Apps for Pastors | Sermon Prep & Pastoral Care

BibleProject Classroom

Free, self-paced Bible courses taught by Dr. Tim Mackie and guest scholars — 15 classes covering Genesis through Matthew's Sermon on the Mount, with a planned seven-class series through the full Gospel of Matthew. Seminary-depth video lectures, teacher's notes, quizzes, and reflection questions. Built by the BibleProject nonprofit, led by CEO Steve Atkinson. Also available in prisons through the Pando tablet program.

Sermon Shots

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into clips, quote images, carousels, devotionals, discussion guides, and social content in minutes. June 2026 editor overhaul upgraded AI Camera Crew tracking, rebuilt layer editing, and added custom template building. Founded by Corey Alderin (2x $1M+ ARR SaaS founder), named to the Inc. 5000, trusted by 8,000+ churches. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

myChelper

A free, all-in-one church engagement platform offering a branded mobile app, drag-and-drop website builder, mobile giving, and small-group communication — built by a YouVersion engineer with the lowest fees in the category and active weekly development.

Two Ten Creatives

A done-for-you church website design and management service built on Webflow by founder Evan Smith in Richmond, VA. An official Tithely partner offering discounted all-in-one church management tools, plus premium Framer templates and local SEO services for churches looking to grow their online presence.

Tassel

A free discipleship app that matches seekers with trained disciple makers through a personal interview process, supporting ongoing spiritual growth through daily conversations, activities, group gatherings, and leadership assessments.

BibleBoard

A free visual Bible study web app that lets you lay out verses, notes, interlinear Greek/Hebrew words, and worship plans on a shared canvas — built for visual learners, seminary students, and small group leaders who want to see how everything connects. Open-source backend, actively maintained by its creator.

BiblicalTraining

Free seminary-quality Bible education from 84 world-class professors across 200+ classes and 2,700+ hours of instruction. Four learning levels from basics to graduate-level, eight structured Certificate programs (several with ACSI CEU credits), a Leadership program for church elder development, and a 17,000+ article library. Founded by Dr. Bill Mounce (NIV translation committee). ECFA accredited. Partnered with Okanagan Bible College for accredited degrees.

Gloo Communications

Church text messaging platform with automated workflows, prayer inbox, broadcast messaging, and an Explorer program for community outreach — built by Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO), a publicly traded faith-tech company serving over 450,000 churches. Completed 20+ acquisitions including Westfall Group, EMD, and Carey Nieuwhof Communications; raised FY2026 revenue guidance to $190M.

Sermon Live

Sermon Live provides AI-powered real-time text and audio sermon translations in 30+ languages with 99% accuracy, letting multilingual congregations follow along live with just a shareable link — no app or special hardware needed. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite trusted by 8,000+ churches, with integration partners including Switcher Studio and Resi.io.

MinistryHelper.ai

AI-powered platform that turns a single sermon into 30+ pieces of discipleship and outreach content — video clips, social posts, devotionals, study guides, and kids lessons — all in the pastor's own voice.

CP Sermons

A modern, feature-rich WordPress sermon management plugin with persistent player, SermonAudio integration (including WP-CLI), transcript support, podcast feed generation, and built-in analytics — now at v1.6.2 with visibility recovery and improved imports. Built by Tanner Moushey of Church Plugins.

Spf.io

AI-powered translation and accessibility platform by TheoTech that delivers real-time captions, audio interpretation, and translations in 100+ languages for church services, civic meetings, conferences, and conversations — all web-based, no download needed. New: real-time ProPresenter integration with OCR slide translation, civic government adoption (City of Elgin, IL), and a free pastor's guide to multilingual ministry.

SermonAudio

The largest free library of nearly 3 million audio and video sermons from conservative Christian churches worldwide, with live webcasting, full AI transcription of the entire archive, Global Sermons translation into 46 languages, and physical preservation infrastructure across four Vault sites in three countries. New in 2026: Ask! natural-language Q&A grounded in broadcaster content, Instagram Reels support for Smart Clips, 700+ Spurgeon sermons in 7 languages, and 1.8PB storage expansion for The Vault UK. Founded 2000, fully independent of cloud services.

Seedling - Prayer Platform

An intelligent prayer platform that helps churches track, follow up on, and gain AI-powered insights from prayer requests — now with prayer card scanning, auto-assign, sermon-based campaigns, and ChMS integrations so no one slips through the cracks.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is the first AI design tool built for church ministry — describe the graphic you need in plain language and get professional sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more in seconds. Used by nearly 11,000 churches worldwide.

