Countdown Maps vs General Conference Talk Picker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Countdown Maps
Easily track missionaries, including family and friends, with detailed information like photos, service dates, and contact addresses. Visualize their progress on a map and share updates effortlessly. Sync your data across devices for safekeeping.
- Track multiple missionaries
- View missionary photos and details
- Visualize service progress on a map
- Manage transfer information
- Share missionary contact details
- Sync data across devices
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The Countdown Maps Mobile App is a fun and convenient way to keep track of your missionaries. Whether they are your children, parents, family, or friends, you can track as many Elders, Sisters, or Couples as you wish and incorporate as many details as you like. This is perfect for parents, families, bishops, and anyone who has friends or family serving missions. Here are some of the features: Missionaries Page – Shows all of the missionaries you are tracking and where they are serving. Photos can be inserted as a visual reminder. This list can be sorted alphabetically or by the date that they return home. Missionary Stats – If you tap on a missionary from the list, you can see all of the information about that missionary including their picture, the flag of the state or country where they are serving, days served, days remaining, percent complete, email address, mailing address, current companion(s), and a favorite scripture or quote. The email address is also a direct link to your email, so that you can start an email to them from this view. You can also put in a future departure date and it will countdown the days until they leave. Missionary Edit Page – Edit the missionary’s information to make updates to picture, area, departure and return dates, email address, and quotes. Transfers – If you click on the View Transfers button, you see a list of all the transfers that have been entered. From here you can add new transfers or companions or edit existing ones. On the Edit Transfer page, you can enter their current area, companion, date of the transfer, choose a color for the map, enter their mailing address, and add notes about that things that are going on in that area. Information from the most recent transfer is moved onto the Stats page. View Map – If you click on the View Map button, you will see an outline map of the country or state where that missionary is serving. This map is automatically filled in as the days go by to show their progress in the map. Colors coordinate with the Transfers list – you can changes colors based on areas, companion, by transfer, or whatever you would like. Have fun, be creative. Share – This button allows you to send the missionary’s email address, mailing address, and other information in a variety of formats (text, PDF, Link) using several sharing methods (message, email, Facebook, etc.). User can choose which information to send and in what format. This is a quick and easy way to send contact information to family or friends who want to write to them and keeps people updated in social media. Copy & Paste functionality is also enabled through the Share button. The PDF format also serves as a permanent record of the missionaries activities when their mission is completed. Sync – The sync feature provides the ability to save a copy of your data to a secure cloud account. From here, you can sync your data across multiple devices and protect against data loss when upgrading devices or in the event of a device failure. To use this feature, just create a Sync Account. This is the perfect app for keeping up on your missionaries on a daily basis and it brings all of the relevant information together in a fun and creative way.
General Conference Talk Picker
Explore and study General Conference talks from 1971 to the present. Randomly select talks, browse the entire archive, and track your study progress. Connect with friends to share your study journey and compare streaks.
- Draw a random talk
- Browse full talk archive
- Track study progress
- Save talks for later
- Study with friends
- Leaderboards for streaks
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Discover, study, and track General Conference talks — from 1971 to today. General Conference Talk Picker helps you build a habit of daily gospel study. Draw a random talk when you don't know where to start, or browse the full 4,050-talk archive by year, conference, session, or speaker. - Draw a Random Talk — get a talk you haven't studied yet, instantly - Browse the full archive — every General Conference talk since April 1971 - Track your progress — mark talks as studied and watch your day streak grow - Save for later — bookmark talks to return to - No account required to browse — sign in only if you want to save progress across devices Every talk links directly to its full text on churchofjesuschrist.org. Study together with friends. Pick a username, add friends by search or invite link, and see how you compare on a friends leaderboard: talks studied this week, this month, and all time, plus current and longest streaks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: General Conference Talk Picker at Free against Countdown Maps's $2.99. General Conference Talk Picker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 69%). Countdown Maps's advantage is chart position (#13 vs unranked) and ratings volume (22 vs 3). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
General Conference Talk Picker is free to download; Countdown Maps costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
General Conference Talk Picker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Countdown Maps has 22 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Countdown Maps's written reviews are positive against 100% of General Conference Talk Picker's.
Countdown Maps ships an update every 4 months, General Conference Talk Picker monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Countdown Maps | General Conference Talk Picker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Allen | Kingston Matua |
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Countdown Maps
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In-app purchases
Countdown Maps
No in-app purchases
General Conference Talk Picker
No in-app purchases
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