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REVIEW
Prayer Times on Tizen turns the living-room TV into a quiet salah reminder.
A free utility from Pakistan Data Management Services that lists the five daily prayer windows on a Samsung TV based on location and calculation method — a single-purpose channel doing a single thing.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Prayer Times
PAKISTAN DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES
OUR SCORE
7.0
SAMSUNG TV
★ —
PRICE
Free
Prayer Times is one of a handful of Islamic-utility channels on the Tizen store, and the only one shipping under the bare-noun name. Built by Pakistan Data Management Services, it does exactly what the title says — displays the five daily salah windows on a Samsung TV — and nothing else. In a store full of streaming bundles and casino games, a single-purpose religious utility for the living-room TV is a quiet, deliberate thing.
The premise rests on a question most prayer-times apps haven’t asked: where in the house does the family actually look? On a phone, the answer is the lock screen, and notifications carry the moment. On a TV, the answer is the screen that’s on for dinner, that gets glanced at across the room, that anchors the common space. Pinning Fajr through Isha there is a different proposition than another phone alert — it’s a piece of furniture, not a buzz.
What’s shipped in the current release is modest. The calculation-method picker handles the methodology choices observant users care about, the Hijri date is surfaced, and the channel is genuinely free and free of ads. What’s missing is the audio adhan that would make the TV’s living-room speakers earn their keep, and a Smart Hub widget that would let the next-prayer countdown sit on the home row without launching the channel. Neither is hard to ship. Both would change the rating meaningfully.
A Samsung TV is the screen the household actually looks at — pinning Fajr through Isha there meets people where they already are.
FEATURES
Prayer Times is a Tizen utility that displays the five daily Islamic prayer windows — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — on a Samsung TV based on the household's geographic location and a configurable calculation method. The app launches into a single salah board: today's date in Gregorian and Hijri, the next prayer highlighted, a countdown to its start, and the full day's schedule listed below.
Location is set on first launch, either via manual city entry or by accepting the TV's reported region. Calculation method is selectable from the standard set used across Islamic prayer-times apps — Umm al-Qura (Saudi Arabia), Muslim World League, Egyptian General Authority, Islamic Society of North America, University of Islamic Sciences Karachi, and a few others — each producing slightly different Fajr and Isha angles. Asr can be set to Shafi'i or Hanafi school of jurisprudence.
The channel sits in the Tizen store under Lifestyle, ships free with no in-app purchases, and updates roughly quarterly. There are no streaming features, no Quran recitation, and no audio adhan playback from the TV speakers in the current release — this is a display utility, not a full Islamic-companion suite. Qibla direction and the Hijri calendar are surfaced as secondary screens.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The single-purpose framing is the right call for a TV. Phones already do prayer-times notifications well; a TV channel that tries to compete with Muslim Pro or Athan Pro on a 65-inch panel would feel out of place. Pakistan Data Management Services has instead built a glanceable reference — the kind of channel a household leaves on the TV's recent-apps shelf and opens for fifteen seconds before iftar or to settle a "when's Maghrib tonight" question across the room.
The calculation-method picker is the unsung competent detail. Getting the right Fajr angle matters to observant users, and the app surfaces the standard methodology choices without burying them in a settings tree. Free and ad-free is also genuinely respectful for a religious utility — paid Quran apps and ad-laden adhan apps are the norm on phones, and avoiding both on the TV channel is the correct read.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
No adhan audio is the obvious gap. A Samsung TV is connected to the room's best speakers in most households, and a soft, configurable adhan call at each prayer window is the feature the channel begs for — even a one-tap mute toggle would land. Several phone apps have offered this for a decade; the TV form factor would suit it.
The channel also lives or dies on its idle behavior, and the current release does not run as a background-on-while-watching-TV companion — switching to Prayer Times means leaving whatever else was on the screen. A picture-in-picture mode or a Tizen widget on the Smart Hub home row would fix this. Visual polish is functional rather than considered: the typography is large and legible, which matters at TV distance, but the channel design leans utilitarian. A more deliberately editorial look — Hijri calendar treated as type, prayer names set with care — would suit the subject matter.
CONCLUSION
Install Prayer Times if a Samsung TV anchors the household's common room and at least one person in the house keeps the five daily prayers. It is free, focused, and respectful of its subject. The next release should add a configurable adhan and a Smart Hub widget; both would move the score into the 7.5–8.0 band. As shipped, it is a small, useful channel doing one thing competently for an audience the Tizen store under-serves.