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NURA for families: teaching salah, gently

Teaching children to pray is mostly about rhythm: the same call at the same moments, the same words repeated until they are theirs. NURA gives a household that rhythm — gently, without an account, and without collecting anything about your family.

The athan as the family's clock

NURA computes your five prayer times on the device for your exact location and plays the full athan when each arrives. Because prayers and alarms are handed to iOS, the call still sounds with the app closed — so it becomes a sound the whole house learns to move to, not a notification someone has to be watching for. Children learn the shape of the day: Fajr before school, Maghrib as the sky changes, Isha before bed.

Words they can count on their own

The daily tools are built around tapping and repetition, which is exactly how a child learns dhikr:

• Morning and evening adhkar with a tap-counter, so a child can keep their own place through "ten times" or "a hundred times" without an adult tracking for them — each remembrance short, authentic, and labelled with its source.
• A tasbih that counts to 33 and 99 with a gentle haptic tick after salah.
• The 99 Names of Allah in the canonical at-Tirmidhi order — exactly ninety-nine, each with Arabic, transliteration, and a simple meaning to learn and talk about together.
• Everyday du'as for the small moments of a child's day.

Nothing in this content is loosely paraphrased — worship text is fixed and sourced, and scripture recited from the Mushaf, such as Ayat al-Kursi, is referenced rather than reprinted.

The Qibla, and a shared Qur'an goal

The Qibla tab shows the true direction to the Kaaba — something a child can hold the phone to find and check against the prayer mat. The Qur'an khatm tracker turns "let's finish a reading together" into a visible, shared goal across the 604 pages, with a daily streak — progress only, no text to distract from the family mushaf.

Fasting, for the first attempts

When a child begins to try a fast, the Ramadan tools give a clear countdown to iftar and a simple, encouraging log — a way to mark the days they kept without pressure or comparison.

What a parent will want to know about privacy

There is no account and no sign-in — nothing asks for a child's name, email, or age. There is no NuroNova server for the core app, so your family's prayer settings, progress, and tools stay on your device rather than on ours. The AI assistant is entirely optional and off until you deliberately add your own key; the prayer, Qibla, and dhikr tools your family will use every day never need it, and never need a connection.

Free, and quiet

NURA is free. It is built to sit calmly in the corner of family life and mark the times of worship — not to compete for a child's attention.

NURA is coming soon to iPhone — free, from NuroNova Genix Co. (Houston, Texas). Salah, taught by rhythm.