Comparison

Bible Study Tool vs JW Congregation Scheduler

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

Head to head
About

Bible Study Tool

This app helps users track their daily Bible reading progress, offering quick access to continue reading and customizable reminders. It supports 16 languages and provides links to online Bible resources.

Highlights
  • Track reading progress by chapter and verse
  • Quick shortcut to continue reading
  • Overview of reading in four lists
  • Customizable reminders
  • Links to online Bible reading
  • Support for 16 languages
  • Reading history
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This app is ment to be a help to remember, and keep track off, your daily biblereading. There are fx. these features: - Where have you reached, chapter and verse - Quick shortcut to continue reading - Overview off your biblereading in 4 lists! - Reminders you can customize - Quick links to online bible reading at JW.org - 16 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lango, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian - History - check how it's going with you daily biblereading - More features coming! Descriptions: - To continue reading is only 2 taps away! Then the book, chapter and verse you have reached, is found to you - Reminders can be customized to fit different days, time and remind you of fx : Daily Biblereading, Daily Text, Family Worship Evening, Personal Biblestudy, Biblereading of the Week, Prepare for the Watchtower study, and a lot more. - To read the 'New World Translation' and many other publications is super easy. The app links to wol.jw.org - Watchtower Online Library published by Jehovah's Witnesses. Everything is something that everyone is recommended to do, and especially a help to Jehovah's Witnesses. And the motivation behind the app is the known bible verse from Joshua 1:8: 'and you must read it in an undertone day and night .. for then your way will be successful' (This app is not published by Jehovah's Witnesses, but as a private driven project)

About

JW Congregation Scheduler

Features
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Congregation Scheduler is a self-hosted scheduling and management app for Jehovah's Witnesses congregations. Unlike typical apps, it doesn't send your congregation's data to any company's server: each congregation runs its own free Firebase project, and the app connects directly to it. Nobody but your own administrators - not even the app's developer - can see your data. Independently developed. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society or any official Jehovah's Witnesses entity. WHAT IT DOES - Information board: texts, PDF/image documents, links, with visibility windows - Events and a personal "my upcoming assignments" overview - Life and Ministry Meeting schedule, with direct .epub workbook import and a qualification-aware assignment picker that favors whoever was assigned longest ago - Weekend meeting schedule: talk, speaker, chairman, Watchtower reader, and custom fields - Public witnessing schedule with recurring time slots - Territories: assignment, return with notes, map links, and statistics - Ministry reports: self-service and admin paper entry, publisher records by service year, and an automatic monthly (S-1) summary - Meeting attendance tracking, in-person and online, with monthly averages - Publisher management: identity verification, granular per-section admin roles, assignment qualifications, and emergency contact notes - English, Japanese, German, Polish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech and Turkish interface HOW SET-UP WORKS An administrator creates a free Firebase project (about 15 minutes, no programming required - full instructions are included) and installs the app's security rules, which decide exactly who can see and edit what. Every other publisher is invited by scanning a QR code; new members start out unverified until an administrator confirms their identity. WHY SELF-HOSTED Congregation records include personal details - names, contact info, ministry activity - that deserve real privacy. By keeping every congregation's data inside a Firebase project that only that congregation's own administrators control, Congregation Scheduler avoids a shared central database becoming the target of a single breach, and keeps you in charge of your own data at all times. The app is free, contains no ads, and does not collect analytics or tracking data of any kind.

Screenshots

Bible Study Tool4 screens
JW Congregation Scheduler4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: JW Congregation Scheduler at 3 against Bible Study Tool's —. Bible Study Tool's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bible Study Tool versus JW Congregation Scheduler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBible Study ToolJW Congregation Scheduler
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (743 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings743 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlenn SonderskovVitezslav Skarda

In-app purchases

None

Bible Study Tool

No in-app purchases

None

JW Congregation Scheduler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bible Study Tool free?
Bible Study Tool is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JW Congregation Scheduler free?
JW Congregation Scheduler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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