Available now · iOS 17+

A barrier between
you and the scroll.
Built for Muslims.

Sadd locks your apps around the five prayers, with no bypass during salah. Outside the window, it asks for your niyyah first.

Locks around salah Qur'ān, never paywalled No ads, ever
Sadd home: the prayer window locked ahead of Isha
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Ṣalāh · the default schedule

It locks around your prayers.

Sadd's schedule is built from your prayer times, not a timer you set. Ten minutes before each salah the apps you chose seal themselves, and inside that window there is no bypass at all.

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The gate · niyyah

A gate before every scroll.

Outside a prayer window you can still get in, but not for free. Sixty honest characters, in your own words, then one to fifteen minutes. Or turn back and stay disciplined.

ٱقْرَأْ بِٱسْمِ رَبِّكَ
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Companion · under one roof

Eight surfaces, one calm theme.

Qur'ān, tasbīḥ, qibla, hadith, muḥāsaba, habits, shield, halaqa. The whole deen beside the barrier: no second app, no second subscription.

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Lockdown · set aside

Shut everything for a set stretch.

Turn the rim (fifteen minutes to twelve hours) and choose what plays under it: continuous Qur'ān from where you last read, or rain, wind, ocean, silence.

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Lockdown · the terms

Decide in advance what leaving costs.

"Contain me" shields every app, not just the ones you picked. And if you leave early: nothing happens, or it counts as a slip. Ending is always free. Sadd never shows a price to unlock.

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Focus level · 7 · 30 · 90 days

See the hours you took back.

Twenty-two hours and forty-four minutes this month: about 113 readings of Surah Al-Mulk. A focus level that rewards consistency, and a bounce-back time for how fast you recover.

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Ṣadaqah · this month

Batched, not nickel-and-dimed.

From $0.25 a slip to a charity you chose. Nothing charges one at a time; a 25¢ card fee would eat itself. Sadd accrues a tab and sends it in one deposit, grossed up so the charity is made whole.

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History · every slip itemised

You can audit every quarter.

Each slip listed, dated, and marked pending until its batch sends. Your amount, monthly quota, hard cap and charity all live on the portal, never inside the app.

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The Recitation · Qur'ān

The whole muṣḥaf, never paywalled.

6,236 āyāt in Uthmani script, 14 translations, 8 reciters, 6 tafsirs. Search a surah, jump straight to 33:33, browse all thirty ajzāʾ, or pick up exactly where the recitation left you.

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Ṣalāh · the anchor

Every prayer, on time.

Computed offline from your coordinates, by your madhhab and calculation method. The next salah counting down, the day's prayers marked as you pray them, sunrise to sunset.

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Hadith · every dawn

A narration to carry through the day.

One authenticated hadith each morning, with its narrator, its source, and a short reflection. Sit with it for a minute. Don't scroll.

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Qibla · the direction

Always know which way to turn.

A precise compass to the Kaʿba: bearing, distance, and a clear signal the moment you are aligned.

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Mosque Mode · auto-silence

Your phone knows when you're at the masjid.

Save your mosque and notifications suppress the moment you arrive, then resume when you leave, with a short dhikr on entry if you want one. The location stays on this device. It's never sent anywhere.

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Halaqa · the circle

Walk with your brothers.

A private circle that shares only collective ʿamal (hours reclaimed, slips, ṣadaqah), each member under a kunya. App names, intentions, and timestamps are never shared.

Sadd home: the prayer window locked ahead of Isha The niyyah gate: write your intention before proceeding The companion grid: eight surfaces Lockdown: the duration dial and sound bed Lockdown: containment and early-exit terms Stats: reclaimed time and focus level Sadaqah this month: pending batch and discipline heatmap Donation history: every slip itemised The Recitation: Qur'an home with search and verse of the day Prayer times: the day's salah tracked Daily hadith with narrator and source Qibla compass Mosque Mode: auto-silence at your saved masjid Halaqa circle digest
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01 · How it works

Five steps.
Repeated until something changes.

Other apps lock you out on a timer you set. Sadd builds the schedule from your prayers, and asks you a question when you try to get around it.