Tapos

AI-powered discipleship platform that transforms your church's sermons and teachings into searchable, interactive resources — study guides, devotionals, and Q&A — all drawn exclusively from your trusted theological sources. Published Statement of Faith guards against false teaching. Free for churches forever with an Enterprise upgrade for advanced features.

Church.tech

An AI-powered platform that turns sermons into social clips, devotionals, discussion guides, and transcripts — now part of Gloo as Content Studio. Founded by a former church planter to help pastors spend less time creating content and more time leading people. Features faith-safe AI guardrails, team collaboration, and engagement analytics.

Planning Center

A complete, modular church management system trusted by 100,000+ churches with 4 million active users. Includes worship planning, volunteer scheduling, giving ($30B+ processed), check-ins, groups, events, and free congregant and staff mobile apps. Independently owned, bootstrapped, committed to never being acquired. First major ChMS to achieve SOC 2 compliance. Features Project Phoenix design refresh, ChatGPT app store integration, and CarPlay/Android Auto support.

Thrive and Cultivate

A membership-based training platform equipping pastors and church leaders with mental health skills, strategies, and 130+ expert-led video sessions across nine tracks covering burnout, anxiety, grief, trauma, suicide prevention, and building a mentally healthy church culture.

Streamlingo

AI-powered real-time audio translation with live transcription in 140+ input and 80+ output languages for church services and events — no app needed, just scan a QR code and listen through your headphones. Founded by a pastor's son in Karlsruhe, Germany, with partnerships including Spring Harvest and Gather Movement UK.

3-16

Free Christian prayer network app connecting believers worldwide to share requests, pray in groups, join live prayer events with voice broadcasting, and connect through Ministry Pages — built by Andrei Baburin in Indonesia, supporting 7 languages.

Pastor Notes App

A church engagement platform that lets pastors share sermon notes, run live polls and Q&A, collect prayer requests, and connect with their congregation through the companion Bible Notes app — replacing scattered communication channels with one dedicated ministry tool.

TurboScribe

AI-powered transcription tool trusted by hundreds of pastors and churches, converting audio and video to accurate text in seconds across 98+ languages with speaker recognition, live recording, and subtitle export. Over 43 million hours transcribed. Created by Leif Foged, a former Meta AI engineer.

BibleBolt

A free Bible Society add-on for Google Docs and Microsoft Word that lets pastors, students, and Bible communicators insert and format Scripture from 10+ translations in 7 languages — right inside their documents. Now multilingual with recent additions of CEV and support for Welsh, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is an all-in-one sermon resource library for pastors, offering 25,000+ resources including 2,000+ sermon series with graphics, videos, illustrations, talking points, and small group questions — plus Sermonary (with Sermonary Plus) for sermon writing, Churchly for church websites, My Devotionals for branded daily discipleship content, a drag-and-drop Series Planner, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year.

TheoScope

TheoScope is a web-based AI tool that instantly scores Christian media — books, podcasts, movies, and faith apps — on biblical faithfulness, theological depth, and doctrinal alignment, helping pastors, parents, and readers decide what to read, listen to, and watch.

Doctrinally.AI

Doctrinally.AI lets churches create their own AI assistant trained on their pastor's sermons and documents, so congregation members get cited answers grounded in their church's actual teaching rather than generic internet content.

Undershepherd

Pastoral care software helping pastors and care teams log interactions, track life events, assign tasks, and stay organized — with privacy-first design, Planning Center/Breeze/ChurchTrac integrations, a scholarship program for under-resourced pastors, and active blog resources. By Sabbath Ventures.

Notebird

Pastoral care software helping church leaders and care teams track visits, conversations, follow-ups, and life milestones in one place — with recurring tasks, file attachments, end-to-end encryption, ChMS integrations, and care reporting — so no one falls through the cracks.

ChurchSocial (formerly Discipls)

ChurchSocial is an AI-powered social media management platform built for churches, featuring Sermon Studio for automated sermon clip creation with speaker tracking and subtitles, Graphics Studio with customizable templates and AI image generation, and multi-platform scheduling across Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, and Google Business — with Planning Center, Pushpay/CCB, and Tithely/Breeze integrations.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads, 810+ episodes), hosted by former pastor Carey Nieuwhof. Features conversations with top church and business leaders on leadership, culture, personal growth, and navigating ministry in a changing world. Part of The Art of Leadership Network. Carey's new book AI and the Future Church releases September 2026.

