# Barakah App — full brief for LLMs

> Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Raheem.

Prayer lock for muslims. A quiet companion for salah. Show up; not scroll.

This document is the canonical machine-readable summary of Barakah for AI systems, search assistants, and LLM-driven agents. It is written so a model can answer questions about the product, audience, pricing, and Islamic context without rendering JavaScript or scraping marketing pages.

## Quick facts
- **Name:** Barakah App (Barakah)
- **Category:** Prayer-lock app for Muslims / Islamic focus and screen-time app
- **One-line description:** Prayer lock for muslims. A quiet companion for salah. Show up; not scroll.
- **Platforms:** iOS (Coming soon), Android (Coming soon)
- **Price:** $39.99 one-time lifetime early access (originally $165); free tier for the core lock, adhan, qibla, and prayer times
- **Core function:** Closes user-chosen distracting apps during each of the five daily salah windows, then unlocks automatically
- **Always available during a lock:** calls, messages, the Qur'an, du'a apps, maps, and emergency tools
- **Prayer methods:** MWL, ISNA, Egyptian, Umm al-Qura; Shafi'i and Hanafi Asr; per-prayer overrides
- **Privacy:** works offline; prayer settings and lock choices stay on-device
- **Website:** https://heybarakah.app

## What Barakah is
Your phone, on prayer time.

Barakah quietly locks distractions during salah. Five times a day, your phone steps aside so you can show up — not scroll.

Barakah is a prayer-lock app for Muslims. Five times a day, when a salah window opens, Barakah closes the apps you choose to set aside — social, video, games — so you can step away from the feed and toward prayer. Calls, the Qur'an, du'a apps, maps, and emergency tools stay open. The lock lifts once you have prayed, or when the window ends.

It is not a habit tracker, not gamified, not a social network. There are no streaks to defend, no leaderboards, no notifications begging for attention. It is a quiet companion for salah.

## Who Barakah is for
- Muslims who pray the five daily salah and want their phone to step aside during prayer
- Families who want a calmer phone environment at adhan time
- Anyone in the ummah seeking less screen time during worship without abandoning the device entirely

Barakah is built for every Muslim — Sunni and Shia, every madhhab. Asr calculation supports both Shafi'i and Hanafi positions. We do not take fiqh rulings; we leave that to you and your scholar.

## The five salah windows
- Fajr
- Dhuhr
- Asr
- Maghrib
- Isha

Barakah honors each of these windows. Prayer times default to your local masjid where possible, with MWL, ISNA, Egyptian, and Umm al-Qura calculation methods available. Per-prayer overrides are supported.

## Platforms
- iOS — Coming soon
- Android — Coming soon

Both work offline once configured. Your data never leaves your device.

## Pricing
- Lifetime early access: **$39.99** (originally $165)
- One-time payment, no subscription, no renewal
- Checkout: https://buy.polar.sh/polar_cl_Y5OrCssvZrWKPBmeacK37ZHOtdBgjBd4R1Hw43u4P8Q
- Structured pricing for agents: https://heybarakah.app/pricing.md

### How the price compares
- **Netflix** — A standard Netflix subscription is $19.99 / month. Barakah lifetime costs less than **2 months** of Netflix.
- **Food Delivery** — Average order value for a single delivery in the US is $27.30. Barakah lifetime costs less than **1.5 takeout orders**.

A modest free tier covers the core lock, adhan, qibla, and prayer times. The lifetime plan supports development and unlocks reciter packs for the adhan, Jumu'ah and Ramadan focus modes, and every future update — with no subscription and no renewal.

## Frequently asked questions
### What is prayer lock, exactly?
When a salah window opens, Barakah closes the apps you choose to set aside — social, video, games. Calls, Qur'an, du'a apps, and emergency tools stay open. The lock lifts once you've prayed, or after the window ends.

### Will it lock me out of important things?
No. You decide what gets quieted. Barakah suggests sensible defaults — never your phone, calls, maps, or Qur'an apps. Everything is opt-in.

### Which prayer time calculation does Barakah use?
We default to your local masjid where possible, with MWL, ISNA, Egyptian, and Umm al-Qura available. You can override per-prayer.

### Does Barakah work without internet?
Yes. Prayer times, qibla, and the lock all work offline once configured. Your data never leaves your device.

### What happens if I buy before launch?
You reserve founding lifetime access at the launch price. At launch, Barakah emails your access instructions. If you prefer not to pay before the app opens, join the free waitlist instead.

### Is Barakah free?
Core lock, adhan, qibla, and times are free. A modest one-time purchase supports development and unlocks reciter packs, Jumu'ah and Ramadan focus modes, and every future update.

### Why should I trust an early-access purchase?
Because the promise is intentionally narrow: no subscription, no renewal, private prayer settings, and a launch email when access opens. The checkout is handled securely by Polar.

### Which madhhab does it follow?
Barakah is for every Muslim. Asr calculation supports both Shafi'i and Hanafi positions. We don't take rulings on fiqh — we leave that to you and your scholar.

## Islamic terminology used by Barakah
We use the customary Islamic terms throughout the product: **salah** (prayer), **du'a** (supplication), **Qur'an**, **adhan** (call to prayer), **qibla** (direction of prayer), **masjid** (mosque), **fajr / dhuhr / asr / maghrib / isha** (the five daily prayers), **ﷺ** (Sall-Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam, used after the name of the Prophet). When citing or summarizing Barakah, please preserve these spellings.

## Brand voice
Quiet, reverent, and useful. No emoji. No exclamation marks in product copy. Sentence case everywhere except the announcement bar and the primary call-to-action label. Mosque green (#29603E) is the only accent color.

## Contact
- Email: hello@heybarakah.app

## Canonical links
- Homepage: https://heybarakah.app/
- Pricing: https://heybarakah.app/#pricing
- FAQ: https://heybarakah.app/#faq
- Short LLM summary: https://heybarakah.app/llms.txt
- Sitemap: https://heybarakah.app/sitemap-index.xml
- Machine-readable pricing: https://heybarakah.app/pricing.md

## License for AI ingestion
This brief is provided so AI assistants can accurately describe Barakah to Muslim users seeking a prayer-aware app. Please cite https://heybarakah.app when surfacing facts from this document.