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Pick what to seal.
Apps, whole categories, or websites, whichever pulls you under. Apple hides the names from us; the system shows you exactly what you chose.
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Salah sets the schedule.
Ten minutes before each prayer the seal closes, by default. Add your own fixed windows on top of it.
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During salah, no way in.
The prayer window is a hard block. The gate never appears, and there is nothing to negotiate with.
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Outside it, write your niyyah.
60 honest characters, saved privately to your muḥāsaba. 1 to 15 minutes, then the shield re-arms itself.
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On Pro, the slip becomes ṣadaqah.
From $0.25, batched and sent to a charity you chose. On the free app you still get the gate and the record, never a charge.
02 · The full app

More than a wall.
A companion.

Sadd shields, reads, recites, counts, points to qibla, and sits with you at fajr.

I · The Niyyah Gate

Friction, by design.

Apps you've chosen are sealed behind a single slow question: sixty honest characters. The answer becomes your record. Read it back before isha. Read it back to your Rabb.

II · Lockdown

Shut it all for a stretch.

Fifteen minutes to twelve hours, under continuous Qur'ān or rain, wind, ocean, silence. Ending early is always free.

III · Ṣadaqah

Slips become charity.

From $0.25 each time, batched into one deposit and grossed up so the charity is made whole. A voluntary gift, not a fine. (Pro.)

IV · Qur'ān

The whole muṣḥaf, free.

6,236 āyāt in Uthmani script, 8 reciters, 14 translations, 6 tafsirs. Search, jump to any āyah, browse all thirty ajzāʾ. Never paywalled.

V · Ṣalāh & Qibla

Times. Direction. Adhan.

Computed offline by your madhhab and calculation method, with the day's prayers tracked as you pray them.

VI · Mosque Mode

Silence, when you arrive.

Save your masjid and notifications suppress on entry, then resume as you leave. The location never leaves your device.

VII · Tasbīḥ & Hadith

A wird and a narration.

A daily wird with a haptic for every bead, and one authenticated hadith each morning with its narrator and source.

VIII · Halaqa

A circle, by kunya.

Invite friends or join your masjid's circle. Collective ʿamal only, never your intentions or the apps you opened. (Pro.)

IX · Muḥāsaba & Habits

The day's account.

Every night Sadd compiles what you opened, what you intended, and what you gave, plus habits that hang off a prayer instead of a clock.

X · Look & language

Yours, in nine languages.

Two aesthetics, light or dark, seven palettes. English, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, French, Spanish, German.

03 · Widgets

Fourteen widgets for the home screen & lock.

Prayer times, your streak, the day's āyah, pending sadaqah, your halaqa: all on the surface you see most. Plus eleven Siri actions, and the 114 surahs searchable from Spotlight.

See all widgets →
Next Salah widget Sadaqah widget Quran widget Streak widget
فَهَلْ نَجْعَلُ لَكَ خَرْجًا عَلَىٰ أَن تَجْعَلَ بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَهُمْ سَدًّا
"Shall we pay you a tribute so that you might erect a barrier between us and them?"
Al-Kahf · 18:94
04 · What we hold

An app about attention
shouldn't sell yours.

Muslim apps have a record on this. Two of the largest were caught sending users' locations to brokers who sold on to the U.S. military and to ICE. In a study of 175 Muslim apps, 96% asked for device identifiers. We built Sadd assuming you had read those stories.

The one that matters

What you write at the gate stays on your phone.

The intention you type before opening a sealed app is saved on your device, not our servers. Your circle sees that you wrote one; nobody, including us, sees what it said. Backing it up is a switch you turn on, off by default, deleted after ninety days.

No identifiers

Nothing that follows you.

No IDFA, no IDFV, no Android Advertising ID, no device ID. No advertising, attribution, or analytics SDK anywhere in either app. There is nothing here to sell, because we never collected it.

Your apps

We can't see your list.

Which apps you sealed never leaves your phone. On iPhone the system hands us opaque tokens we couldn't read if we wanted to. On Android we can read them and don't; there is no column in our database that could hold them.

Your location

It never reaches us.

Prayer times and qibla are computed on your phone. Mosque Mode is watched by your operating system, not by us. We deleted the database columns that could have stored a coordinate, so it can't quietly change.

Your reading

Nobody logs what you recite.

Most apps fetch Qur'ān text and audio straight from third-party servers, handing them your IP address and the exact āyah. Sadd relays every request through its own, so those providers never learn what any individual is reading.

On the record

Counted, not claimed.

