Features
Everything Maalin does, by area.
Today, History, Insights and Log are always on. Food, Water, Activity, Prayer, Habits and Spending are parts you switch on, and a part you switch off disappears from the app.
- areas
- 21
- foods and dishes on your phone
- about 20,000
- activities
- 211
- English and Somali at launch
- 2
Your day
Today and the next action
- One next action at a time, from any part of your day, with its reason. Do it, choose Later, or skip it for today.
- The button does the job in one tap where it can: water, a habit, a prayer.
- "Remind me at…" when the best moment is later today.
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- Your day: one small tile per area, showing status only.
- Status lines in words when something is off pace: "500 ml now helps you reach 3 L by evening."
- Morning brief at your wake time: sleep, readiness, the day's shape and the weather, in four lines.
- Evening wrap-up at your wind-down time: the day in three lines and one thing for tomorrow.
- A "welcome back" summary after 3 or more days away, built from what happened while you were away.
- Weather in the date line, from Apple Weather.
- The header colour follows the time of day: dawn, day, dusk and night.
The day plan
- Rest of today: a plan built from your day type, calendar busy time, protected times and planned activities. You never have to build it.
- "Get ready": a 15-minute block before 3 hours or more of busy time, to eat, drink or move.
- Movement breaks after 2 hours still, water checkpoints spread through the day, and habits at their usual times.
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- A 20-minute nap after lunch on a go-easy day with a hard activity later.
- Wind-down 30 minutes before your target bedtime.
- Meals move around busy time by up to 2 hours, and work hours don't push a meal off its time.
- "Why this?" on every plan row; move a row to later today in two taps.
- Add a suggestion to a day later in the week. At public release
Logging
- Log is the "+" tab: suggestions for now, your most used types and "Search what you've had".
- 3 to 5 one-tap suggestions, learned from your history, each with its reason. "Why these?" explains them.
- Log by photo: read on your iPhone with Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and newer). On other iPhones, you add a short description. The photo is deleted once it's read.
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- Log by voice in English: "Rice and beans at the café, 300 shillings" becomes items, a place and a price.
- Log by typing in English or Somali.
- Everything Maalin worked out is shown to confirm before it's saved.
- Log for today or any earlier day; the last week is one tap away.
- Undo for 10 seconds, and edit any entry later from History.
- Somali voice logging, once it can run privately on the phone. Coming later
Learning
- Maalin learns your wake and sleep times, meal times, usual meals and places, prices, glass size, activity days and habit times.
- Each learned value shows its state: "Starting estimate", "Still learning", "Learned from 12 days" or "Set by you".
- What you set always wins. Changes are offered, never made silently.
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- See, change or delete everything Maalin learned.
- Place suggestions, if you turn them on: your location is used once, at the moment you log, with no background tracking.
Food and body
Food
- Meals with calories, protein, carbs and fat.
- A food library on your phone: about 20,000 foods and dishes from public food tables (USDA, the UK's CoFID, Sweden, Germany, France, Finland, Switzerland and Denmark), the Ethiopia 2025 table, and Somali, East African and Gulf dishes worked out by Maalin.
- Somali names, other spellings and Arabic-script names all find the same dish. Ingredient words work too: "beans" finds cambuulo and fuul.
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- Local portions: a piece, a plate, a cup, a canjeero, a sambuus.
- Every food shows where its numbers come from.
- Nothing about your meal leaves your phone to look up its nutrition.
- Your usual meals and meal times, learned for each kind of day.
- Meal suggestions from what's left for the day, your activity and your usual places.
- Nutrition from your other food apps counts too, through Apple Health.
- Food groups for variety suggestions. At public release
- Barcode scanning and restaurant menus. Coming later
Water
- One-tap amounts from your usual glass sizes, in ml or fl oz.
- A starting target from public guidance (EFSA), higher on activity days.
- Pacing through the day, with a line in words when you're behind.
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- Log from a widget without opening the app.
- Targets that follow local weather. Coming later
Movement and activity
- Steps from your iPhone or watch, or wheelchair pushes from a watch that records them.
- 211 activities in 18 groups, from football and running to Somali dance, istunka, camel riding, herding and 19 wheelchair activities. Or add your own.
- Energy from your device when it has it; otherwise an estimate from the 2024 Compendium of Physical Activities, shown as "about 810 kcal".
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- Plan an activity on set days, or a number of times a week and Maalin finds the slot.
- Food and water before, a recovery meal after, and a one-tap "How hard was it?".
- Record walks, runs and rides with your iPhone, or enter them by hand.
- Weekly active minutes against 150, your resting heart rate trend, and your watch's own cardio fitness value.
- Training load against your 4-week average, and pace on a repeated route. At public release
Sleep and readiness
- Last night's sleep against your target, from any device through Apple Health, or a 10-second check-in.
- Daytime sleep after a night shift counts.
- Readiness: go, go easy, rest or unknown, from the measures you have.
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- Your device's own readiness is used where it shares one; your own check-in is never overruled.
- On a go-easy day, hard activities keep their place with a gentler note and a warm-up.
- Sleep and recovery page: 7 nights of bedtime to wake time, resting heart rate and HRV where your device shares it.
Body and targets
- Height, weight, waist and blood pressure, with history.
- Starting targets from named public guidance: 7 h 30 min of sleep, 7,000 steps, 150 active minutes a week, water and protein for your body.
- Targets change only when you agree.