Faithly.co

A free networking platform built for Christians in ministry — connecting 4,000+ pastors, church staff, worship leaders, and volunteers across 650+ churches and 50+ denominations through profiles, job boards, groups, events, and resources. Freshly redesigned in April 2026 with a new visual identity, rapidly iterating mobile apps, and an expanding podcast featuring leaders from Compassion International, Ligonier Ministries, and more.

Journeys - Custom Discipleship App

A tiered digital discipleship platform that lets churches and ministries launch branded mobile apps, group facilitation tools, and multi-platform content delivery — with Bible integration, AI translation into 30+ languages, and engagement analytics. Built by scout+redeem, serving 170k+ monthly users across partners like Christianity Explored, Word One to One, and Good News for Everyone.

Christianity Today

The flagship evangelical media ministry founded by Billy Graham in 1956, reaching 40M people annually with news, theology, and 11+ podcasts (The Bulletin, The Russell Moore Show, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea). Its iOS/Android app launched May 2026 has grown to 1K+ downloads and a #39 Magazines & Newspapers chart position. Led by President Nicole Massie Martin and Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky.

CareNote

A pastoral care platform helping 800+ care teams track visits, prayer requests, and follow-ups — with SMS volunteer coordination, 13 ChMS integrations, AI-powered care briefings, meal coordination via Care Table, spiritual gifts matching, and a morning Daily Beacon report. By Rev. Donnell Wyche.

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 May 2026.

LiveSunday

LiveSunday is a web-based platform providing AI-powered real-time translation and captions in 120+ languages for church services and live events, accessible to attendees via QR code with no app download required.

RewriteBar

A lightweight macOS menu bar AI writing toolkit that fixes grammar, adjusts tone, translates in 500+ languages, and supports 37 AI providers — all inside whatever app you're already using, with one-time purchase licensing, accessibility features like VoiceOver, and a dedicated faith & church use case page.

Logos Bible Study App

The world's #1 Bible study platform — 30+ years of development, 250,000+ titles, Greek/Hebrew tools, side-by-side commentaries, AI-powered Study Assistant and Smart Search, and research-grade features used by 750K+ Christians monthly. Founded by Bob Pritchett in 1992; now led by CEO Chris Migura (2025). Baker Publishing Group acquired Lexham Press in 2025. Currently at Version 50 (April 2026) with unified reading plans, expanded Study Assistant filtering, and retiring standalone Faithlife Study Bible/Ebooks apps. Free tier with 40+ books; optional Premium subscription.

WonAnother

WonAnother is a research-informed discipleship platform that uses spiritual maturity diagnostics and adaptive learning paths to help individuals, mentors, and ministries grow — built by a Dallas Theological Seminary student with 50+ church partnerships and a Ministry Intelligence Suite featuring sermon-to-lesson conversion and theological guardrails.

Churchlytics

Churchlytics builds custom church analytics dashboards that unify ministry data — attendance, giving, groups, and more — into one clear view. Founded by Josh Breland, a seminary-trained church communications leader now VP of Product & Marketing at Anedot. Web-based consulting service in low-activity mode; website live but no new content since August 2023.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,100+ video-based lessons for preschool through adult from 12+ providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), serving 14,764+ churches in 130+ countries with companion TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

NextSteps by Jesus Film Project

A free interactive journey builder from Jesus Film Project that lets ministries create shareable digital gospel experiences with video, polls, and branching stories — with AI translation into ~80 languages, AI image generation, a built-in analytics dashboard, and access to 200+ films in 2,200+ languages plus The Bible Project content.

Common Good Magazine

A print and digital magazine from Made to Flourish, publishing six times per year on faith, work, economics, arts, and culture — thoughtful, curated commentary for Christians seeking to integrate their faith with all of life.

Open Network

The largest free church resource library in the world — 100K+ resources from Life.Church (the biggest church in the U.S.) and 45 partner ministries. Sermon series, kids/youth curriculum, worship music, leadership training, and creative media. Serving 1M+ pastors worldwide since 2006. Completely free.

Pastors.AI

AI-powered platform that turns church sermons into Bible studies, devotionals, social media clips (with one-click posting), embeddable chatbots, and real-time translations — all from a YouTube link or uploaded manuscript.

Sermonly

An all-in-one sermon writing platform by Tithely with AI-powered research assistance, built-in Bible access, a Snippets Chrome extension for clipping web content, and a distraction-free writing environment — built by pastors, for pastors.

