Comparison

WitnessWork vs NWS Mobile

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

Head to head
About

WitnessWork

This app helps Jehovah's Witnesses manage their field service activities. It offers tools for organizing contacts, scheduling visits, tracking time, and viewing progress reports. Features include automatic mapping, customizable reminders, and secure data sharing.

Highlights
  • Contact management with map integration
  • Return visit scheduling and reminders
  • Service time tracking with automatic caps
  • Progress reports and statistics
  • Home screen widgets
  • Secure contact sharing and import
  • Customizable territory management
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/

About

NWS Mobile

This app helps Jehovah's Witnesses organize congregation activities, including meeting parts, public talks, and duties. It also features territory management and data sharing with the NW Publisher app.

Highlights
  • Congregation overview and information
  • Christian Life & Ministry meeting scheduling
  • Public Talk assignments
  • Duty scheduling
  • Territory management
  • Data sharing with NW Publisher app
Features
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NWS Mobile (New World Scheduler Mobile) is designed for Jehovah’s Witnesses to help with scheduling and organizing your congregation. Easy. Simple. Fast. NWS Mobile is a mobile companion to New World Scheduler, which allows appointed brothers to schedule and organize many aspects of the congregation, including scheduling Christian Life & Ministry meeting parts, Public Talk assignments, & Duties. It also contains Territory Management, send & receive selected data to NW Publisher and more! CONGREGATION - View Congregation Overview, Congregation Information, Congregation Events, Congregation Field Service Reports, Publisher Reports. PERSONS - View Persons Information, Away Periods, Spiritual Information, Privileges, Assignments, Publisher Reports, Emergency Contacts. SCHEDULE - Christian Life & Ministry Meeting, including Main & Auxiliary classes, and Local Needs. - Local and Away Public Talks, including visiting speakers and hospitality. - Assignments, including chairman, reading, hospitality and prayers. - Duties, including attendants, security, sound, video, microphones, platform, and even custom duties. TERRITORIES - Territory Information, Territory Addresses, Assign Territories, Territory Campaigns. NW PUBLISHER APP - Share selected data with publishers using NW Publisher app. - Receive data from publishers using NW Publisher app, including Publisher Reports, Away Periods.

Screenshots

WitnessWork4 screens
NWS Mobile4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NWS Mobile at none against WitnessWork's 10. WitnessWork's advantage is review sentiment (95% vs 60%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.4). On price, update cadence, 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. WitnessWork sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. NWS Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WitnessWork holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 449 and 94 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of WitnessWork's written reviews are positive against 60% of NWS Mobile's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WitnessWork ships an update fortnightly, NWS Mobile every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
WitnessWork versus NWS Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWitnessWorkNWS Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (449 ratings) — better4.4 (94 ratings)
Positive reviews95.5% of reviews — better60.5% of reviews
Number of ratings449 — better94
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.415.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevi WilkersonNew World Solutions Pty Ltd

Customer experience

WitnessWork

All ratings446 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral1.1%
Negative0.7%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.3%

NWS Mobile

All ratings94 ratings
Positive80.9%
Neutral6.4%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive60.5%
Neutral14.0%
Negative25.6%

Bugs and 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

NWS Mobile

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

WitnessWork

Subscriptions8
  • 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
  • Annual Donation$9.991 Year
  • Annual Donation$14.991 Year
  • Annual Donation$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • One Time Donation$3.99
  • One Time Donation$9.99
None

NWS Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WitnessWork free?
WitnessWork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NWS Mobile free?
NWS Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WitnessWork or NWS Mobile?
WitnessWork is rated higher. WitnessWork averages 4.9 out of 5 from 449 ratings, while NWS Mobile averages 4.4 from 94 ratings.
Do WitnessWork or NWS Mobile have ads?
Neither WitnessWork nor NWS Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WitnessWork or NWS Mobile?
WitnessWork ships an update fortnightly, and NWS Mobile every 2 weeks. Most recently, WitnessWork was updated on November 7, 2026 and NWS Mobile on November 5, 2026.

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