Seven, kept by your hand.
Septem is a silent counter for the two seven-segment rituals of Hajj and Umrah — Tawaf (seven circuits around the Kaaba) and Sa'i (seven segments between Safa and Marwa). Tap anywhere, feel the haptic, look up at the Kaaba — not the screen.
Use the two chips at the top of the screen. The active mode is filled in Kiswah black; the other sits beside it as a chip. Each mode keeps its own count, so switching back and forth doesn't lose your place.
Tap Undo at the bottom-left to revert the most recent count. Only the last tap can be undone — once you advance again, the previous tap is committed.
Hold the Hold to reset capsule at the bottom-right for about 0.8 seconds. A gold fill shows the progress; release before it completes to cancel. This long-press requirement prevents accidental resets from a brushed screen.
Septem never plays audio — not at taps, not at completion. Alarm sounds and chimes are inappropriate in the Mataf and break both the focus and the dignity of the ritual. The haptic confirms the count silently.
Yes. Open Settings (gear icon, top-right) → Haptic → choose Soft, Medium, or Strong. The setting applies to both per-tap feedback and the seven-completion pulse.
Open Settings → Dua → toggle Show dua line off. The screen becomes fully minimal — only the mode label, the counter, the seven-dot indicator, and the controls.
Always. Septem makes no network calls of any kind — for any feature. Your count, settings, and mode all live on your device, in iOS UserDefaults. The Mataf has notoriously weak connectivity; Septem is built to never need it.
No. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no third-party services. See the SmallPaper Privacy Policy — it applies to Septem, Tinct, and Steep equally.
v1.0 ships with English and Arabic, with full right-to-left layout in Arabic. Urdu and Malay are planned for v1.1 — we're holding them back until a native-speaker review pass is complete, because we'd rather ship no translation than a wrong one in a ritual context.
We'd love your eyes on the strings. Email us — we'll send a promo code in thanks. If you spot anything off in the v1.0 Arabic, we'll patch in v1.0.1 within a week.
No. Septem is an indie app made by SmallPaper, a small studio. The seven-count is the consensus across all schools of Islamic jurisprudence (Hanafi, Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanbali, Ja'fari) — there is no sectarian variation, and the app does not branch on it. The dua line is the universally-recited "Bismillah" only, included as a brief on-screen marker, toggleable.
Those apps are wonderful full Hajj suites — guides, bookings, dua sets, checklists. Septem is intentionally not that. If you only want a counter, Septem is one screen, one purpose, one quiet haptic. If you want the full guide, keep using your suite app of choice — Septem complements them.
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Septem is an indie release by SmallPaper. Built for Hajj and Umrah pilgrims.