Best Commentaries

Best Commentaries aggregates Bible commentary reviews and ratings from scholars, journals, and users into a searchable database with a transparent scoring algorithm. Now available in six languages, it helps pastors, seminary students, and laypeople find the right commentary for any book of the Bible.

FlockConnect

FlockConnect is the first Church Relationship Manager (ChRM), helping pastors identify isolated members by mapping the friendships and connections within their congregation — complementing existing church management systems with AI-powered relational insights, isolation alerts, and discipleship tracking. Serving hundreds of churches with SOC 2 Type II security. Accepted into the Missional Labs Faith & AI Accelerator 2026.

ICF EQUIP

Free resource-sharing platform from the ICF church movement offering sermon series, ministry manuals, leadership videos, job descriptions, and small group studies — part of ICF Digital's growing suite of church tools serving 71 locations and 95 micro churches across 12 countries.

Text in Church

All-in-one church communication platform for texting, email, and phone calls — trusted by 38,000+ church leaders weekly. Automated workflows, native Planning Center integration, Calling Plus phone system, and guest follow-up tools. Co-founded by Tyler Smith, author of Boomerang.

Glossa

AI-powered real-time voice translation for churches in 100+ languages — attendees scan a QR code or download the mobile app (iOS/Android) to hear or read the sermon in their own language, with voice cloning that preserves the speaker's voice. Used by hundreds of churches worldwide with a generous free tier and an ElevenLabs-backed translation engine.

Scatter

A web-based survey and insights platform from Made to Flourish that helps church leaders understand their congregation's daily work, skills, and passions — turning survey responses into a real-time dashboard for pastoral care, vocational discipleship, and missional engagement. Founded by Tom Nelson, now led by president Matt Rusten.

SermonSpark

AI-powered sermon preparation assistant by Missional Software with tools for research, writing, transcription, audio brainstorming, and content repurposing — featuring denomination and Bible version personalization and regularly upgraded LLM models to align AI output with a pastor's theological tradition.

CiteVerse

CiteVerse is an AI-powered scripture display and sermon-notes platform that transcribes Bible teaching, detects verse references in real time, and saves sessions for later review. It now supports 11 Bible editions across 6 transcription languages through its web app and Chrome extension.

Pulpit AI

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into 20+ content pieces — video clips, devotionals, group guides, newsletters, and more — now integrated into the Subsplash Dashboard with enhanced clip creation and branding tools. Founded by pastor Michael Whittle, backed by Roper Technologies, partnered with Southeastern University, and trusted by thousands of churches worldwide.

FULLER Equip

FULLER Equip is Fuller Theological Seminary's online learning platform offering 160+ self-paced courses and professional certificates in theology, ministry leadership, emotional health, and spiritual formation — accessible from any device without enrollment in a degree program.

Sermonary

Sermonary is an all-in-one sermon writing and preaching platform that helps pastors build messages using a patented drag-and-drop editor or distraction-free Open Editor, preach with Podium Mode, research with integrated commentaries, and repurpose sermons into devotionals and blog posts — all from any device through the browser.

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 whose ministry now serves 500+ Academy members and 65K YouTube subscribers.

Fext

Fext is a mass texting app for iPhone and iPad that sends personalized, private SMS messages to each recipient individually — no group chats or reply-all. Widely used by pastors, churches, and community leaders for devotionals, event updates, and outreach.

Sermon Central

The world's largest free sermon research library — with AI-powered sermon outlines, research assistants, and funeral sermon generators, plus a free sermon editor and Barna-backed church health resources — equipping 250,000+ church leaders weekly in 100+ countries to preach with excellence.

Polaris Bible

Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, offline Bible reading, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a free AI assistant for Scripture and theology, built on a conservative reformed evangelical foundation with an open-source AGPL-3.0 system prompt. Created by Ted Hallum of Ligonier Ministries, it uses AO Lab's Free Use Bible API for direct Scripture access and is available on ChatGPT (GPT-5.5 Instant) and Apologist (GPT-5.4 Instant). New in 2026: the Berean Board, an AI-generated small-group review game.

Lumenology

Lumenology is an AI-powered Bible study platform offering eight study lenses and a cited Research Assistant that draws from user-selected trusted sources like Blue Letter Bible, BibleHub, and Got Questions — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send transforms each sermon into a branded, shareable page with clips, devotionals, summaries, and reflections — all in one link, powered by AI through its Sermon Shots Suite integration.

SermonSeeds

AI-powered sermon content repurposing tool that turns one sermon into a full week of ministry content — social posts, devotionals, video clips with a sentence-based editor, sermon slides, reels, and discussion guides — in under five minutes.