Christian Journaling Apps | Document Your Journey

Share the Struggle

Share the Struggle is a Christian nonprofit providing discipleship coaching (1-on-1 and group) across 35+ focus areas and expert-led 8-week video courses on anxiety, trauma, grief, shame, and more — trusted by churches like Church of the Highlands, FCA, and Cru. Founded by Ryan Miller, based in Opelika, AL.

LifeBible

A content-rich Bible study app with 40+ translations, 100+ Study Bibles and commentaries, 36,000+ devotionals, AI-powered verse search, and unique features like Explain (instant verse insights from study resources) and TouchPoints (500+ life-topic Scripture answers with video). Built by Tecarta in Palo Alto, loved by over 2 million users.

Restore + Revive Journal

A guided topical Bible journaling app with 76+ life topics explored verse-by-verse from Genesis through Revelation, offering daily Scripture prompts, voice-to-text entries, Bible commentary, verse memorization, PDF export, weekly group sessions, and SMS-based journaling — founded by Dr. Telisha Ortiz to help Christians journal their way to wholeness through God's Word.

Soultime Christian Meditation

A Christian meditation app offering 200+ guided sessions on anxiety, sleep, stress, and spiritual growth, plus an AI-powered mood tracker, personality assessments, sleep stories, original music, an in-app journal, and a complete AI-narrated audio Bible. Endorsed by the former Archbishop of Canterbury and recommended by the Church in Wales for clergy wellbeing.

Pneuma AI

A web-based spiritual gifts discovery platform that uses AI-powered daily reflection and journaling to build your personalized gifting profile and connect your divine design to real-world purpose. Now supports teams for small groups and church communities.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web tool for printing customized Scripture booklets in 800+ languages — perfect for small groups, missions, personal study, or church handouts. Made by Gracious Tech, a Christian non-profit.

Dear God - Prayer Diary

A prayer journal app where you write personal letters to God, each one blooming as a flower in your digital prayer garden. Includes daily devotional prompts, calm background music, community sharing, and a calendar to track your prayer habit.

My Prayer Room

A free, beautifully simple prayer journal app that helps you create, track, and manage prayer requests — available in 22 languages with no ads or subscriptions.

Overflow Quiet Time Companion

A free iOS and web quiet time companion that guides believers through prayer, worship, reflection, and Bible study using SOAP and SWORD methods — designed to work alongside your favorite Christian apps rather than replace them.

Christian Productivity Planner

An all-in-one Notion template for Christians that unifies task management, goal tracking, prayer, Bible reading plans, and journaling in a single workspace — created by Reagan Rose of Redeeming Productivity, a Moody Publishers author and Master's Seminary graduate.

Biblegram

Biblegram is a daily cryptogram puzzle game that reveals Bible verses as you decode them, pairing gentle brain training with optional devotionals and journaling prompts — built by the team behind Word of the Day (7M+ downloads).

Doxa

Voice-first encouragement app that weaves together Bible passages, 1,800+ verified testimonies from 2,000 years of church history, and your own personal record of God's faithfulness — powered by AI to meet you where you are.

Every Day with Jesus

A free daily devotional app continuing 60 years of Every Day with Jesus Bible teaching by Selwyn Hughes, offering classic and contemporary devotional tracks with audio, journaling, and sharing features — now with 10K+ downloads and updated with devotional ratings and a feedback section.

Harvous

A beautifully designed, open-source Bible notes app that puts your study notes first — organize thoughts in threads, auto-link scripture references across 7 translations, cross-reference passages, and share spaces with your small group. Built by a design engineer whose 10-year faith journey inspired Proverbs 25:2-driven toolmaking. Free to start, web-based with native apps in active development.

Dabar

Dabar is a web-based AI spiritual companion that responds to real-life questions — grief, doubt, anxiety, purpose — with structured four-part reflections drawn exclusively from the KJV Bible. Named after the Hebrew word for God's living, spoken word, it was created by Michael Clarke for Christians carrying the questions that don't fit anywhere else.

Anchor Christian: Daily Mood

Anchor Christian is a daily check-in app that uses AI to deliver personalized Scripture, biblical wisdom, and action steps based on how you're feeling — helping you build a more consistent walk with Jesus.

Sword of the Spirit

A gamified Bible app that turns Scripture reading into an RPG adventure — level up virtues, equip armor, battle spiritual enemies, and dig deeper into God's Word through campaigns, quests, and community raid bosses.

Chad Coach - Overcome Lust

An AI-powered lust and pornography recovery coach available 24/7 on WhatsApp, built by a former Tesla ML engineer. Combines CBT techniques with Catholic teaching from St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body to help men break free — shame-free and free to use.