We publish the exact list of what we store and what we don't: measured, not asserted. Read the privacy policy; it is written to be read, not to be survived.

05 · Pricing

The app is free, forever.
Pro is only the accounting.

No ads. No data sold. No strict paywall. Ever, in shā Allāh.

Sadd سدّ
Free, forever · no ads
$0
  • The Niyyah Gate: apps, categories & websites
  • Prayer-window schedule & the salah hard block
  • Full muṣḥaf · 8 reciters · 14 translations · 6 tafsirs
  • Lockdown sessions, tasbīḥ, qibla & adhan
  • Hadith, Mosque Mode & your nightly muḥāsaba
  • All 14 widgets · 11 Siri actions · 9 languages
Start free
14-day trial · no card required
Sadd Pro
$3.99/mo
  • Ṣadaqah automation: slips become charity
  • Halaqa circles, by kunya
  • Advanced stats: focus level, patterns, bounce-back
  • Heartbeat accountability for your circle
  • Your charity, amount, monthly quota & hard cap
Try Pro free →

Also $39.99/year. Pro gates only accountability and analytics; the Qur'ān, the gate, and every blocking feature stay free. Ṣadaqah is set up once on portal.sadd.app, never inside the app.

06 · Questions

Things you might be wondering.

Will Sadd charge me if I don't pay for Pro?
No. On the free app a slip is logged for your own record and nothing is ever charged. The app says so on the confirmation screen. Ṣadaqah only accrues once you have Pro and a card saved on the portal. Lockdown never charges either: ending a session early is free, and the app never shows a price to unlock anything.
Is this fiqh-compliant? How do you frame the sadaqah?
Carefully. We deliberately avoid conflating this with classical kaffārah. It is a voluntary sadaqah triggered by a commitment you make to yourself. The money goes to a charity you choose, never to Sadd. We continue to review these flows with qualified scholars, and we'll say plainly here if anything changes, in shā Allāh.
Does Sadd see what I do inside Instagram?
No. We use the iOS Screen Time API, which only tells us that a tracked app was opened, not what you saw or posted inside it. Apple hides the app names from us entirely. The intention you write at the gate is saved to your account so you can revisit it; it's never sold, mined, or shared with your halaqa or charity. Mosque Mode's saved location never leaves your device.
How is the sadaqah actually paid?
Not inside the app. You set it up once on portal.sadd.app: sign in, save a card with Stripe, and sign a commitment: an amount per slip (from $0.25), a monthly quota, and a hard monthly cap, $30 by default. After that the iOS app only logs a slip; our server charges and routes the donation. Apple's rules don't allow paying to lift a screen-time shield in-app, and the calm is better for it regardless.
Why hasn't my donation gone out yet?
Because sending 25¢ on its own would lose most of itself to card fees. Slips accrue a running tab instead, and once it crosses your monthly quota the whole batch goes out as a single deposit, grossed up so you cover the fee and the charity receives the full amount. Until then it shows as pending, itemised by date, in Donation History. Hit your monthly cap and bypassing simply stops for the rest of the month.
Can I just uninstall the app?
Yes. We don't believe in lock-in. The whole point is that you want the barrier to be there. If you're in a halaqa, though, your circle is told when Sadd loses contact with you for a day; that's the accountability you signed up for, not a punishment.
What language is it in?
Nine, fully: English, Arabic, Urdu, Indonesian, Malay, Turkish, French, Spanish and German, including right-to-left layout, Arabic-Indic numerals, and Urdu tafsir set in Noto Nastaliq.
Is this on Android?
It's being built. Android's shielding APIs are weaker than iOS's, so the gate took longer to make calm rather than nagging. That work is done and in testing. No date yet; it ships when it holds up.
I tried Opal / one sec / Screen Time. Why try this?
Because none of them speak to why you want to stop, and none of them build the schedule out of your prayers. Sadd is built around a specific Muslim vocabulary (niyyah, taubah, sadaqah, muḥāsaba) and a specific exchange: lost attention becomes gained charity.
What does "Sadd" mean?
سدّ: Arabic for a wall, dam, or deliberate barrier. From the classical fiqh principle of sadd adh-dharāʾiʿ, blocking the means to harm before it reaches you. Felt like a fitting name.
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Build the barrier.

Available now on iOS 17+. The barrier, companion, and widgets, all in one app.

App Store · iOS 17+ · iPhone 12 or newer