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Change how your screens look

Choose where prayer times, the clock and your slides sit on the screen, change the colours, add your logo, and decide what happens during jamaat.

  • 4 min read
  • In the portal: Screens → Screen Layouts and Display Defaults
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Two places to change the look

  • Screen Layouts decide how a screen is arranged and coloured. Each layout has a landscape and a portrait design, and you choose which screens use it.
  • Display Defaults are settings for every screen, such as the time format, what shows during jamaat and the Ramadan look.

Screens without their own layout use the Built-in layout, the standard MasjidConnect look. You don't have to make a layout at all.

Make a layout

  1. 1

    Open Screens then Screen Layouts, and press New layout

  2. 2

    Give it a name

    For example "Main hall".

  3. 3

    Choose Wide (landscape) or Tall (portrait) to start with

    The layout still holds both designs.

  4. 4

    Choose a look to start from

    Classic, Quiet or Heritage, or open More looks for others, such as large text or a big area for posters.

The editor opens with a live preview on the left. Click any part of the preview to jump to its settings.

What you can change

  • Content: turn prayer times, slides, the clock and dates, Jumu'ah times and the countdown on or off. Choose whether to show jamaat times and sunrise.
  • Style · Colours: background colour or a picture or video from your library, plus colours for text and the prayer times. Leave a colour blank to keep the standard one.
  • Masjid logo: show the logo from your masjid details, in the footer or a top corner, small, medium or large.
  • Advanced adjustments: block sizes, spacing, order and text size.

Press Screen shape at the top to switch between the landscape and portrait design. Press Save when you're happy. Screens using the layout change straight away.

Which plan

The Free plan has one custom layout and no logo on screen. The Masjid licence has up to 10 layouts with your logo. The Network licence has no limit.

Choose which screens use a layout

  1. 1

    On Screen Layouts, press Assign to screens on the layout

  2. 2

    Tick the screens that should use it

  3. 3

    Press Save assignments

Untick a screen to put it back on the built-in layout. To have new screens use a layout automatically, open it and turn on Use as default for new screens under Layout details.

Settings for every screen

Open Screens then Display Defaults. Change what you need and press Save. Screens update straight away.

  • Ramadan Mode: Auto switches screens to the Ramadan look during Ramadan. You can also force it on or off.
  • Time Format: 12-hour, 12-hour without AM/PM, or 24-hour.
  • Hijri Date Adjustment: move the Islamic date by up to two days to match your local moon sighting.
  • Show Imsak / Sehri time and how many minutes before Fajr it is.
  • Clock & header: show the date, the Islamic date and your masjid's name.
  • Tomorrow's jamaat times: show tomorrow's time beside each prayer, or swap to tomorrow's time once today's jamaat has passed.
  • During jamaat: show a "jamaat in progress" screen, a black screen, or a slide from your library, and for how long.
  • Silence-phones overlay: a reminder to switch phones to silent, shown a few minutes before jamaat.
  • Pre-jamaat countdown: fills the screen with a big countdown for the last 30 seconds to 2 minutes before jamaat.
  • Scheduled supplications: show the dua after the adhan and after jamaat.

To change the spelling of prayer names, press Edit prayer labels. See Change the words used for prayers.

Good to know

A layout can override any of these for the screens that use it. In the layout editor, open Advanced adjustments, then Behaviour for this layout, and choose Customise next to a setting.

Checked against the portal on 14 October 2026. Something look different? Tell us on WhatsApp.

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