Barakah is one place for the basics of being Muslim: prayer times, qibla, the Quran, the daily Sunnah, halal product lookups, zakat. No ads. No trackers. The core stays free forever, even when there is a Premium tier on top of it.
I took my Shahada as an adult. I remember exactly what those first months looked like: ten apps open, none of them quite right, half of them paywalled, half of them buried under ads, and a flood of advice that was confident but contradictory. Knowing how to pray, when to pray, where to face — even that took longer than it should have.
Barakah is my attempt to fix a small slice of that. The answers a new Muslim and a long-time Muslim both keep looking up — what to recite at Maghrib, what dua before eating, what the qibla bearing is from this exact spot, whether this halal label means what the box says — should live in one quiet place. So I built that place.
It is one person, working slowly, with input from brothers and sisters who care more about getting things right than shipping fast. If a ruling is wrong, please tell me. This app belongs to all of us.
Quran: Arabic text from Tanzil and the King Fahd Complex Mushaf. English translations from Saheeh International, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Mufti Taqi Usmani, and others. All public-domain or licensed for non-commercial use.
Hadith: the six canonical collections (Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi, an-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah) and Muwatta Malik. We prefer sahih and hasan gradings and cite collection + number on every entry.
Prayer times: computed locally on your device using the standard astronomical method with your chosen angle convention (Muslim World League, ISNA, Egyptian, Umm al-Qura, Karachi, Tehran, Jafari, Singapore). No round-trips to a server.
Halal data: public ingredient databases + community-voted verdicts + certifier registries. Crowd-sourced, then cross-checked. Country-tagged because the same product can be halal in one place and doubtful in another.
If Barakah helps one person pray on time, finish their first khatam, scan a doubtful product, or feel less alone in their ummah, that is enough. If it helps many, alhamdulillah. If it pulls one revert through their first month, if it makes Friday Surah al-Kahf a habit for even ten people, if a sister finds the right adhkar for her commute — every one of those is sadaqah jariyah for everyone who supports the work.
"When a person dies, their deeds end except for three: a continuing charity, a knowledge that benefits, or a righteous child who prays for them."
Sahih Muslim 1631
Bug, feature request, suggestion, correction — same inbox, one human. I read every email and try to reply within a few days. If something feels wrong, please tell me.