What's new

Everything that changes in SalahClock lands here, newest first — new features, improvements, and fixes. Changes reach your displays automatically; there is nothing to install or update.

1 October 2026

A much richer content screen

The Slides tab has been rebuilt from the ground up. It now shows your slides on the left and a live preview of your TV on the right, so you can see every change as you type — press Play all to watch the whole slideshow, or switch the preview between a wide and a tall TV.

New kinds of slides:

• Event — a date, time and place. It counts down by itself ("12 days", "Tomorrow", "Today") and disappears the day after the event.
• Verse & hadith — a new Qur'an verse or hadith every day, one you choose, or your own text.
• QR code — a big scannable code for your donation page, website or WhatsApp group.
• Prayer times — today's full timetable, filled in automatically.

New for every slide:

• Colours — seven colour sets to choose from, for the whole screen or for a single slide.
• Time on screen — give one slide longer (or shorter) than the rest.
• When to show — only on certain days, between two dates, or at certain times of day. A Jumu'ah notice can show on Thursdays and Fridays only; a Ramadan timetable can stop by itself after Eid.
• Pictures can now show in full — ideal for posters and portrait flyers — instead of being cropped to fill the screen.

New screen-wide options under Look & feel: a choice of Fade, Slide or Zoom between slides, a progress bar along the top, and your masjid's name and logo in the corner.

Add slides from ten ready-made slides — a phone reminder, a Jumu'ah notice, a donation QR code, an open day and more — and just change the words. A screen can now hold up to 20 slides (up from 10).

Nothing changes on your screens until you use the new options: existing slides keep the same look, timing and order. See Building a slide deck.

Shared links now show a proper preview

When you paste a link to SalahClock — a docs page, the pricing page, or your mosque's public page — into WhatsApp, a group chat or social media, it now shows the page's own title with a preview image, instead of a blank card or the generic homepage title. Nothing to change on your side.

23 September 2026

Connecting an assistant now starts on "Read and make changes"

The connect screen used to start on Look, but don't touch, so an assistant connected without changing that could read your prayer times but refused every change you asked it for — and fixing it meant disconnecting and connecting again. It now starts on Read and make changes, which is what most people were picking anyway.

This applies to verified apps such as Claude and ChatGPT. An app SalahClock cannot vouch for still starts on Look, but don't touch, so it never gets permission to change anything unless you pick that yourself.

Nothing else moves: Look, but don't touch is still there if you want an assistant that can only read, the clocks it may reach are still yours to choose, and no assistant can delete clocks, change billing, or reach your account settings. Connections you already made keep exactly the access you gave them.

Signing out no longer disconnects your AI assistant

Signing out of the SalahClock dashboard was also signing out everything else connected to your account — including Claude or ChatGPT. The next time you asked your assistant about a clock it said the authorization had expired and you had to connect it again from scratch.

Sign-out now ends only the browser session you pressed it in. A connected assistant stays connected until you disconnect it yourself from Dashboard → Account → Connected AI assistants.

15 September 2026

Put your logo beside the clock name

Paid accounts can now add a mosque, prayer room, school, or organisation logo to a clock. Open the clock's General tab, find Clock logo, choose a JPG, PNG, or WebP image, and press Save changes. The image is cropped to a square and prepared for the display before it uploads.

The logo appears immediately before the primary clock name on every theme, in both landscape and portrait. An Arabic name stays on the line below. Where a theme normally has its own small heading icon, the uploaded logo takes its place; the rest of the theme's decorative artwork is unchanged.

Clock logos are included with Plus, Pro, and Enterprise. A move to the Free plan hides the logo without deleting it, so it returns automatically after an upgrade. See Clock logo for image guidance and the full setup steps.

A new theme for corporate prayer rooms: Nightfall

Nightfall is built for the prayer room inside an office, a campus or a head office rather than the main hall of a masjid — the kind of screen that sits in a lobby and has to look like it belongs to the organisation around it.

Behind it runs live footage: cloud pouring slowly over a dark forested ridge at night, thrown gently out of focus and graded down until it is almost black. The shot is monochrome, which is what lets a single warm gold do all the accenting without anything else on screen competing with it. The live clock runs large down the left over a capsule carrying your optional times; the next prayer sits opposite on the one lifted card on screen, with its time in gold, its Adhan beneath, and the countdown on the right. The day's prayers close the board as a row of soft cards, and the one coming up is the only warm surface among them.

Inside the next-prayer card is a slim track with one segment per prayer, lit up to the one you are waiting for — a glance tells you where in the day the mosque is before you have read a single number.

