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 specifically for disciple-making movements by people who've been doing the work on the ground since 2013.^1
Born out of a field team's experience in North Africa, the idea came after they surveyed 147 existing CRMs and found none that were affordable enough to scale, customizable enough for diverse ministry contexts, and simple enough for non-technical teams to deploy independently.^2 So they built their own on WordPress — arguably 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 as they progress from pre-group to church, mapping generational relationships between disciples and churches, and visualizing where the Gospel is advancing (and where it isn't) through saturation heat maps.^3 Custom tiles, fields, roles, and workflows let each ministry tailor the system to their context. Multisite networking allows separate teams to share contacts across organizations without exposing sensitive data.^3
The platform supports unlimited users and contacts — a team of 5,000 disciple makers coordinating 500,000 contacts can run on hosting costs under $50 a month.^3 It's been translated into dozens of languages, including right-to-left scripts like Arabic and Farsi.^3
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
"Disciple.Tools helped organize our team, streamline our communication, easily input new contacts, follow-up with them in a timely manner, assign them to the appropriate teammate, monitor their progress, and track our movement's growth." — A team leader using Disciple.Tools^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-focused nonprofit also behind Prayer.Global, Zúme Training, and Kingdom.Training^4
- Open source on GitHub with 5,800+ commits, 209 releases, and 36 contributors — latest release (v1.79.0) shipped March 2026^5
- Endorsed and deployed by IMB (International Mission Board), 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^6
- Active developer and user community with a Discord channel and community forum^7
- Mobile apps available on iOS and Android with offline support and push notifications^4
