The phone goes quiet.
You go to pray.
One tap and the feeds, the inbox and the badges are gone from the home screen. What's left is what you'd want in a masjid: the phone, the Quran, a map to get home.
Stays
Phone · Messages from favorites · Quran · Maps · Camera · anything you add
Goes
Social feeds · video · email · news · games · shopping · every notification they'd send
Tap the disc
Five pauses, built into the day
Set a window for each prayer, from ten to forty-five minutes. When the window opens, the phone pauses itself; when it closes, everything comes back. Prayer times are worked out on your phone and move with the seasons, so there is nothing to adjust.
- Fajr
- Dhuhr
- Asr
- Maghrib
- Isha
Athan or iqamah. You choose, prayer by prayer.
| Setting | Pause at athan | Pause at iqamah |
|---|---|---|
| The phone pauses | The moment the prayer time comes in. | At your local masjid's iqamah time. |
| Best for | Praying at home, at work, on the road. | Praying in jama'ah. The pause lands as you stand in the saff. |
| Where the times come from | Calculated on your phone. ISNA, Hanafi Asr and the other common methods. | Your masjid's own schedule. We're building an Athan+ (Masjidal) integration so it updates itself. |
| How long | Ten to forty-five minutes, your choice. | Until you tap out at the door, or a window you set. |
Fajr at athan, Isha at the masjid's iqamah. Mix them however your day runs.
Three ways to use it
Fajr Mode
The alarm only stops when you tap the disc. Keep the disc outside the bedroom, and the phone stays paused until you tap it again after praying. No snooze, no scrolling in bed.
Salah windows
The phone pauses itself at each prayer for as long as you set. Calls from your favorites still ring. Everyone else can wait twenty minutes.
Masjid Mode
A tag at the masjid door. Tap in: silent, feeds gone, calls from favorites only. Tap out on the way to the car and everything returns.
Every salah, accounted for
Each tap is a mark. The app keeps a quiet ledger: which prayers you paused for, which you missed, how long you stayed anchored, and your streak. A week at a glance, a month if you want it.
- Taps for each of the five prayers, every day
- Missed prayers marked, never hidden
- Streaks, and the hour of the day you slip most
- Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no cloud.
Women's mode
Turn it on for the days of your period. The salah windows pause, the streak holds, and no prayer is marked missed, because none is owed. The app notes the one case that is: a prayer whose time had come in before your period began, or came in as it ended. Those go to the make-up list, and only those.
Private by design. Nothing about it is stored anywhere but your phone.
The make-up list
Missed a prayer to sleep, travel or a long meeting? Log it with one tap. It stays on the list until you've prayed it, and the count sits beside the week's ledger so it never quietly grows. Ramadan fasts to make up live here too.
Rulings follow the four schools: prayers missed during menstruation are not made up; fasts are.
How it works
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Put the disc where you pray
It's a passive tag with a magnetic back. No battery, nothing to charge, nothing to pair. It works for as long as the shelf does.
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Tap your iPhone on it
About a second. The apps you've marked as distractions disappear from the home screen and go quiet. The tools you've kept stay exactly where they were.
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Pray, then tap again
Everything comes back. If you need the phone urgently in between, three taps unlocks it after a sixty-second wait, and the app makes a note that you did.
For masjids
A khutbah with no ringing. The masjid kit is five door tags, a sign for the entrance, and Masjid Mode for everyone who taps in. A short admin page shows how many phones tapped in for Jumu'ah.
$149 for the kit. Discs for the congregation at $25 each in packs of twenty.
Ask about the masjid kitPricing
One disc
$39 $29
Early price for the first 100 pre-orders. Includes the app, with every mode.
Pre-order for $29The app is free and there is no subscription. Pre-orders are refundable any time before shipping.
Questions
Why a physical disc instead of an app?
Every app blocker is one swipe from being turned off, by the same thumb that opened the feed. A disc lives by the prayer mat, not in your pocket. Getting up and tapping it is a decision, and the decision is the point.
Does it need charging?
No. It's a passive NFC tag, the same kind of chip that's in a transit card. No battery, no firmware, no app updates for the disc itself.
Which phones does it work with?
iPhone, with iOS 17 or later, at launch. Android is next.
What if I'm expecting an important call?
Calls from your favorites always ring. For anything else, three taps on the disc unlocks the phone after a sixty-second wait. The app keeps a note of it, for you alone.
Can I cheat?
Yes. You can walk over and tap the disc whenever you like. Wuquf isn't a lock, it's a pause, and it works because it asks you to stand up. Most people find that's enough.
When does it ship?
Before Ramadan 1448, which begins in February 2027. Pre-orders are refundable in full until the day they ship.
What does "wuquf" mean?
Standing still. It's the name of the standing at Arafat, when the whole of Hajj stops in one place for an afternoon. In the tradition of tazkiya it also names a small practice: pausing to account for how the last hour was spent. The disc is that pause, five times a day.
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