The practical notes on the footage, since video on a wall display raises fair questions:

• It barely moves. The clip is a 54-second seamless loop from a camera that never moves at all — only the cloud drifts, at a fraction of real speed. Your display downloads it once and keeps it, so it is a one-time cost on the screen's first day rather than something it pays again on every reboot.
• It survives an outage. Once a display has played it, the footage is stored on the device. A screen that reboots with the Wi-Fi down still comes back with its background.
• It never gets in the way of the times. Everything readable sits over a fixed darkening layer and on its own solid card. The bright part of this footage moves, so that layer is built to hold the cloud off the clock wherever it drifts — not just in one frame.
• If a device refuses to play video — or the display is set to reduce motion — the theme falls back to a still frame of the same scene and looks the same, just without the drift.

When a Salah takeover comes up, the board fades away and the hillside dims and pushes in behind the reminder. The same near-black card carries through every takeover — Adhan soon, the wait for Jamā'ah, the prayer itself, and Friday's own Jumu'ah and khutbah screens — so the display never stops looking like one design. There is a full portrait layout too, with the day's prayers as a schedule table, for screens mounted upright.

Pick it in Settings → Theme on any clock, or preview it first from the theme gallery.

Arabic and Urdu prayer cards no longer strand their AM/PM

On a display set to a right-to-left language, the small Adhan line under each prayer could render as "4:32 الأذان AM" — the AM or PM pushed to the far side of the word. Every theme now keeps the label and the time in separate reading runs, so the line reads correctly in every language. Nothing to change.

13 September 2026

A new theme with live video behind it: Drifting Fog

Drifting Fog is the first SalahClock theme whose background is moving footage rather than a painted colour — fog drifting slowly through pine silhouettes, with the whole board floating over it on frosted glass. The clock sits large on the left, the optional clocks read across the top like a quiet index, and the prayer schedule sits in a dark glass card that closes with a solid white bar for whatever prayer is next.

When a Salah takeover comes up, the board dissolves and the footage blurs and pushes in, so the reminder is the only thing on screen. Friday keeps its own Jumu'ah screen through the adhan, the wait for Jamā'ah and the khutbah itself.

A few practical notes, since video on a wall display raises fair questions:

• It is small, and it moves slowly. The clip is a 2.6 MB, one-minute seamless loop, slowed right down so the fog drifts about as fast as a desktop wallpaper — nothing on screen is ever racing. Your display downloads it once and caches it, so it costs roughly one photo's worth of data per screen.
• It survives an outage. Once a display has played it once, the footage is stored on the device. A screen that reboots with the Wi-Fi down still comes back with its background.
• It never gets in the way of the times. Everything readable sits over a fixed darkening layer, so nothing on the board fades in and out as the fog moves.
• If a device refuses to play video — or the display is set to reduce motion — the theme falls back to a still frame of the same scene and looks the same, just without the drift.

Pick it in Settings → Theme on any clock, or preview it first from the theme gallery.

Announcements in Arabic and Urdu now sit the right way round

An announcement written in a right-to-left language used to align to the wrong edge on some themes, stranding its final full stop at the opposite end of the line. Every theme now reads the direction from the text itself. Nothing to change — existing announcements correct themselves.

11 September 2026

Honest comparisons with every other mosque display

There is a new Compare section covering the seven platforms mosque committees most often weigh against us: Masjidal's Al-Iqamah, MAWAQIT, Masjidbox, MOHID, MASAJID, AzanCast and ConnectMazjid.

Each page sets out what hardware that product needs, what happens to the screen during a Wi-Fi outage, who finds out when a display goes dark, whether features are included or sold as add-ons, and what three years of it costs with every assumption written out. Prices were checked in September 2026 against each vendor's own published material, and where a vendor does not publish something the table says so rather than guessing.

Every page also has a section titled Where they are genuinely better, and several of them end by suggesting you use the other product. That is deliberate. If you are on a committee comparing options, you need the version with the inconvenient bits left in — including ours: we have no donations, no team seats, no video slides and no high-latitude rule yet, and the tables say so.

If you spot something out of date on one of these pages, tell us and we will correct it.

8 September 2026

Try Plus or Pro free for 14 days

Paid plans no longer start with a payment. Open Plan & usage on a free account and the Plus and Pro buttons now read Start 14-day free trial — everything unlocks the moment you finish checkout, and nothing is charged that day.

Checkout does ask for a card, and our payment provider verifies it, so your screens carry on without a gap when the trial ends. Nothing is taken until then. Your billing page and your dashboard both show how many days are left and the exact date the first payment will be taken, and if you cancel before that date you are never charged at all. When the 14 days are up the plan's usual price is charged automatically and the subscription simply continues — there is nothing to confirm.

The trial is available once per account. The free plan is unchanged: still one clock, still no card, still no time limit. Full details in Free trial.

