I just wanted a prayer-time reminder on my Mac. That’s it.

So I started looking. Almost everything was paid, some even as subscriptions, for prayer times. The free ones felt heavy: full windows, dashboards, settings buried inside settings, sign-up screens. All that for something I only need to glance at a few times a day.

I didn’t want another app to open. I wanted one quiet line in my menu bar that tells me which prayer is next and how much time I have.

So I spent an afternoon building it. One line in the menu bar, the full schedule one click away, and nothing else in the way. It calculates everything offline on your Mac: no account, no network, no tracking.

I called it Munada (منادى), which means “the caller”, the one who calls to prayer. It’s free, open source under the MIT license, and lightweight by design.

The Prophet ﷺ was asked, “Which deed is most beloved to Allah?” He replied, “Prayer at its earliest fixed time.” (Sahih al-Bukhari)

What it does

• Shows the next prayer and a live countdown in the menu bar
• Opens today’s full schedule in one click, with the current prayer highlighted
• Supports 13 calculation methods, including Kemenag with the standard Indonesian ihtiyati margin, Umm al-Qura, ISNA and MWL
• Lets you choose the madhab for Asr and adjust each prayer by a few minutes to match your local mosque
• Finds your location by GPS or city search
• Sends a notification at each prayer time, with an optional reminder before it
• Speaks Indonesian, English and Arabic

Install

Requires macOS 13 or later. Run this in Terminal to download the latest release into /Applications:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/komardev/munada/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Or download it from the releases page.

Under the hood

Munada is a native AppKit app written in Swift, using Adhan for the prayer time calculation. The menu bar updates once a minute, aligned to the start of each minute, so it stays light on your battery.