Most apps ask you to trust them with your data. Awwab took a different path: we never receive it in the first place.
Your relationship with God is the most personal thing you have. The record of your prayers, the habits you’re working through in Heal, your journal, your cycle — none of that belongs on someone else’s server, ours included. So we designed Awwab to make that impossible by architecture, not by promise.
No servers, no accounts
There is no Awwab login. You don’t give us an email or a password, because there’s nowhere for it to go. The app runs against your own device and your own storage. We have no database of users to leak, to subpoena, or to sell — because it doesn’t exist.
iPhone: your own iCloud
On iPhone and Apple Watch, your prayers, settings, journal and progress sync through your private iCloud (Apple’s CloudKit), under your Apple ID. That’s how your data follows you to your other devices without ever passing through us. We can’t read it. Apple can’t read your app content either — it’s your private database.
Android: entirely on the device
On Android there’s no cloud at all. Everything is stored locally and the app works fully offline. Your data leaves the phone only if you choose to back it up yourself. Same principle, different mechanism: it stays with you.
Privacy by design means the temptation isn’t resisted; it’s removed.
What about this website?
Honesty matters here. The app has no ads and no tracking, full stop. This website, awwab.app, does show Google ads on its browser-based Knowledge games, and that’s how the free game stays free. The optional newsletter and contact forms store only what you submit, with your consent, in a private database — never sold, never used for advertising. If you play the web game signed in, that’s your choice, and you can delete your account and all its data with one tap. Everything else on the site collects nothing about you.
Why we chose the harder road
A backend would have been easier — easier analytics, easier features, easier growth hacks. But an app about returning to God shouldn’t quietly profit from watching you. That felt like the only honest way to build this.