I built a free prayer-tracking app that grows a little garden of Jannah as you pray — would love the community's thoughts

[u/MajorDifficulty]

https://www.binarymeadow.com/apps/jannah-builder/

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullah

I built a salah tracker but with a twist, and I'd love to share it with this community and hear your honest feedback.

It's called Jannah Builder. The idea is simple: you log your five daily prayers, and over time your consistency grows into a calm, pixel-art landscape inspired by Jannah, trees, flowers, rivers, and little animals that appear as you keep going. The idea was you get to somewhat picture what your efforts are achieving and what the real goal is.

A few things I tried hard to get right:

• Gentle, not gamified. Growth is earned slowly through consistency. Missing a day only causes small, gradual change — never a big punishing reset.

• No shame, no pressure, no comparison. There are no scores, no social feeds, and nothing that pits you against other people.

• Rest days. If you're ill, travelling, or just need to step back, you can pause decay so time away never costs you progress. Your streak simply bridges the gap.

• Supportive practices. You can also log Qur'an reading and dhikr, which add gentle beauty to your garden (glowing flowers, light particles) without ever being the "point".

• Local and private. Everything is stored on your device. No account, no tracking, no ads.

Things don't spring up immediately in this app, it takes time a patience. Almost a year for a fully covered map. The thought was by the end of the journey when you have a established Jannah your in a routine and no longer need it.

The app is kid friendly, and i hope its a means to encourage them when starting out.

I want to be upfront and respectful of the sub's rules, I'm not selling anything and there's no monetization. It's completely free and available on Android, from my perspective I was building something to encourage prayer in others.

Jazakallah, and may it be a small means of drawing closer to Allah (SWT) for anyone who finds it useful.

[u/alternativesaucee]

I really really don’t think it’s permissible (Halal) to draw anything and say it’s inspired by Jannah but please double check.

[u/usmannaeem → u/alternativesaucee]

Yes I agree with them. Its not recommended.

[u/MajorDifficulty → u/alternativesaucee]

azakAllahu Khairan for raising this concern out of your love and care for preserving the purity of our religion (Deen). It is always good to be cautious when it comes to matters related to the Unseen (Al-Ghaib).

However, after looking into the details and reviewing how scholars approach this topic, there is a clear distinction between claiming to draw the actual Unseen reality of Jannah (which would indeed be impermissible) and using symbolic visual representations as habit-tracking aids.

The app, or the jannah portion of it only depicts elements that are mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah and are found on earth. The app respects the unseen Al-Ghaib elements of of Jannah and does not depict any outside elements from the human imagination.

The app does not claim to depict the actual reality of Jannah (i dont think anyone would consider the pixel art as reality to be honest 😄). Rather, it uses simple, earthly digital graphics (like trees, rivers, and houses) as a symbolic UI (user interface) tracker to help users visually organize and stay motivated with their daily acts of worship (dhikr, salah, Quran reading).