Missionary Display (LDS) vs Edify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Missionary Display (LDS)
Organize and share photos, maps, and stories from LDS missionaries serving worldwide. Create interactive displays for family, ward, or stake gatherings to honor missionary service.
- Organize missionary photos and stories
- Create interactive displays
- Share experiences with family and ward
- Highlight missionary service
- Companion to My Mission app
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The "Missionary Display" is an interactive app that organizes and presents the digital pictures, maps, stories, and experiences of LDS missionaries serving around the world and highlights their missionary service. LDS families can use the Missionary Display on their individual mobile devices or to create a vibrant touch screen display to share their favorite missionary pictures, stories and experiences with the members of their family, extended family, local ward, stake or seminary. This interactive missionary display creates a high-tech, high-dazzle experience and is a great way to honor all those who are currently serving or who have served the Lord all over the world! It will become one of your family's most prized possessions. It shows faith in the Lord, love of fellowman, and a family which has answered the Lord's call to serve. NOTE: This "Missionary Display" app is a companion to the "My Mission" app and uses the My Mission website (www.MyMission.com). Missionaries (1) use a private email address to upload their pictures, stories and experiences to the My Mission website, then (2) join "groups" created for their local ward, stake or seminary.
Edify
A social platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to study scripture together. It offers tools like magic search and a dictionary, and helps users understand their study style through a Gospel Persona feature.
- Social scripture study
- Friend activity feed
- Magic scripture search
- Webster's 1828 Dictionary
- Gospel Persona analysis
- Study style identification
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Edify is a social scripture study platform for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. See what your friends are studying every day! Use a suite of powerful tools to bolster your study: from magic scripture search, to Webster's 1828 Dictionary, Edify has everything you need to drink deeply from the Word of God. Get your Gospel Persona: what is your study style? Edify uses an advanced algorithm to help you know what your favorite topics are, and how you study.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Edify at every 3 weeks against Missionary Display (LDS)'s every 8 months. Edify also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 2). Missionary Display (LDS)'s advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Missionary Display (LDS) against 5.0 for Edify. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Edify has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Missionary Display (LDS) ships an update every 8 months, Edify every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Missionary Display (LDS) | Edify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Latter-day Apps | Kayson Argyle |
Customer experience
Missionary Display (LDS)
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In-app purchases
Missionary Display (LDS)
No in-app purchases
Edify
No in-app purchases
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