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Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Rob Young looking at the boom in religion-based apps.

Everything that the Muslim needs to do, we are just putting it on our app in a very user-centric way which makes life easier for our users.

The faith tech industry is massive with its promise of spiritual fulfillment from your smartphone,

often for a fee, but not everybody is convinced.

There's a sense of their profiting off of people's spiritual needs

and getting in the way between an individual and the divine.

That's all in Business Daily from the BBC.

Allah al-Qaida al-Qaidao'uang-a-oh. The sound The sound of the Muslim call to prayer heard from mosques around the world five times a day.

But this sound isn't from a mosque. It's from a smartphone app called

Muslim Pro. To remind users, it's time to pray. Here's one of the app's users in the United Kingdom,

a woman who converted to Islam later in life. My name is Kimberly Wiltshire. I'm 43. I'm a hairdresser in a care home for dementia

residents and elderly people. So tell me about your spirituality then and the role that apps play

in that? So with regards to Islam, I didn't really have much knowledge. It's not what I was

born into. It's completely alien to me. And having the apps with the Avan times and everything

helped. It just made life easier because the Athan's going off. So I know it's time to pay. The

Quran's easy to access. I've always got it on me

because it's always within the app. Yeah, I've used it ever since I reverted. So it's something

like an instruction manual and it's a bit of a guidebook. Yeah, it's really helped me with my journey,

especially when you haven't got family that are Muslim. What's the difference do you think when it comes to using the app versus going to the mosque?

I think a combination of the both helps because I do think that obviously you can't solely rely on the app.

The mosque, there's community.

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