Comparison

Ministry Planner vs AskNote

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

Head to head
About

Ministry Planner

Features
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Ministry Planner— an essential JW field service tool app for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Experience the convenience of field service reporting and record keeping with Ministry! Try a variety of recording methods: time, count, checkbox, text, photos/videos, stopwatch, GPS route, and distance traveled. Record items can be added or removed at any time. You can also change their names and display order. Did you spend 55 minutes in field service? Turn on automatic rounding to count it as 1 hour! Start your field service stopwatch right from a Home Screen widget. When you start field service, tap the button on the map. The app will draw the route you walked on the map so you can review it when you finish. Route analysis is provided, including walking, vehicle travel, and stops. You can also create and save an image with the map drawing. Check your field service time, notes, media, and schedules by date at a glance in the calendar. You can add schedules, assign colors, and set reminders. Set a monthly hour goal and check your remaining time. View monthly, yearly, and overall statistics. Generate and share month-end field service report text using the items you select. Organize interested ones into folders in the Interested Ones tab. Notes, contact information, locations, photos/videos, and other records are supported. Save and check the locations of interested ones on the map. Dark mode, light mode, and system theme are supported. Try setting different app colors. Save a backup of your field service records with data export.

About

AskNote

Features
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AskNote brings your notes, meeting minutes, and ideas together in one place—and lets you ask AI about them directly. On-device AI enables you to use AI offline. ■ Organize your way - Sort notes into folder-like hierarchies using tags - A block-based editor that freely mixes text and photos - Markdown rendering with syntax-highlighted code blocks - Star favorites, or flag notes as "Ask Later" questions to revisit ■ Ask AI about your notes - Ask questions grounded in your own notes, with the full conversation saved alongside each note - Agentic AI tools that can search, create, tag, and organize notes on your behalf - Automatic related-note suggestions, summaries, and tag recommendations - A personalized daily AI news briefing ■ Privacy first, your choice always - On-device AI options that work without an internet connection: Apple Intelligence, Google LiteRT-LM (with built-in model downloads), and Ollama - Or connect your own cloud AI—OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, and more - You always decide which AI powers your notes ■ Meetings, handled - Record a meeting and let AI transcribe it and draft the minutes automatically - Action items are extracted ■ Everywhere you work - A universal app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro - Available in Korean, English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, Swedish, Danish, Hindi, and Vietnamese Unlock more AI capabilities with an AskNote Premium subscription. This app follows Apple’s Standard End User License Agreement (EULA). https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Ministry Planner4 screens
AskNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AskNote at none against Ministry Planner's 1. AskNote also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 9 days). Ministry Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. Ministry Planner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AskNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ministry Planner ships an update every 9 days, AskNote daily. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Ministry Planner versus AskNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinistry PlannerAskNote
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJIAN KIMJonggyou Kim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ministry Planner

One-time1
  • More Caffeine$1.99
None

AskNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ministry Planner free?
Ministry Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AskNote free?
AskNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ministry Planner or AskNote have ads?
Ministry Planner shows ads; AskNote does not.
Which is updated more often, Ministry Planner or AskNote?
Ministry Planner ships an update every 9 days, and AskNote daily. Most recently, Ministry Planner was updated on September 18, 2026 and AskNote on September 16, 2026.

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