Ummah vs Ummahfy An Ummahfy alternative for Muslim event organizers
Ummahfy is a Muslim event discovery directory from Chicago with a light organizer tool attached: browse what is near you, filter by gender, age and organizer type, and post your own event free. Ummah is the operating system a Muslim organization runs on, of which event discovery is one part. The two overlap on exactly one thing, and diverge on everything after it.
Ummahfy helps you find an event. Ummah helps you run the organization behind it.
Credit where it is due: Ummahfy has built the discovery filters most platforms skip. You can filter by organizer type, by age group, by gender, by whether something recurs weekly, and by distance from where you are. Those are the filters a Muslim actually wants and most event tools have never thought about. They also let anyone post a free event without an account upgrade, and they send text-message reminders, which is more than most.
Where the two products separate is everything that happens after the event ends. Ummahfy is a directory with ticketing bolted on. Ummah is the system the masjid or the organization runs on all year: everyone who registers becomes a member in a directory you own and can export, you take donations with a year-end tax receipt, you run the weekend school term with sibling pricing and attendance, you publish prayer times, and you embed all of it on your own website.
One thing to know before you compare cost: Ummahfy does not publish pricing. There is no pricing page on their site — not one that is hard to find, one that does not exist — and no fee figure appears anywhere in their application. We are not going to invent one. What their app does say is that a personal account creates free events and an organization account creates paid ones, and that organizers connect their own Stripe. Ask them directly what a paid ticket costs, and get the answer in writing.
Side by side
Ummahfy's column was read from ummahfy.com and their application bundle at /static/js/main.51d2c4fe.js, because the site renders nothing server-side on September 19, 2026. Where something is not published on their site, this table says so rather than guessing. Bold is the side that is ahead on that row. Prices move, so check theirs before you act on it.
| Feature | Ummah | Ummahfy |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Free $0/mo, Basic $19/mo, Advanced $75/mo, all on the pricing page with the platform fee for each | Not published. There is no pricing page on the site, and no fee figure appears anywhere in the application |
| Who pays the platform fee | The attendee. It is added on top at checkout, so the organization banks the full face value: 3% Free, 1.5% Basic, 0% Advanced, nothing on a free event | Not published |
| Free events | Free on every plan, with no platform fee | Free. A personal account creates free events; paid events need an organization account |
| Payment account | Your own Stripe or PayPal. Multi-currency, picked per event | Your own Stripe, connected in organizer settings. Checkout is hardcoded to USD |
| Event discovery filters | Category, date, price and format, on a map and in a directory, with a listing in the app Muslims already use | Organizer type, age group, gender, recurrence, price, date, distance and search. The most thoughtful filter set of any platform we have looked at |
| Ticketing | Multi-tier tickets, capacity, waitlist, promo codes, a custom registration form, an optional donation on top at checkout, multi-currency | Multiple pricing tiers per event, discount codes, an approval workflow that only charges once the host approves, attendee lists and custom questions |
| Check-in at the door | QR check-in from any phone, a kiosk app for tablets, double-scan protection, and the QR code in every confirmation email | Check-in with a QR library bundled in the app |
| Reminders | Email, push and in-app per event, plus SMS broadcasts to opted-in members on paid plans | Text-message reminders for events you are attending, if you add a phone number |
| Members between events | Everyone who registers lands in a member directory you filter, tag, tier, charge dues to and export, reachable by email, push, in-app and SMS | Not part of the product. Attendee lists per event, and an organization profile |
| Donations | Campaigns with goals, recurring giving, a donor directory, an optional donation on top of a ticket, tax receipts with your own EIN and logo, embeddable widgets, and a kiosk app | Not part of the product |
| Programs, classes and weekend school | Sessions, early-bird pricing, payment plans with deposits and installments, automatic sibling and family discounts, parent and child registration fields, waitlists, attendance and refunds | Not part of the product |
| Prayer times | Calculated adhan for 2,000+ masajid, 300+ with real iqama schedules, on the community page, on event pages and as a widget on your own site | Not part of the product |
| Membership and dues | Membership tiers with perks and monthly dues paid by card, an approval queue, groups and committees, staff roles and an audit log | Not part of the product |
| On your own website | Copy-paste widgets for events, prayer times, donations and programs that run on your own domain, plus a website we design and build, included on Basic and Advanced | Not part of the product. An organization profile page at ummahfy.com/organization/<name> |
| Mobile app | iOS and Android, plus a web app that needs no install | Not found. The product is a web app |
| Getting found by Google | Server-rendered event pages with Event structured data, per-city and per-state pages, a real sitemap, and city guides on theummah.io | The site renders nothing server-side: every route returns the same shell with the same title and a canonical pointing at the homepage, the declared sitemap returns HTML rather than XML, and there is no Event structured data. Page titles are set after the page loads |
| Published numbers | 3,000+ communities, 30,000+ Muslims, 15,000+ events, $80K+ processed for organizers | "Trusted by 20,000+ Muslims" on their homepage. No event, organization or city count published, and their events API requires a key, so their catalogue cannot be counted from outside |
Where Ummahfy is the better choice
No product wins every row, and a comparison page that pretends otherwise is not worth reading. Here is where we would point you at them instead.
The discovery filters
Organizer type, age group, gender and recurrence, on top of distance and date. That is the filter set a Muslim looking for something to go to on Saturday actually wants, and it is better thought through than ours. We would rather say so than pretend we invented the idea.
Posting is genuinely frictionless
A personal account can create a free event immediately. No plan to pick, no organization to set up first. If all you want is to get one halaqa in front of people this week, that is a low bar to clear and they clear it.
Text reminders to attendees
An attendee adds a phone number and gets a text before the event. Simple, and it works. We do SMS as an organizer broadcast on paid plans rather than an attendee-side reminder.