A press kit, and the badges we've been given

There's now a Featured on & press kit page. It lists the directories SalahClock is listed on, and — more useful to you — it holds the logos, display screenshots, a fact sheet, and ready-written descriptions you can use freely. If your mosque is writing a newsletter, a leaflet, or a page on your own website about the new prayer screen, take whatever you need from there; nothing on that page needs our permission to use.

The "Display" tab is now "On screen"

Two settings tabs read almost the same: Displays (which screens are online) and Display (what the clock shows). The second one is now called On screen — same place in the row, same settings inside: seconds and Hijri date, orientation, current prayer, salah takeovers, screen schedule, and the Friday settings. Displays, the list of your physical screens, is unchanged.

6 September 2026

Put your prayer times on your own website

Your clock can now live on your website as well as on the TV. Open Dashboard → your clock → Embed, pick a layout, set your colours, and copy the snippet — it works on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify or plain HTML, with nothing to install.

There are four layouts: a full card with the day's table and a live countdown, a bare times table for a page that already has its own heading, a narrow next prayer block for a sidebar, and a full-width strip for under your site header. You choose the accent colour, background, text colour, corner radius, typeface, and whether it follows each visitor's light or dark mode. The preview in the dashboard is the real widget, at the real size.

Nothing needs re-copying when your times change. Adjust an iqamah offset, add an announcement or switch calculation method and the website follows on its own — including synced times, if your clock follows another mosque's.

The same tab also gives you a public API: your times as JSON, no key needed, callable from any domain. Useful if you'd rather build your own design or feed an app. There's an endpoint for today and one for a date range of up to 62 days.

Both are free on every plan. The Free plan shows a small "Powered by SalahClock" line at the bottom of the widget; any paid plan removes it, the same as on your display. Two switches at the top of the tab control this, and they're separate. Show on my website starts on — that's the widget. Public API starts off, because a clock's web address comes from its name and is therefore easy to guess; leaving the raw JSON closed by default keeps a clock you never listed publicly from being found by guesswork. Turn it on when you want to build against it. Clocks already listed on Discover have it on already.

For a clock that isn't listed on Discover, the API also leaves out its coordinates. Publishing prayer times shouldn't mean publishing a precise location for a home or an office.

See Prayer times on your website for the tour, Installing the widget for step-by-step instructions for WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify and the rest, and the public API reference.

Choose what email we send you

Your Account page now has an Email section with a single switch: News, offers and discounts. Turn it off and marketing email stops immediately; turn it back on whenever you want. It's the same setting you chose when you signed up, so you're no longer stuck with that decision.

Service email is unaffected either way — prayer time changes, billing receipts and account notices always reach you. Those aren't marketing, and the switch doesn't touch them.

Where to find it: Account → Email. About your account.

5 September 2026

Product news, offers and discounts by email

Creating a SalahClock account now offers to keep you in the loop by email — new features, offers, and discounts for mosques. The option sits on the sign-up form, and it applies however you sign up: Google, email and password, or a magic link.

In most of the world the option starts ticked, so untick it before creating your account if you would rather not hear from us. In the EU, the UK, Switzerland and Canada it starts unticked instead — the law there says an email list has to be something you actively opt into, not something you remember to decline.

Changing your mind later costs nothing. Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link, and using it stops the marketing mail without touching the service emails you actually need — prayer time changes, billing, and account notices always reach you.

Where to find it: on the sign-up form, under the sign-in options.

28 August 2026

Assistants read your answers more reliably

Every SalahClock tool an AI assistant can call now returns its answer twice: once as the sentence you already saw, and once as plain data alongside it. The assistant no longer has to read prose to work out what happened, so "did that save?" and "which offsets changed?" stop being guesses.

You will notice one small difference in the answers themselves. Ask which clocks you have and any that are listed publicly now show their public page link in the same line as the name and timezone.

Where to find it: nothing to switch on — just ask. Connect Claude or ChatGPT.

26 August 2026

Asking about one prayer now answers with just that prayer

Ask an AI assistant "what time is Fajr tomorrow?" and it used to hand back the whole day — the one time you asked about sat in the first of six rows. Now the card shows Fajr on its own: the name, the time set large, the iqamah underneath, and how long until it arrives. Ask for the full day and you still get the full day, exactly as before.

Friday is handled properly too. Because Jumu'ah takes Dhuhr's place on the day it falls, asking for Dhuhr on a Friday answers with the Jumu'ah time rather than telling you there isn't one.

The card also fills the panel it sits in now, instead of hugging the left edge with empty space beside it.

Where to find it: nothing to switch on — just ask. Connect Claude or ChatGPT.

