A tiny macOS menu bar app that shows Muslim prayer times for wherever you are. It sits in your menu bar and counts down to the next prayer — no accounts, no internet needed. All times are calculated right on your Mac.
- Lives in your menu bar and shows the next prayer and a countdown (e.g.
Dhuhr 4h 11m). - Click it to see the full day: Fajr, Sunrise, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha.
- Shows the Hijri (Islamic) date and your city.
- Finds your location automatically, or lets you pick.
- Works offline — prayer times are computed locally, nothing is sent anywhere.
You can also change the calculation method, the Asr madhab, the high-latitude rule, whether to show the prayer name in the menu bar, and whether to launch at login.
You'll build the app once with Xcode. It sounds scary, but it's just a few clicks.
- Get Xcode. Open the App Store on your Mac, search for Xcode, and install it. (It's free and made by Apple.)
- Download this project. On this page, click the green Code button → Download ZIP. Then double-click the ZIP to unzip it.
- Open the project. Inside the unzipped folder, double-click
Prayers.xcodeproj. Xcode will open. - Press Play. At the top-left of Xcode, click the ▶ (Run) button, or press ⌘ + R on your keyboard.
- That's it! The prayer time icon appears in your menu bar at the top of the screen.
The first time it opens, macOS may ask for permission to use your location — click Allow so it can find your city.
Tip: To keep the app, drag Prayers.app from Xcode's build products into your Applications folder. Turn on Launch at login in Settings so it starts automatically every time.
If you prefer the Terminal:
git clone https://github.com/o-rashad/prayers.git
cd prayers
xcodebuild -project Prayers.xcodeproj -scheme Prayers -configuration Release build- macOS 13 (Ventura) or newer
- Xcode 14 or newer (only needed to build it)
Prayers never sends your location or any data anywhere. Everything — including your location and the prayer time math — happens on your Mac.
MIT