Sakin Privacy Policy

Sakin: Prayer Times & Adhan · Updated November 2, 2026 (Android added)

Sakin is a prayer companion app published by CoreTech ("we", "us"). We built Sakin to be calm, ad-free and respectful of your privacy. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the app.

The short version

Location

Prayer times and the Qibla direction depend on where you are. If you allow location access, Sakin reads your position while you use the app and calculates prayer times and the Qibla entirely on your phone. To show the name of your city, and when you search for a city by name, Sakin uses the geocoding service built into your phone's operating system: Apple's on iPhone and Google's on Android, covered by Apple's and Google's privacy policies. Your coordinates are saved only on your device so the app works offline. You can also choose a city manually and never grant location access.

Compass

The Qibla compass uses your phone's motion and compass sensors. These readings are processed on the device and are not stored or sent anywhere.

Information stored on your device

Sakin saves the following locally on your phone: your chosen place and calculation method, notification and adhan preferences, language, the prayers you mark as prayed, your qada count, dhikr counts, and whether you have completed onboarding. The home screen widgets (and on iPhone, the Live Activity) read this information from storage shared only between Sakin and its own widgets. None of it leaves your device, and it is removed when you delete the app.

Notifications

Prayer time and adhan notifications are scheduled locally by your phone's operating system. We do not run a notification server and do not receive any information about your notifications.

Quran listening

To list reciters and play recitations, Sakin requests content from the Quran Foundation API through a small relay server we operate on Cloudflare, and streams the audio from the Quran Foundation's audio servers. These requests contain only what is technically needed to deliver the content (such as your IP address and the surah and reciter you chose). They contain no account, name or location, and we do not keep logs of them. Cloudflare's and the Quran Foundation's own privacy policies apply to their services.

Purchases, subscriptions and tips

Sakin Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription or a one-time purchase through Apple's App Store or Google Play, and you can leave an optional tip. Apple or Google processes all payments; we never see your payment details. To check whether Pro is active, Sakin uses RevenueCat, a purchase management service. RevenueCat receives a random, anonymous identifier generated by the app together with your App Store or Google Play purchase and transaction information, the app version and basic device information (such as the operating system version and region). We do not link this identifier to your name, Apple ID or Google account. See RevenueCat's privacy policy, Apple's and Google's.

You can manage or cancel a subscription at any time: on iPhone in Settings → your name → Subscriptions, on Android in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions.

Children

Sakin is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Your choices and rights

Because we do not hold personal data about you, there is usually nothing for us to access, correct or delete. You can turn off location access in your phone's settings at any time and choose a city manually instead. Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device. If you would like the anonymous purchase record held by RevenueCat to be deleted, contact us and we will process the request.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Sakin handles information, we will update this page and the effective date above.

Contact

CoreTech
Email: info@coretechtr.com
Sakin Support