Shia Companion app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 5008 ratings )

Reference Lifestyle
Developer: Unique Mobile Applications

Free

Current version: 2.0.3, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 10 Jul 2014
App size: 120.77 Mb

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Shia Companion – An iPhone and iPad application
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Shia Companion is a comprehensive, revolutionary and unique application, with some never seen before features on any smartphone, taking apps catered for Shia Muslims to a whole new level of professionalism and productivity!

CURRENT FEATURES:

Prayer Timings
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View Twelver Shia Muslim (Jafari) daily prayer times via 2 different methods:

a) Automatically acquired accurate prayer times from any part of the world calculated via GPS.

b) Select from one of our manually entered calendars available for 47 different cities worldwide

You also have the option of manually editing any prayer time by +/- 60 minutes should you wish to amend the timings from either of the 2 methods above.

Shia Adhaan & Quran Audio Notifications
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- Automatically receive Adhaan notifications from a choice of 3 reciters

- Play the Quran 5, 10 or 15 minutes before the Adhaan

- Or simply get pop-up notifications alerting you of prayer times, without playing any audio recitations

Supplications & Ziyaraat With Line By Line Translation
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- A comprehensive list of Supplications & Ziyaraat

- A beautiful & easy to read Arabic font

- Choice of Arabic only, English only or Arabic with LINE BY LINE translation

- Over 8,000 lines of text manually entered and checked for accuracy

Prayers
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- Step-by-step guide of the method of reciting various prayers, including Salaat al-Ghufaylah, Salaat al-Mayyit, Salaat Jafar al-Tayyar, and much more

Salaat al-Layl
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- Step by step guide to performing your Tahajjud prayers

- Recommended supplications before, during and after the entire prayer

- Includes counters for the repetitive recitation of various lines in the prayer, such as the 70 “Isghtighfaar” and the 300 "al-Afwa"

- The ability to store names of 40 believers - a custom-made counter will then appear in the Salaat al-Layl section, cycling through the names of each believer one at a time!

Qadha Tables
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Keep track of any Qadha prayers and fasts that you have to make up with just the touch of a finger!

Islamic & Gregorian 2-in-1 Calendar
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- Never lose track of the Islamic date & upcoming religious events!

- On the morning of a religious event, receive a scheduled pop-up notification reminding you of the significance of the respective day!

- Keep the lunar calendar continuously in sync with the Gregorian calendar with the ability to manually change todays lunar date!

Qiblah Compass
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- An easy to use and accurate Qiblah compass

- Also calculates your distance from the Kabah

Tasbeeh Counters
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- Various Tasbeeh counters which allow you to easily recite specific lines from supplications and prayers a set number of times

- The counter screen displays the passage to recite in Arabic, along with its English translation, and a countdown of the number of times to recite

- From Tasbeeh for special prayers, to worship of special nights like the 19th of Ramadhan

- Create your own custom countdown Tasbeeh!

Bookmarks
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- Bookmark any line in a supplication, which will be saved for you in the Bookmarks section

Fully Searchable
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- Search within a specific Supplication/Ziyarah or within all Supplications & Ziyaraat

- Search in Arabic or English

Dual Orientation Ready Screen (iPad only)
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- Read in portrait or landscape mode

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DISCLAIMER: Most of the English translations of Prayers, Supplications & Ziyaraat in this app have been taken from already existent sources and therefore their accuracy is as per their translation guidelines. We continue to update the text both in Arabic and English. Please do send us any corrections of requests.

Pros and cons of Shia Companion app for iPhone and iPad

Shia Companion app good for

This app is wonderful but it needs to have transliteration. It will help people who dont speak Arabic learn the prayers and Duaa in Arabic.

It is an amazing app and I fell in love with it as I donloaded it and purchased the extras but it if could be better if you added the Ramadan timings for the imsak!!!!!Also the fajr timings seem too early than what I checked in my area. I also wish the Athan would go off without having to interact with my phone instead of the other sayings that go off.

I tried looking for other apps catering towards practicing Shias and I kept coming back to this one for its simplicity,layout, and accessibility. Great so far, wished it had transliteration for those who are fluent in reading Arabic. JazakAllah khair.

Thank you for this perfect application, amazing design and very easy to use. Barak Allahu fikum Salamualeykum

Honestly thank you so much for this beautiful app. Ive been searching for a good Shia app but almost all of them are for Sunnis and its really disappointing. But Ive stumbled upon this app and Im so happy with it! Thank you! Al Salam Aleykum.

Some bad moments

I really like the timeline on the Homescreen - I havent seen this sort of visualization jet... Notifications work like a charm and its great how many options you choose from!

I love the design of this app! There are enough duas for every day use and the functionality is simple and efficient.

This app design, right from the start, is beautiful and professionally made unlike many of the other IslamicShia apps out there. It gives alot of information on duas and supplications along with accurate prayer times. Recommended for all lovers of Ahlul Bayt!

Ive been looking for a well made prayers times app that is functional and visually pleasing at the same time for a while now, finally I found one that is and so much more. The app is made for Muslims who follow the School of Ahlulbayt AS. (Ithna Asheri Shia) and who speak English. Once the app is downloaded and opened youll be greeted with a nice tutorial to familiarize yourself with the app, a nice touch, but not until after you select whether you want the app to fetch your location to determine prayer times. I love that it sets up without me needing to do anything. But even if your location changes, recalibrating is a breeze. If you want to unlock more of the features youll have to pay £1.45 which is equivalent to $2.99? Well worth it IMHO. The app has other features too aside from just calculating prayers times. It notifies the user when prayer time starts with a selection of three different athan recitors. Also it gives the option for having The Holy Quran recited by 3 different recitors at a time interval of your choice prior to athan notification. It has multiple counters for tasbih, and has selections of Ziyarat (visitations) and Duas (supplications). It also features a calendar with highlighted events. I cant praise this app and the developers enough. Jazakum Allah Khayer and thanks for your efforts! Please keep up the good work. Looking forward to more of your apps.

You cant go wrong with Shia Companion. Pretty much everything you need, under one clean, user-friendly elegant app. Seem to come out with useful updates too. Cant go wrong spending $2 on something youll probably use every single day.

This is a master piece. Professionally done and very helpful! Thank you and keep up the good work!

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