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On time, wherever you are

Prayer times worked out on your phone for where you are, with the method most mosques there follow. When they don’t match your mosque, make them match. Your location is not sent anywhere.

  • 13calculation methods
  • 45cities built in
  • 3sounds for the adhan
  • ±60minutes, to match a mosque
On this page
The Khalis Today screen for London, United Kingdom, on Tuesday 27 October 2026, 16 Jumada al-Awwal 1448 AH. The next prayer is Maghrib at 16:46, in 12 minutes, above a 24 hour sundial of the day that shows Asr now, until 16:46.
Today, in London
01 · The times

The place, the method and the clock

Khalis works out Fajr, sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha on the phone itself, with the open source Adhan library, for today or any other day. It needs no account and no connection.

  • Where you are

    Use your location, pick one of 45 built-in cities, or type a latitude and longitude. A position from GPS is named after the nearest built-in city within 60 km, without asking any server.

    With your location in use, Khalis checks it each time you open the app and updates the times when you have travelled. Until you choose, it shows London.

  • The method

    Automatic picks the method most mosques in your area follow, and Today says which, for example “Moonsighting Committee (chosen for London)”. You can choose any of the 13 instead.

  • Asr

    Standard (Shafi’i, Maliki, Hanbali), or Hanafi, which is later in the afternoon.

  • High latitudes

    For places where twilight lasts all night in summer: Automatic, Middle of the night, Seventh of the night or Twilight angle. Automatic uses the seventh of the night above 48° north, and the middle of the night elsewhere.

  • The clock

    24 hour to begin with, or 12 hour if you prefer it.

  • The night

    Today shows the middle of the night and the start of its last third, counted from Maghrib to the next Fajr (from sunset with the Jafari method). The tahajjud alarm can wake you for the last third.

  • Other days

    Step a day back or forward beneath the sundial, and Back to today brings you home.

The 13 methods

As the app lists them. Each sets how far below the horizon the sun must be at Fajr and at Isha (or, for Isha, a set time after sunset), and some add a few minutes of their own.

  1. Moonsighting Committee
  2. Muslim World League
  3. ISNA (North America)
  4. Egyptian General Authority
  5. Umm al-Qura, Makkah
  6. University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
  7. UAE (Dubai)
  8. Qatar
  9. Kuwait
  10. Singapore / Malaysia
  11. Diyanet (Türkiye)
  12. Institute of Geophysics, Tehran
  13. Shia Ithna Ashari (Jafari, Leva Institute, Qum)

What Automatic picks

In one of the built-in cities, the method listed for it. A GPS position within 60 km of one takes that city’s method too. Anywhere else, Khalis goes by the phone’s time zone.

Phone’s time zoneMethod
LondonMoonsighting Committee
Any in the AmericasISNA (North America)
Riyadh or AdenUmm al-Qura, Makkah
Dubai or BahrainUAE (Dubai)
QatarQatar
KuwaitKuwait
Cairo or KhartoumEgyptian General Authority
IstanbulDiyanet (Türkiye)
TehranInstitute of Geophysics, Tehran
Karachi, Kolkata or DhakaUniversity of Islamic Sciences, Karachi
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or JakartaSingapore / Malaysia
Anywhere elseMuslim World League
The 45 built-in cities, by method
  • Moonsighting Committee

    London, Birmingham, Manchester

  • Muslim World League

    Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Muscat, Amman, Jerusalem, Beirut, Baghdad, Casablanca, Tunis, Algiers, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Sydney

  • ISNA (North America)

    New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Toronto

  • Egyptian General Authority

    Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum

  • Umm al-Qura, Makkah

    Makkah, Madinah, Riyadh, Jeddah

  • University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi

    Karachi, Lahore, Dhaka, Delhi

  • UAE (Dubai)

    Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Manama

  • Qatar

    Doha

  • Kuwait

    Kuwait City

  • Singapore / Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta

  • Diyanet (Türkiye)

    Istanbul

  • Institute of Geophysics, Tehran

    Tehran

02 · Try it here

Compare the methods

One city, one day, thirteen ways of working it out. Choose a city from the app’s list to see each method’s times side by side, with the one Khalis picks there marked.

Asr

The 13 methods
MethodFajrSunriseDhuhrAsrMaghribIsha

Worked out in your browser with the Adhan library and the settings the app uses: its automatic high-latitude rule, each method’s own extra minutes, and its Maghrib for the Jafari method. In the app you can then shift any time to match your mosque. Nothing here is sent anywhere.

