LDS Missionary Tracker for Families

An LDS missionary tracker is a way for families to keep a missionary's mission details in one organised place instead of scattered across calendars, group chats and memory. Missionary Tracker holds a profile for each missionary with the date they entered the field, their expected release date, how far through the mission they are, the area they are serving in, the local time and weather there, and any updates the family has shared.

Download Missionary Tracker, then either create a missionary profile yourself or ask whoever created it for the join code. When you create a profile you add the missionary's name, their mission, the date they entered the field and their expected release date, and the app works out the countdown and progress from there. If someone else already made the profile, entering their join code adds that missionary to your app so you see the same information they do.

Missionary Tracker is free to download on iPhone and Android, and free to use as a follower — if someone has given you a join code, you can follow that missionary, see the countdown, serving area, local time, weather and updates, and follow as many missionaries as you are given codes for, without paying anything. Creating missionary profiles is the part that needs a Pro account. The person who sets a missionary up — usually a parent — upgrades to Pro once, and everyone they share the join code with follows along free.

No. Following is free. If a family member has sent you a join code, you download the app, enter the code and start following — there is nothing to upgrade and nothing to buy. Pro is only needed by the person creating and managing the missionary profile itself, so a grandparent, sibling or friend who just wants to follow along never needs it.

Pro is what lets you create and manage missionary profiles rather than only follow them. If you are the person setting up a missionary — adding their name, mission, entry date and expected release date, posting updates and sharing the join code with family — that is the Pro side of the app. Everyone you then share the code with follows that missionary on a free account.

Yes. A missionary profile is created once and then shared. Anyone who has the join code can follow that missionary, and the profile shows how many people are currently following. Parents, siblings, grandparents and friends all see the same countdown, serving area and updates without anyone having to keep their own separate record.

It can. There is no fixed limit built around family size — the person who created the profile decides who receives the join code, so it can go to one grandparent, to the immediate family, or to an entire ward or group of friends. Following is free for all of them.

No. Profiles are not browsable or searchable inside the app. The way to follow a missionary is to be given that missionary's join code by the person who created the profile, which means the family controls who can see it. The profile owner also chooses how much detail to add in the first place.

Yes. Missionary Tracker is built for families who have more than one missionary out at a time. Every missionary you follow appears in your list, and the map view shows all of them together so you can see where each one is serving.

Yes. Each profile shows days served out of the total mission length, days remaining, and the percentage of the mission completed, alongside the date they entered the field and their expected release date. The numbers move on their own each day, so nobody has to recalculate them.

Yes. Missionary Tracker is available for both iPhone and Android, and a profile shared by join code works the same way on either platform.