Shepherd vs TheoTimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shepherd
This app assists field service group overseers for Jehovah's Witnesses by managing tasks, tracking attendance, and facilitating group projects. It helps overseers stay responsive to their group's needs with reminders and note-taking features.
- To-do list management
- Event reminders
- Attendance statistics tracking
- Note-taking for conversations
- Group project initiation
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Shepherd is an app for Jehovah's Witnesses. It is designed to help field service group overseers remain alert and responsive to the needs of their group. With this app you can: - Keep track of to-dos - Get reminded of important events - Track meeting and ministry attendance statistics - Keep notes on important conversations - Start a project to accomplish a task across your entire group - and more!
TheoTimer
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TheoTimer is a simple timing app designed for the Life & Ministry School and congregation meeting parts. Track timing for Bible Reading, Starting a Conversation, Follow Up, Talks, Gems comments, Public Talks, Watchtower comments, and miscellaneous parts. Each timer can be started, stopped, reset, renamed, adjusted, and saved to a dated ledger. TheoTimer also lets you add or remove timers when the meeting schedule changes, making it flexible for extra parts or special needs. Features include: Separate timer pages for L&M, Gems, Public Talk, Watchtower, Misc, and Ledger Editable timer names and goal times Optional goal alert sound for individual timers Save completed sessions to a dated ledger Share individual, selected, or all sessions as a PDF Export, import, backup, and restore ledger data Clean navy blue, yellow, and white design App icon splash screen for a polished launch experience TheoTimer keeps timing organized so you can focus on the meeting parts instead of managing a stopwatch and notes separately.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TheoTimer at every 4 days against Shepherd's every 2 months. Shepherd's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shepherd ships an update every 2 months, TheoTimer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on July 9, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shepherd | TheoTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Coots | Frankie Wellman |
In-app purchases
Shepherd
No in-app purchases
TheoTimer
No in-app purchases









