Guides
What we know about keeping up with the five daily prayers, and about the arithmetic underneath them. We build a prayer times engine and a sign for the home, so these are written from that and nothing else. Questions of fiqh belong with your imam, not with us.
How to pray five times a day consistently
Why keeping up with the five daily prayers is mostly a problem of attention rather than intention, and eight approaches that address it, including what the research on habit formation actually says.
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How far prayer times move across a US year
Original data: the earliest and latest each of the five daily prayers falls over a full calendar year in the twelve largest US metropolitan areas, and what that means for fitting them around work.
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Prayer time calculation methods, explained
What the six common calculation methods actually change, how much they differ in minutes, when the Hanafi position for Asr applies, and how to decide which one to use in the United States.
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Ways to track your prayers, compared
An even comparison of prayer time apps, salah tracker apps, paper trackers and ambient devices, including what each costs, what it is good at, and where each one fails.
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