Comparison

Ministry Planner vs PioTime

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

Head to head
About

Ministry Planner

This app helps Jehovah's Witnesses manage their field service activities. It offers various recording methods, route tracking, calendar scheduling, and detailed statistics. Users can also organize contacts and generate reports.

Highlights
  • Multiple recording methods (time, count, text, GPS)
  • Automatic time rounding
  • GPS route tracking and analysis
  • Calendar with scheduling and reminders
  • Monthly hour goal setting
  • Field service report generation
  • Organization of interested ones
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

PioTime

Features
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One tap and your field ministry time is logged. PioTime shows what is left to your monthly goal and puts your service report for the month together. Free, no ads, no account, even offline. Your entries live on your device; pair a second one and both sync through an end-to-end encrypted copy on the server. Quick entry. Buttons for your most common durations, one tap saves. Prefer a running clock instead? Use the built-in timer. Monthly goal at a glance. A progress bar for 50, 30, 15 hours, or a goal of your own — overridable for a single month, for example when you switch between pioneer and auxiliary pioneer. Report to share. Field-ministry hours, credit and Bible studies as a short text, ready to send. Leftover minutes can be rounded up, rounded down or carried over to the next month. Calendar & list. Every month as a calendar with markers, or as a list, with a note about possible gaps. Bible studies. Count your Bible studies up and down per month. Credits. Credited hours (Bethel, construction, conventions) count into the month; a yearly credit lowers the year's goal instead. Service-year overview. September through August at a glance, with the year's goal and monthly totals. Notes for every month. Write down what you want to remember, with a list, bold and struck-through text. The note shows up with your report but is never sent. Device syncing. Pair your phone, tablet and other devices with a QR code — end-to-end encrypted, opt-in, and easy to undo at any time. Twelve languages. German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish, with automatic device-language detection. A demo with sample data is available right on the start screen, separate from your own entries.

Screenshots

Ministry Planner4 screens
PioTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PioTime at none against Ministry Planner's 1. PioTime also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days). 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. PioTime asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ministry Planner ships an update every 11 days, PioTime every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Ministry Planner versus PioTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinistry PlannerPioTime
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJIAN KIMSascha Henning

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ministry Planner

One-time1
  • More Caffeine$1.99
None

PioTime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ministry Planner free?
Ministry Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PioTime free?
PioTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ministry Planner or PioTime have ads?
Ministry Planner shows ads; PioTime does not.
Which is updated more often, Ministry Planner or PioTime?
Ministry Planner ships an update every 11 days, and PioTime every 2 days. Most recently, Ministry Planner was updated on November 5, 2026 and PioTime on October 31, 2026.

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