Tracking your prayers
The five daily prayers are a pillar of Islam and the first thing a person will be asked about on the Day of Judgement. The Prophet, peace be upon him, said: 'The first matter the servant will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgement is the prayer. If it is sound, the rest of his deeds will be sound' (Sunan at-Tirmidhi 413). Keeping a simple record can help you stay consistent and notice prayers to make up.
On time, and making up (Qadha)
Praying each prayer within its time is what is required. A prayer missed without a valid excuse should be made up (qadha) as soon as one is able, while seeking Allah's forgiveness. Mark a prayer as prayed when you prayed it in its time, or made up (qadha) when you prayed it later - both count toward your record here.
A means, not the goal
This tracker is a private aid kept entirely on your device - no account, no sharing. The goal is khushu, presence and consistency in worship, not the numbers. Use it gently, as a reminder.
Ramadan and busy seasons
The seasons when prayer matters most are often the seasons when routines break. In Ramadan the whole day shifts: suhoor moves your morning, taraweeh stretches your night, and Fajr suddenly sits closer to bedtime than to breakfast. Travel, exams, newborns, and hospital stays do the same in their own way. A tracker earns its keep in exactly these weeks - not as a scoreboard but as an honest mirror. Marking the five prayers takes seconds, and after a few days the pattern is visible: perhaps Fajr slips whenever taraweeh runs late, or Asr goes missing on workdays. Once you can see the pattern, you can fix the cause - sleep earlier, set the prayer-times notification, pray Asr before the commute - instead of just feeling vaguely behind.
How the tracker works
Each day shows the five prayers; tap one to cycle it through prayed on time, prayed late, made up (qadha), or missed. The month view is a heatmap - darker days are fuller days - so a whole month of consistency, or a rough patch, is visible at a glance. Running qadha totals keep an honest count of what remains to make up, and gentle streaks recognize consistency without turning worship into a game. Everything stays in your browser: export your history as a small backup file whenever you like and import it on a new device. No account, no cloud, nothing shared - the record is for you and your Lord.
Making five prayers fit a modern day
Most missed prayers are not abandoned on purpose - they are squeezed out by meetings that overrun, commutes that hit Maghrib in winter, and phones full of everything except a reminder to pray. The practical fixes are ordinary ones. Learn your city's actual prayer windows from the prayer times page and notice how generous most of them are; block ten minutes in your work calendar where Dhuhr and Asr usually fall; keep wudu before leaving for the commute so a short window is still enough; and let the tracker tell you which prayer keeps slipping, because that one deserves a specific plan rather than general guilt. Small logistics carry the deen: a prayer mat in the office drawer or the car boot has saved more Asrs than any resolution.