August 2026 · Android · Updated 5 September 2026

From Salah Companion to SalahNote

How a broad prayer-app idea became a smaller, finished Android project.

Salah Companion was my earlier idea for a much larger prayer app. At first, I kept thinking of more things it could include. The scope became messy, and the simple reason I had started was getting harder to see.

Narrowing the project

What I actually wanted was a private way to mark the five daily prayers, add notes, and look back at previous days. I decided to stop expanding the old idea and focus on doing those parts properly.

What SalahNote became

SalahNote is the native Android project that came from that smaller scope. It handles prayer records, notes, history, and local exports. Salah Companion and SalahNote were not always the same project, and I don’t want to rewrite that history as if they were.

Finishing the smaller app taught me something useful: a clear project that works is better than a growing list of features that never settles.

SalahNote case study
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