Khutwa خطوة
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A fact sheet, descriptions in three lengths, the icon, the lockups, the palette and the screens. Use any of it; please quote the hadith with its citation.

Fact sheet

Name
Khutwa (خطوة, Arabic for "a step")
Store listing
Khutwa — Walk to Jumu'ah
Tagline
Every step, a year of reward.
Developer
StacknScope Inc., Ontario, Canada
Platforms
iPhone (iOS) and Android 8.0 or later; Apple Watch and Wear OS planned
Price
Free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads
Languages
23, with right-to-left layout for Arabic, Urdu and Persian
Category
Lifestyle; Health & Fitness
Privacy
No account, no analytics, no server. App Store label: Data Not Collected
Website
khutwa.io
Contact
support@stacknscope.com

Descriptions

One line

Khutwa is a free, private app that counts the steps of your Friday walk to the mosque and tells you when to leave for Jumu'ah, without ever printing a total of reward.

Short

There is an authentic hadith about walking to the Friday prayer: for every step, the reward of a year of fasting and standing in prayer (Sunan Abī Dāwūd 345). Khutwa turns it into a weekly practice. It counts the steps of your walk to the mosque, traces the route, reminds you on Thursday and again when it is time to leave, keeps the hadith's own conditions as a gentle checklist, and goes silent from the khutbah until after the prayer. No account, no analytics, no ads; nothing leaves your phone.

Longer

Khutwa (خطوة, "a step") is built on one hadith. Aws ibn Aws reported that the Prophet ﷺ said that whoever performs ghusl on Friday, goes early, walks and does not ride, draws near to the imam, listens and does not engage in idle talk has, for every step he takes, the reward of a year of fasting and standing in prayer (Sunan Abī Dāwūd 345, ṣaḥīḥ). Most Muslims have never heard it; of those who have, few live it. The app makes the walk a habit. Set your mosque and its khutbah time, and Khutwa computes when to leave from the distance and your own pace, reminding you on Thursday evening and again on Friday. Start the walk and it counts your steps and traces the route; arrive, and it closes the week's ring and then falls silent until well after the prayer. The seven conditions of the hadith sit beside the count as a checklist, never as a score, and the app never computes a total of years: every statement of reward carries in shā' Allāh. A forgiving streak treats an excused Friday, for any reason and never asked for, as preserved rather than broken. Every route ever walked accumulates on one map of light, and the Learn tab gives each text with its chain, its grading and the scholars' commentary. Khutwa has no account, no analytics, no crash-reporting SDK and no advertising. Your places, Fridays, steps and routes stay on the device; the only network requests happen when you ask (mosque search, address suggestions, a check for updates, and the operating system's own map tiles). It is free, available in 23 languages, and made by StacknScope Inc. in Ontario, Canada.

Icon and lockups

The icon is the arch of a mosque door over a trail of steps, lit from the last one. Please do not recolour, rotate or add effects to it.

Khutwa horizontal lockup, for light backgrounds
Khutwa horizontal lockup, for dark backgrounds

Screens

Seven screens at 1170×2532, rendered from the app's design. Captions in both languages follow the store listing.

  • Onboarding screen: the hadith of the walk to Jumu'ah in Arabic with its translation and citation, above a Continue button.

    Every step, a year of reward.

  • Today screen: a ring around the leave-by time, with the khutbah time, distance and walking time beneath it and a Start my walk button.

    Know when to leave.

  • Walk screen: a live step count and a glowing route from home to the mosque on a dark map.

    Your steps, counted.

  • Arrival screen: the closed ring with the steps to Jumu'ah, and the hadith's own words beneath it.

    The ring closes.

  • Checklist screen: the seven conditions of the hadith with all of them ticked.

    The conditions, kept together.

  • Stats screen: Fridays walked this year, a week-by-week dot row with an excused week, and the longest run.

    A forgiving record.

  • Light map screen: every route walked this year glowing on one dark map, brightest where walked most.

    Repetition brightens the path.

Palette and type

Two themes named for the walk: courtyard at dawn for light, night walk for dark, where the accumulating-light idea lives. Type is IBM Plex Sans Arabic for the interface in both scripts, Amiri for the hadith, and Lora for translations.

  • Dawn #FAF6EF
  • Ink #1F2A26
  • Green #175C4C
  • Amber #C98A2D
  • Night #0E1614
  • Mint #7FC8B0
  • Gold #E3B25C
  • Glow #F0CE8B

Two things to know

  1. Khutwa never displays a computed total of reward. It shows what you did beside what the text promises, in shā' Allāh, and never multiplies the two. Please do not describe it as an app that tells you how much reward you have earned.
  2. The tagline is a quotation of the hadith's promise. Wherever it appears, the hadith and its citation belong nearby.

Why it exists

A widely unknown, authentic promise deserved a quiet, careful companion: one that counts the walk, keeps the conditions in view, never nags, and never sends a single byte anywhere. We made Khutwa because we wanted the reward, in shā' Allāh, same as everyone who uses it.

Press contact

For interviews, review builds or anything else:

support@stacknscope.com