Comparison

Bible Reading Progress Tracker vs WitnessWork

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

Head to head
About

Bible Reading Progress Tracker

Monitor your journey through the Bible by marking off chapters as you read. Visualize your progress with pie charts and track your advancement through individual books. Discover plans for reading the entire Bible in a year and understand its benefits.

Highlights
  • Chapter progress tracking
  • Visual pie chart progress
  • Book-specific progress
  • Yearly reading plans
  • Benefit insights
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Track your progress as you read your Bible and check off the chapters one by one. Shows your progress visually as a pie chart. Shows your progress through each book you're reading. Shows how you can read the Bible in a year and how it can benefit you.

About

WitnessWork

This app helps Jehovah's Witnesses manage their field service activities. It offers features for scheduling, tracking time, managing contacts with map integration, and generating reports. Designed for ease of use, it provides automatic reminders and customizable options for efficient ministry.

Highlights
  • Automatic contact mapping
  • Contact sharing and import
  • Service time scheduling and planning
  • Map view for nearby contacts
  • Service time tracking
  • Return visit reminders
  • Automatic study counting
Features
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WitnessWork (formerly JW Time) is the easy way for Jehovah's Witnesses to manage their field service priorities. Designed to focus on user experience, WitnessWork is simple yet feature-rich. KEY FEATURES CONTACTS - Automatic Pins place a contact's address on your map - Dedicated Contacts tab with fuzzy search, smart sorting, and stacked filters - Contact avatars — a photo or emoji, with tap-to-expand fullscreen viewing - Share & import contacts via secure links — easily transfer calls to other publishers - Switching from MyTime? Import your contacts and visit history from a MyTime backup, with a preview before anything is added - Customize pin colors, or touch, hold, and drag to adjust any pin's location - Create coordinate-only contacts for rural territory - Customize the day thresholds and colors behind contact staleness - Dismiss contacts you no longer wish to visit, with reminders when it's time to return - Recover deleted contacts, and add custom fields to any contact - Swift options to reach an address, call, message, email, & more CONVERSATIONS & RETURN VISITS - Make "conversations" that link to contacts and notify you about upcoming return visits - "Upcoming Visits" reminds you of the day's conversations, so you never forget a return visit - Approaching and missed conversations surface on your home screen - Intelligent and automatic study counting SCHEDULING & PLANS - Schedule your service time and create one-time or recurring plans - Recurring plans by day of week and week of month (e.g. "first Monday"), with per-instance overrides - Assign a Type to each plan so projected totals reflect the right credit - A Schedule screen with a calendar view of day plans and recurring conversations - Annual Schedule view to confirm you've planned enough time for the whole service year TIME TRACKING & PROGRESS - Timer (stopwatch) to track your day's service time - Time tracking for every type of publisher, or customize it to exactly what you need - Automatic goal creation based on your publisher type - Time credit with an automatic 55-hour monthly cap, plus time rollover into the next month - Progress Screen 2.0 — Month, Year, and All-time views with customizable milestones, category breakdowns, and lifetime hours - Statistics on your monthly and yearly reports, plus notes on time entries - Beautiful celebrations the moment you cross a goal - Gamified service reporting via your "Monthly Routine" MAP - Quick access to relevant info while finding nearby contacts - Address autocomplete — start typing to see suggestions - Live progress while locating contacts, which you can skip midway SYNC, BACKUP & WIDGETS - Home screen widgets — month calendar, appointments, hours, and contacts - iCloud sync (Supporter) keeps reports, contacts, and plans in step across your devices, with optional photo sync - Backup and restore in seconds, with automatic backup reminders PERSONALIZATION - A whole new look — floating tab bar, frosted cards, and a fresh, modern feel - Redesigned home profile card showing your role, time served, and fun stats - Toggle visibility of home screen sections - Light, dark, or device theme, plus an optional custom accent color (Supporter) - Choose how time displays — decimal (13.5) or hours & minutes (13 Hrs 30 Mins) - Set date format, clock style, and start of week independently from app language, with an Auto option - Adjustable font size, and available in 18 languages MORE - Easy-to-understand monthly and annual service reports - Continual FREE updates WitnessWork does not and will never track any personal information. All personally identifiable data stays local to your device and is never sent to external servers. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bible Reading Progress Tracker4 screens
WitnessWork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bible Reading Progress Tracker at none against WitnessWork's 23. Bible Reading Progress Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). WitnessWork's advantage is ratings volume (430 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. WitnessWork sells 23 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Bible Reading Progress Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bible Reading Progress Tracker against 4.9 for WitnessWork. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WitnessWork has 430 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Bible Reading Progress Tracker's written reviews are positive against 95% of WitnessWork's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bible Reading Progress Tracker versus WitnessWork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBible Reading Progress TrackerWitnessWork
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.9 (430 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better95.3% of reviews
Number of ratings3430 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark BrautigamLevi Wilkerson

Customer experience

Bible Reading Progress Tracker

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

WitnessWork

All ratings430 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.2%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%

Bugs and requests

Bible Reading Progress Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

WitnessWork

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Glitches After Latest Update
  • Time Calculation Discrepancies

Requested features

5 requests
  • Lock Screen Widget
  • Ability to Configure Week Start Day
  • Time Entry with Notes
  • Integration with Congregation Apps
  • Placement Tracking for Literature and Videos

In-app purchases

None

Bible Reading Progress Tracker

No in-app purchases

23 purchases

WitnessWork

Subscriptions14
  • Monthly Donation$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$1.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$2.991 Month
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  • Monthly Donation$3.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$5.991 Month
  • Annual Donation$9.991 Year
  • Monthly Donation$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$10.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$11.991 Month
  • Monthly Donation$12.991 Month
  • Annual Donation$14.991 Year
  • Monthly Donation$14.991 Month
  • Annual Donation$19.991 Year
One-time9
  • One Time Donation$0.99
  • One Time Donation$1.99
  • One Time Donation$2.99
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  • One Time Donation$3.99
  • One Time Donation$4.99
  • One Time Donation$5.99
  • One Time Donation$9.99
  • One Time Donation$14.99
  • One Time Donation$19.99

Questions

Is Bible Reading Progress Tracker free?
Bible Reading Progress Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WitnessWork free?
WitnessWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bible Reading Progress Tracker or WitnessWork?
Bible Reading Progress Tracker is rated higher. Bible Reading Progress Tracker averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while WitnessWork averages 4.9 from 430 ratings.
Do Bible Reading Progress Tracker or WitnessWork have ads?
Neither Bible Reading Progress Tracker nor WitnessWork shows ads.

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