03 · Your mosque

Match your mosque

Mosques often add a few minutes to calculated times, or print their own timetable. Khalis can follow either, and your reminders follow too.

Shift any timeMove any of the six times up to 60 minutes either way, a minute at a time. The calculated time stays beside your shifted one, and Reset all puts them back.
Iqama timesWhen the congregation starts, 5 to 120 minutes after the adhan, in steps of 5. They show on Today and set the time for iqama reminders. A loaded timetable’s own iqama times come first.
Your mosque’s timetableLoad the mosque’s own timetable as a CSV file, or paste it in. Khalis uses its times, and its jamaat or iqama times, for every day it covers.
The month on paperAny month in a table, with the Hijri date beside each day and Fridays shaded, as an A4 PDF to share or print. It follows your shifts and your mosque’s timetable.

What the timetable file should look like

Date,Fajr,Fajr Jamaat,Sunrise,Dhuhr,Dhuhr Jamaat,Asr,Asr Jamaat,Maghrib,Isha,Isha Jamaat
01/11/2026,05:31,06:00,07:00,11:51,13:00,14:01,14:30,16:30,18:00,19:30
02/11/2026,05:33,06:00,07:02,11:51,13:00,14:00,14:30,16:28,17:58,19:30
The example Khalis shows on the Mosque timetable screen. Ask your mosque for its timetable as a spreadsheet, then save it as CSV.
  • One row per day, with a Date column (or Day and Month columns) and the six times: Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib and Isha.
  • Jamaat or iqama columns are optional. If the sheet has a second, Hanafi Asr, it is used when you choose Hanafi Asr.
  • 12 and 24 hour times both work, and Khalis works out whether dates are written day first or month first from the rows themselves.
  • Commas, semicolons or tabs between the columns. A “Fajr ends” column stands in for sunrise when there isn’t one.
  • Rows it can’t read are skipped, and Khalis tells you how many, and which was the first, before you use it.
  • It belongs to where you loaded it, and is used within 50 km of there. Khalis tells you when it is about to run out, and uses calculated times, with your shifts, on days it doesn’t cover.
04 · Adhan and reminders

The adhan, your way

For each of the five prayers, choose whether the adhan comes, how it sounds, and whether you’d like a word beforehand.

  • A chime, a short adhan or the full adhan, set for each prayer, with Listen to hear it first. Until you choose, each prayer uses the chime.
  • Before the adhan: a reminder 5, 10, 15, 20 or 30 minutes ahead.
  • Before iqama: 5, 10 or 15 minutes ahead, once the prayer has an iqama time.
  • The bell on each prayer on Today turns its adhan on or off. Press and hold it for the rest of the settings.
  • On Android, the adhan and the early reminders have their own notification channels, so you can quieten the reminders and keep the adhan.
The Reminders screen in Khalis on iPhone. The reminder check shows notifications on and 9 reminders planned, until Wednesday 25 November at 21:00, with a note that iPhone stops notification sounds after 30 seconds. Below it, buttons to test the athan in 10 seconds or in 1 minute, and the start of the Fajr settings, with the Athan switch off.
The reminder check, on iPhone

The reminder check

Phones are built to save battery, and some hold notifications back to do it. At the top of Reminders, Khalis checks what could stop the adhan arriving on time on your phone, and helps you fix it.

  1. NotificationsOn or off, with a button to allow them or to open Settings.
  2. Exact timingAndroid’s “Alarms & reminders” switch. Without it, Android can hold the adhan back, sometimes by an hour while the phone sleeps.
  3. Battery optimisationOn Android, set Khalis to “Not optimised” or “Unrestricted”.
  4. One more step on this phoneSamsung, Xiaomi, Redmi, Poco, Huawei, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme and Vivo add settings of their own. Khalis names the one on your phone and links to a step-by-step guide.
  5. Planned remindersHow many are waiting, and until when.
  6. Test the adhanA test sent the same way as a real one, in 10 seconds or 1 minute, to check it shows and sounds with the phone locked.

If notifications, exact timing or battery optimisation need fixing while reminders are on, Today warns that the adhan, or your reminders, may be late or missing, and a tap takes you to the fix.

