Muslim Pro App Passes 4 Million Downloads, Now Available on the Web Too

It is said that there are currenly 2.1 billion muslims worldwide at the moment, and Singapore-based mobile developer Bitsmedia is one of the few which are looking to make the best use of that market. The company has released a web version for its popular Muslim Pro app this week. The website brings the same features that Muslim Pro users will be familiar with.

Founder Erwan Mace explains that the website allows users to check prayer times and qibla direction worldwide. Interestingly, the site also offers to notify you about those prayer times by playing the call for prayer (Adhan) audio as long as the web page remains open as one of the browser’s tabs. Erwan believes that they are the first one to make use of the web audio as a web notification feature.

Erwan also shared with us that the Muslim Pro app has had around 4.6 million downloads now, doubling its tally since last July. Out of those 4.6 million downloads, 2.8 million of them are on Android and the rest on iOS. He has several things in store for 2013, such as considering building Muslim Pro apps for feature phones and Blackberry, partnering with telcos and OEM manufacturers, and building its own database of mosques and halal eateries instead of relying on the FourSquare API.

The website version looks simple enough for everybody to use. And the site becomes an alternative for non-Android and iOS users to get the benefit of Muslim Pro, which I think is cool.

You can check Muslim Pro’s new website here. It also has a Chrome web app too, but that’s pretty much the same as Muslim Pro’s new site.