Pray Buddy

Made for the whole family.

Kids Mode

An age-appropriate experience with encouraging voices and warm confirmations, built to make prayer feel welcoming rather than a duty. No data is collected in Kids Mode.

Adult Mode

A calmer, grown-up tone with adult reminder voices and quiet confirmations after each prayer. Same privacy, same on-device approach.

Private. On your device. No exceptions.

Pray Buddy has no account, no sync through our servers, no trackers, no analytics and no ads. Prayer times and Qibla are computed on your device, on iPhone and on Android. Your location is used only while the app is open, and the coordinates stay on your device. For the place name and the city search, the device asks the system's map service (Apple, on Android usually Google). The full details are in the privacy policy below.

• No account, no sign-up
• No tracking, no analytics, no ads
• Data lives on your device and in your own device backup, not with us

Privacy Policy

Effective: October 22, 2026. Applies to Pray Buddy on iPhone and Android.

1. Data Controller

Muhlis Karaca
Oberföhringer Str. 246a
81925 München
Germany
Email: info@likafilm.com

2. What data does Pray Buddy process?

Pray Buddy is built with data minimization as a core principle. The app only processes:

• Location data (only during use) to calculate prayer times and Qibla direction. The last used coordinates and a place you picked are stored on the device, so the widget and reminders work without a new location fix.
• App settings (prayer method, language, volume, profiles), stored on your device
• Prayer tracking data, stored on your device

3. No sharing by us

We do not share, sell or use personal data for advertising. There are no trackers, no analytics and no ads in the app. Some features use services of the operating system or of a third party; sections 4, 7 and 9 say which data they receive.

4. Location data

The app uses your location to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction, only while you use it. The coordinates are stored on your device and are not sent to us. For the place name shown and for the city search, the device passes the coordinates or the search term to the system's map service: on iPhone to Apple, on Android to the device geocoder, usually Google. On Android the position comes from Google Play services. Apple's (apple.com/legal/privacy) and Google's (policies.google.com/privacy) privacy policies apply. You can revoke location access at any time in the system settings; a manually picked place works without it.

5. Local data storage

Settings, prayer tracking and profiles are stored on your device. There is no sync through our servers. The system's device backup may include this data: on iPhone the iCloud or computer backup, on Android the automatic backup to your Google account, which restores settings and prayer history after a reinstall. You control both in the system settings.

6. Audio content

The app contains pre-installed prayer reminder voices (boy, girl and adult variants for Kids Mode and Adult Mode, plus confirmation sounds after completed prayers). All audio is bundled with the app and plays locally. Pray Buddy does not include a classical Adhan call, and there are no audio recordings of Du'as (Du'as are shown as text with Arabic, transliteration and translation).

7. Prayer time calculation

Pray Buddy calculates prayer times in two ways, depending on your settings:

• On-device calculation via the open-source adhan library (adhan-swift on iPhone, adhan-kotlin on Android). No data leaves the device for this.
• Only with your explicit consent (on iPhone and Android, adult profile only): the official prayer times of Diyanet (Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey) for a district you pick in the settings. The app requests them from our own server, which fetches them through Diyanet's official interface (Awqat Salah) and caches them.
  • What data: the identifier of the chosen district (while picking, also of the country and city) and, as with any request on the internet, your IP address. No coordinates, no name, no account. The host keeps the IP address in the usual server log (section 12); beyond that we do not store it. Our server passes nothing about you on to Diyanet; it only asks for the district.
  • Why specially protected: Requesting prayer times can reveal that you pray, and thus your religious belief. The legal basis is therefore your explicit consent under Art. 9(2)(a) and Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which the app asks for before the first request.
  • Recipients: our server at ALL-INKL.COM, Neue Medien Münnich GmbH (Germany), acting as a processor. To determine the district's time zone and location, the iPhone also passes the district name to Apple's map service.
  • Withdrawal: at any time in Pray Buddy under Settings, Prayer Times, the switch for Diyanet times, with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR). Without consent the app calculates the times on the device using Diyanet's angles.

