How do you track thousands of spiritual conversations, follow-ups, and emerging house churches across multiple countries — without losing a single name? Disciple.Tools is a free, open-source CRM built on WordPress, designed for disciple-making movements by field workers who have been doing the work since 2013.^1
Born out of a North Africa field team's experience, the idea came after they surveyed 147 existing CRMs and found none affordable enough to scale, customizable enough for diverse contexts, and simple enough for non-technical teams to deploy independently.^2 So they built their own on WordPress — the world's most widely adopted open-source platform — and gave it away.
Disciple.Tools handles the full lifecycle of movement work: managing contacts from first conversation through baptism, tracking groups from pre-group to church, mapping generational relationships between disciples and churches, and visualizing where the Gospel is advancing through saturation heat maps.^3 Custom tiles, fields, roles, and workflows let each ministry tailor the system, while multisite networking lets separate teams share contacts without exposing sensitive data.^3
The platform supports unlimited users and contacts at modest hosting costs, and has been translated into over 50 languages — including Arabic and Farsi — through community translation on Weblate.^5
Why Field Workers Love It"Disciple Tools has literally been an answer to prayers that we have been praying for years now." — A field worker in the Middle East^1
"Its easy to use feature set has been meeting the needs of our teams working from small villages and mega-cities." — An IMB worker^1
Notable- Built by Gospel Ambition, the missions nonprofit also behind Prayer.Global, Zúme Training, and Kingdom.Training^4
- Open source on GitHub with 5,875+ commits, 40 contributors, and an uninterrupted monthly release cadence through June 2026 (custom geocoded location fields, reCAPTCHA Enterprise, PHP 8.5 support, dynamic records maps, security hardening)^5
- The native iOS and Android apps are no longer in active development (last updated 2023–2024); the team now recommends the mobile-responsive web platform and is building new mobile-friendly features like the Disciple.Tools Home Screen^6
- Endorsed and deployed by IMB, 24:14, AWM Pioneers, LiveDead, and Media to Movements^1
- Featured on GACX as a tool for moving past "one-and-done" Gospel conversations into sustained discipleship^7
- Active developer and user community with Discord, forum, and live support^8
- Operates on a "Heavenly Economy" model — completely free with optional suggested donations^9
