Features
Hayaa is a small set of well-considered tools, designed to fit together. Here is what the app does, in the order you'll encounter it.
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Streak tracking and milestone reflection
Hayaa tracks the days since your last relapse, and your longest streak so far. We frame milestones — seven days, thirty days, ninety, three hundred and sixty-five — as moments of reflection, not as game rewards. There are no badges, no points, no leaderboards. When you reach a milestone, the app gives you a quiet space to acknowledge what it took to get there. When you relapse, you log it without judgment, and you continue. The work is not the streak. The work is the return.
The SOS button
Compulsive habits are not problems of belief. They are problems of moments. The SOS button is for the seconds when an urge feels overwhelming. Tap it, and the app walks you through a deliberate, calming routine — a verse, a du'a, slow breath, a redirection. It is the opposite of gamified: it slows you down, never speeds you up. The goal is to let the wave pass.
The Blocker — apps and websites, kept closed
The Blocker is the part of Hayaa that works while you are not looking at Hayaa. You choose the apps and websites, group them, and give each group its hours — always on, or only between the times you name. A bundled list of adult sites can be switched on in one tap, matched entirely on your device. On iOS it runs through Apple's Screen Time, so Apple holds the selection and Hayaa never learns which apps you picked; on Android it runs through a small service Hayaa built, which sees what you have open in the moment and nothing more. Nothing is recorded, and nothing is sent anywhere. Either way the block screen is yours: the line you wrote, how far you have come, and one button that opens the SOS steps. No lecture, no tally. If you want the decision to hold, lock it — a timer you have to wait out with the screen awake, or a passcode set by someone you trust, which only they can enter. Four optional guards hold it further in place: uninstall protection, blocking new app installs, blocking in-app purchases, and blocking changes to the clock. All of it is free, for everyone. Nothing in the Blocker is held back for Premium.
Rafiq & Rafiqa — your AI companion
Rafiq (for men) and Rafiqa (for women) is the in-app companion, powered by Anthropic's Claude. It is personalized by sect, gender, current streak, triggers, motivations, and stage of recovery. It retrieves from a verified library of Islamic content and answers in your voice and your context. It is not a scholar — we say so in the app, repeatedly. It is also not a therapist. It is a 3 a.m. companion: someone to talk to when the silence is loud and a human is not available.
Private journal
A simple, private space to write. Hayaa's journal is encrypted in transit and at rest, visible only to you, never to your accountability partner, never to the community, never to staff outside the bounded cases described in the privacy policy. Many users find that writing alone, plainly, about a hard day is the single most useful thing the app offers.
Verified Islamic content
Qur'an in Arabic with Saheeh International and Ali Quli Qara'i translations, served via the Quran.com API. Hadith from sunnah.com (Sunni) and thaqalayn.net (Shia). Du'a from Hisnul Muslim and the Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya. Per-verse recitation by Sheikh Mohammad Siddiq al-Minshawy. Adhan recordings from Masjid an-Nabawi in Madinah and Masjid al-Haram in Makkah. Every source is named, every translation is attributed, and the user always sees where the content came from.
Prayer times and reminders
Accurate, location-based prayer times via the Aladhan API. Optional reminders for each of the five daily prayers, with adhan playback if you want it. Optional dhikr reminders woven through the day. Nothing is on by default beyond what you choose during onboarding.
Accountability partners (Premium)
Premium users can be matched with an accountability partner — another user who can see your display name, avatar, current streak, last check-in, and recent rough patches (an SOS or urge logged in the last day, or a streak reset). They cannot see your real name, your email, your journal, or your conversations with Rafiqa or Rafiq. They are a quiet presence, not a surveillance system.
Community
Posts, replies, and reactions visible to others within your gender cohort. The community is moderated with in-house automated filtering and reviewed by a small human team. Community Guidelines are firm: no graphic content, no proselytizing, no sectarian conflict, no harassment.
Premium subscription
A subscription unlocks the accountability partner system and extended access to Rafiq / Rafiqa. Billing is handled through your Apple ID or Google account — we never see your payment details. A free trial is available for new users. You can cancel anytime through your phone's subscription settings.