8. Qibla direction and widgets

The Qibla compass uses your device's compass sensor and your location, both on the device. The Home Screen widgets (date, location and upcoming prayer) also read only the app's local data and do not send anything to a server.

9. Keeping the lock screen up to date (iPhone only, only with your consent)

From version 1.9.5, the Live Activity on the lock screen can switch to the next prayer without you opening the app. This only works through our server. The app therefore asks for your explicit consent first, and only in an adult profile. Without your yes nothing is transmitted, and never in a kids profile.

• What data: the prayer times of the coming days with prayer names and the notice text shown, the mood of the buddy character, the push tokens Apple assigns to the Live Activity, and a random ID the app generates only for this purpose. No coordinates, no name, no account, no device or advertising identifier. The prayer times do, however, allow a rough guess of your region. As with any request on the internet, our server receives your IP address; the hosting provider records it in the usual server log (section 12), and we do not store it together with the data above.
• Why it is specially protected: prayer times can reveal that you pray, and so your religious belief. The legal basis is therefore your explicit consent under Art. 9(2)(a) and Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
• Recipients: our server at ALL-INKL.COM, Neue Medien Münnich GmbH (Germany), acting as a processor. At each prayer time the server sends the due display through the Apple Push Notification service to your iPhone; Apple Inc. (USA) receives the push token and the content shown. According to Apple's privacy policy, its transfers of personal data from the EEA are governed by Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46 GDPR).
• Retention: if you turn the feature off or switch to a kids profile, the server deletes all data for your device immediately; after turning off Live Activities in the iOS settings, at the next app launch. If you stop opening the app, the server deletes the data on its own 7 days after the last prayer time sent.
• Withdrawal: at any time in Pray Buddy under Settings, Display, "Keep lock screen up to date", with effect for the future (Art. 7(3) GDPR). Without consent the Live Activity still shows the next prayer, but only switches the next time you open the app.

10. User rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. Without the consents described in sections 7 and 9 we do not receive any personal data from you. With it, our server holds only the data listed there under a random ID that we cannot link to a person (Art. 11 GDPR); you can delete it yourself at any time with the switch in the settings. You remove the data on your device by deleting the app, and copies in your device backup through the system's backup settings. Questions: info@likafilm.com.

11. Children (Kids Mode)

Pray Buddy includes a Kids Mode with age-appropriate content. No personal data is transmitted to us in Kids Mode either; the Diyanet times in section 7 and the feature in section 9 are turned off in a kids profile.

12. This website

The sections above cover the app. For this website, the following also applies:

• It is hosted by ALL-INKL.COM, Neue Medien Münnich GmbH, Hauptstrasse 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, Germany, acting as a processor. The server records the usual log data on each request (IP address, time, requested address, amount of data transferred, browser identification). The legal basis is the legitimate interest in secure operation under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
• No cookies, no analytics and no trackers are used.
• The fonts are served from this same server. Loading the page therefore opens no connection to Google Fonts or any other third party.
• The links to the App Store, to GitHub and to likafilm.com lead to third-party services whose data processing begins with the click and follows their own terms.

13. Changes

This privacy policy may be updated as needed. The current version is always available at this address.

Legal Notice

Responsible party

Muhlis Karaca
Oberföhringer Str. 246a
81925 München
Germany
Email: info@likafilm.com

VAT

VAT identification number pursuant to § 27a UStG: DE461871296

Liability for content

The content of this page and the app has been prepared with the greatest care. However, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the content. Prayer times are calculated from external sources and serve as a guide.

Liability for links

This page contains links to external websites (the App Store, the adhan-swift repository and likafilm.com) over whose content we have no control. We therefore assume no liability for such third-party content. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking; unlawful content was not recognisable. Should we become aware of any infringement, we will remove the link promptly.

Questions or feedback?

For questions about privacy, the app, or any feedback, reach us at:

info@likafilm.com