MAWAQIT

Name

MAWAQIT

Legal name

MAWAQIT ASSO

Website

https://mawaqit.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Grigny

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Operates as a 100% donation-based non-profit organization (Waqf/Sadaqah Jariya model). Accepts PayPal donations. Revenue is entirely from voluntary contributions from the Muslim community worldwide. No advertising, no monetization of user data.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels8 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

MAWAQIT is a free, ad-free, non-profit prayer time and mosque management ecosystem. It provides accurate prayer times, alerts, mosque location data, and announcements across mobile, desktop, Android TV, smartwatch, Alexa, Home Assistant, and external tablet, supported by a web-based backoffice for mosque administrators and an online merchandise store.

Product overview

MAWAQIT is a connected prayer ecosystem offering multiple platform-specific products. The core offering includes the MAWAQIT Mobile Application (iOS/Android), MAWAQIT Desktop (web-based), MAWAQIT for Alexa (voice), MAWAQIT for Smartwatch (wearable), MAWAQIT for External Tablet (display), MAWAQIT for Home Assistant (smart home), and MAWAQIT Android TV (for mosque screens). Supporting these is the MAWAQIT Backoffice, a mosque administration dashboard for managing prayer times and communications, and the MAWAQIT Shop for merchandise. All services are provided free of charge with no advertising.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MAWAQIT Mobile Application

Quantifiable outcome

• 10,000+ mosque installations
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Guide2Islam Prayer Times: Guide2Islam publishes a prayer times application alongside its broader Islamic content portal, serving the same individual-worshipper use case as MAWAQIT's mobile app. It is a smaller, content-led competitor rather than a mosque-management platform.
• Athan Pro: Athan Pro delivers prayer time notifications, Athan audio, Qibla, and Hijri calendar across iOS/Android — a direct functional peer to MAWAQIT's mobile app. It does not target mosque administrators or offer TV-based display systems, making it a consumer-side parallel rather than a two-sided platform.
• Muslim Mate: Muslim Mate provides prayer times, Athan, Qibla, and a mosque locator for individual users — a like-for-like consumer peer to MAWAQIT's mobile app. It does not address the mosque-administrator or TV-display use cases that distinguish MAWAQIT.
• Muslim Pro: Bitsmedia's Muslim Pro is the most widely used Islamic app globally, offering prayer times, Athan, Qibla, Quran, and mosque/location features — directly comparable to MAWAQIT's core mobile offering. Unlike MAWAQIT, it monetizes via ads and premium subscriptions and does not specialize in mosque-side management or TV displays.
• IslamicFinder: IslamicFinder provides prayer times, Athan, Qibla, and mosque finder functionality serving a global Muslim audience — closely aligned with MAWAQIT's individual-worshipper value proposition. It is a more established commercial portal but lacks MAWAQIT's mosque-side TV display and backoffice tooling.

Others

• Tarteele (Quran Companion): Tarteele focuses on Quran reading, memorization, and tajweed rather than prayer times, but shares the same target audience of practicing Muslims and competes for screen time on MAWAQIT's mobile/watch surfaces. It is an adjacent Islamic utility rather than a direct prayer-time competitor.
• Local/regional mosque digital signage vendors: A fragmented set of local integrators and startups across MENA and Europe sell prayer-time TV displays and mosque digital signage to individual mosques. They are OTHERS because they overlap only with MAWAQIT's mosque-TV use case and generally lack MAWAQIT's global multi-platform coverage and mosque backoffice.

Emerging players

• Qamar: Qamar offers prayer times, Athan, and Qibla in a modern mobile interface, with a partial overlap on MAWAQIT's consumer-side experience. It is a younger entrant without MAWAQIT's mosque backoffice or multi-surface (TV, watch, voice) ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Mawaqit
• Facebookfacebook.com/MawaqitTeam
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/Mawaqit

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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