FivePrayer Alternative for iPhone: A Straight Comparison
FivePrayer popularized the idea of locking your phone until you pray, and it's earned its ratings. If you're looking around anyway — because of a specific bug, a missing feature, or just wanting to compare — here's an honest, feature-by-feature look at Hayya, built for the same habit with a few different choices.
Hayya vs FivePrayer at a glance
| Hayya | FivePrayer | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free tracking & Qibla; Salah Lock in Pro, $19.99/yr, 14-day trial | Free |
| App blocking during prayer | Yes — choose the apps or categories | Yes — choose the apps or categories |
| Unlock confirmation | Three levels: instant, press-and-hold affirmation, or an opt-in oath | A "wallah" (oath) confirmation on every unlock |
| Qada (missed prayer) tracking | Dedicated Qada counter and calculator | Missed-prayer reason logging |
| Sunnah & Nafl tracking | Rawatib, Duha, Tahajjud, Witr logged separately from Fard | Not a focus |
| Haid Mode (menstruation) | Pauses tracking and blocking entirely, no streak penalty | Has an exemption option |
| Data & ads | On-device prayer times, no ads, no data brokers | Free, ad-supported on some screens |
We build Hayya, so treat the FivePrayer column as a summary of its public App Store listing and reviews rather than a first-hand review — check FivePrayer's own listing for anything time-sensitive.
Where switchers usually come from
Reading through FivePrayer's App Store reviews, the same few requests come up from people who still like the app but want more: a way to bypass the lock in a genuine emergency, blocking that only affects the apps you actually picked instead of an all-or-nothing switch, and a way to mark Fajr as missed once its window has passed rather than only at the next prayer. FivePrayer's own team has responded to several of these publicly and is working on them — which is a good sign for the app, and also exactly the kind of thing worth comparing before you pick one.
The oath confirmation, explained
FivePrayer's single best-loved feature isn't the lock — it's asking you to affirm, on your word, that you actually prayed before it unlocks. Hayya ships the same idea as one of three unlock levels: instant (one tap, for ordinary logging), affirm (press-and-hold "I have prayed Dhuhr"), and oath (press-and-hold "I bear witness that I have prayed Dhuhr"), which is opt-in rather than default — a false oath in Allah's name is a serious matter, so we leave that choice to you in Salah Lock settings instead of forcing it on everyone.
What Hayya adds beyond the lock
- Qada tracker: log missed prayers by name and prayer, and work through a backlog with a running count.
- Sunnah & Nafl: the 12 rak'ah rawatib, Duha, Tahajjud and Witr are tracked alongside your five daily Fard prayers, not folded into one number.
- Haid Mode: a real pause, not just a silenced reminder — no missed-prayer count, no broken streak, while it's active.
- Privacy: prayer times are calculated on-device from your location; nothing is sold to data brokers.
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Prayer tracking, times, Qibla and Quran are free forever. Salah Lock and full Qada/Sunnah tracking are in Pro.
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Is there a good alternative to FivePrayer?
Hayya covers the same core idea — pausing distracting apps until you've prayed — and adds dedicated Qada and Sunnah/Nafl tracking plus a Haid Mode that pauses tracking entirely during menstruation.
Is FivePrayer free?
Yes. Hayya's tracking, prayer times, Qibla, Quran and dhikr counter are also free forever; Salah Lock and full Qada/Sunnah tracking are part of Hayya Pro, which has a 14-day free trial.
What is the unlock confirmation in a salah lock app?
It's the step an app asks for before lifting a prayer-time block. Hayya offers a single tap, a press-and-hold affirmation, or an opt-in oath, so you choose how much friction you want against lying to yourself about praying.