25 August 2026

Ask Claude or ChatGPT about your prayer times

You can now connect SalahClock to an AI assistant and simply ask:

"What time is Fajr tomorrow?"

"Move Isha iqamah to 20 minutes after the adhan."

"Put up an announcement about Friday's fundraiser."

Nothing is installed on your displays and nothing about them changes. The assistant reaches your account the same way you do from the dashboard — and only as far as you allow.

When you connect, you choose two things. Which clocks it may reach — all of them, or only the ones you tick. And what it may do — read only, or read and make changes. Pick Look, but don't touch and every settings tool refuses; the assistant will tell you so rather than failing silently.

Some things stay out of reach whatever you choose: it can never delete a clock, touch billing, reach your account settings, read or change the display passcode, or use admin tools. It also cannot get past your plan's limits — ask for a paid theme on the free plan and it will tell you the theme needs an upgrade, exactly as the dashboard does.

Assistants ask before running anything that changes a setting, so you always see what is about to happen. Asking questions doesn't interrupt you that way.

When you ask about prayer times, some assistants show a small SalahClock card rather than a plain list: the day's adhan and iqamah times, the next prayer with a live countdown, and buttons to move between days. Times always appear in the mosque's own timezone, so asking from another country still shows what the congregation sees.

Anyone can build an app and give it any name, so the authorize screen tells you who is really asking — whether SalahClock recognises the app, and exactly which server your access would be sent to. An app pretending to be a service it isn't is blocked before you ever see a screen. We also email you whenever an app is connected, so if it wasn't you, you'll know within seconds.

Where to find it: start from your assistant — in Claude, Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste https://salahclock.app/mcp. To review or cut off access later, go to Dashboard → Account → Connected AI assistants. Full walkthrough: Connect Claude or ChatGPT.

Corrected: how to connect ChatGPT

The connection instructions pointed ChatGPT users at Settings → Connectors, which does not exist there — that is Claude's menu. In ChatGPT it is Settings → Plugins, and the + button only appears once Developer mode is switched on under Settings → Security and login. Adding a plugin by URL this way also needs a paid ChatGPT plan; Claude has no such restriction.

Both walkthroughs are now written out separately, step by step, so neither sends you looking for a menu that isn't there.

Where to find it: Connect Claude or ChatGPT, and the new AI assistants page.

24 August 2026

Your display now names the prayer that is happening

Until now, the moment a prayer's adhan finished the clock switched to counting down to the next prayer. Walk into the masjid for Dhuhr a minute after the adhan and the screen read "Next prayer · Asr" — as though Dhuhr were already over.

The display now names the current prayer, from its adhan until a short while after the iqamah, and the countdown points at the iqamah instead — the number that actually matters to someone who has just walked in. It moves through four stages:

• Adhan in progress — the call is being given.
• Iqāmah in 08:32 — the congregation is gathering.
• Salah will start soon — the last minute before the iqamah.
• Salah in progress — the jamāʿah is praying, and the countdown is replaced by the words.

The prayer grid highlights that same prayer, so the top of the screen and the row of times never disagree with each other.

This is independent of the full-screen prayer-in-progress takeover — if you keep that switched off, this is what your congregation sees instead. It also appears on the prayer bar at the bottom of content screens.

Where to find it: the Display tab → Current prayer → Keep showing after iqamah. The default is 15 minutes, which covers a typical jamāʿah plus the stragglers. Choose Until iqamah only to go back to the next prayer the moment the iqamah time arrives, or stretch it to an hour for a long Jumu'ah.

All 18 themes show the new state in their own style.

The next-prayer countdown no longer counts seconds

It now reads hours and minutes — 01:23 instead of 01:23:45. A seconds digit flickering on a wall-mounted screen three hours before Asr was noise rather than information.

Countdowns you genuinely time yourself against keep their seconds: the countdown to iqamah, the Iqamah in line on content screens, and the takeover screens.

Fixed: the wrong "next prayer" on public mosque pages

On your mosque's public page — and on Following — the Next badge could name the wrong prayer. In the afternoon it might have read "Next: Fajr", as though the day's prayers were already finished. The listed times were also a day stale, which put them a minute or so out.

This affected mosques in time zones ahead of GMT, which is most of Asia, the Middle East and much of Africa. Your prayer times themselves were never wrong in your settings — only what these two pages worked out from them.

The clock on your TV was not affected: it works the times out on the display itself. (One exception worth checking: if a TV's own clock is set to GMT/UTC rather than your local time zone, it would have shown the same thing. Setting the device to your local time zone fixes it.)

Fixed: the wrong adhan time on two themes' takeover screens

On the Elegant and Hushed Hour themes, the full-screen takeover between the adhan and the iqamah showed the next prayer's adhan time rather than the one being prayed. It now shows the right one.