A ConnectMazjid alternative where the countdown is not an add-on.

It is worth being clear that ConnectMazjid gives away more than most vendors in this market charge for. CMZ Core costs nothing and includes multiple TV displays, announcements, events, prayer times, a leadership directory, a standard masjid website, multi-tier event ticketing and donation tools through Stripe. They report 800-plus masajid. The TV app runs on Android TV, Fire TV, Google TV, Samsung and LG, or simply as a URL in any browser — no hardware, same bet we took.

That is a real product given away, and a masjid on a zero budget that wants a website and a donations link as much as a screen could reasonably stop reading here and go and use it.

The free tier is broad rather than deep, and the depth is sold separately as four modules.

Essentials, $7.99 a month, adds the display countdown, prayer change reminders and highlighting the Jumu’ah khatib. The countdown to iqamah is, for most congregations, the single most useful thing on a prayer display — it is the number people actually look at when they walk in.

Prayer+, $9.99 a month, adds the athan and iqamah audio notifier, alerts during the prohibited salah windows, and automatic screen blackout.

Generosity, $9.99 a month, adds donation link support, custom QR codes, a live donation ticker and flyers. Spotlight, $9.99 a month, adds the digital notice board, video streaming and full-screen announcements. All four together come as the Community Package at $29.99 a month, with priority support, an account manager and white-label mode. A separate Admin Package at $15.99 a month is what unlocks multiple admin logins with permissions.

A committee that wants a countdown, the adhan, and announcements on the screen is therefore looking at $27.97 a month in modules, or $29.99 for the bundle — which is $360 a year for a display, against $96 for SalahClock Plus.

SalahClock’s free plan is narrower in scope and deeper in the part it covers. One clock across two displays, four starter themes including light and dark, the countdown to the next prayer, adhan audio with three muezzin recordings, all ten languages and four numeral systems, the bilingual announcement banner, the thirty-day offline cache, and a public clock page your community can open at home. No card, no expiry, no module list.

Plus at $8 a month billed yearly opens all eighteen themes, all ten adhan voices, content screens with scheduled image slides, the enriched mosque homepage with a gallery and staff listing, removal of the footer credit, and display heartbeat monitoring. Pro at $24 a month billed yearly adds the combined split screen, thirty slides per clock, and email alerts when a display goes dark.

The trade is plain enough. ConnectMazjid gives you a wider platform with the display features priced individually; we give you a narrower platform with the display finished.

CMZ’s free tier is limited to a single admin, and multiple logins with permissions come with the Admin Package at $15.99 a month. That is a paywall, but it is a paywall in front of a feature that exists.

SalahClock does not have team seats at all. One account, one login. A masjid can list its committee and staff on the public mosque page — fifteen people on Plus, forty on Pro — but that is a directory listing, not a set of logins with roles and an audit trail. If three committee members need to change the iqamah times independently, ConnectMazjid solves that today and we do not.