On iPhone

  • iPhone stops notification sounds after 30 seconds, so with the short or full adhan, the notification plays its opening, faded out by the 30 second mark.
  • With the short or full adhan, the whole adhan plays in Khalis when the app is open at prayer time, or when you open it from the notification within ten minutes. A bar at the top stops it from any screen. This is on to begin with; switch it off under “The whole adhan”.
  • The adhan is a Time Sensitive notification, so it can come through a Focus you have allowed Khalis in. The ring/silent switch mutes notification sounds.
  • iPhone lets an app keep 64 notifications waiting, so Khalis plans up to 60 ahead. If that doesn’t reach 30 days ahead, a reminder about half a day before the plan runs out asks you to open Khalis so it can plan more.

On Android

  • With the short or full adhan, the whole recording plays from the notification itself.
  • Strict timing delivers the adhan as an alarm, through Android’s alarm clock, which battery saving does not hold back. An alarm icon shows in the status bar. It needs exact timing on first.
  • After the phone restarts, unlock it once. Until then, Android holds reminders back.
  • Reminders are planned up to 30 days ahead, and topped up each time you open Khalis.
05 · The Qibla

The Qibla, with or without a compass

A live compass that turns with you, says which way to turn, and gives the distance to the Kaaba beneath.

  • The live compass works from true north. It needs location access to find it, and asks for a slow figure of eight when it needs calibrating.
  • Turn left or right by the degrees it shows, until the Kaaba sits under the marker at the top. Within 4°, it says you’re facing the Qibla and the phone gives a short buzz.
  • No compass reading? It gives the bearing in words instead: face north, then turn so many degrees, towards a named point of the compass.
  • The distance to the Kaaba, in kilometres and miles.
  • In the Haram, within about 150 metres of the Kaaba by GPS, it simply asks you to face the Kaaba.
The Khalis Qibla screen for London: a compass with the Kaaba marker to the east-south-east, the words ‘Face north, then turn 119° clockwise’ and ‘Towards the east-south-east’, and a note that the live compass needs location access to find true north.
The Qibla from London

No compass? Use the sun

At certain moments of the day the sun stands in the Qibla direction, or exactly behind it so that your shadow points the way. The app lists today’s for your place. Here they are for a city from its list.

Qibla direction
Without a compass
Distance to the Kaaba

Today

    Twice a year, in late May and mid July, the sun stands directly over the Kaaba. At that moment it is in the Qibla direction from anywhere it is up, and the app shows the next one.

    06 · Widgets and the Lock Screen

    The next prayer, without opening the app

    A Next prayer widget for the Home Screen on iPhone and Android, and for the iPhone Lock Screen. Khalis hands it the coming days’ times, so it moves on to each prayer as it begins without the app running.

    iPhone Home ScreenSmall and medium. The medium one adds the prayer’s name in Arabic and the prayer after it. In the last hour the countdown ticks down to the minute and second.
    iPhone Lock ScreenThe inline widget above the clock, and the countdown to the next prayer as a Live Activity, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. There is a rectangular widget too.
    Android Home ScreenThe next prayer, its time and the one after, moving on as each prayer begins.

    Drawn from the widget layouts in the app, with London’s times on 27 October 2026, twelve minutes before Maghrib.

    • Home Screen

      iPhone: small and medium. Android: one Next prayer widget. Each shows the place, the next prayer and its time, and all but the small one show the prayer after it.

    • Lock Screen

      iPhone: rectangular, with a countdown, and inline, a single line above the clock.

    • The countdown

      A Live Activity counting down to the next prayer, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Turn it on under Reminders, Lock Screen. iPhone lets it move on to the next prayer only when Khalis is opened, so until then it shows that the prayer has begun. Swipe it away and it stays away until the next prayer.

    07 · Places and the Hijri date

    Home, away, and the month you’re in

    Saved places

    Save home, work or somewhere you travel to, and switch between them with one tap from the place picker on Today, the Qibla screen or Settings. Forget one with another tap.

    • A place saved from GPS is kept to about a kilometre, which is plenty for prayer times and says less about where you live.
    • With iCloud sync on, which you turn on yourself, your iPhone and iPad share your saved places through your own iCloud. The place you are using now stays on each device.

    The Hijri date

    Today and the month timetable show the Hijri date from the Umm al-Qura calendar. Where your local moon sighting puts the month a day or two apart, shift it, and the shift carries through to Ramadan and the fasting days.

    1. 2 days earlier
    2. 1 day earlier
    3. As calculated
    4. 1 day later
    5. 2 days later

    For today, worked out in your browser. On a phone that can’t do Umm al-Qura, Khalis uses the tabular Islamic calendar, which can differ by a day.