No snooze

There is no snooze button. Not hidden, not indirectly. One way out, and that requires a little effort.

Wake-up missions

You choose how you wake up, and you can combine tasks.

• Math problems
• Counting Dhikr
• Push-ups or squats, counted with the camera
• Saying a sentence out loud
• Photographing an object you choose beforehand
• Photographing your sink or your bed
• Photographing your prayer mat
• Alarm only, for those who don't need a task

Those who have no trouble getting up choose alarm only and confirm with one tap.

Re-alarms

If you start the mission and fall back asleep, the alarm comes back. At 1.5, 3, 5, 7.5, 10, 13, 16, 20, 25, and 30 minutes.

These are built into iOS itself, so they work even when your screen is locked and the app is not running.

The alarm is in iOS

FajrUp schedules your alarm in the system itself, thirty mornings in advance. So it will go off even when the app is closed or your phone has restarted.

The alarm also sounds when your phone is on silent.

Nightly check

After Isha, the app checks if your alarm can actually go off tonight: are notifications on, is sound allowed, is power-saving mode active, is there room in the notification limit. If something is wrong, you will be notified in time.

The ringtone setting

Notifications sound at your ringtone volume, not your media volume. If "Change with Buttons" is on, a single press of the volume button can silence your alarm without you noticing.

iOS doesn't allow an app to read this, so the app explains where the setting is and asks you to check it once. If you miss a morning later because you didn't hear the alarm, it will ask again.

Three sources for your prayer times

During installation, you set one question: where do your prayer times come from. You can always change this later in Settings.

'Asr and the summer nights

For 'Asr you can choose between the standard calculation, which Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali follow, and the Hanafi. That can make a difference of an hour in the Netherlands. .

In summer, the sun in Northwest Europe does not reach the required angle. You choose which rule the app then uses: based on the angle, a seventh of the night, or the middle of the night.

Works without internet

The app calculates prayer times itself on your device. Without connection, without subscription. Online it retrieves the times from AlAdhan; if that's not possible, it calculates further. Your alarm never runs out of times.

App blocking

Optional, and off by default. You choose which apps you want to temporarily block, using Apple's own picker. From a time you set until your alarm time, those apps will show a shield instead of opening. As soon as you complete your mission in the morning, they are immediately free again.

You can also block around prayer times. After each prayer you choose, your apps close, with an adjustable margin to finish. You free them by showing your prayer spot.

Two things you need to know. FajrUp never sees which apps you choose, only how many. And FajrUp cannot block itself, so you can always start your mission.

The streak

Every morning is a win or a loss. You see your streak in a ring that fills up to your next milestone.

If you missed a morning, the app briefly asks why. Not to judge, but because the pattern tells you something.

Family and friends

Share a code with family or friends and see each other's Fajr streak. You see who was already up today and who wasn't. Those still sleeping can get a nudge, once per person per day.

This is encouragement, not a competition.