mosques feature (see below), we do not collect, store, or transmit personal information off your device.
We do not use analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs.
We do not use cookies or advertising identifiers.
We do not operate a backend account system or sign-in.
We do not sell or share any data with third parties.
Nearby Mosques (optional)
When you open Nearby Mosques, Sirran sends your approximate location to
OpenStreetMap's public Overpass service to find mosques near you, and shows the
results in the app. This happens only when you use that feature.
We do not store your location or the results, there is no account, and no
tracking is involved. If you never open Nearby Mosques, Sirran makes no network
requests at all. Tapping a result opens your maps app for directions.
On-device data and permissions
The app uses the following only on your device, to provide its features:
Location (optional): Used on your device to calculate accurate prayer times and the Qibla direction. If you do not grant location permission, the app falls back to a manually selected city. Your location is not stored by us and is never sent off the device.
Notifications (optional): Used to deliver local prayer-time reminders scheduled on your device. No notification content is sent to a server.
Microphone and speech recognition (optional, off by default, iPhone and Android): Used solely for the opt-in Voice Tasbih feature. Recognition runs on the device only; the feature is disabled when on-device recognition is not available, and never falls back to network recognition. Audio is not recorded, stored, or transmitted off your device.
Do Not Disturb access (optional, off by default, Android): Used solely for the opt-in Quiet Hours feature, which silences your phone around each prayer and restores it afterwards. This is a device setting change only; no information is read, stored, or transmitted.
Calendar (optional, off by default): if you enable "prayer times in your calendar", the app writes prayer events into a separate, device-local calendar that never syncs to any account. Turning the feature off removes the events. The app does not read your other calendars' contents in this version.
Zakat Vault (optional): the wealth figures you enter for the zakat calculator are stored only on your device, in an encrypted file protected by your phone's hardware keystore. They are never transmitted, and we could not read them even if we wanted to — there is no server.
Sirran Keyboard (optional, Android): if you enable the bundled phrase keyboard in system settings, it only inserts the phrase you tap into the text field. It does not read, log, store, or transmit anything you type.
Apple Watch / Wear OS sync: Prayer preferences and tasbih counts are shared between the phone and the watch on your devices / your Apple or Google account's device sync. This is device-to-device data, not collected by us.
Quran content
The Quran text in the app is "Tanzil Quran Text (Simple)" from the Tanzil
Project (tanzil.net), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
with in-app attribution. The bundled translations are "The Meaning of the
Glorious Koran" by Marmaduke Pickthall (1930, English) and the original "Hak
Dini Kur'an Dili" meal by Elmalili Muhammed Hamdi Yazir (1935–1939, Turkish),
both in the public domain and shown with in-app attribution. All texts are
bundled with the app and read on your device; using the Quran reader does not
transmit any data.
Children's privacy
Sirran does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone,
including children. The app contains religious utility content and no social,
user-generated, or commerce features.
Data security and retention
Because the app does not collect personal data or transmit it off your
device, there is no server-side storage of your information. App settings (such
as your selected city, madhab, and tasbih counts) are stored locally on your
device and are removed when you uninstall the app.
Changes to this policy
If the app's data practices change in the future (for example, if optional
analytics or a backend feature is added), this policy and the app store data
disclosures will be updated before that change ships.