One Qibla. Every Muslim.

A free, ad-free, privacy-first Qibla and prayer companion. Built so that nothing about your worship is ever collected, sold, or interrupted.

Know the time. Find the direction. Then put the phone down and pray.

One direction connects us.

What we promise

OneQibla is free for everyone. Core prayer tools will never be placed behind a paywall.
No advertising. Prayer should never be interrupted by an advertisement.
No sale of religious behaviour data. We do not sell, profile, or monetise where, when, or how you pray.
No premium Muslim. Donations do not unlock a higher class of worship experience. People who choose to support OneQibla simply help keep it free for everyone else.
All Muslims are welcome. OneQibla does not decide which Islamic tradition a person should follow.
One direction connects us. Wherever we live and whatever our traditions, the Qibla points toward the Kaaba in Makkah.

What it does today, and what it does not yet

We would rather you know exactly where this stands than read a promise.

The sun's direction is known exactly from where you are and the time; the phone's compass is not. The difference is what the app shows under Settings, About, Technical details (for support), as a number, so you can check the compass against the sun before trusting the needle.

Built: Prayer times for the place you save, calculated on your phone by a published method you choose — five are offered, and it starts on a default that the screen names as a default rather than a recommendation — or copied in from the timetable your mosque publishes. Every time on the screen says where it came from.
Built: The Qibla bearing, calculated on your phone from a location you type or accept, and a dial whose needle points to it from the phone’s own true-north heading, saying how far to turn. True north needs the location permission: without it the bearing is still shown, and the screen says why the needle waits. No account, no server, no connection needed — the app has no code that could open one.
Built: Reminders before each prayer, from the times it shows you, on the phone only and off until you turn them on. An optional prayer log that keeps only the prayers you mark: OneQibla never sends it anywhere, and turning it off deletes it.
Built: Holy places, as photographs and as reconstructions. Panoramic photographs of Masjid al-Haram, of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, and of the Imam Reza shrine, and a photograph of Al-Masjid an-Nabawi in Medina from above, all from Wikimedia Commons with the photographer and licence on screen. And digital reconstructions of the Kaaba, the Dome of the Rock within al-Masjid al-Aqsa, and the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, that you turn towards by moving the phone and can step closer to. The reconstructions are drawn from published measurements, not photographed, and each names its sources. The order the places are listed in is not a ranking.
Built: A sun-referenced check of your phone’s compass, so you can see for yourself how far it is out before trusting the needle.
Not yet, by design: The sentence “You are facing the Qibla.” The needle points and the app says how far to turn, but it never confirms alignment, because nobody has yet measured how far real phones’ compasses are out. We will not confirm what we cannot measure.
Not yet, by design: A qualified reviewer’s word on the calculation methods and the Kaaba coordinate. The published values were transcribed and checked by the person who builds the app, and every screen that uses them says so. A scholar has not yet read them.
Built, not reviewed: Arabic, every word of it, translated by AI. No fluent Arabic speaker has read it, and the app says so beside the Arabic option. This website has an Arabic version too, translated the same way, and it says so. If Arabic is your first language, that review is the help we need most.
Not yet: A city search (you type a coordinate or use your location); languages other than English and Arabic; and an App Store or Google Play listing. The app builds and runs on both platforms today.

What it looks like

Two screens of the app as built at version 0.221.0. These frames are rendered by the app’s own tests, not photographed on a phone: the same code that ships, drawn at phone size with an example location and a fixed compass reading, in the light or dark theme to match this page, so that what you see here is what the tests saw.

The Home screen: Next prayer, Isha, 7:01 PM, in 30 min, with a thin arc filled to the time; a list of today’s prayers, Fajr 4:39 AM through Isha 7:01 PM, the passed ones lighter and the next one bold; Qibla 277.50 degrees, calculated bearing, accurate to within 0.01 degrees; a Find Qibla button; and the saved location, from your phone, accurate to about 12 metres, with its coordinate — **Home.** The next prayer first, today’s times under it, the Qibla bearing, and the location everything is calculated from.

The Qibla screen: 277.50 degrees, calculated bearing, accurate to within 0.01 degrees; a dial with a needle pointing almost straight up and a small square for the Kaaba on its rim; the instruction Turn right approximately 2 degrees; the sentence OneQibla points the needle and says how far to turn. It does not confirm that you are facing the Qibla in this version; compass accuracy high; approx. 13,236 km to the Kaaba; and a link, Where this comes from — **Qibla.** The needle, how far to turn, and the sentence that says what the app does not confirm.

The location shown is an example used by the tests, not anyone’s. No frame of a holy place is shown here: religious imagery on this site waits for review.

Supporting this work

OneQibla is built by one person and given away. It costs time and money to keep building, and we would like it in the hands of every Muslim who wants it.

Voluntary support is open. It works like this, and it is written down so you can hold us to it:

It happens on this website, not inside the app, and the app never asks.
Any amount is welcome. There is no minimum.
Nothing is taken from what you give by us. The card route itself takes a fee before the rest reaches the work.
Support unlocks nothing. Everyone gets the same app.

How giving works, what it pays for, and how to help without money.

Who receives it: Lingtao, personally — the one person who builds the app. A gift is a gift to a person, not to a charity, so it is not tax-deductible and no charity receipt can be issued.

Support OneQibla Tell me when the app is out

Those are emails, not a mailing list. We write back once, when it happens.

Who is behind this

Lingtao, Sydney. I built OneQibla because Muslim groups do not all have the same holy sites, and the direction of prayer is common to all of them — which is what the name means.

A gift goes to Lingtao personally, in Australia — not to a charity, so it is not tax-deductible and no charity receipt can be issued. It is collected through the Xcelerent company account, which is why a card statement reads XCELRENT* OneQibla.

How accurate is it?

The direction is geometry: from the location you give the app to the Kaaba. It is only as good as that location, so the app shows you how sure it is instead of hiding it. Where it cannot be sure, it tells you.