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- A safety profile, if you want one: pregnant or breastfeeding, or a wheelchair user. Suggestions adapt.
- Checkups you set yourself, such as a dental checkup every 6 months, with a reminder. At public release
Faith and habits
Prayer
- Five daily prayer times worked out on your phone, with no prayer-time service.
- Your country's usual method and Asr school picked for you; any common method and school to choose from.
- Adjust each prayer by up to 30 minutes, and set high-latitude rules and your Jumuʿah time.
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- Reminders at the time or before, with an optional short adhan.
- One-tap "Prayed" from the reminder, the widget or the plan. No scores, no counts.
- Prayers become protected times, so Maalin stays quiet.
- A lock-screen countdown to the next prayer, if you turn it on. At public release
Fasting and protected times
- Protected times for prayer, family, focus or rest, with no nudges.
- Fasting windows: Ramadan, other religious fasts, time-restricted eating or your own.
- Meals, water and activities follow your eating window.
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- Fasts with a food rule, such as no animal products, filter meal suggestions and the food library.
- Ramadan dates follow your Hijri date adjustment, and you confirm them.
- Ramadan recap with an Eid card. At public release
Habits
- Any habit, to build or to cut down, counted in times, minutes, pages or done.
- Templates to start from: reading a book, Qur'an, Bible reading, journaling, study, stretching and more.
- Reminders with "Done" and "Later".
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- No limit on how many habits you keep.
- "Call family", "Visit a relative", "Time with the children" and "Check on a friend", storing nothing about other people. At public release
- A "last coffee" tip, offered once if your logs show coffee or tea close to bedtime. At public release
Money and time
Spending
- What things cost, in a tap or two, with the usual amount filled in.
- Linked to meals and places, in several currencies.
- Your own payment methods, with local mobile-money names ready: EVC Plus, Zaad, Sahal and e-Dahab in Somalia, M-Pesa in Kenya.
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- Spending by place and by meal, and cost per 10 g of protein.
- Categories beyond food. At public release
- Apple Pay taps logged through your own Shortcuts automation. At public release
- No bank or mobile-money account links, no balances, no transfers.
Schedule and calendar
- Day types you define: work, off, study, shift, overnight shift or your own, each with its own wake time and sleep target.
- Holidays, travel, leave and sick days as dated changes.
- Calendar busy time from your iPhone's calendars, using only when each event starts and ends.
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- Event titles show only if you turn them on, and are never stored. Maalin never writes to your calendar.
Reminders and notifications
- At most 6 a day by default, aiming for 1 to 3. You set the limit.
- "Quieter for a week" in one tap.
- Quiet during meetings, sleep, protected times and Focus.
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- Good send times learned on your phone.
- No health numbers on the lock screen unless you turn them on.
- Finish most notifications from the notification itself.
- Reminders aren't sent twice across your devices.
Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts
- Small, medium and lock screen widgets, with buttons that log water, a habit or a prayer inside the widget.
- Siri and Shortcuts: log water, a meal, a payment, a habit, a check-in or a measurement; mark a prayer; start an activity; ask for the next action.
- Control Center and the Action button open Log.
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- Live Activities for an activity in progress. At public release
Insights and data
Insights and history
- The week so far, every day: days with a log, averages and targets reached.
- An area page for each part of your day, with 7-day and 30-day trends and one-line takeaways.
- "Maalin noticed": what it learned lately, with Change.
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- Rhythm and moments: "42 days with Maalin". Rest, sick, travel and fasting days are left out.
- History of every entry, with the source of each reading.
- Share your week as an image you export.
- Patterns across areas, with how sure Maalin is, in words. At public release
- Weekly review with "Coming up this week": up to three ideas for the days ahead. At public release
- A monthly story and "Your year with Maalin". At public release
Sources
- Apple Health as the hub for your watch, ring, scale and food apps.
- "Check your device": what to switch on, brand by brand.
- Choose which source wins when two report the same thing.
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- Write meals, water, measurements, check-ins and phone-recorded activities to Apple Health, if you allow it.
- Direct links to Oura, then Google's Health API (Fitbit, Pixel Watch), then Whoop, with the data fetched on your phone. Coming later
Privacy, account and security
- Data encrypted on your phone before it syncs, with keys only you hold.
- Sign in with Apple, Google or email, then a passkey and a recovery kit.
- Free restore on a new iPhone.
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- Export everything as JSON and CSV; import from Maalin's own export.
- Delete one area's data, one day, what Maalin learned, or everything.
- App lock with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode.
- AI that runs on your phone, with a switch to turn it off.
Region and language
- English and Somali, chosen inside the app.
- Your units, currencies, calendar, week start and weekend, with an override for each.
- Gregorian, Hijri (Umm al-Qura or civil) and Ethiopian dates, and a second date line.
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- Hijri date adjustment, from 2 days back to 2 days ahead.
- Arabic, Amharic, Swahili and French. Coming later
Look and access
- Dark mode, following your iPhone or set by you.
- VoiceOver, Voice Control and the largest text sizes, tested before every release.
- Theme accent colours. At public release
Coming later
- Android, straight after the first iPhone release. Coming later
- Apple Watch app, iPad and Mac. Coming later
- More languages: after Arabic, Amharic, Swahili and French, Oromo, Kinyarwanda and Luganda. Coming later
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- Direct device links: Oura, Google's Health API, Whoop. Coming later
Start tomorrow with Maalin.
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