Make Safa yours

Meet Safa 2

• A quieter homepage. Three frosted cards bring your next prayer, a daily ayah and your private dhikr counter into view. Open each card’s options menu for settings, sources or counter actions.
• Muslim space in the sidebar. Today offers a daily name with its Quran reference, a short next reading and today’s prayer schedule. Quran, Journey and Saved are one click away.
• Reminders you control. In Today → Reminders, choose prayer, reading or daily-name reminders. Location and notification permissions are requested only when you choose those actions.
• Useful browsing tools. Open the sidebar’s Image controls to blur or hide page images. Open Capture to make, edit and share a screenshot.
• Updates within Safa. Settings → About lets you check for updates and choose automatic checking. Safa verifies signed updates before offering a relaunch. Existing 1.0.5 builds with updates paused need one manual installation of version 2.

Browsing and Work

• Cmd+L focuses the address field. Settings → Shortcuts lists and customises commands.
• Manage tabs, spaces and split view from the sidebar and tab menus. Profiles separate browsing data; private windows use an ephemeral profile.
• Settings includes import, search engines, themes, downloads, site permissions, extensions, userscripts and blocking.
• Bookmarks, history, notes, tasks and time tools remain available. Work retains its canvas and assistant workflows. Choose a provider in Settings → Models; tool approvals still apply.

Your homepage

Open the new tab’s settings button to choose your wallpaper, clock and statistics. Show Islamic cards controls the three cards together. They are unavailable in private browsing.

• Next prayer: Today’s prayers opens the schedule. The options menu contains prayer settings and reminders. Choose Use current location for a one-time system location request, or use a bundled city. Check the calculation method, Asr convention and high-latitude rule for your community. Unusual polar conditions can show unavailable.
• Daily ayah: Read surah context opens the offline Quran at that verse. The options menu explains sources and attribution.
• Dhikr: Increment with the focused button. Undo and confirmed reset are in its options menu. A conflict means another view changed the counter; review its value before retrying.

A small daily practice

• Today: a referenced selection of Allah’s names, a continuation prompt and prayer times. Optional prayer check-ins say prayed, not recorded or not applicable. An empty entry never means Safa detected a missed prayer.
• Quran: complete Arabic and English reading, surah and juz navigation, search, adjustable text, translation visibility, bookmarks and saved position. Text loads from the bundled corpus. Optional recitation uses the selected recording’s stated terms and requires a network connection unless downloaded.
• Journey: Quran passages associated with the 25 named prophets, presented as a teaching sequence, not a claim about every historical date. Mark readings complete at your own pace. Optional learning points count each completed chapter once; there are no penalties, purchases, charity redemptions or spiritual rankings. Reviewed narrative lessons are not included.
• Saved: return to bookmarked verses. Reading progress and prayer settings belong to the current normal profile.
• Reminders: local notifications cover up to seven days after reconciliation. Open Safa again to extend the schedule, and after travel or a time-zone change. There is no continuously running background tracker. Lock-screen text is discreet; sound is optional. System notification settings may suppress delivery.

Images and screenshots

Image controls offers Off, Blur and Hide, with a global default and site-specific exceptions. Reveal is deliberate. This is a viewing preference, not guaranteed content filtering.

Capture offers the visible page, a selected page region, bounded full page and a system-selected Mac region. In the editor, crop, annotate, blur or use solid redaction, then undo, copy, save or share. Text recognition runs on your Mac. Use solid redaction for confidential text; blur is only a visual effect. Exported PNGs contain flattened pixels without source layers or recognised text.

Accounts and providers

Browsing and Muslim tools require no account. Hosted paid Safa AI is inactive. Bring your own supported provider key or select a local model in Models settings. Requested provider calls follow that provider’s terms.

Account → Advanced accepts an explicitly configured Safa server. Credentials are scoped to that origin. Account, credits, export, deletion and billing flows require a compatible configured service; unavailable email or cloud services cannot complete them. An upstream account is not a Safa account.

Local by design

Location, religious settings, prayer check-ins, dhikr and reading progress stay in your normal profile and are excluded from generic diagnostics, account exports and cloud synchronisation. Private browsing does not load this saved state. Deleting a profile removes it and cancels its reminders.

Web browsing, search suggestions when enabled, requested providers, location resolution, optional recitations, blocker-list and extension updates, and release checks make their expected network requests. Turn automatic release checks off in Settings → About. Copy-only migration leaves the source browser intact.

Reporting a problem

Include your Safa version, macOS version and reproduction steps through the channel where you received Safa. Settings → About provides a diagnostic report you can review before sharing. Do not include secrets, private screenshots or full browsing URLs.

Availability

Safa 2 targets Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later. No hosted subscription is offered. Package qualification and notarization evidence accompany the download; this guide alone does not certify a build. Windows native qualification is deferred.

Source and attribution

Safa is a fork of Zephium by Rehan Aslam. Copyright and credit remain with the original authors and contributors. Browser and website: MPL-2.0. Modified backend: AGPL-3.0-only. Independent fork and blocker-list notices are retained. Corresponding source and required notices accompany distribution.

City data: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Arabic Quran: Tanzil, CC BY 3.0, unmodified. English translation: Talal Itani, ClearQuran, CC BY-ND 4.0. Arabic font: Amiri, SIL Open Font License. Content licences and integrity records are included. The daily-name selection is referenced to the Quran and does not claim a definitive enumeration of 99 names.