Privacy Policy

Sakina for iPhone and Apple Watch. Effective October 13, 2026.

In short: Sakina collects no data. There are no accounts, ads, analytics or trackers. The only server Sakina runs is a small relay that keeps no logs and is used only if you choose the Abdel Haleem translation (see below). What you enter stays on your devices and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud storage, which the developer cannot see. Your location is never sent to the developer; Apple Maps receives it to name your city (see below).

What stays on your device

Your location. Sakina uses your location, or a city you choose, to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction on your device. The location is saved on your iPhone so the app, its widgets and your Apple Watch can use it. Sakina never sends it to the developer. The only service that receives it is Apple Maps, to name the place (see below). If you turn on Update when I travel, Sakina also checks your location in the background when you have moved a long way, so prayer times and alerts follow you on a trip; this stays on your iPhone too, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings.
Your settings. Calculation method, notification choices, theme and other preferences are saved on your device.
Notifications. Prayer reminders are scheduled by your iPhone itself. Nothing is sent from a server.
Apple Watch. Your location, settings and today's tracker marks pass directly between your iPhone and your paired Apple Watch.
Exporting your prayer history. In Settings you can export your prayer tracker as a spreadsheet (CSV) file. The file is made on your iPhone and goes only where you choose to share it. Nothing is uploaded.

What syncs through your iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud, your prayer tracker, missed fasts, tracking pauses, saved ayahs and saved hadith are stored in your private iCloud database. This keeps them in sync across your devices and restores them if you reinstall the app. The data is protected by Apple, sits in your iCloud storage, and is not accessible to the developer. You can turn this off in the iOS Settings app under your name, then iCloud, by switching off Sakina.

Services Sakina connects to

Apple Maps. When you search for a city or use your current location (also in the background, with Update when I travel on), the search text or your coordinates are sent to Apple to find the place name and time zone. Apple's Privacy Policy applies.
Sakina's relay, and Quran Foundation. Only if you choose the translation by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem in Settings, which is provided by Quran Foundation and is not included in the app. Sakina then downloads the translation, and checks for corrections to it every few days, through a small relay run by the developer on Cloudflare Workers. The relay is used for nothing else. It receives no location. It passes the request on to Quran Foundation and the translation back, and keeps no logs and no information about you. Quran Foundation sees only the relay, not you or your device. Cloudflare, which hosts the relay, handles the connection the way any web host does (Cloudflare's Privacy Policy). Nothing is requested unless you choose that translation. The downloaded translation is kept on your device, outside your backups, and deleted when you choose another translation.
EveryAyah.com. When you play a recitation, the audio for that verse is downloaded from everyayah.com. Like any website, that server sees your IP address and which verse is requested. No other information is sent. Downloaded audio is cached on your device.

The Quran text, the other translations and the fonts are included in the app, so reading the Quran works offline. The Abdel Haleem translation works offline once it is downloaded.

Permissions

Location, for prayer times and a true-north Qibla compass. You can choose a city instead. Access set to Always is needed only for Update when I travel, which is off unless you turn it on.
Notifications, for prayer reminders.
Add to Photos, only to save an ayah image or video you create. Sakina cannot see your photo library.

Deleting your data

Settings in Sakina has a button to delete your tracker data. Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device, including a downloaded translation. To remove the iCloud copy, open the iOS Settings app, tap your name, then iCloud, then Manage Storage, and delete Sakina's data.

Children

Sakina collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: dksakina1998@gmail.com. See also the Support page.