App suggestions
Amina Ousman Bouba
Salamualeykum prayer pause team. Just wanted to say firstly, Jazakallahu khair for taking my last suggestion seriously and acting on it so quickly. This truly shows how dedicated you guys are to your app. Secondly, I had a couple of other suggestions, I’d love to run by you.
1) Being able to individually block apps as opposed to blocking apps or keeping apps unblocked, by bulk. If users are able to specifically block apps when they’re the most distracting, it will prevent them from trying to unlock prayer pause more often meaning sabr is kept happy and healthy.
2) Being able to adjust if, salah has been prayed on time or late
3) Being able to adjust salah time by more than or less than 5 minutes. This is because I noticed asr time for my area is incorrect by over an hour but, I’m not able to adjust this accordingly. Otherwise the other times were pretty close to my mosques timetable.
4) I love the layout of the quran section and all its current features (especially the transliteration). But, it would be lovely to have some tajweed (maybe even little tips on how tajweed should be read). Also the ability to flip to the next page instead of scrolling might be nice as well.
5) Having different qur’an fonts like indo pak or warsh etc. may be a bit of a stretch suggestions wise but I thought I’d suggest it anyways, from what I’ve seen other quran apps have.
6) Last suggestion but, being able to pick the types of interventions we want to display, when we do try to enter an app. For example selecting all the types of intervention except quran or all of them except athkar. Being able to personalise how little or much athkar would be brilliant as well iA. For example having a plus and minus’s symbol to personalise it i.e. 10 or 200 and still keeping the set amounts of 33, 66, and 99.
Thank you for the time you take to read our suggestions, may Allah continue to make this app a success.
A
Abdullah
Wa alaykum as-salam, and jazakAllahu khairan for such a thoughtful message. It genuinely means a lot, may Allah reward you for taking the time.
Good news, a few of these you can already do today:
1) Individual app control: in Salah Focus (from either the Settings or the Pause tab), scroll to the bottom and you'll find an Exception List. Any apps you don't want blocked, add them there and they'll stay open while everything else is blocked.
2) Adjusting on-time vs late: you can do this now. Go to the Habits tab and tap "This week," or for the current week just tap the day itself, and you can set whether each prayer was prayed on time or late.
3) Asr off by an hour: this is almost certainly your Asr calculation method. There's Standard and Hanafi, and Hanafi Asr falls about an hour later. I believe you're on Hanafi, so switch it in Settings and see if that lines up with your mosque. Let me know if it's still off.
4) Quran: so glad you love it. Color-coded tajweed with reading tips is something we'd love to add in the future inshaAllah, and we'll look into a page-turn mode instead of scrolling. In the meantime, if you tap "Verse" at the bottom you can jump straight to any specific verse.
5) Different fonts (IndoPak, Warsh, etc.): unfortunately we can't offer font varieties right now because they break the tajweed marks and harakat, but we'll keep looking into it for the future inshaAllah.
6) Choosing which interventions appear and custom athkar counts: will look into it inshaAllah.
JazakAllahu khairan again for caring about the app this much. Suggestions like these are how it gets better. May Allah accept from you and bless you.
Amina Ousman Bouba
Abdullah Jazakallahu khair for your reply, speedy as usual. Wa iyakum all well deserved praise and more. Can’t wait to see these changes in the future, and the advice you gave I will definitely try and let you know if that works for me or not. Wasn’t able to do the exceptions one, and with that suggestion I meant it would be nice to individually block apps from specific times while other apps are blocked the whole day.