Privacy Policy

App Namilo. Updated October 27, 2026. The same text is in the app, under Settings, then Privacy Policy.

Who publishes this app

Namilo is published by a sole proprietor (entrepreneur individuel) registered under SIREN number 877 534 198, in Toulouse, France. The Namilo team answers any question about your data, or any other question: [email protected]. You will find this same link in the app’s settings, under “Write to us”.

What stays on your phone

Your companion and his name, what he wears and the decorations placed in your garden (the wardrobe), the small deeds you chose, your choice to show the Arabic or the pronunciation first, the place you chose for your prayer times and your calculation method, your moments and the time of your reminders, the other notifications you keep or not (your companion’s return, the hadith of the day, your Quran reading and its time, your morning and evening words, new stories), the dated log of what you did day by day, your garden and the date of each sprout, the days done on your paths, your companion’s walk and the Quran words kept in your notebook with their date, where you are in the review of “Your prayer, word by word” (for each word, its box and the day it comes back), pause mode (and whether you keep your adhkar reminder in it), your routine if you put one together (the adhkar and small deeds you put in it, in their order) with the dates of your last seven run-throughs, your challenges if you have any (the goal chosen or written by you, its length, the time of its reminder and the days you ticked it) and your finished challenges, your thank-yous if you write them (three lines a day, the last thirty days), in a file that the app keeps out of the iCloud backup (changing phones erases them), your intention for the day (erased the next time you open the app, on another day), your setting for the wake-up alarm before Fajr (the alarms themselves are handed to iOS, on your phone), whether or not you are subscribed, the language the app opened in the last time (if you change your iPhone’s language, it redoes your reminders in the new one), and whether the app has already offered you to rate it on the App Store (it offers only once), how many times the Namilo+ screen was opened from each screen of the app (one number per screen, which never leaves your phone), and, if the welcome offer was shown to you, the moment it started (so that it ends after 24 hours and doesn’t come back, even after “Erase my data”) and, if you asked to be reminded before it ends, its price, and, if you start a Namilo+ trial, the moment it ends (to suggest the next part of your surahs during the trial, then nothing more) and whether the “What opens up for you” card is still in the Today tab. For the stories to listen to: where you are in each story, the last catalogue received, and the stories you have downloaded, in a folder the app keeps out of the iCloud backup (iOS may empty it if space runs low). For the widgets, the app copies, when it opens if needed and into a space on your phone shared with them: for “Next Prayer”, the name and time of your next prayers over one to two days and the position of the sun in your day (with Namilo+, also the five times of each day and whether you are subscribed, for the medium and the large one); for “Hadith of the Day”, the hadiths of the next two days and the images of its background. The times depend on your place, but neither the place itself nor anything you do is copied there. The app sends none of this: no account, and none of it on a server. Like the data of all your apps, it may be included in your iPhone’s iCloud backup, if you have turned it on. That backup belongs to your Apple Account, not to us: we have no access to it.

Your location, if you give it

The Prayer tab needs a place to calculate your times. You can type your city: the list of towns is in the app, and what you type goes nowhere. You can also allow your location: the app asks for it “while using the app” only, never in the background, rounds it to about one kilometre and keeps this rounded point on your phone. It sends it to no one, not even to calculate: the calculation is done on your phone. The qibla compass only turns on on its own page, opened from its card (on the home screen or in the Prayer tab): iOS only provides it with this same permission, which the app asks for when you arrive on that page and never before. It stops as soon as you leave the page or the app, and the app neither keeps nor sends any direction. You can withdraw this permission whenever you like in your iPhone Settings, and change your place in the Prayer tab. The mosques shown come from an OpenStreetMap extract built into the app: looking for the nearest ones does not ask anyone for anything either.

What the app never keeps

At the top of the Dua tab, “How do you feel right now?” opens words for that moment, and that is all: your answer is not kept anywhere, the app records no mood, keeps no history and calculates no score. Pause mode is a simple switch: it asks for no reason and keeps none. The words you open in the Dua tab are never recorded, not even how many times. When you count your morning and evening adhkar, or the repetitions of a small deed, the day’s count stays on your phone so that you can stop and resume: it only applies to that day, starts again from zero the next day and is sent nowhere. Otherwise, only the small deeds you complete are recorded, in the dated log above, whether you do them from the home screen or from Dua, and, if you have a routine, the date of the day you went through it to the end (the last seven, nothing else), the days you tick a challenge, and the intention you choose for the day.

Reminders

These are notifications scheduled by the app, on your phone, at the moments you choose or that the app calculates on your phone (your prayer times, the hadith of the day at 10 am). No server sends them and no one learns that you received them. You can turn them off in the app’s settings or in your iPhone Settings.

