TheocBase vs Service Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheocBase
This mobile application acts as a companion to its desktop counterpart, facilitating the management of schedules and assignments for Jehovah's Witnesses congregations. It synchronizes data via Dropbox, allowing for edits on both desktop and mobile versions.
- Schedule and assignment management
- Dropbox synchronization
- Data editing on mobile
- Companion to desktop software
- LMM schedule maintenance
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This software is intended to use as a companion with the desktop version of the software (Theocbase), which can be downloaded from www.theocbase.net. TheocBase Mobile is useful for those maintaining LMM schedules in Jehovahs Witnesses congreagtions. To use Theocbase Mobile you need to install and configure TheocBase on your desktop computer. You can then connect the app to your Dropbox account and synchronize data between desktop and mobile application. You can establish the Dropbox link from the desktop software. Synchronizing works both ways so you can edit schedule and assignment details in the mobile version and pass information to desktop version via Dropbox account. Current version is with basic functions. More useful functions will be released in the future versions. Any suggestions are welcome and should be transmitted using theocbase forum at https://www.theocbase.net.
Service Maps
Organize congregation territories, houses, and visits with this app. Add new visits, update existing ones, and manually input territory details. All data syncs across devices via an external server.
- Territory organization
- House and visit tracking
- Add/update visits
- Manual territory input
- Cross-device synchronization
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App to organize territories of congregation. You can see Territories, Houses, and Visits. Features to add new visits and update old ones. Also has the function to manually add territories, houses and visits as text without needing to log in. Everything is always synchronized with an external server, so it's available on all devices logged in. We hope that you will enjoy it. * If you do not have a congregation ID and password, no worries. You can still use the app as a notes app to enter your territories, visits and houses, separated from your other notes apps or you can contact me. We hope that you will enjoy having one place to store the information gathered on your visits. **The app is totally free and will never be monetized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Service Maps at weekly against TheocBase's every 2 months. Service Maps also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). TheocBase's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Service Maps holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TheocBase has 28 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of TheocBase's written reviews are positive against 100% of Service Maps's.
TheocBase ships an update every 2 months, Service Maps weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheocBase | Service Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Niko Hallikainen | Jose Blanco |
Customer experience
TheocBase
Service Maps
In-app purchases
TheocBase
No in-app purchases
Service Maps
No in-app purchases
