One Qibla. Every Muslim.

A free, ad-free, privacy-first Qibla and prayer companion. Built so that nothing about your worship is ever collected, sold, or interrupted.

Know the time. Find the direction. Then put the phone down and pray.

One direction connects us.

What we promise

OneQibla is free for everyone. Core prayer tools will never be placed behind a paywall.
No advertising. Prayer should never be interrupted by an advertisement.
No sale of religious behaviour data. We do not sell, profile, or monetise where, when, or how you pray.
No premium Muslim. Donations do not unlock a higher class of worship experience. People who choose to support OneQibla simply help keep it free for everyone else.
All Muslims are welcome. OneQibla does not decide which Islamic tradition a person should follow.
One direction connects us. Wherever we live and whatever our traditions, the Qibla points toward the Kaaba in Makkah.

What it does today, and what it does not yet

We would rather you know exactly where this stands than read a promise.

The sun's direction is known exactly from where you are and the time; the phone's compass is not. The difference is what the app shows under Diagnostics, as a number, so you can check the compass against the sun before trusting the needle.

Built: Prayer times for the place you save, calculated on your phone by a published method you choose — five are offered, and the app never picks one for you — or copied in from the timetable your mosque publishes. Every time on the screen says where it came from.
Built: The Qibla bearing, calculated on your phone from a location you type or accept, and a dial whose needle points to it from the phone’s own true-north heading, saying how far to turn. No account, no server, no connection needed — the app has no code that could open one.
Built: Reminders before each prayer, from the times it shows you, on the phone only and off until you turn them on. An optional prayer log that keeps only the prayers you mark, never leaves the phone, and is deleted when you turn it off.
Built: Three holy places as digital reconstructions — Masjid al-Haram, the Dome of the Rock within al-Masjid al-Aqsa, and the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad — that you turn towards by moving the phone, and can step closer to. They are drawn from published measurements, not photographed, and each names its sources.
Built: A sun-referenced check of your phone’s compass, so you can see for yourself how far it is out before trusting the needle.
Not yet, by design: The sentence “You are facing the Qibla.” The needle points and the app says how far to turn, but it never confirms alignment, because nobody has yet measured how far real phones’ compasses are out. We will not confirm what we cannot measure.
Not yet, by design: A qualified reviewer’s word on the calculation methods and the Kaaba coordinate. The published values were transcribed and checked by the person who builds the app, and every screen that uses them says so. A scholar has not yet read them.
Not yet: A city search (you type a coordinate or use your location); languages other than English (the layout is ready for Arabic; the words wait for a native reviewer); and an App Store or Google Play listing. The app builds and runs on both platforms today.

What it looks like

Two screens of the app as built at version 0.197.0. These frames are rendered by the app’s own tests, not photographed on a phone: the same code that ships, drawn at phone size with an example location and a fixed compass reading, in the light or dark theme to match this page, so that what you see here is what the tests saw.

The Home screen: Next prayer, Isha, 7:01 PM, in 0h 30m, with a thin arc filled to the time; a list of today’s prayers, Fajr 4:39 AM through Isha 7:01 PM, the passed ones lighter and the next one bold; Qibla 277.50 degrees, calculated bearing, accurate to within 0.01 degrees; a Find Qibla button; and the saved location, from your phone, accurate to about 12 metres, with its coordinate — **Home.** The next prayer first, today’s times under it, the Qibla bearing, and the location everything is calculated from.

The Qibla screen: 277.50 degrees, calculated bearing, accurate to within 0.01 degrees; a dial with a needle pointing almost straight up and a small square for the Kaaba on its rim; the instruction Turn right approximately 2 degrees; the sentence OneQibla points the needle and says how far to turn. It does not confirm that you are facing the Qibla in this version; compass accuracy high; approx. 13,236 km; and a link, Where this comes from — **Qibla.** The needle, how far to turn, and the sentence that says what the app does not confirm.

The location shown is an example used by the tests, not anyone’s. No frame of a holy place is shown here: religious imagery on this site waits for review.

Supporting this work

OneQibla is built by a very small team and given away. It costs time and money to keep building, and we would like it in the hands of every Muslim who wants it.

Voluntary support is not open yet. When it is, it will work like this, and we are writing it down now so you can hold us to it:

It happens on this page, not inside the app, and the app never asks.
Any amount is welcome. There is no minimum.
Nothing is taken from what you give by us. We will say plainly what the payment route itself costs before a single payment is possible.
Support unlocks nothing. Everyone gets the same app.

How giving will work, what it pays for, and how to help without money.

Why not yet: who receives it is settled — Lingtao, personally, in Hong Kong, the one person who builds the app. What is still being set up is the payment route, and this page will print what that route costs before a single payment is possible.

Tell me when support opens Tell me when the app is out

Those are emails, not a mailing list. We write back once, when it happens.

Who is behind this

Lingtao, Hong Kong.

How accurate is it?

The direction is geometry: from the location you give the app to the Kaaba. It is only as good as that location, so the app shows you how sure it is instead of hiding it. Where it cannot be sure, it tells you.