A free digital counter for the seven legs of Sa'i between Safa and Marwah, with a live location indicator that automatically tells you which hill to walk toward next, and a clear alert when you finish at Marwah.
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Sa'i, walking seven times between the hills of Safa and Marwah, is an obligatory rite of both Umrah and Hajj that commemorates Hajar, the wife of Prophet Ibrahim, running between the two hills in search of water for her infant son Ismail — a search Allah answered with the spring of Zamzam, as recounted in the hadith of Sahih al-Bukhari. Because the ritual is walked in a straight, single gallery today, the challenge is not navigation but counting: with seven legs alternating direction between two named points, it is easy to lose track of whether you are on your fourth leg heading to Safa or your fifth heading to Marwah, especially over the roughly 3.5 kilometers the full seven legs cover. This counter removes that ambiguity entirely — it tracks both the leg number and which hill you are walking toward at every point, so your only task is to walk, supplicate, and tap once on arrival at each hill.
Sa'i is unusual among the rites of Hajj and Umrah in that it is not simply a matter of repeating an action seven times in place, the way Tawaf circles the Kaaba seven times from the same starting point. Instead, Sa'i alternates direction with every leg: Safa to Marwah, then Marwah back to Safa, continuing back and forth until seven legs are complete. Because seven is an odd number, the ritual that begins at Safa naturally concludes at Marwah rather than returning to its starting point — a detail that occasionally confuses first-time pilgrims expecting symmetry.
This back-and-forth structure means a simple numeric tally is not quite enough on its own; knowing you are on "leg 5" is only useful if you also remember which hill leg 5 ends at. Pilgrims walking Sa'i in a busy gallery, often while managing children, elderly relatives, or a wheelchair-bound family member, can find this directional tracking surprisingly easy to lose amid the general effort of the walk itself.
This counter is built specifically around that need. Rather than showing only a number, it displays a live badge naming your current or upcoming destination — Safa or Marwah — that flips automatically the instant you tap for a completed leg, alongside the running count and a row of seven progress dots. There is no separate step to manually indicate direction; the tool infers it purely from how many legs you have already tapped, since the direction of any given leg number is fixed by the structure of Sa'i itself.
The section marked by green lights partway along the gallery deserves its own mention. This stretch marks the location of the original valley floor between the two hills, and men are traditionally encouraged to walk it at a brisk pace or light jog, known as Hijab, echoing Hajar's own urgency in her search. Women are exempted from this and walk the entire route at a normal pace regardless of how crowded the gallery becomes, a well-established point of ease in the ritual's fiqh.
As with any counting aid used during worship, this tool exists purely to remove a mental burden, not to replace the pilgrim's own attentiveness. It cannot confirm you began exactly at the Safa marker or walked the complete distance to Marwah on each leg — those remain matters of your own care, exactly as they would be using a finger tally or prayer beads. What it reliably prevents is the far more common problem: forgetting, mid-Sa'i, whether you are on your fourth leg or your fifth, and which hill you are meant to be walking toward right now.
A complete Sa'i consists of seven legs (Shawt) walked between the hills of Safa and Marwah: Safa to Marwah counts as the first leg, Marwah back to Safa as the second, and so on, alternating until the seventh and final leg ends at Marwah.
Sa'i always starts at Safa. Because there are seven legs, an odd number, the final leg naturally ends at Marwah, which is why Sa'i finishes there rather than back at Safa.
Because Sa'i alternates direction every leg, it is easy to lose track of whether you are heading to Safa or Marwah, especially in a crowd. The counter tracks this automatically so you always know your next destination.
The short stretch marked by green lights is where men are encouraged to walk at a brisk pace or light jog (Hijab), commemorating Hajar's own hurried search for water; women walk normally through this section regardless of crowd conditions.
Yes. Once loaded, the counter runs entirely on your device using local JavaScript and needs no internet connection, which is useful given the limited connectivity often found inside the Safa-Marwah gallery.