Bible Notes

A Bible note-taking app with an auto-verse feature that instantly inserts full scripture passages as you type references. Includes sermon recording with timestamps, personal devotion tools (B.R.E.A.D. method), multi-language Bible reader, and a companion Pastor Notes App for church leaders. Updated April 2026.

Champion Prayer

A faith-based social prayer app by Pastor David Harrelson that lets users record and share audible prayers within open or closed groups, track answered prayers, and build digital prayer chains with Bible verse matching. Free with optional subscription. Available on iOS and Android.

Inner Room

A free, privacy-focused prayer app from 24-7 Prayer — completely rebuilt in 2026 with prayer cards, guided prayers rooted in Scripture, daily prayers from the global community, and a distraction-free design. Connected to the Praying in Color podcast with Tyler Staton.

Scribe Scripture

A free, open-source web app that helps you engage with Scripture by typing one chapter of Proverbs each day, cycling through all 31 chapters monthly — turning reading into active, tactile meditation on God's Word.

ThyWord: Prayer & Scripture

ThyWord is a voice-first Christian prayer companion that listens to your spoken prayers and responds with a matching Bible passage in real time. Built for the "six days between Sundays," it helps Christians develop a consistent daily prayer habit through simple, active, spoken prayer paired with Scripture.

Obsidian Bible Reference Plugin

A free, open-source Obsidian plugin (MIT license) that lets you instantly look up and insert Bible verses into your notes — supporting multiple translations (WEB, KJV, NVI, CUV, DRB, Korean) across every platform Obsidian runs on. 52k+ downloads, 58 contributors, actively maintained through 2026.

Arete7

A free spiritual coaching app rooted in Catholic Christian tradition that helps you build daily practices like prayer, examination of conscience, and journaling — with reminders, Bible integration, progress tracking, and an actively maintained companion theology blog called Cyber-Monk.

Dreamnl - Christian Dream Journal

Dreamnl is a free Christian dream journal that helps you record, reflect on, and pray through your dreams using AI-generated overviews, personalized reflection questions, and crafted prayers — all rooted in Scripture rather than new-age symbolism. Now includes handwritten journal digitization and milestone tracking.

Encountering Peace

A free, listener-supported Christian meditation ministry with 1,400+ hours of Scripture-rooted guided audio, daily new meditations, 170+ YouVersion Bible plans, a private journal, community features, and 200+ YouTube videos — available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, and web.

Bible Tiles

Bible Tiles is a free, 501(c)(3) nonprofit Bible app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision that lets you draw, write, and journal directly on Scripture with Apple Pencil support, 40+ translations (including NIV, ESV, ERV), and full offline access — no ads, no accounts, no tracking.

Spirit Notes

Purpose-built Christian note-taking app with Scripture auto-complete, sermon recording with timestamps, Bible verse highlighting, customizable Bible reader, and seamless organization — all in one place. Built solo by Leio McLaren, no account required. Sharing via single link. iOS only (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision).

still: pray together & gospel

A prayer-focused iOS app named after Psalm 46:10 that helps Christians track every prayer's journey, grow alongside their community through shared Prayer Groups, pray with Scripture-led guidance, and see the bigger picture of their walk with God through trends and personalized devotionals.

Prayse

Prayse is a free, open-source prayer journal app that helps you organize prayers into folders, set reminders, journal your thoughts, add voice prayers, and connect with other believers through prayer groups — available on iOS and Android.

Pencil Bible

A beautifully minimal Bible journaling app built for iPad and Apple Pencil. Write, draw, highlight, and doodle directly alongside Scripture with full PencilKit support. V3 rebuilt in Swift with dark mode, iCloud sync, and iPhone support. Now at v3.0.7 with Apple Stylus Mode. Lifetime pricing reduced. Major update teased by founder. Indie-built by Erin Walker in South Africa.

Eirene - Christian Mental Wellbeing AI

Eirene is a faith-based AI mental well-being assistant that combines scriptural wisdom with counseling-informed conversations, interactive journaling, voice-guided devotionals, and ambient reflection tools to support Christians in their spiritual emotional growth — available 24/7 on iOS.

VerseLink Bible

VerseLink Bible is a free, fully offline, privacy-first Bible study app with bidirectional verse-note linking, Greek and Hebrew interlinear tools, sermon notes, and the Berean Standard Bible—no account, no tracking, no ads. Available on iOS, Android, and Windows.

Gospel Partner - Joseph Prince

An all-in-one Christian devotional app from Joseph Prince Ministries — now branded "Day & Night" — featuring morning and evening guided experiences, the free Joseph Prince Study Bible (6 translations, notes expanding through 2026-2027), 1,200+ sermons, worship music, guided journaling, and the Daily Play 7-minute daily sermon clip. Free daily devotionals; premium subscription unlocks the full sermon library.