What leaves your phone

When you share a dua or invite a friend, you are the one who chooses the app and the person, in your iPhone’s share sheet: the app sends nothing itself, does not see to whom, and never reads your contacts. Apple knows that you installed the app and processes the payment if you subscribe. The subscription goes through RevenueCat, an American company that manages subscriptions on behalf of the publisher: when the app presents Namilo+ to you (at the end of your first launch, or when the subscription screen or the welcome offer opens), and then at each launch of the app as long as you are subscribed, it receives an anonymous identifier created by the app, unrelated to your name or to your Apple Account, and technical information (IP address, iPhone model, language, country of your Apple Account); if you subscribe, start a trial or buy Namilo+, Apple’s purchase receipts and the name of the app screen you did it from (for example “settings” or “challenges”), nothing more: neither what you did there nor how far along you are. If you had the app before this version, this name is only sent after the app has announced it to you, on its home screen. Never your name, never what you do in the app, never what you open in the Dua tab. RevenueCat acts as a processor, only on the publisher’s instructions and with the same protection obligations: its policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy. Apart from listening to a Quran recitation, described below, there is no other third-party service, no advertising, no audience measurement and no tracking across apps. The Quran tab, for its part, is entirely in the app: reading a surah does not ask anyone for anything. The only exception in the whole app is LISTENING to a recitation: it is streamed from the Islamic Network server (cdn.islamic.network), which then receives your IP address and each verse listened to, one file per verse (including the basmala, verses skipped or replayed, and, while listening, the next verse, loaded in advance so that the recitation does not stop between two verses), like any website you would open. Nothing is sent if you do not tap “Listen”. Likewise, in “Your prayer, word by word”, tapping a word fetches its voice from the quran.com server (audio.qurancdn.com), which then receives your IP address and the word requested. Nothing is sent until you tap a word. Another exception: the “Stories to listen to” come from Namilo’s server (histoires.namilo.app, hosted by Cloudflare, acting for the publisher). When you open the list of stories or a story’s page, it receives your IP address and the request for the catalogue; when you tap “Listen” or “Download”, the story requested. If you turned on “New stories”, it also receives the request for the catalogue each time you open the app, so that your phone knows when the next one comes out. For a Namilo+ story, the app also sends it your anonymous RevenueCat ID, which it passes on to RevenueCat to check your subscription and whose answer it keeps for five minutes at most, without writing anything down. None of this is sent before the app has announced it, the first time you open the stories, and you have tapped “Got it”; after that, the covers in the home screen row and on the lock screen also come from this server. Finally, sharing a word from your notebook, as text or as an image, goes through your iPhone’s share sheet: you are the one who chooses where it goes, and the app itself sends it to no one. The image is created in a temporary file, erased right after, and carries only the word, its pronunciation, its meaning, the number of times it appears in the Quran, its first verse and the drawing of your companion, without his name: no date, nor anything you do.

How long it is kept

On your phone: as long as you keep the app. Everything goes when you delete it, or when you tap “Erase my data”. At RevenueCat: your anonymous identifier and your purchase receipts are kept as long as the publisher has an account with them, then six years (their policy of September 20, 2026 says “for as long as you have an account with us [...] and for six years after that”). At Apple: the period that Apple sets for your purchases, in its own terms.

Erase everything

Settings, then “Erase my data”: your garden, your deeds, your routines, your challenges, your written thank-yous, your companion, your reminders, your wake-up alarm before Fajr, your stories (where you are, the downloaded ones) and the times copied for the widget disappear from this phone, with no way back. Deleting the app does the same, except for iCloud backups already made, which you manage in your iPhone Settings. A subscription, however, stays with Apple: it is cancelled in your iPhone Settings.

Having your identifier erased at RevenueCat

RevenueCat does not answer users directly: its policy asks them to contact the publisher. Write to us at [email protected] giving the date of your subscription or of your attempt, and we will request the erasure of your anonymous identifier and the related data, then confirm to you when it is done. Without your name or any account, we have no other way to find you: that is why we ask you for this date.

Your rights

You can request access to your data, its rectification, its erasure, the restriction of its processing, and object to its processing. As almost everything stays on your phone, access and erasure are done from the app, without writing to us. For the rest, [email protected]. If the answer does not satisfy you, you can refer the matter to the CNIL, cnil.fr, or to the data protection authority of your country.

Children

The app is not aimed at children, does not knowingly collect any data from children and does not ask for an age, since it does not ask for an account.

If this text changes

The date below changes with it, in the app and on the public page. A change that would affect what leaves your phone would be announced in the app before it applies.