Comparison

My Ministry Tracker vs Return

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

Head to head
About

My Ministry Tracker

This app helps users manage their return visits and Bible studies with a simple, private interface. All data is stored locally on your device, ensuring your information remains secure and accessible only to you. Easily add visits and schedule studies to stay organized.

Highlights
  • Track return visits
  • Manage Bible studies
  • Local data storage
  • Intuitive interface
  • Privacy focused
Features
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My Ministry Tracker is designed to help Publishers keep track of their return visits and Bible studies. All data is stored locally on the user’s device, ensuring complete privacy. The simple and intuitive interface makes it easy to add visits, schedule studies, and keep organized without sharing personal information with anyone.

About

Return

Features
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Return is a quiet, private way for Jehovah's Witnesses to remember a ministry conversation and return prepared. Capture a conversation in seconds — typed or spoken, in your own words. Return saves those words on your device first. On supported iPhone, on-device intelligence can then notice useful details such as a person, Scripture, topic, follow-up, or return visit time. Return shows you what it kept on the receipt, and you can change or remove any of it. A saved conversation is complete even with no details at all. When it is time to return, Return brings the right confirmed memory back into view before you knock, call, write, or meet: what you discussed, what you promised, and what comes next. Plan a return visit by phone or message with no address: keep a number, email or account with the app they use, and copy what Return can't open. WHAT RETURN DOES • Capture while it is fresh. Write or speak naturally; no person, place, form, or connection is required before Save. • See what Return noticed. Details appear on the receipt as soon as you save, marked Suggested until you change them. • Return prepared. Before you knock puts the door, the name, what you promised and what they asked first, each with how long ago it was. • Find the door again. Save an address or Apple Maps place, a precise pin, doorway photo, or landmark path. Essential distance and bearing still work without map tiles or a connection. • Keep relationship memory. Conversation history stays reachable even when a conversation is not attached to a person. • Designed for iPad. Browse your notes in a multi-column Living Fieldbook. • Use it from Apple Watch. Capture, your next return visit, and the ministry timer stay close on your wrist. • Ask Siri. Say "Search Return" or use the Lock Screen widget, and Search opens with your words already in it. Nothing from your notes is indexed by the system or read aloud. • Your month, day by day. A calendar shows conversations, hours and return visits by day. Set an hour goal, with days away left out. Review hours, credit hours and Bible studies before sharing a monthly report or a service-year card. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Core records live on your device. Return has no account, developer notes server, analytics, ads, or third-party trackers. • Return uses Apple's Speech Recognition and requests on-device recognition to turn speech into text. iOS may disclose that speech data can be sent to Apple for speech recognition. Return has no server that receives your recording, and the recording is deleted after you review the note. • Return never creates a hidden profile about a person. Structured details come only from your words, are always shown to you, and stay editable. • You can record whether a person knows you keep a note, and review, export, or erase records when you choose. THE ESSENTIAL WORK STAYS FREE Capture, conversations, return visits, Bible studies, reporting, hours, timers, Apple Watch, widgets, essential maps and offline wayfinding, privacy controls, export and erase, and accessibility remain complete on device without a subscription. Return Supporter is an optional monthly or annual subscription. Today it adds seven more themes, each with its own app icon, a richer map at the door, richer widget and Watch layouts, and Your rhythm: Return learns the days you usually go out and plans your hour goal around them. The Supporter page in the app shows what is included today and what is still coming. Fieldbook Light, Fieldbook Dark, Match System, and assisted reference lookup stay free. Supporter never locks your own records or the only path to a core action. Return is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by any religious organization. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://returnnotes.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://returnnotes.app/privacy

Screenshots

My Ministry Tracker4 screens
Return4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: My Ministry Tracker at none against Return's 2. My Ministry Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). Return's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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. Return sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. My Ministry Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Ministry Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Return daily. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
My Ministry Tracker versus Return: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Ministry TrackerReturn
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEusebio MurilloMARK DAVID CABUCO GAN

In-app purchases

None

My Ministry Tracker

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Return

Subscriptions2
  • Return Supporter$1.991 Month
  • Return Supporter7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is My Ministry Tracker free?
My Ministry Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Return free?
Return is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Ministry Tracker or Return have ads?
Neither My Ministry Tracker nor Return shows ads.
Which is updated more often, My Ministry Tracker or Return?
My Ministry Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Return daily. Most recently, My Ministry Tracker was updated on October 30, 2026 and Return on October 29, 2026.

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