Useful tools, honest labels and your data kept to you. Here is the approach shaping Darb Ramadan.
You choose how your times are worked out: one of fourteen published calculation methods for your place, with the Asr convention you follow, or your mosque’s own timetable, which you enter and which is labelled as yours.
Calculated times are labelled “not yet checked” until they have been compared with published timetables, and until then they do not drive prayer reminders. Where the sun does not rise or set in the usual way, the app uses the rule you choose and marks the times it adjusted; where no time can be worked out, it shows nothing rather than a guess.
You choose the calendar authority you follow. Darb Ramadan shows the dates it expects from that authority, labelled as expected, and you confirm the start and the end of the month when the authority announces them.
Practical guides about planning are written by Darb Ramadan. Religious explanations appear only after review by a qualified reviewer; until then, the guide links to the sources themselves and says that nothing has been reviewed yet.
The app does not count deeds, compare people or rank anyone’s worship. Records such as fasting and night prayers are simple, private notes for you.
| Information | Where it is kept |
|---|---|
| Your plan, log and reflections | On your phone; in your Darb account too if you choose to back them up |
| Your location | On your phone only, rounded to about 1 km; never backed up |
| Meal photos | On your phone only, with location and camera details removed |
| Reflections | For you alone; never used for suggestions |
Signing in is optional. Darb Ramadan uses the same Darb account as Darb Umrah and Darb Family, and each app keeps its own data. You can export your Ramadan data, delete a season or delete all of it, without closing your Darb account.
This explains how the app is being built. It is not the app’s privacy notice, which will be shown before the app collects anything.
Darb Ramadan is being developed for iPhone, Android and the web, in English first. No public release date has been announced.
The core is planned to be free. Optional help with estimates and planning is being considered for later; it is not available, and it will never answer religious questions.
