Privacy Policy

Noor is built to respect you. It has no accounts, shows no ads, and contains no analytics or advertising trackers. Your worship records stay on your device unless you choose to sync or share them. Optional online features send the requests described below.

1. Information we collect

Noor does not require an account, email address or phone number. An optional greeting name stays in your local preferences. Noor contains no analytics or advertising tracking. Online services receive your IP address and the information needed to answer requests, as described below.

Anything you enter — such as your name for a personal greeting, your prayer or fasting tracker, and your settings — is stored on your device. If enabled, iCloud sync copies supported records to your own iCloud; backup export shares a file with a destination you choose. Neither feature sends worship records to Noor’s servers.

2. Location

With your permission, Noor uses your device's location to calculate accurate prayer times and the Qibla direction for where you are. This happens entirely on your device. Your location stays on your device for these calculations. Setting a location does not start an online nearby search.

The optional “Nearby masjids” and halal food search features can send your selected coordinates to online providers. Using device location also asks the platform's geocoding service for a city name; that service may receive the coordinates. Maps request the area you view. See the next section. If you selected automatic device location and permission remains enabled, returning to the app can refresh your position and city name after you move. This does not start a mosque or halal food search. You can deny or revoke location access at any time in your device Settings; the app still works with a manually chosen city.

3. Optional features that use the internet

Noor's core — prayer times, Qibla, Tasbih, Du'ās and reading the Qur'an — works fully offline. A small number of optional features request data from Noor’s services or third parties when you use them. When your device makes any internet request, the receiving service necessarily sees your device's IP address, as with any website. Noor does not send an account identifier with these requests. Server logs can associate request details with your IP address.

• Qur'an recitation audio — when you play a recitation, the audio is streamed from QuranicAudio (and, for individual verses, EveryAyah). Some recitations and Noor Audio use Noor's Cloudflare-hosted media, and some verse playlists use cdn.islamic.network. Your device requests the selected audio files directly from the relevant host; playback and downloads can continue in the background.
• Nearby masjids — an installed offline pack that covers your area answers entirely on your device, with no network request. Otherwise, when you request an online nearby search, your selected latitude and longitude are sent to Noor’s directory service at masjid-api.amrani.tech to find mosques and congregation times. Noor also requests broad map-area tiles from noor.amrani.tech; if these are unavailable, coordinates are sent to the OpenStreetMap Overpass service. These services receive the request and your IP address. Opening Noor, selecting a prayer location or returning to the app does not authorize an online nearby lookup.
• Halal food search — when you open this feature or change its search location, Noor uses your selected latitude and longitude to request nearby community-mapped restaurants and shops from Overpass. Results are cached on your device; opening a search with stale cached results can start a background refresh for that saved area. Changing a distance filter can reuse the same cached results.
• Overpass providers — mosque fallback searches and halal food searches use overpass-api.de, overpass.osm.ch and overpass.kumi.systems. If a provider is slow or unavailable, Noor can send the same location query to another provider. Each contacted provider receives the query coordinates and your IP address. These are independently operated services using OpenStreetMap data.
• Tafsir & translations — if you download an additional tafsir or translation, it is fetched on demand from QuranEnc or AlQuran.cloud or api.qurancdn.com and then stored on your device for offline use.
• Maps — when a map is shown (Qibla, masjid finder), map imagery loads from Apple Maps on iOS or OpenStreetMap on Android. Like any map, the tiles requested imply the area being viewed.
• City names and search — searching for a city or postcode uses your platform's geocoding service to turn that text into coordinates. After you request device location, reverse geocoding uses coordinates to find a city name. These requests use Apple services on iOS and the device's geocoding provider on Android, commonly Google; network use depends on the platform provider.

Earlier app versions: older installed releases may also send mosque or halal-search coordinates to the Overpass mirror at maps.mail.ru, and may refresh halal results at startup after the feature has been used before. The next app update removes that mirror and startup refresh. Updating the website alone does not change the behavior of an older installed app.

These providers have their own privacy and retention practices. Requests may be processed outside your country. Noor does not promise that providers keep no request logs or delete requests immediately. Avoiding an optional online feature prevents its requests; an existing playback, download or search refresh may finish after you leave that screen.

3a. Logs on Noor's directory service

From 28 October 2026, the configured operational logs for masjid-api.amrani.tech omit IP addresses, search coordinates, query strings and raw error messages. They retain only limited service information such as timestamps, response status, duration and error category. The nearby-search handler reads the mosque directory to answer your request; it does not write a location-search history to our database.

Before this change, some directory-service logs contained search coordinates and IP addresses. We removed those details from the historical logs found on the live server. We have not verified every possible hosting-provider snapshot or backup, so we cannot guarantee that no older copy exists. Deleting the app does not delete any such older copies.

This change applies to Noor's directory-service logging, not to independent map, geocoding, Overpass or media providers. Those services may retain IP addresses and request details under their own policies. Keeping online coverage means those requests still occur; we do not promise immediate deletion by outside providers. Contact us using the address below with questions about server-log data.

3b. iCloud sync (iOS, optional — off by default)

On iPhone you can turn on iCloud sync to keep your worship data (prayer tracker, bookmarks and their private notes, favourites and similar) in step across your own devices. This uses Apple's iCloud key-value storage attached to your Apple ID: the data goes from your device to your personal iCloud and back. It never passes through, and is never visible to, any server of ours. Turning the toggle off stops syncing; your data remains on your devices. The Apple Watch and Wear OS companion apps likewise receive their data directly from your phone, not from the internet.

4. Notifications

Prayer-time reminders and the adhan are delivered as local notifications scheduled on your device. They are not sent through any external push service and involve no data leaving your phone.

5. Your data & backups

Your tracker history, name and preferences are held in local storage on your device. Noor lets you export a backup file and restore from one. That file is created and shared only when you choose to, to a destination you pick (for example, Files or another app). We never receive it. You can remove your name from within the app (“Forget me”). Private Quran notes are stored with bookmarks and included in exported backups and optional iCloud sync. Before a backup restore, Noor keeps one recovery copy on this device; it is excluded from exported backups and iCloud sync. The restore preview lets you choose categories and explains which saved entries will be replaced.

6. Children's privacy

Noor does not require accounts or contain advertising tracking, including for children. The same local storage and optional online-request behavior described above applies to all users.

7. Data security

Local worship records are protected by your device’s safeguards, such as its passcode and encryption. Optional iCloud copies and exported backups also depend on the safeguards of the account or destination you choose.

8. Changes to this policy

If we ever change how the app handles data, we'll update this page and revise the date above. Material changes will be reflected in an app update.

9. Contact

Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email us at [email protected] and we'll be glad to help.

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