A MOHID alternative for the screen — and only the screen.

Most pages of this kind pretend two products are interchangeable. This one cannot. MOHID sells a masjid operating system: donation management with its own card processing, membership tracking, program and class registration, fundraising campaigns, zakat management, financials and bookkeeping, email and SMS communication, and a hardware line that includes a $999 donation kiosk and a family of tap-to-pay readers.

Inside that list sit two display-shaped things: a bulletin board module and a signage player at $100 a device. They exist because a masjid running MOHID obviously also has a TV in the lobby, and the platform would look incomplete without something to put on it.

SalahClock is the opposite shape. The display is the product: eighteen themes with portrait variants, ten muezzin recordings, a three-phase prayer takeover, content screens, a thirty-day offline cache, heartbeat monitoring with offline alerts, ten languages and four numeral systems. There is no donation processing and there is no ledger.

Nothing about the two systems conflicts. MOHID does not need to know what is on your screens, and SalahClock does not need to know what is in your accounts. A masjid can keep the kiosk in the lobby taking donations and the membership database exactly as it is, and separately open a SalahClock URL on the hall TV.

The cost of doing that is $96 a year on Plus — less than the one-off price of a single MOHID signage player, and about a third of the price of one mTAP Lite reader. If the committee has already approved a four-figure platform for the money side, the display line item is not the one that will cause an argument.

The practical benefit is that the screen stops being the weakest part of the estate. Prayer times computed for your coordinates with your method, the Jumu’ah khutbah and iqamah handled separately from Dhuhr, announcements you change from your phone, and an email when a screen goes dark instead of a complaint after Friday.

MOHID publishes its pricing, which is more than most vendors in this market do, and it is worth reading with a calculator. Cloud software is $99 a month on Basic and $199 a month on Professional when billed annually, rising to $109 and $219 monthly; a PRO-ECO tier lets you build up from a base with $20 add-on modules. Hardware and per-device fees sit on top: the MOHID Kiosk is $999 plus $25 a month, mTAP readers run $249 to $499 with $0.50 a transaction and $15 a month each, and the signage player is $100 a device. Website development is a separate $999 with $30 a month support.

Card processing is charged separately again, at 3.32% + $0.32 on Visa under donor pay or 2.55% + $0.30 on the fixed rate.

None of that is unreasonable for what it is. A platform that holds a mosque’s donation flow, membership roll and accounts is worth a real subscription. The point is only that a masjid evaluating a display should know it is looking at a $1,200-a-year floor before hardware.

Four things tend to decide it once a committee has seen both on a wall.

Nothing to install, nothing to buy. SalahClock is a URL. The Samsung already in the hall opens it. There is no signage player at $100 a device, no compatible-hardware list, and no second power adapter behind the TV.

It survives the Wi-Fi. The display installs as a progressive web app and keeps thirty days of computed prayer times and the adhan recordings on the device. A router reboot during Maghrib changes nothing on screen.

It tells you when it dies. Every display sends a heartbeat. The dashboard shows when each screen was last seen, and Pro accounts get an email when one stops reporting.

The prayer moment is handled properly.A few minutes before the adhan the screen says so and counts down. Between adhan and iqamah it counts down to the jama’ah. Once the prayer starts the countdown disappears and the screen says the prayer is in progress — so someone arriving late is not staring at a timer, and the clock face says Current prayer · Dhuhr rather than flipping straight to Asr.