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MasjidConnect
An honest comparison

How MasjidConnect compares

Choosing software for a masjid is a trust decision, so this page is written to be checked, not believed. Competitor figures are their own published claims, marked as such. Our column describes what the platform does today — and where a competitor does something better, we say so.

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FeatureMasjidConnectMasjidalMohidMawaqittheMasjidApp
The masjid platformPrayer times, screens, giving and announcements.
Prayer & iqamah times
Yes6+ calculation methods, iqamah locked once announced, Jumu'ah, Eid & Ramadan
Yes
Yes
Yestheir core strength — 10,000+ mosques
Yes
TV / digital signage
Yesany TV or Android device, paired in under a minute
Yesproprietary player, $119.99 (their pricing)
Yeskiosks
Yes
Yes
Screens keep working with no internet
Yesfull offline mode — the board keeps its times and content
Notheir own FAQ requires internet
Not stated
Not stated
Not stated
Online donations for the masjid
Yes0% platform fee; the donor may cover the card processing fee
Partialgated behind their $99/mo tier (their pricing)
Yes2.55–3.32% processing (their published rate)
Nono money features
Yes
Recurring donations
Yes
Not stated
Yes
No
Not stated
Zakat recorded as its own fund
Yesdonors designate; the masjid can account for it separately
Not stated
Not stated
No
Not stated
Announcements & push to the congregation
Yespush, email and in-app, with per-person preferences
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Open, documented API
Yesthe whole platform is API-first — the app consumes the same API
No
Noa named complaint in their own reviews
Not stated
No
Advertising revenue shared with the masjid
Yesthe masjid approves every advertiser and can remove any of them; a share of each campaign is set aside for the masjid, tracked to the second
No
No
Nono advertising by design
Partialin-app ads only, not screen ads; masjid pays ~$99/mo (per our partner contact)
What the masjid pays
Yes$0 — free, and the ad module is opt-in. An optional $499 card reader, bought once
Nofree / $25 / $50 / $99 per month + player (their pricing)
No$99–214/mo billed annually, $109–239 billed monthly, + hardware (their pricing)
Yesfree — a nonprofit waqf
No~$99/mo + kiosk (their pricing)
The Ummah family, on the same sign-inUmmahJobs, UmmahCauses, ummah.email, UmmahArmy and UmmahPass are pages inside the masjid dashboard. UmmahMeet and UmmahChat are separate Ummah Media Group apps that use the same UmmahPass sign-in. Competitor cells checked against their own websites on 22 October 2026.
Post job vacancies to a Muslim job board
YesUmmahJobs, from the dashboard — free for masjids, 5 posts a month
No
No
No
No
Email inboxes for the masjid's team
Yesummah.email, created from the dashboard on an UmmahPass sign-in
No
Nosends email and SMS announcements; no team mailboxes
No
Nowebsite hosting, not mailboxes
Video meetings and classes
YesUmmahMeet — free video rooms with no time limit (its own page)
No
Partialone-way live streaming of khutbahs and lectures
No
Nolive-stream link for fundraiser displays only
Group chat for the team and community
YesUmmahChat — direct messages are end-to-end encrypted; group rooms are not
Noone-way push notifications
No
Noone-way updates
Not statedlists “interest groups” without describing them
Volunteers
YesUmmahArmy missions from the dashboard, plus the masjid's own volunteer roster
Partialvolunteer sign-up forms
No
No
Yesshift sign-up, from $50 (their pricing)
Fundraising appeals with goal trackers
YesUmmahCauses appeals, linked from the dashboard; 0% platform fee
Yes
Yes
Partialshares the masjid's own donation link; no hosted page
Yes
One sign-in across separate services
YesUmmahPass — the same account across the Ummah properties
Noone account across its own modules
No
No
Noone login within its own platform

Competitor cells are taken from their own public materials and pricing pages. A “No” means not offered in those materials today — not that they have no interest in it. Figures marked as their pricing or their claim are exactly that.

Where MasjidConnect is ahead

The rows above are the checklist. These are the differences that don’t fit in a cell.

The screen earns for the masjid instead of costing it

We run a shared pool of advertisers. Your masjid approves every one of them, a share of what they spend is set aside for your masjid, and every second an advert plays is recorded so the share can be checked. Nobody else in this set runs that engine and the accounting behind it.

Genuinely free, with money coming in

Most "free" masjid tools move the cost somewhere else — a tip asked of your donor, a monthly fee, a percentage of donations forever. MasjidConnect is free to the masjid and shares advertising revenue with it.

Screens that don't go dark when the Wi-Fi does

Our signage keeps its prayer times and content with no internet connection. The market leader's own FAQ says an internet connection is required.

A public, documented API

MasjidConnect is API-first — the web app, the screens and the future mobile app all consume the same documented API. A missing API is a named complaint in at least one competitor's own reviews.

Money you can audit

Every advert play is recorded against the second it ran, and the ledger behind it is append-only — entries can be added, never edited or deleted. A masjid can check what it is owed rather than take it on trust.

Your community list stays yours

The people who follow your masjid are your congregation, not our marketing list. We do not market our other products to them.

The rest of the Ummah comes with it

A jobs board, team email, video meetings, group chat, volunteer missions and a charity page, all on one UmmahPass sign-in. None of the four platforms in this table lists a jobs board, team mailboxes, video meetings or group chat on its website.

The masjid controls the advertisers itself

Approval is a real control the masjid holds: it approves or declines every advert, and can remove one from its own screens at any time. Removal is the masjid's own action and takes effect immediately — it does not wait on us.

To be honest about it

Mawaqit is the strongest prayer-times product in this set — over ten thousand mosques, free, run as a nonprofit waqf. If accurate times are all a masjid needs, it is an excellent choice.

Masjidal has been doing this for years and ships a plug-and-play screen player. A masjid that wants a box posted to it with zero setup may prefer that today.

Mobile app: ours is not out yet. Masjidal, Mohid and Mawaqit all have one today. Ours is planned — the platform is API-first so the app is assembly rather than architecture, but it is not in your hand today.

We are new. One donation has completed end-to-end and one demo payout has been made, all on our own test records — no ad payout to a real masjid has fired yet. We would rather a masjid hear that from us than discover it later.

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