Comparison

Called to Serve vs Edify

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Called to Serve

Connect with LDS missionaries and their families. Share mission experiences, track service progress with countdowns and location maps, and send messages, photos, and audio recordings directly to missionaries.

Highlights
  • Track unlimited missionaries
  • Countdown to departure/return
  • Map missionary locations
  • Send messages, photos, audio
  • View local time and weather
  • Access mission information
Features
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Called to Serve™ is the perfect app for LDS missionaries and their families! This powerful new app gives the families and friends of LDS missionaries an impressive set of tools to: (1) Share their missionary experience with others, (2) Follow their missionary service, (3) Send messages to any missionary on the go. I. Share Your Mission Experience Called to Serve is easy to setup and fun to use. Just create an account then add your missionary's name, picture, departure date, return date, and select their mission. These simple steps create a missionary profile that you can then share with others. You control everything including who can see what. Keep everything private or share it with your family and friends. II. Follow Your Missionary Service Called to Serve is the ultimate LDS missionary tracker! This powerful app gives the friends and families of LDS missionaries – quick and easy access their missionary's profile, picture, departure date, return date, location details and mission information. Track as many missionaries as you like. See how long they've been gone and how much time they have left including their departure date, return date, days served, days remaining and percent complete. Everything including the current time, temperature, weather and weather forecast information. III. Send Messages to Missionaries on the Go Called to Serve is also the fastest and easiest way to send messages to any missionary! Whether you’re at home, at work, or on the go – users can send emails, photographs, even audio recordings directly from the app to any missionary. Use voice-to-text to dictate an email then tap send. Take a picture then then tap send. Record a message then tap send. Your messages are sent immediately and a copy is also sent back to you. Called to Serve is designed to honor LDS missionaries and missionary service. It was specifically designed and crafted to resemble the "FamilySearch Tree" mobile app's user interface; thus creating a powerful family heirloom that is visually attractive, easy to use, and already familiar to a large number of people. Called to Serve’s features include: - Track an unlimited number of missionaries - Count up/down until missionary leaves/returns home - Map each location your missionary serves - Send emails, pictures or audio recordings directly to missionaries from the app - View local time, day/night and the missionary's schedule - View local weather conditions and forecast information - View mission information, including the Mission President, mission pictures and more Called to Serve will provide you and your family a rich missionary experience. It's the perfect app for missionary moms, families, friends, youth leaders and bishops to organize and track LDS missionaries serving around in the world. Get it NOW!

About

Edify

A social platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to study scripture together. It offers tools like magic search and a dictionary, and helps users understand their study style through a Gospel Persona feature.

Highlights
  • Social scripture study
  • Friend activity feed
  • Magic scripture search
  • Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  • Gospel Persona analysis
  • Study style identification
Features
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Edify is a social scripture study platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. See what your friends are studying every day! Use a suite of powerful tools to bolster your study: from magic scripture search, to Webster's 1828 Dictionary, Edify has everything you need to drink deeply from the Word of God. Get your Gospel Persona: what is your study style? Edify uses an advanced algorithm to help you know what your favorite topics are, and how you study.

Screenshots

Called to Serve4 screens
Edify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Edify at 100% against Called to Serve's 47%. Edify also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Called to Serve's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Called to Serve sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.00 per month. Edify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Edify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Called to Serve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Edify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Called to Serve ships an update every 2 months, Edify every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Called to Serve versus Edify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalled to ServeEdify
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (25 ratings)5.0 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB74 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperLatter-day AppsKayson Argyle

Customer experience

Called to Serve

All ratings25 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative36.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive47.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative47.1%

Edify

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Called to Serve

Subscriptions4
  • Premium1 Month trial$12.001 Month
  • Smart1 Month trial$20.001 Month
  • Premium$119.991 Year
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  • Smart$200.001 Year
None

Edify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Called to Serve free?
Called to Serve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Edify free?
Edify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Called to Serve or Edify?
Edify is rated higher. Called to Serve averages 3.4 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Edify averages 5.0 from 13 ratings.
Do Called to Serve or Edify have ads?
Neither Called to Serve nor Edify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Called to Serve or Edify?
Called to Serve ships an update every 2 months, and Edify every 3 weeks. Most recently, Called to Serve was updated on October 7, 2026 and Edify on October 1, 2026.

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