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سدّ
Private beta · iOS 18+

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

Sadd turns every deliberate bypass into sadaqah. Type your niyyah, set your minutes, and the slip becomes a gift to charity. The scroll never wins twice.

◆ Now in private TestFlight ◆ Every bypass → sadaqah ◆ Tracks the time you reclaim
Sadd lock screen — next salah and the verse of the day
Lock screen · next salah + āyah
Sadd home screen widgets — streak, next salah, today and the five prayers
Home · today & the five prayers
Sadd Quran reader — Al-Fātiḥa with recitation
The muṣḥaf · 8 reciters
◆ 01 · How it works

Five steps. Repeated until something changes.

Other apps lock you out. Sadd asks you a question — and converts the answer into worship.

01
Tap a tracked app.
You pick which apps to seal. Instagram, TikTok, X — whichever pulls you under.
02
Sadd shields it.
A calm screen takes over. No lock-screen battles. Just one question.
03
Type your niyyah.
At least 60 characters. Real reasons only. The text stays in your muḥāsaba for 24 hours.
04
Sadaqah is given.
The amount you set — from $0.50 a slip — to a charity you chose, charged through the contract you signed. The bypass becomes a gift.
05
Your minutes, granted.
1 to 15 minutes — you choose. Sadd watches the clock, then re-arms the shield automatically.
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
◆ 02 · The full app

More than a wall.
A companion.

Sadd shields, but it also reads, recites, counts, points to qibla, and sits with you at fajr. Every spiritual surface a Muslim already wants — under one roof.

سدّ
◆ I · THE NIYYAH GATE

Friction, by design.

The headline feature. Apps you've chosen are sealed behind a single, slow question — sixty honest characters — and the answer becomes your record. Read it back to yourself before isha. Read it back to your Rabb.

◇ II · Sadaqah

Every bypass becomes sadaqah.

From $0.50 each time you slip, to a charity you chose — a voluntary gift, not a fine. You sign the commitment once on the web; Sadd never asks for a card inside the app.

◇ III · Quran

The whole muṣḥaf.

Madinah script, 8 reciters, 14 translations, tafsir from Ibn Kathīr & al-Saʿdī. Bookmarks sync across devices. Continue-reading built in.

◇ IV · Adhkār & Tasbih

Morning, evening, after salah.

The Hisn al-Muslim collection, ordered by occasion. Haptic tasbih counter. No streak guilt.

◇ V · Salah & Qibla

Times. Direction. Tahajjud.

Adhan with custom reciter, calculated by your madhhab. A tahajjud helper that wakes you only in the last third.

◇ VI · Halaqa

A circle, by kunya.

Invite friends or join your masjid's halaqa with a code. See each other's bypass counts — never your niyyahs — under a pseudonym. Weekly digest. (Sadd Pro.)

◇ VII · Muḥāsaba

The day's account.

Every night Sadd compiles what you opened, what you intended, and what you gave. A 60-second self-reckoning before sleep.

◆ 03 · The reckoning

Three numbers Sadd keeps.
All of them yours.

No leaderboards. No aggregate vanity metrics. Just your own account, compiled each night — the time you kept, what you gave, and the days you didn't slip.

Time
RECLAIMED, NOT GUESSED
Minutes subtracted from your tracked apps, measured by iOS Screen Time itself.
Sadaqah
EVERY BYPASS COUNTS
The running total your slips turned into charity this month, against the cap you set.
Streak
NO GUILT WHEN IT BREAKS
Days you opened nothing you'd sealed. Counted quietly — a record, never a leaderboard.
◆ 04 · What it's built on

Three principles, not a pitch.

"سدّ الذرائع — blocking the means. A thousand-year-old fiqh principle, made into a tool you keep on your home screen."
— Surah al-Kahf · 18:94
"Your niyyah never leaves your phone. Screen Time only tells Sadd that a sealed app opened — never what you saw inside it."
— On-device by design
"One app, not five. Quran, prayer, qibla, tasbih and adhan live beside the barrier — in one calm theme, all on-device."
— The companion, under one roof
◆ Inside the app · real screens

Not a render. The actual app.

Prayer times, the muṣḥaf, qibla, the daily hadith, your reckoning, and your halaqa — one calm theme, all on device.

Sadd prayer times screen
Prayer times · the full timetable
Sadd Quran reader home
The muṣḥaf · continue reading
Sadd qibla compass
Qibla · live bearing to Mecca
Sadd daily hadith
Daily hadith · a narration to sit with
Sadd stats and reckoning
Your reckoning · discipline & sadaqah
Sadd halaqa circle digest
Halaqa · your circle's weekly digest
◆ 05 · Pricing

Free for the essentials.
Pro for the rest of it.

No ads. No data sold. We don't sell you for anything — and never will, in shā Allāh.

Sadd سدّ
◇ Free, forever
$0
  • The Niyyah Gate & app shielding
  • Full muṣḥaf · 8 reciters · 3 tafsir
  • Tasbih, qibla & prayer times
  • Adhkār, adhan & tahajjud helper
  • Your nightly muḥāsaba
Start free

Pro is also $39.99/year — roughly two months free. Sadaqah is set up once on sadd.app — you sign a commitment and save a card with Stripe. The app itself never handles payment.

◆ 06 · Questions

Things you might be wondering.

Is this fiqh-compliant? How do you frame the sadaqah?
Carefully. We deliberately avoid conflating this with the classical fiqh category of kaffārah — it is a voluntary sadaqah, triggered by a behavioural commitment you make to yourself, nothing more. The money goes to a registered charity you choose, never to Sadd. We're reviewing every flow with qualified scholars before public launch, in shā Allāh.
Does Sadd see what I do inside Instagram or TikTok?
No. We use the iOS Screen Time API (FamilyControls / ManagedSettings), which only tells us that a tracked app was opened — not what you saw, posted, or scrolled. Your niyyah text never leaves your device unless you explicitly share it.
How is the sadaqah actually paid?
Not inside the app. You set it up once on sadd.app: sign in, save a card with Stripe, and sign a commitment — “charge me $X every time I log a bypass,” up to a monthly cap (default $10). After that the iOS app only logs a bypass; our server charges your saved card and routes the donation to your chosen charity through Stripe. The app never shows a card, a price, or a payment screen — Apple's rules don't allow paying to lift a screen-time shield in-app, and honestly the calm is better for it.
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. The day you don't want it, you remove it. We hope you come back — but we hope you don't need to.
Is this on Android?
Not yet. Android's app-shielding APIs are weaker and would compromise the Niyyah Gate's calm. We're tracking changes in Android 16 and will revisit. Sign up below and we'll notify you when it ships.
I tried Opal / one sec / Screen Time. Why try this?
Because none of them speak to why you want to stop. Sadd is built around a specific Muslim emotional vocabulary — niyyah, taubah, sadaqah, muḥāsaba — and a specific economic exchange: lost attention becomes gained charity. If that loop resonates, nothing else will feel quite the same.
What does "Sadd" mean?
سدّ — Arabic for a wall, dam, or deliberate barrier. From the story of Dhul-Qarnayn in Surah Al-Kahf, who built one at the request of a people troubled by harm coming from the other side. Felt like a fitting name.
◆ 07 · From the founders

"We started Sadd because we hated who we became after an hour on Instagram. Tired. Distracted. Quietly ashamed. So we built one that speaks our language — old verbs, new tool."

— Asjad & Dua
Founders, Hattiesburg
سدّ

Build the barrier.

Private beta on iOS 18+. The barrier, the companion, and the widgets — public launch this Ramaḍān, in shā Allāh.

TestFlight · iOS 18+ · iPhone 12 or newer recommended